Unspeakable

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Summary: very dissapointed
Review: I have always been a Sandra Brown fan. If this was the first book of hers I read, I would not read another. The last 25 pages were the only ones worth reading.

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Summary: Great read if you like mystery/suspense.
Review: Not her very best but I was intrigued. Not for the die hard romance reader as Sandra Brown has catered to in the past. I personally enjoyed it.

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Summary: Reaching for male readers
Review: I have been a fan of Ms Brown forever. I should have known her latest, Unspeakable, was a departure, when my father-in-law asked to borrow it after reading the flap. Ms. Brown has become more "mainstream" over the years but she now seems to be actively seeking male readers with more hardcore sadomasochism and violence. There are so few authors who really do romantic suspense well - Sandra Brown is one of them. Let's hope that Nora Roberts doesn't decide to take a turn writing in this hardcore genre, too.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Why are some of the top authors changing to suspense/romance instead of sticking to the kind of writing that got them where they are now? Sandra Brown's "Unspeakable " seems just that kind of book. I was glad to see she came out with a new one, it's been awhile. But I was very disappointed after reading it. At the end, it seems she couldn't make up her mind on how to end it so she came up with a lot of different senarios and lets the reader decide if they like it . Are they all trying to keep up with Mary Higgens Clark or Danielle Steel who crank out these kind of books once or twice a year.. Maybe money talks, which is a shame, since she should have put more thought into this one before she sent this to the publisher. Sorry Sandra, better luck next time. Stick to books like Adam's Fall and Texas Sage/Lucky/Chase, and Tidings of Great Joy which your readers have come to love and leave the suspense novels to others.

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Summary: terrible
Review: This is the first time I ever put a Sandra Brown book down in disgust. Not worth the time I spent reading it, a huge disappointment.

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Summary: I disliked this book immensely.
Review: I have read all of Sandra Brown's books, and have loved them all. I have been a big fan of her's for a long time. This book is nothing like her other books. I feel she is trying to change her style from Romance to a more grotesque, crude form of murder mystery. I hope her next book will be more like her other novels and not like "Unspeakable". This book was a great disappointment to me.

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Summary: Unspeakable is Unreadable
Review: Having been a big fan of Sandra Brown's for many years and having met the author , I am very disappointed in her new book. I found it very difficult to get through...the language foul and the characters lacking. The love story wasn't even interesting. I was determined to make it to the end, and reaching that goal. I had no sympathy for any of the characters save the little boy, David. I don't know if Mrs. Brown is now writing only for the big bucks but I will now be sure to read the inside cover and the beginning pages before plunking down mine. So much for summer trashy novels.

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Summary: DISAPPOINTING
Review: This book was not worthy of Sandra Brown. It was very unbelievable & not suspensful at all, as the jacket leads you to believe. Also, the language and violence was senseless. Instead of it helping us to understand the character, it was offensive and tedious. Sandra Brown, can do so much better than this. If you're a big fan skip this one, you'll be dissappointed.

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Summary: "unspeakable" is not worth talking about
Review: Sandra Brown's previous 3 novels ("The Witness," "Exclusive" and "Fat Tuesday") have all been intelligent, well-crafted stories of suspense while also employing a sophisticated usuage of prose. It is with great shock that Ms. Brown has come up with this new novel which is, quite frankly, an embarrassment both to the author and reader. The writing here, immature at best, is appalling. To reduce one's intelligence by using adjetives such as "doofus" to describe a character is inexcusable. Added to poor prose is a worse story - one that holds as much interest as a leaky faucet. Everything combined makes "Unspeakable" virtually unreadable. We are all allowed to make mistakes and to learn from them. Let's hope Ms. Brown has learned from this unfortunate endeavor.

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Summary: Very, very dissapointing
Review: A friend loaned me this book. I'm glad I didn't buy it. I quit reading it after 60 pages. I cannot believe Sandra Brown wrote this book. I don't know whose cup of tea it is but it sure isn't mine.

Molly Jacobs