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Summary: A Great Read-A+! Fielding Does it Again!
Review: I really have enjoyed all of Joy Fielding's books, and this is one of the older ones I really had fun reading!!
Joanne, the main character of the story is a housewife raising 2 girls. She and her husband Paul have temporarily separated, and Joanne would like nothing more than to get back together again.
Along with everything else though, is these scary obscene phone calls that Joanne has been getting over and over again. This caller keeps telling her to read the morning paper, page 13, where a woman was cut to pieces. As the calls go on, Joanne is terrified, but nobody believes her. The last person to believe Joanne is her best friend Eve, who lives next door and has her own set of problems it seems. Eve is battling many different types of ailments that the doctors don't know what it is. And as time goes along further, Eve gets to acting a little stranger each and every day.
Joanne begins to wonder what is really going on with her best friend, and tries to put what is really going on together between the phone calls, and Eve's strange actions. What she discovers might be surprising, but she may be fighting for her life.
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Summary: Not much of a splash but entertaining
Review: Joy Fielding's DEEP END won't create a splash in the literary world, but it is an intriguing story that's hard to put down. Heroine Joanne Hunter struggles to put her life back in order. Her husband has left her, her best friend is strangely distant, her beloved grandfather is dying in a nursing home. It's not the best time in her life.The book begins "The phone is ringing." Therein lies the problem: A series of phone calls, each more threatening than the last. Joanne, already emotionally drained, becomes increasingly distraught. Will she go off the deep end? "The only thing that prevented people from being happy twenty-four hours a day, Joanne thought with a sharp cackle, was life." Fielding has written many books, among them THE BEST OF FRIENDS and KISS MOMMY GOODBYE. Her strong point is plotting -- she constructs plots meticulously, inexorably. She "shows" a story well. Characterization is believable, but not outstanding. This is a book for suspense fans, or fans of Ms. Fielding. I was astonished by the ending.
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Summary: It sends shivers up your spine!
Review: Love the characters, love the plot, and love the suspense! Don't read this at home alone!
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Summary: How could I not have read her books before?
Review: Once again, Joy Fielding, has led us into the relationships between husband and wife. From the first, the wife was sympathetic and the husband a pain in the neck. The wife was almost too pathetic so that I was getting angry with her. The husband was too much of a jerk and I hated him and then I realized, what a minute, this is fiction. This isn't real! She sure made me feel I knew these people and cared what happened. I recommend this book, as well as See Jane Run and The Other Woman. Read all her books. I plan to.
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Summary: Joy Fielding cannot achieve a less than glorious novel
Review: The story line is easy to relate to, her characters are always credible and there is always a certain degree of suspense. Always a good read and once again, this book was not put down until the last page
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Summary: The cover is deceiving
Review: This book was OK but it is more about Joanne's relationships with her husband, daughters and best friend Eve. The phone calls from the person who wants to kill her is a small part of the story. There is very little suspense in this book. And it is far from scary!! If you like a book about how women cope with the breakup of a marriage this book is for you, if you want a thrilling, suspenseful book then forget it! You'll be disappointed.
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Summary: A Decent Book
Review: This is a decent book. Joanne is a much more appealing protagonist than some of Joy Fielding's other characters. It's decent, but as noted by a few others, it is not what you would call a spine tingling thriller. Joanne has to contend with a husband who walks out on her (a lot of unfaithful husbands appear in Joy Fielding's works), two daughters who at least are nice people, and a best friend who is a few planes short of a squadron. The poor woman is so distraught over not being able to carry a baby to term that she becomes a hypochonrdriac. She goes to doctors of every branch under the sun and during one doctor's appointment, Joanne connects with an old friend. It seems the good doctor's receptionist is sick and the place is in a state of chaos. In an amazing show of faith, he hires Joanne on the spot and confides to her that he thinks her friend is a loony tune. The husband returns by the end of the story and the creep who's been stalking Joanne is a boy who visits his elderly relative in a hospital where she, too, has a dying loved one. (This book bears a strong resemblance to "Don't Cry Now," wherein a youthful offender commits some very adult crimes in a very calculating way. Oh, and did I mention that the hospital is a familiar setting for such creeps to surface?
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Summary: A must read book
Review: This is the best book I have read in years. It wasn't a soppy book and it feeled realistic like most other books don't. Joanne's life is torn apart and the only way to keep her going is her courage. She is threatened by her stalker with no support from her husband as she is seperated from her and doesn't believe. Read this book, but leave the lights on!
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Summary: A Decent Book
Review: This was a good summer-read/beach book. It's great if you're looking for something completely unrealistic and a touch melo-dramatic. I'll admit that I was completely hooked to the end, but then, Fielding always has that effect on me. Once reaching the end, however, I felt a little bit let down. I suppose I was hoping for something a little more powerful.
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Summary: Thrilling and Chilling
Review: This was a good summer-read/beach book. It's great if you're looking for something completely unrealistic and a touch melo-dramatic. I'll admit that I was completely hooked to the end, but then, Fielding always has that effect on me. Once reaching the end, however, I felt a little bit let down. I suppose I was hoping for something a little more powerful.
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