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Summary: Suspenseful - Or - Tedious?
Review: As soon as you open this book, you are swirled into suspense. But after about 300 pages, the reader starts to wonder if the story is EVER going to be told, or indeed, go anywhere at all. And I'm not truly sure it does. What starts out like a Robin Cook/Dean Koontz style novel, descends into more of a "Stepford Wife" story, characters that just don't seem to really live and breathe. The loose ends are all tied up a little too neatly for credibility and the circumstances leading up to the story are a little too full of coincidence. 4 stars or 3? Hard to decide...
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Summary: That's Not Me Putting This Book Down
Review: Don't start this book if you want to sleep. It's not just that the story will go round and round in your head (there's not a single character, "good" or "bad" guy, who you'll want to see lose), but it simply demands that you keep reading.Engrossing is an apt description. Yvonne Navarro weaves a tale that could take place here and now, to someone you know. A kidnapper. A woman, kidnapped. A husband. The kidnapper: his wife, dead for less than a year, is alive in the grocery store? The woman: if she's not his wife, why does she have no memory going back more than four months? And why do his pictures look just like her? The husband: he doesn't even have a picture of his wife of three months, and knows nothing of her history. I was so worried, reading this book, that there was no way she could end it and make me happy on all accounts. And yet she did it, and extremely well...and everything fit perfectly in the logic and story. I mean, I hate when an author puts something into a story at the end to make everything work. In this case, all the pieces are there. Everything fits, perfectly, once Yvonne Navarro gives you the key. So, like I said, don't start this book if you want to sleep. But if you're willing to give up some time to read, then this is likely the most intriguing and engaging book you'll read this year.
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Summary: Gripping Suspense!
Review: From page one, this book is filled with suspense. Yvonne Navarro knows just where to place the clues, and how to string us along and make us want more. Great plot. Great characters. Great book!
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Summary: Hard to believe but a good read
Review: In That's Not My Name, Jesse Waite, believing that his wife has died a sudden death after loosing a baby, wanders into a carnival and suddenly spots a young woman who "is" his wife. He follows her for days and finally approaches her pulling her into his car to take her home where she belongs. He thinks her name is Stacey Waite; she thinks her name is Nola Elidad. Nola's husband of three months is distraught over her disappearance, but knows very little about her when he tries to tell the police about his new wife. It begins to look like story about a multiple personality when Nola/Stacey's memories begin to surface;however, a surprise development of another actual person turns the book into a real suspense that is hard to put down until the last detail surfaces.
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Summary: Hard to believe but a good read
Review: In That's Not My Name, Jesse Waite, believing that his wife has died a sudden death after loosing a baby, wanders into a carnival and suddenly spots a young woman who "is" his wife. He follows her for days and finally approaches her pulling her into his car to take her home where she belongs. He thinks her name is Stacey Waite; she thinks her name is Nola Elidad. Nola's husband of three months is distraught over her disappearance, but knows very little about her when he tries to tell the police about his new wife. It begins to look like story about a multiple personality when Nola/Stacey's memories begin to surface;however, a surprise development of another actual person turns the book into a real suspense that is hard to put down until the last detail surfaces.
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Summary: Good story but.....
Review: It was very long and drawn out. For about 250 pages I felt like I kept reading the same thing over and over again. It was very repetitive and didn't add anything new to the story. Also - don't read the prelude! I figured out the premise of the book very quickly thanks to too much given away in the prelude. Ended nicely, but too drawn out and predictable.
Rating:
Summary: Good story but.....
Review: It was very long and drawn out. For about 250 pages I felt like I kept reading the same thing over and over again. It was very repetitive and didn't add anything new to the story. Also - don't read the prelude! I figured out the premise of the book very quickly thanks to too much given away in the prelude. Ended nicely, but too drawn out and predictable.
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Summary: WOW! Very suspenseful!
Review: Nola has been married to Alec for some three months when she is abducted from a parking lot by Jesse. Jesse is convinced that she is his supposedly dead wife, Stacey, who died ... some three months ago; except that Jesse never saw her in her coffin. As Nola tries to make Jesse see that she can't possibly be his wife, she is nonplussed at how familiar Stacey's things seem to her. She is shocked speechless when she sees photos of Stacey and realizes that she is looking at what appears to be her own face. The suspense of this excellent, faintly noir novel is relentless as the police search for Nola continues even as she begins to doubt her own identity and past. Jesse is a bizarre character who treats Nola with love and respect but locks her in when he leaves the house. Nola is horrified to discover that her abduction was not a spontaneous event; rather, Jesse quit his job and stalked her for months. After constant what if's, maybes, and I'll bet it was this, that, or the other, I was more than ready for all to be revealed in the end. I was a bit taken aback by the epilogue, however -- totally unexpected.
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Summary: An excellent thriller, a real page turner!
Review: One minute Nola Elidad is enjoying herself as a newleywed, the next minute she is literally stolen by a man who claims she is his wife. The author skillfully develops the relationship between Nola and her kind captor. You will never guess the ending! I finished this book in 2 days, a must-read!
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Summary: A MOST TWISTED AND SUSPENSEFUL NOVEL BY A MASTER!
Review: THAT'S NOT MY NAME starts off with a bang...a child is kidnapped. Move forward 15 or so years and another woman is taken from a convenience store. Connected? And if so..how? Navarro introduces to us Jesse Waite, who in a fit of despair and obsession, takes another man's wife thinking she is his own wife, who has been missing the past three months. Jesse then locks Nola in his house and explains to her, through pictures and half-remembered memories, that Nola is really Stacey, Jesse's wife of 4 years. Navarro weaves an interesting scenario and gives out clues throughout the narrative as to what is really going on here. The author has a tough road ahead, trying to convince the reader that this really could and can happen. The scent of reality permeates this story and is hard to believe this wasn't motivated by a real life occurence. The characters are completely three dimensional, their motivations realistic and the dialogue crisp. We are introduced to a dedicated cop, Nola's husband and a host of whacked out relatives of Stacey's. These people help push along the story and never let it drag on. The last 1/4 of this novel has such an astonishing number of revelations, some that I figured out but others that were just shocking. Navarro has written a mystery/suspense novel that will keep you guessing long into the night. Get comfortable when you start this one, you will be there for a long, fulfilling ride with a talented writer who delivers in a big way.
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