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Summary: Really Bad!
Review: A terrible read. A computer determined who the killer was, from out of the blue, with no explanation to the reader. Likewise I was waiting for a tie-in between the supernatural portion of the story which appeared at the beginning of the book but there was no relationship between the ghost of the woman Samantha Barrister, her family, and the rest of the story. Very juvenile, not at all thought out in a logical manner. It was a page turner, keeping me in suspense as I waited for some coherence, which, unfortunately, never came.
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Summary: Truly Awful-don't blow your money buying it.
Review: As a long time reader of Coulter's books, I expected a lot more than what this book delivered. First off, the dialogue was really strange--almost like Coulter herself didn't write it. In her past books she has been pretty good at characterization, but in this book, the characters were stilted, wooden and totally unbelievable as was the plot and the twists. The ending of the story line made absolutely no sense to the rest of the book. The characters--Ben and Callie had so little chemistry between them that it was almost painful when they finally hooked up! My advice to anyone contemplating a purchase of Blow Out - is don't blow your money on buying the book--look at how uniformly bad these reviews are and then either skip reading it all together, or go to the library and check it out! This is not a book you will want to keep in your personal library. It is really , really bad!
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Summary: Not one of her better books
Review: I have read all of Catherine's FBI thrillers and have to say this is not one of her better writings. She entwines two tales in one story that have nothing remotely to do with each other and it just kind of leaves you mixed up. Wondering when she was going to touch on the other story she was trying to tell. It seemed to drag on and on...and that is one quality in book that I do not enjoy. However I will not stop reading her books. Every other FBI thriller book she has written has been excellent. Every now and then an author has an off time. This was just one of hers. I am sure she will come back strong and kicking.
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Summary: STOP THE PRESSES!
Review: I have read all of Coulter's books, some more than once. Her Regency-era romances were usually witty and fun and her early FBI thrillers were actually good. This one is just bad. It had good primeses but bad characterization, bad dialogue, no plot, stupid cops and a spectacularly bad ending. She should never have let this one go to print.
By the way, I checked the other reviews written by the three people who have given this book a five-star rating. Who's paying these people? Two of the three have written dozens of reviews, giving nearly every book a five. Either they have no taste or they are shills.
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Summary: Ending Disappointed
Review: I love the Sherlock/Savich series, but I had problems with this one. First of all, I felt that a psychic experience was out of place. Sherlock and Savich are professionals; the ghost story line didn't fit in. Secondly, there were a lot of contradictions in the book. For example, I didn't buy that the judge married Callie's mother to get to her. It didn't jive. Callie respected the judge and was intuitive enough to know if he was interested in her or not. There was no evidence that he was. I, especially, disliked the way things were tied up at the end. The last quarter of the book didn't fit with the first three. So many of my favorite authors are cranking books out due to publisher induced deadlines. They suffer as a result.
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Summary: Blow Out: Another thriller
Review: I read other reviews on this site and got disappointed since I'm a fan. Ignore the reviews . . . I have read each one of Coulter's FBI thrillers, and BLOW OUT didn't disappoint. There are other books that are better, but I don't know why the angry reviews some posted. I really enjoyed the Callie Ben relationship and thought Mrs. Califano's friends were like the ya-ya sisterhood. The story lines were as clever and tricky as usual. I'm waiting for the next one!
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Summary: Oh, ye Gads!
Review: I shudder when I think of why this alleged "author" even wrote this pile of C***.
What a premise! Murder at the Supreme Court; one Justice killed, his legal clerks are getting bumped off.... ahhhh! how a real who-dunit writer could have developed such a great idea.
But what we have here is saccharine-sweet garbage, badly edited at that. No idea about police work, FBI agents crying like babies, and a ridiculouds construct as an end...
Don't even read it from the public library; it ain't worth it.
I had to give it one star because Amazon would not have accepted it otherwise; also, because Coulter abstained from graphic descriptions of sex, as it seems to be mandated now for woman writers.
Otherwise....Gahhhh!
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Summary: did she get paid by the word?
Review: i've never read a book with such banal chit-chat--the dialogue was just plain bad! if she'd have cut out about 200 pages of dialogue maybe i'd have muddled through it. as it was, i disn't care who killed who.
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Summary: Left Wondering...
Review: I've read the Sherlock/Savich series from the start - this one left me wondering if I was reading the same author. The dialogue was week and the story line lame....and how realistic is it for a parent to put a child in a dangerous situation - where the earlier books were at least believable - this one left one with the thought that little thought was put into the depth of the story line. Come on Catherine - get it together - or more people will be going to the library!
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Summary: Could Be the Worst Book, Ever
Review: Let's see, my stepfather was just murdered and, within less than twenty four hours, I am wildly flirting with the police officer. The only way that any fact can be explained to the reader is through stilted dialogue -- "I am going to see so-and-so." "Oh, isn't she your sister?" "Yes, she is my sister." It's a murder mystery, actually two murders, completely unrelated to each other, both of them "solved" at the last minute through long-winded confessions in the bad old James Bond style, "now that I've got you, the good guy, pinned down and could kill you just by pulling the trigger, let me explain to you in long-winded fashion why I've done this." And spiced with right-wing fantasy throughout (the liberal Supreme Court Justice is a horrible person, the Black law clerk is labelled an affirmative action whiner for no discernible reason, the "good" beer is Coors, and so on). Worst. Book. Ever.
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