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Summary: A true gem! Love this book.
Review: A wonderful book that provides hours of enjoyment. I got it when it first came out, and have reread it whenever I need a romantic literary boost and nothing new has come out. Love the depth of character and setting output (sorry, correct word escapes me), and the amount of knowledge, both artistic and cultural, that she gives. Fantastic! Would like to see a book developed on Sam Wang. Anyone who could create a dragon of such superb workmanship would be as fascinating in his own right as Catlin. Love any and all her books, be they as Elizabeth Lowell, Ann Maxwell, or A.E.Maxwell. Wish the Fiddler series would have continued. Didn't really end, to my way of reading. The several series she has developed, with character continuations, are greatly enjoyed. Love her work and am looking forward to the next Donovan, or other, book.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: EL's Tell Me No Lies is a fantastic book. I absolutely loved it. Could not put it down. I bought this book from a second hand book store and was planning to sell it later. I think I will keep it and read it later. The hero Catlin is wonderful - strong yet compassionate. He is hard with everyone except the heroine Lindsay. It's nice to read a book of EL (unlike her earlier books) where the hero doesn't treat the heroine badly. Lindsay brings out the best in Catlin. His gentleness with her is so romantic. Even when he has to be firm with Lindsay and the events happening around them inadvertently cause her hurt, Catlin lovingly takes care of her. Lindsay herself is no pushover. As a heroine, she doesn't irritate. Though she is naive and vunerable, she has what it takes to go through the bad times and at the same time heal Catlin with her love and passion. A great book and certainly a keeper
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Summary: Chinese five-spice with a chili oil chaser
Review: Elizabeth Lowell's books are rarely plain vanilla but this book is a spicy treat. I suspected I was in for a great read when Romantic Times picked this as Lowell's best book in their list of the 200 greatest books since 1981. It was better than that. Start with two protagonists with exotic backgrounds. Caitlin (the male protagonist) is a former CIA agent who infiltrated Vietmam after the fall of Saigon. Lindsay is the child of Chinese missionaries who witnessed the brutality of the early days of Mao. She's now a museum curator specializing in ancient Chinese artificats. The plot revolves around a missing Chinese bronze sculpture which is rumored to be in the San Francisco. Caitlin and Lindsay are trying to find it, as are the FBI, the PRC and assorted other dangerous parties. (Keeping track of all these players and their motivations makes this an unusually challenging read for a romance.) There's lots of lurking in the corners of Chinatown and relatively little of tourist San Francisco (a good thing in my opinion). But the real reason to read this book is the chemistry between Caitlin and Lindsay. It's hotter than the best Hunan food in San Francisco and will warm up your dreams. My only gripe about the book -- the name Caitlin made me think of sweet little girls, not a studly guy. Oh well.
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Summary: Personal history and honor blend together
Review: From the first page to the last I was hooked. The glimpses you get of China are different from what we see on news. At the same time you get a glimpse of what an impact it made on the life of a young girl now a woman and a male youth on the verge of adulthood. You also get a glimpse of how this country helped to shape their codes of honor and what is the price of holding dear a country and honor to an individual. The sense of familial history and its importance in the continuity of life are scattered throughout the book. Choices of what cost honor are also embedded in the story. The characters fed well off of each other and the situations.
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Summary: I love this book!!
Review: I am currently reading each of E.L's novels one by one. I consider this one, one of the best so far. I couldn't wait to see what happened next and how Lindsay was going to handle the situations she was put in. There were so many sub-plots going on with all the governmental officials and with Lindsay and Catlin, it really kept me reading on. Of course, I found the romance between Lindsay and Catlin exciting. It truely enhanced the story instead of being the whole focus of it. I finished this book in two days and could have gone on for more. I feel this book was written very well with intelligent characters, developed plots and insights into the chinese culture. I hope I'll discover another one of E.L's books that is as entertaining and long (457 pages) as this one. Kudos to the author!
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Summary: A repeat
Review: I bought this book thinking it was brand new and was very disappointed when I found I had already read it and it had simply been re-released as a hardback with a new name. It was a very good book even the second time around but I still have the original and I could not help but feel a little ripped off. When a book is released for a second time under a different name and promoted on a new book it should say so. In a place you would see it and on the inside where look when you realize you have read this book before.
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Summary: Another Page-Turner from Elizabeth Lowell
Review: I didn't realize this was a re-issue when I bought it, but that doesn't change the fact that it's one of the better suspense-romance books I've read. As other reviews have noted, Elizabeth Lowell did her homework for this book, and it shows. There's a ring of authenticity that simply can't be faked. As usual, the characters are compelling and the romance is red-hot. I literally could not put it down until I had finished. This one's a keeper. By the way, our hero's last name is CATlin, not CAITlin. Highly recommend. If you like this one, be sure to read Elizabeth Lowell's "Amber Beach", "Jade Island," "Pearl Cove," and "Midnight in Ruby Bayou". You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: One of Ms. Lowell's best books
Review: I first read TELL ME NO LIES several years ago. (Contrary to the information given by one of the amateur reviewers on this site, the publisher did not change the title. The title has always been TELL ME NO LIES.) This is a suspense novel of extraordinary depth and it was written long before most romance writers started jumping on the suspense bandwagon. I was absolutely thrilled to see the book come out as a hardcover, especially one this beautiful.
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Summary: A good way to spend several evenings!
Review: I found this to be a well-written novel. Indeed, the romance
was so well controlled, as was the suspense inherent in the
plot, that it blended beautifully into a well-balance book.
The characters had depth, enough angst to be interesting,
and were more realistic in their emotions than one sometimes finds.
On the whole, a delightful read -- and what a great find!
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Summary: Couldn't Finish This Book
Review: I gave up on this book after 136 pages, which was exactly 136 pages more than it deserved. So far, nothing has happened except that we've met the ever-so-sexy male and female protagonists and we've learned that they find each other attractive. I'm sorry, but this reads like a thriller written by someone who up 'till now has written romance novels. (Which, apparently is fairly close to the truth.) This was a dismal waste of time. Call me an MCP if you wish, but as it happens I'm about to pick up a book by J.A. Jance. She's a mystery writer as opposed to thriller writer, but her books are about a thousand times better than "Tell Me No Lies."
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