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Paradise County

Paradise County

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Captivating
Review: This novel has it all, murder, mystery and intrigue which just don't stop.

A millionaire father is suspected of committing suicide and his eldest daughter, Alex is left to clean up the mess. It seems the family has lost its fortune which brings Alex to Paradise County to sell off everything in order to pay debts accumulated and there she comes across the arrogant Joe Welch, horse trainer, whom she has to fire as she has no choice but Joe is not going to peacefully walk away without a fight. He needs the income from this job which he loves to support this three children who he is left to raise after his ex-wife just walks away as well as to achieve his ultimate goal.

Aside from being devastated from the lost of her father, the loss of her family finances, her fiancé marrying someone, her younger sister running away from school, Alex has an even bigger problem, a killer has set his sights on her and her sister and he's a lot closer to her than she knows.

Alex and Joe are like oil and vinegar but with the occurrence of certain events, it seems like they have much more in common than they ever suspected and they certainly heat up the pages after the initial dislike of each other.

This is one novel you don't want to pass on -- check it out and you'll see what I mean.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I liked it. . .
Review: This was a good story. And I liked the hero and the heoroine, and I really hated to only give this story three stars. . . Three and three quarters is more like it. A story has to be positively exceptional to receive five. The plot wasn't bad, but there were a couple of things that bugged me. One was the fact that a major issue was never quite resolved, and I felt that everything was already there for it to be resolved. Another was that I didn't really 'feel' that the characters fell in love. Twas more like a hot n' sweaty sex fest. The bizzare killer didn't bug me so much, although I tended to skim for the most part through his ramblings. And despite how negative that sounds, this WAS a good story. I liked the way the hero was with his children. I also liked the way the heroine under stood her sister's problems. The cat was an interesting touch. All in all, even though I enjoyed reading it, I guess the story just didn't quite touch me.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Enjoyable Read
Review: This was the first audiobook that I've listened to completely. The reader did a good job. You get the damsel in distress, with a knight in shining armor trying to take care of them and his three children. You get a killer whose next victim could be anyone. It was fun to listen to with just the right amount of suspense, drama, humor and romance. I don't know if I would call it Paradise, but I would call it an enjoyable read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Couldn't put the book down!
Review: This was the first book I read by Karen Robards. I read an exerpt in Cosmo and just had to buy the book. It was fantastic and I was hooked from cover to cover! I will definately be purchasing more books by this author.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: 2 1/2 stars -- A loose heroine and an immoral teenager
Review: This wasn't awful, but it wasn't worth buying either. As another reviewer has noted, the mystery part was ridiculous and contained gratuitous violence. Also, while I don't think virgin heroines are required in romance novels any longer, neither can I warm up to overly assertive, loose heroines. Alex (the heroine) sleeps with the hero after only knowing him for a couple of days and then calls him another man's name in bed (Joe reacts a lot better than I would have to that). Even more distateful was the immorality of Alex's teenage sister. The sister was little more than a... and it was quite annoying that way Alex just shrugged off her loose sexual habits and innuendos, drinking, and drugs.

Not worth buying and only worth reading if there's nothing else in the house.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A good read.
Review: When you hit rock bottom, the only place to go is up.

Though to Alexandra Haywood, daughter of a once famed Billionaire, things just do not appear to be looking up.

She has lost her father in an appeared suicide, has to fire employee's of her father's because of bad investments her father made that have gone bad and there is little money left, she has to sell Whistledown, her father's favorite home; liquidating all it's assets to retain money. To top it off a man she fires refuses to leave, her fiance cheats on her, her father is brought up in a scandal, her sister gets kicked out of an exclusive boarding school, and she thinks some one hit her on the head with a statue in the middle of the night in her father's home and she is not being believed.

Joe Welch has loved horses and wanted to be a trainer all his life. He almost made it big once but an unfortunate twist of fate left him raising his three children by himself on a farm in his hometown. Whistledown has become his dreams and he loves the horses and the people there. His children are the average teen-agers but are doing well and his father, while stinting on booze sometimes, seems content in their home. When Alexanda Haywood came to tell him that he was being fired with a 30 day notice, all of his hopes and dreams vanish and he is left with anger and disbelief.

A dangerous killer lurks in the background watching and waiting for his moment to strike. He is not afraid, he is patient, and he is vicious. Alexandra and her sister Neely are his targets. He loves to watch them. He wants to make them his.

Love, romance, and danger lurk in this novel based on a Kentucky horse ranch.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: As Always Great Book
Review: Wonderful suspense and great look into the mind of the villian. Romance sizzled between Joe and Alex. Great reading.


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