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Summary: FIVE STAR STORYTELLING
Review: All the elements are there: an endless twisting and turning try-to-predict-what-happens-next-and-be-continually amazed & surprised plot; real, flesh and blood characters who behave like human beings, not movie star heroes; clever, funny, intelligent dialogue; an enigmatic villain; and just enough emotion to keep all the elements together. Mr. Phillips is an all-pro, master story-teller. If you're looking for a night or weekend (the book reads quickly and easily) of knuckle-clenching, page-turning entertainment, read Blindsided.
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Summary: Gore
Review: Apparently Clyde Phillips thinks gore is more important than good writing. I don't see how anyone would want to waste their time reading a book that starts out with someone getting their eyes gouged out with a spoon.
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Summary: *What* a book!
Review: Blindsided - the sequel to Fall From Grace - is an amazing book. The twists and turns of the story keep you up late at night, reading until the wee-morning hours. Once you pick this book up, it'll be a struggle to put it down! You can tell the author, Clyde Phillips, has put hours of research and reading into this novel. It's truley wonderful, this book. It has everything - love, romance, action, suspense, comedy, etc. The characters are detailed, believable and so real that it's astonishing they're fiction. And, just as his first novel (Fall From Grace) there's an incredible ending and conclusion. Once again, the culprit is someone you'd never expect to even hurt a fly. I read this book in about 3 days; hour on top of hour, reading and trying to figure out what's going to happen next. My cats were annoyed by me staying up so late!! :) If you're looking for a novel that has a believable, strong and excellent story line, this book is a dream. Truthfully, I believe anyone, with any kind of love for books, will enjoy this novel.
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Summary: A rip-roaring, brilliant thriller!
Review: Clyde Phillips is perfecting his craft. In "Fall From Grace", he introduced us to Homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti, a beautiful, yet emotionally flawed woman who makes some choices that definitely aren't in her best interest. In Phillips newest novel, "Blindsided", Candiotti is back, and seems to have grown and even learned from her previous mistakes. Reaching much more satisfying and believable emotional depths, Phillips pulls out all the stops in this rip-roaring, brilliant thriller. Someone has brutally murdered a homeless junkie. Just another day on the job for Candiotti and her partner Kenny Marks. ..until they discover that the homeless man was once one of their own. When yet another officer is brought down, Candiotti begins to suspect that there's more to these seemingly random killings than she can put her finger on. As the killer gets more and more daring, Candiotti and Marks must race to find him before he can kill again. Phillips craftily plays the mounting suspense of the pursuit of the police killer against Candiotti's newfound resolution to settle down and find love, with none other than her partner, Marks. As her life becomes more and more perfect, the killer gets closer and closer to home...creating some of the most intense dramatic tension captured on a page. Although the reader finds out who the killer is pretty early on in the story, that knowledge only heightens the adrenaline rush as we follow his every move...and his ultimate target: Jane Candiotti. Creating a profoundly believable cast, Phillips has given us the perfect thriller, from the first word to the very last! I can't wait for the next one!
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Summary: Another Great Thiller!
Review: I didn't read Clyde Phillips first book but if this one is anything like to first I'm going to run not walk to buy it. I could not put this book down. It took so many twists and turns I was hanging on for dear life. The main characters, Jane Candiotti and Kenny Marks, sound like any couple in a realtionship. But they also work together, which can sometimes spell doom for a couple and at times they let their personal relationship trickle into their professional, they still manage to get the job done. Well done to Clyde Phillips, will definitely be picking up his first book and will eagerly await his next.
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Summary: Another Great Thiller!
Review: I didn't read Clyde Phillips first book but if this one is anything like to first I'm going to run not walk to buy it. I could not put this book down. It took so many twists and turns I was hanging on for dear life. The main characters, Jane Candiotti and Kenny Marks, sound like any couple in a realtionship. But they also work together, which can sometimes spell doom for a couple and at times they let their personal relationship trickle into their professional, they still manage to get the job done. Well done to Clyde Phillips, will definitely be picking up his first book and will eagerly await his next.
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Summary: Inaccurate details mar a good story
Review: I hate it when a great storyteller gets the details wrong. In one scene he has his heroine taking the safety off her revolver (only one or two revolvers have ever been made with safeties, and they are quite rare). In another scene he has the bad guy slamming the clip home on his automatic, then swinging the cylinder out to reload. If he is going to write police fiction, he ought to at least familiarize himself with guns. It is a great story, though, and well worth the read.
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Summary: Inaccurate details mar a good story
Review: I hate it when a great storyteller gets the details wrong. In one scene he has his heroine taking the safety off her revolver (only one or two revolvers have ever been made with safeties, and they are quite rare). In another scene he has the bad guy slamming the clip home on his automatic, then swinging the cylinder out to reload. If he is going to write police fiction, he ought to at least familiarize himself with guns. It is a great story, though, and well worth the read.
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Summary: Tightly-written, lean and gritty, moves at a lightening pace
Review: I'm amazed that the SAME writer who created Suddenly Susan(the upbeat television show starring Brooke Shields) also wrote a book where the opening chapter contains a segment where a man's eyes are gouged out of his head with a rusty spoon before his head is shattered by a rock. Then again, maybe it isn't so odd, because this novel is written with a spare, tight intensity that keeps it moving along, edited as tightly as those television shows made to fit 30 or 60 minute formats. The basic story involves San Francisco Homicide Inspector Jane Candiotti and her partner Kenny Marks, forced to take down a madman with revenge on his mind, a revenge he spent 15 years planning while locked away in prison. Although action, not character portrayal, is writer Clyde Phillips strong point, I did find Candiotti to be a compelling personality, a woman entering her 40's who is finally allowing herself to think of committing herself to a future that goes beyond her job (and involving, not so coincidentally, her partner, Kenny), a cop with a believable domestic side who loves to cook and decorate. Fellow cop Kenny Marks is equally compelling and figuring out who the killer is and what motivates him makes for an intriguing read - and a satisfying one.
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Summary: Graphic, But Great-Best I've Read In A While!
Review: Sure it's graphic as many other reviewers have pointed out. But it's about cops chasing a serial killer. You don't want graphic, don't read about serial killers, they aren't nice guys. Anyway, this book has a million twists and turns. Never dull. Inspector Jane Candiotti and her partner (both on and off the force) Kenny Marks are likeable and interesting from Page 4, when you first meet them. Same for the other cops in their squad, you quickly get attached to this group. If you like thrillers and can take a little gore, read on, you won't be disappointed. I read alot of thrillers and this is the best one I've read in ages.
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