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Summary: A Edgy Novel
Review: After reading the reviews, I thaught I would give it a shot, and I just finished it and most of the reviews didn't even compare to the book. A lot say its disgusting and boring, its definetly not boring, theres all sorts of surprises exspecially at the ending, the ending is great, its where most of the book comes to gether. I'll admit the biggening is a little slow, but after 100 pages your into the book, its like you got to keep reading to see what happens, and it worth it. So if your worried its to gory, I'll say this much, you probably see worse stuff on TV. As for the rape and murder, that stuffs notr even detailed, its just like some one died and thats that. No details about it. Thats what I was curiuse about from the beginng, I was expecting more details after reading the reviews, but there weren't hardly any. So if you think this is gory, I dont suggest Breath Of Scadel.
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Summary: Worth a read if you're adventurous.
Review: Brown has really done it this time. Nothing like her previous novels, "Unspeakable" is an excellent step in a new direction if she chooses to follow it. I'm a widely read individual, and Brown has tactfully mixed violence and romance together in a way I haven't seen before. If you're accustomed to Brown's usual writing style, I personally wouldn't recommend this book...but if you're up to reading something new, "Unspeakable" is the book for you. Readers should beware, however, of the language and violence - and that is tame compared to other authors I've read. Keep up the good work Sandra, it's good to see you trying something new!
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Summary: Very Predictable!
Review: Considering that this book is over 3 years old, I just ran across it about a week ago. I will say that the character's are written very well in good vivid detail. The first half of it is actually pretty good, but the second half gets very predictable. It read like a bad Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts film, really bad ones. I predicted almost everything that happened in the second half. I was somewhat surprised at the very fowl and disgusting language used by Sandra Brown. The book starts out with the intent to solve the druesome murder of a young girl over 20 years ago. The book then veers off in several different directions, with the murder being mentioned occasionally. There is an obvious attempt to make this the perfect love story. The two lovers played by Jack and Anna are rarely depicted in a bad light, while everyone else are depicted as fools, cowards, or mean-spirited. Anna is a widow who stays on a ranch with her little son and her step-father Delray. Her husband Dean died at home 6 years ago after returning home from War. Anna and Delray have a "complicated" relationship that wasn't well defined for me. Delray is written like a mean-spirited man, with like a heart of gold. He's in love with Anna, but she's not in love with him. This goes unspoken between the two of them thoughtout the book, even up until his eventual predictable death. I thought that the Author Sandra Brown contradicted their relationship throughout the whole story. It just seemed like she took the easy way out by killing him, instead of dealing with their dilemma honestly. Considering not telling Anna how he felt about her seemed to be the main thing that killed him, even if he knew she didn't feel the same, I found his eventual death kind of cowardly actually. There was a concerted effort to diminish other people in Anna's life, alive or dead, to save the perfect love story of Anna and Jack. To diminish the relationship Anna had with her dead husband Dean, who she clearly had to be in love with, so Jack could be viewed as her perfect lover, was very cowardly I thought. Love is love, why the need to make him a better lover or more thoughtful man than the first. Especially since the husband died over 6 years ago. I just thought it was uncalled for. There appeared to be contradictions thought the book. Everyone from escaped convict Carl, his ex-con brother Cecil, Carl's stupid partner Myron, Cecil's "slutty" girlfriend Connie are written with contradictions. Carl is written out to be a very smart criminal, though he's clearly an idiot, and dies like one. I predicted how the sleazy bank manager Emory Lomax would die down to the last letter. I won't give out the very neat ending. But I didn't find it believable, even a little bit. The unsolved murder part could have been left out, because it clearly wasn't needed. It actually seemed like an afterthought after the first few chapters. I don't know if this was ever made into a movie, but it has that feel to it. A very bad movie.
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Summary: Expected something better!
Review: During the past 2 months, I have read 6 of Sandra Brown's romantic/thrillers and have become a big fan. This is the first time I have written a review. Unspeakable was harder for me to get through than Witness, French Silk, etc. It's a little darker and the character development is often slow. Carl was really evil and some of the crimes were pretty gross. The romance between Anna and Jack developed slowly and sweetly and finally reached a great crescendo! I appreciate that SB gave us some insight into the challenges of the hearing impaired and I loved the way that Anna and Jack communicated. This book is still worth reading, but not as satisfying as most of her other novels in the same genre.
