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Summary: Storm Warning--Don't Take Shelter!
Review: The back of the book reads: "The phone rings. She picks up, but no one is there. She hears music and the sound of thunder. She hangs up in a trance. Minutes later, she is dead." Sounds good intriguing, doesn't it? Seven little girls were placed in a gifted class at an exclusive school. They only went one hour a week. Years later, they begin to die by suicide, one by one until only one is left. Ginny Shapiro is the one alive and she's running for her life. Thanks to Sister Mary Teresa, the sixth victim, she knows someone is after her and it's all connected to a phone call. Regardless of what happens, she can't answer the phone. FBI agent Sullivan Dean, a friend of Sister Mary Teresa, tracks her down. Sister Mary Teresa had tried to contact Sullivan. He wasn't available so she sent him all the information she had found out about the other five victims, the same little girls who were in her gifted class, but he received the information too late. Now in memory of his friend, he is bound and determined to find Ginny and protect her from the same fate. This book had the promise of being a great romantic suspense thriller; yet it fell flat on its face. The author, Dinah McCall tried to incorporate suspense and romance into her plot. She should have stuck with one and left the other alone. The book starts out full of suspense. I was immediately drawn into the story. However, when Ms. McCall started incorporating the romance angle, the whole story fell flat. It is almost like she had to write so many pages for publications. While I could see the point of the story about the doctor's family, I fail to see the need for the plot concerning the fishing camp. To me it took away from the plausibility of the plot. Final opinion, Storm Warning is ok for a lazy afternoon read. You can put it down and come back to it. While the story isn't horrible, it's not so great that you can't bear to be away from it without knowing the ending. If I could do it over, while I would still read the book, I think I would have been better off borrowing it from a friend or picking it up at a used books store.
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Summary: Ugh Warning
Review: This silly book is a waste of money, from it's implausible plot to it's poorly developed characters and worse writing. Seven little girls were in a special gifted students program- now six of them are dead. But prior to the death of the sixth, she discovered the link between the previous five suicides, and both warns the last girl, Ginny Shapiro, and requests help from FBI agent Sullivan Dean. Dean is too late to help number six but dashes off to the rescue of Ginny. She has gone on the run, but given the resources of the bureau, Sully soon tracks her down. Then follows a menace completely unrelated to the story, which seems to have been put there as filler for this slender plot. Sully and Ginny fall in love by rote and for no good reason except for lust and proximity, as far as I can see. The writing is stilted, as if to say, "Now we have the love scene." What is happening to these writers? Dinah McCall and her alter ego Sharon Sala has never been one of my favorite writers, but she has written far more competant novels. Maybe publishers should let writers write at their own pace. The only result of pushing and depending on a name to sell a book is that I, for one, will never bother to spend another penny on this writer.
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Summary: A quick, easy read.
Review: This was a thought-provoking book about the power of hypnotism. Right from the get-go I liked Ginny and LOVED Sully. "Storm Warning" was a fast read with a clever, if a bit predictable, storyline. The romance is hot and heavy, just the way I like it. If you're a fan of Karen Robards or Linda Howard, you'll like this author just as well.
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