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Summary: Loved, the "Shadowy Horses!"
Review: "The Shadowy Horses" is the first book I have ever read by Susanna Kearsley. I have to say that it is not going to be the last. She writes like the style of Barbara Michaels and I have been want to read at least one of her books for a long time, now I know I will like the way she writes. This book is set in Scotland on an archaeological dig. The little boy, Robbie, has the second site, and it's haunting, especially to the main character, Miss Verity Grey. While Verity begins her job in Scotland she falls in love, but is still scared because it is with someone she shouldn't fall in love with. This book was absolutely great and is one of my favorites. Don't miss this great thriller!
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Summary: Loved, the "Shadowy Horses!"
Review: "The Shadowy Horses" is the first book I have ever read by Susanna Kearsley. I have to say that it is not going to be the last. She writes like the style of Barbara Michaels and I have been want to read at least one of her books for a long time, now I know I will like the way she writes. This book is set in Scotland on an archaeological dig. The little boy, Robbie, has the second site, and it's haunting, especially to the main character, Miss Verity Grey. While Verity begins her job in Scotland she falls in love, but is still scared because it is with someone she shouldn't fall in love with. This book was absolutely great and is one of my favorites. Don't miss this great thriller!
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Summary: a forced read
Review: By far the best of the latest crop of Romantic-Suspence writers, Ms. Kearsley certainly writes a winning story. Her heroine Verity is fresh, a real 21st century woman with a real career, tangible hopes and dreams for the future and best of all her hang-ups are believable giving motivation to her actions and introspections in the course of the novel. The setting is gothic in its unsettling unconventionality. One meets the other players immediately as one would meet aquaintances at a luncheon. The reader is presented with the characters and left to draw his or her own conclusions; there is no excessive ponderings voiced sotto voce by the narrator. The men are real men and I found myself intrigued by the nuances in their dispostions in the way I had been charmed long ago by the bantering between the lead female and male in Victoria Holt's major offerings. The romantic attraction between the main characters is fun and piquant; I found myself rereading certain passages to thrill again at the wordplay. The supernatural note adds a realistic New Age spice that gets beyond the usual Thornfield scenario with the old house and its imposing secrets. All in all, I found "The Shadowy Horses" a great read and as close to the old masters, Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt as any author could hope to get. I look forward to reading Kearsley's next publications and hope that "The Gemini Game" and "Undertow" is reissued/republished in the United States.
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Summary: Paranormal Romance
Review: I love ghost stories, the old-fashioned kind where the ghost helps a mystery to be solved, and this book sure has that.The book is very descriptive, drawing you into the small Scottish town on the coast, with a wealth of vivid characters that you feel you know by the end of the book. You can hear the wind howling, feel the rain on your skin, the writing is just so good. The romance between Verity and David doesn't happen overnight, but as the book progresses, so does their feelings for each other. It's a wonderful book. Reviewed by Annette Gisby, author of Shadows of the Rose.
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Summary: EXCELLENT- A WONDERFUL READ
Review: I love paranormal elements so this book was my cup of tea.. I love an author that can make me suspend belief and accept things slightly off kilter. The author does a marvelous job with characterization - the people in the story are not pigeonholed into stereotypes but seemed wonderfully real. It was so refreshing to have a mystery suspense without the mass murder psycho. To me this is story telling at its finest. The author has been compared to Mary Stewart and Barbara Michael and I can see why. Not surprisingly, she is a Cookson Fiction Prize winner. I must get her back list
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Summary: best bargain book I've read!
Review: I picked this book up so cheap, I didn't expect it to be quite so good as it was! An engrossing story of a woman who comes to work in a cute little Scottish town, with all its characters. She is on a 'dig' and finds a lot more than she bargains for.....a ghost on good terms with the neighbour's dog, a little boy with a special gift and a hunk of a man who is affectionaly known as Mr Deid-banes! Very sweet and I look forward to reading more of this author!
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Summary: The Shadowy Horses
Review: If you love Scotland, Romance, and a wee bit 'o the supernatural...this is the book for you. The main character, Verity, is interesting, intelligent, and easy to identify with. Her budding romance with a tall dark and handsome gentleman is fun to follow. The surroundings are mysterious, frightening at times, and the addition of a boy who has "the sight" really rounds out the cast of characters. A quick read, but gripping - you won't put it down!
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Summary: Decent read
Review: There are not very many suspenseful moments in this book but it is an interesting read about archaelogy mixed in with ghosts. It felt like it was building up to something but I found the climax rather anti-climatic. That said, I still enjoyed and was glad I read it.
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Summary: Decent read
Review: There are not very many suspenseful moments in this book but it is an interesting read about archaelogy mixed in with ghosts. It felt like it was building up to something but I found the climax rather anti-climatic. That said, I still enjoyed and was glad I read it.
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Summary: Pretty good...
Review: This book was pretty good. I'm really interested in archaeology, so that aspect of it was fascinating, as was the ghost. I also really liked the characters and the feel/mood of this book. My only real complaint was that it never seemed to really to get of the ground. There doesn't seem to be any real conflict for the majority of the book, then at the end it's sort of rushed and very, almost too, easily resolved. Other than that, though, it was really very good.
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