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Summary: Total waste of time and trees
Review: I am an avid reader and rarely start a book without finishing it, but I had to really struggle to finish this one.The author uses stale dialog, old cliche's and obvious plot turns. Her characters are so sterotyped and one-dimensional it's pathetic. On top of that, the supposed crime at the heart of this legal "thriller" is ho-hum boring at best with an obvious resolution (after going through the equally obvious twists and turns along the way). Save your money.
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Summary: AWFUL!!
Review: I must agree with all of the reviews. I lasted until page 20 and couldn't take it any more. I have read Rosenberg's past books and don't remember hating them. If her next book is as bad as this one, I will add her to my list of "No more", which unfortunately contains alot of (modern day) authors! Where are the great authors?
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Summary: Worse than I expected
Review: I read one other book by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg several years ago and swore I wouldn't read another. Well, I checked this out (a book on tape..unabridged) from the library and listened to it while driving...that's probably the only reason I finished it.
The characters are laughable, the writing is amateurish....I won't make this mistake again.
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Summary: One of the worst books on tape I've ever heard...
Review: In fact, I didn't even finish it. After an hour I gladly popped it out and listened to anything else!
So, what's wrong?
The characters are very, very, very flimsy - to say that they are wooden is to give them more credit than they deserve. They are flat and prone to bizarre mood swings and cursing fits that are totally inappropriate to the scenes.
The book is about a prosecutor whose parents were killed by arson, apparently by one of her jilted boyfriends while she was in high school. He's picked up in a different city after all of these years but he somehow convinces jealous prosecutors that he's the real victim and that she killed them herself.
Drama was supposed to occur at that point but instead we got more random anger and cursing. So, it got irritated and quit listening.
Wow - this one is truly very bad.
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Summary: Worse than I expected
Review: The author should retitle this book. I gave it a one-star rating because there is no 0-star rating. The problem? The author can't write. What a sorry state the publishing industry is in when this sophomoric gibberish ends up on the New York Times best-seller list, and when its covers and intro pages are filled with praise by people who should and do know better. Writing a bad book is one thing, and most folks are capable of it. Reviewing a laughably bad book and showering praise on it for whatever reason is another, and to all those who did so in print -- shame on you!
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Summary: Trial By Tedium
Review: The author should retitle this book. I gave it a one-star rating because there is no 0-star rating. The problem? The author can't write. What a sorry state the publishing industry is in when this sophomoric gibberish ends up on the New York Times best-seller list, and when its covers and intro pages are filled with praise by people who should and do know better. Writing a bad book is one thing, and most folks are capable of it. Reviewing a laughably bad book and showering praise on it for whatever reason is another, and to all those who did so in print -- shame on you!
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