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Summary: Hard to Believe
Review: I know that rape occurs all the time but it was hard to believe that a handsome, well rounded, smart, outgoing young man like this could rape the step sister he had played with for years. Yes, his Mother did desert him and virtually rejected him but I can't see the motive for the sister rape. I liked the hospital scenes. This was my 8th Thayer book and the least liked. I'll keep on though
Rating: 
Summary: Badly written, period!
Review: I tried to like this book, after all, I devoted several hours of my life to it, but it is so badly written that I would prefer to give it no stars.The story could be interesting, but the writer made the bridging parts of the book so bloody boring. I cringed every time Linda went to Owen for *warmth*... or relished the *warmth* of a room... the character Linda is so unrealistic and annoying. There could have been chapters of Linda's seasonal disorder. The story would have been better told from Emily's perspective.
Rating:
Summary: Badly written, period!
Review: I tried to like this book, after all, I devoted several hours of my life to it, but it is so badly written that I would prefer to give it no stars. The story could be interesting, but the writer made the bridging parts of the book so bloody boring. I cringed every time Linda went to Owen for *warmth*... or relished the *warmth* of a room... the character Linda is so unrealistic and annoying. There could have been chapters of Linda's seasonal disorder. The story would have been better told from Emily's perspective.
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Summary: ENDING...NOT MY TYPE!
Review: Perhaps it's just me; perhaps my 16 year old mind and inexperience with this author cannot comprehend Mrs. Thayer's perspective on writing; or perhaps it's just that I tend to read murder/mystery stories and decided to look towards a change in styles by reading a different type of novel...Now, if by now you only think that I'm 'bad-mouthing' the novel, on the contrary, by no means is this novel a very well written, well thoughtout, and mysterious book that keeps you 'up at nights' just wondering who is telling the truth. I was very entertained with the first half of the book, and, being used to reading murder/mystery novels, was suprised on how entertained I was. The problem that I found was that the novel was over before the book was over; the novel brings you to an extremely intensified flow that you just see it getting higher and higher but when you finally reach the top, you realize that you passed the climax MANY PAGES BEFORE! When I realized that this person was the lyer with many pages left, I kept on waiting for a surprise to pop out and the 'tables to turn' with a huge upset, making the climax at the top of the mountain instead of in the middle...but it never happened. The novel ends, the book makes sense, and life goes on...By all means, this book was a great novel, but the ending was just not my style.
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Summary: Very predictable; boring and trite
Review: Uninteresting and boring. I finished this book to see what happened, but I wished I had not started it. Much more entertaining books out there.
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