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Summary: something new around every corner
Review: This was the first of Tami Hoag's books that I have read.This book keeps you entertained from the begining to the end with twists and turns and a little romance to spice things up. If you like thrillers I would recomend reading this book.
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Summary: Heavy on "traditional romance", light on murder mystery
Review: I thought this book was a very easy and fast read. As a person who reads a wide variety of books, I felt like this was a fair romance. It used the very dry, old romance theme of man and woman thrown together, hate each other, fall in love at the end, etc. But, I had checked it out thinking it was a good suspense/mystery novel. It would have been an excellent book if the romance had been played down just a bit and the suspense had been the main focus.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I love Hoag's writing. her subtle mixture of romance and whodunnit is a really compelling one. Her characters are superbly well drawn, her plots great, prose style absolutely stunning, ability to describe setting and way of life first class. I adore her books. She creates characters that you really really care for, and who are so so realistic. If you like brilliantly written thrillers, with a wonderful cast of characters, a well weaved tapestry of occurences, and some romance thrown in for good measure, Tami Hoag is the author for you. The solution is unexpected, and well brought off. THis is certainly more of a "whodunnit" style novel than many of her other thrillers.
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Summary: Still Waters -- No action, no suspense. A let-down by Hoag.
Review: Having read several Tami Hoag novels, and already being "hooked" by some of her better ones (Ashes To Ashes), I was very disappointed by this novel. The characters seemed too stiff, one-dimensional. Very predictable plot, very little action or suspense. While it started off with a bang, the major portion of the book dragged on with little substance. Too many parts were not developed sufficiently, leaving a book that could have been interesting very flat, indeed. Still Waters' ending is as easy to figure out as an old "Columbo" episode. Hoping for better from Hoag.
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Summary: The mystery is good!
Review: I think that Still Waters is a very good book. There are a lot of details about the murder, and she describes scenes very well, as if you are right there. She describes a clear picture in your mind. It takes a very creative person to describe in detail what a person is wearing so you can see them as if they were really here. The story is written so you don't want to put it down. Along with the "who-done-it" storyline, it has an ever thickening plot. The on the side "main" romance though, could use a tone down. Do we really need to know all that stuff?
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Summary: The Internal Conflicts in Still Creek
Review: In the book Still Waters by Tami Hoag, there are mainly two characters that have the most internal conflicts and they are Elizabeth Stuart and Sheriff Dane Jantzen. The internal conflicts of both characters involve their childhoods and past marriages.
Stuart is a woman in her mid- 30's who is also the single mother of her sixteen-year-old son, Trace Stuart. Elizabeth Stuart's internal conflicts started when she was growing up, her father became an alcoholic because of the loss of his wife and her mother. Stuart grew up not knowing her mother and wondering why her father didn't love her as much as he did the picture on his nightstand. In her late teens, Stuart became pregnant by her boyfriend and future husband, Bobby Lee Breland, who was a rodeo star in their small town in Texas. By the time Stuart was nineteen years old she had discovered that Breland was cheating on her, so she decided to pack up her son and their things and leave Breland. After having left her cheating husband, she married a multi-millionaire (Brock Stuart), who ended up also cheating on her, but he was rich enough to pay the writers who were putting the story in the newspaper to say that it was Stuart herself who had been cheating. Brock divorced her and left her with nothing or very little if that.
Sheriff Dane Jantzen is the sheriff of Still Creek and his internal conflict started when he was playing profession football for the Oakland Raiders and had to retire from playing after blowing out his knee. After retiring, his wife made it very clear that she had married the uniform not the man, she later divorced him and took their daughter with her to California, while Jantzen went back to his hometown of Still Creek. He is greatly conflicted because he is only a part of his daughters life a couple times a year, he misses out on all the important things and important memories about raising a child.
Each of their conflicts led them to hate each other in the beginning, but soon after accidentally letting the other one see their vulnerable side they fall in love and figure out that they need one another and with the other ones help they can overcome any obstacles that come their way. I liked the book Still Waters and I encourage anyone who likes to read murder mysteries and suspense novels with a surprise and climatic ending to read this book and for those who have already read this book, I hope you enjoyed it. It makes you think and leaves you feeling bad for the characters at first and happy for them in the end. Tami Hoag is an excellent writer and did a stupendous job in detailing the internal conflicts of the characters in her book.
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Summary: My first Hoag novel, and probably my last too!
Review: This was not a suspense novel as it was advertised, but a romance in disguise. If I wasn't so darn stubborn, I wouldn't have even bothered to finish it. The characters were all one-dimensional, all whiny and full of themselves. Elizabeth was your average romance novel "heroine" - drop dead gorgeous - a woman who all the men want and all the women hate. Blah blah blah ... Dane, Elizabeth's paramour, was no better. (He made up half of the most incomptent police force in any book I've ever read. They were all too busy screwing around to get any real work done.) Handsome and bitter, he had been scorned by his first love and didn't want to love anyone ... yawn yawn yawn. This scenario is so old and cliched its positively embarrassing. They fell in love and into bed in like, 2 days. No kidding! The actual "suspense" (if you could call it that) was slow and also riddled with cliches. I guessed the murderer soon into the book and the motives for killing the tourist were obscure at best. Save your money!
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Summary: How did this get published? (zero stars, actually)
Review: ...it's not that I mind romances per se, but the dialogue and the so-called "building tension" between the two main characters was so appallingly bad that I literally cannot believe that it got published, and with wide distribution yet. I've never read such awful prose. Tragically, I was stuck with nothing else to read. I would recommend to others in that situation to sit and just think deep thoughts rather than submit to the torture of this mess. I am actually embarrassed for Tami Hoag.
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Summary: OH DEAR
Review: YAWN YAWN YAWN. Well what can you say about this novel except that Tami Hoag is truly in love with her own pen. This story could have been at least half as long but she foolishly peppers the book with ridiculous tales of cafes that haven't changed in 50 years and half a page to describe a woman's hairdo. And there's the problem. It's way too descriptive. There's page upon page of pointless "storytelling". I mean there are sections in the book where at least six pages go by without a word being uttered by any character because Hoag sees fit to bore us to death with irrelevant "landscapes". Therefore the book keeps stalling and never comes close to gathering any kind of momentum.
For insomniacs only.
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Summary: Slow From The Get Go!
Review: I thought this book was too slow and had too much inner thought to the characters. Everytime suspense seems to be looming around the corner we have to get another life story from Elizabeth Stuart. I was disappointed mostly because I had heard the book was really good. Apparently the friend who told me this has not really read any really good books yet.
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