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Summary: Listened to the Audio
Review: I picked up the audio book because the library had backorders for the hardcover. I enjoyed the book. There was enough mystery for me and I thought the romance was HOT!!! The paint table scene was right out of fantasy land! This is supposed to be enjoyable and entertaining and I found it to be both and can hardly wait to actually read it!
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: I'm 15 years old and i never read "big" books so this book kinda scared me at first but after 2 weeks i was done with the 518 page book. at first the book was boring but after that it was so awsome!! i loved it and i can't wait to read another book by her!! so really with this book just stay with it, it gets to were you can read it and not hear a thing around you! this book was so wonderful!! thanks for writing it Elizabeth!!
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Summary: The best book ever
Review: I'm 15 years old and i never read "big" books so this book kinda scared me at first but after 2 weeks i was done with the 518 page book. at first the book was boring but after that it was so awsome!! i loved it and i can't wait to read another book by her!! so really with this book just stay with it, it gets to were you can read it and not hear a thing around you! this book was so wonderful!! thanks for writing it Elizabeth!!
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Summary: Started enticingly, then fizzled out
Review: I, too, enjoyed the 3 characters of Ian, Susa and the protagonist, whose name escapes just now. Wish the story had been more interesting. The ending was fairly predictable; anticlimactic. I was looking for thrill and fascination with the art world (ala the Da Vinci Code), and got more sex than art. I'm sorry I bought the book. Should have borrowed it from the library. It's not a keeper.
Rating:
Summary: Good, not great
Review: Started out slow, but once I got the characters sorted out it got more interesting. But the sex scenes were so unnecessary; why is all this panting and thrusting, etc. necessary, we all know whar sex is like. Would have given it 5 stars otherwise. Skip over those parts & it's worth the read.
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Summary: It didn't have to suck
Review: The writing was okay. I've read worse stories. The characters were not great. That was probably my biggest problem with the story. None of the characters had even the slightest ring of truth to them. Ian Lapstrake was the phoniest male protagonist I've seen in quite some time. Completely unbelievable. Almost romance novel caliber. In fact, the entire book has the feel of a romance novel that has been repackaged for wider appeal. Unfortunately, it fell well short of that appeal.
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Summary: Just Awful!
Review: This book is just awful. The characters are not even marginally intereesting, the love scense cliched. The plot is tiresome and predictable. At the end you do not even care that the loose ends are never tied up.
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Summary: Hot sex, obvious mystery
Review: When painter Lacey Quinn takes some of her grandfather's paintings to famous artist Susa, she hopes to hear that the old man's work had merit. Instead she finds that her grandfather was a forger. Forgeries or not, though, someone wants those painting--especially the paintings showing violent deaths. When handsome bodyguard/art appraiser Ian Lapstrake shows up--chemistry flares between himself and Lacey. He knows that she is hiding a secret--but what he doesn't know is that that secret is about to put both of them into serious trouble.With incredible luck, Lacey, Ian, and Susa end up painting at the same exact spot where a fatal car accident once took place--and it turns out that the 'accident' was the subject of one of grandfather's paintings--except that in the painting, it was murder. And someone is willing to do anything to get their hands on that murder painting, even if it means murdering again. Author Elizabeth Lowell blends sex with intrigue to keep the reader turning pages. An excessive reliance on coincidence, the hackneyed rich family who runs the local police department plot, protagonists who won't guess what the reader will guess by page twenty, and a fundamentally implausible story line weaken the novel, however. As long as Lacey and Ian are in bed--or in painting table or anywhere else making love--the story flies. When it comes to mystery, there isn't much there.
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