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Summary: completely boring
Review: I had heard so much about Sandra Brown and her writings ~ that I was thrilled when a friend loaned this book to me. Finally, I can see what everyone raves about whenever they talk about this author. I was very disappointed. This book is way too brutal and graphic for my taste ~~ it is nothing but raw sex and violence and graphic murder scenes. I kept reading to see what would happen and never did finish this book. It is one of the very few books I have never finished reading. I was really disgusted ~~ and gave it back to my friend without too much comment. I have no desire now to read any of her books ~~ which is sad because I am always up for new authors to discover. This book was a waste of time. Sorry. 7-30-03
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Summary: Not one of Brown's best, but okay
Review: I'm a fan of Sandra Brown's, believe it or not. I've probably given her as man one-star or two-star ratings as anyone else. For sure, she tells it like it is, and although some of her detail description gets to be too much, one has to back up and think about it. Hey, that's the way it is in the real world and that's the way most hardened criminals talk and think. I found no offense in this because once I got to the theme of where she was going, it was what I expected. I think SB has written some really wonderful books, this just isn't one of her best. BUT, on the other hand, it isn't one of her worst either. The characters are strong and well-defined and I kept wondering how in the world she would ever tie Jack Sawyer to all of this as to why he came back to protect Anna Corbett from the Herbold brothers. And the mystery surrounding Patsy McCorkle's death had me wondering what in the world too. I gave this book a three because that's what I thought it was...average.
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Summary: Storyline tolerable...unabridged audio.. downright painful
Review: The book was predictable and I found the characters hard to like I mean geez usually a poor victimized deaf/mute would be an automatic "gimmee" but no Anna just didn't do it for me. Jack was not a drifter with no base but more like a loser with one dimensional character where's the [good looking] texans' Ms. Brown usually gives us?? Now that being said onto the unabridged audio tape it was hard to keep track of characters and then there's no lead-in on the tapes so I think I actually skipped one tape (but it didn't matter so no bigge) John Henry Cox did the vocals and the whiney whiney groanie David character was done so well I really had to rethink my opinion on corporal punishment..
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Summary: Sorry book
Review: This is a sorry story with sorry, unbelievable characters. They're separated into good guys and bad guys.
The bad guys, well, they're the most fun, but they're not realistic. Carl Herbold is a psychopath or sociopath or something, but he's not believable. Emory Lomax, the same thing. These two fellows have no altruistic motives, as the author admits, but even sociopaths fear God, don't they? These guys don't. They're caricatures of evil, not real people.
If you like caricatures, you find them here, and that's all you find. It makes for simple reading, because there are no complex characters who have a mixture of some good traits and some bad. Carl is worse than Satan, if you can imagine that. Emory, too. They are Satan's little helpers in Blewert County, or wherever it is.
Jack, on the other hand, is a righteous free spirit, another old Western caricature. He likes little children and falls in love with the heroine, Anna, who is deaf. Jack is almost totally on the good-guy side, except he's so lusty. Righteous and lusty, is that a Western good guy, or what?
Delray Corbett is in denial: he helped raise the two screw-up stepsons but wants to deny responsibility. He's a tough old coot, another caricature.
Cecil Herbold, you can almost feel sorry for. His girlfriend, Connie Skaggs, is unbelievable. She works in a bank? And then kills someone in a bank robbery on goes the lam with this lunatic squad? Didn't she forget her toothbrush? Don't women need clothes when they're fleeing with four males? Not Connie, I guess. Seems like she has a death wish, and she gets her wish, of course. Are there really women like that? Bonnie Parker?
Well, you will learn that American Sign Language differs from Signed English. And East Texas has tornadoes. Otherwise, you can look forward to having your emotions titillated, because that's what Brown's writing is all about, I guess. A sorry soap opera, and that's what some folks love. She's so prolific and successful, it must be that. This is my first book I've read by her, and I did get titillated, I can't deny it. But is it worth it? Well, you decide, this is what I found. Diximus.
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Summary: My opinion...
Review: This is my first book by Sandra Brown, I picked it up after reading the synopsis on the back cover. I became immediately enthralled in the book and enjoyed it until the very end, wondering who the killer was. I'll admit though, about 3/4ths of the way through I had a guess, and it was correct. That's kind of cool though. Ok, I've read several reviews on this book that I am very disappointed with. I don't know if they are coming from people who have weak stomach's or what, but their comments are a little off base to me. I did not feel that this book was too gory or that it was overboard in the scenes. Sure the descriptions were down the tee, but isn't that what you want when you're reading a book? Do you honestly think that when you pick up a murder mystery book that some blood and gore are out of place? Isn't that what murder is? I just think it's unfair for those comments to deter people from reading this book that I thought was a great read.
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Summary: Not Her Best...But Worth It Anyway !
Review: While I remain a devoted fan of Sandra Brown's, I was hoping for 'UNSPEAKABLE' to concentrate more on Anna and Jack, than I was about the twisted, and perverse highjinks of the Herbold brothers. Still, the story was a deep and powerful one, and Ms. Brown painted for her readers, very clear and concise pictures of her characters. Her villianous siblings were two low-life's you just could'nt help wishing evil things on! And of course she has us rooting all the while , that true love will conquer all. While it may not be her best or most romantic book, it's well worth the read ; as are all Sandra Brown novels.
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