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Hurricane
Hurricane
Author: Karen Harper
ISBN-13: 9780778323075
ISBN-10: 0778323072
Publication Date: 6/1/2006
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 146 ratings
Publisher: Mira
Book Type: Paperback
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31 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

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Helpful Score: 4
great book, keeps you intrested till last page and you still want more
denbroncofan4evr avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 112 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This was a great book. Good story line and kept my attention. I can't wait to read some more of her books.
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Helpful Score: 3
Took me a while to get into this one--maybe I couldn't connect with the whole hurricane thing since I live in earthquake country (?) but once it got on a roll, I really enjoyed the story and found I couldn't put it down. Kept me guessing until the end (well--almost). Good. fast-paced summer read (especially if you live in Florida--if you don't, skip the little annoying weather reports at the beginning of every chapter, like I did).
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Helpful Score: 2
Very good book....excellent descriptions of the area and weather conditions and will keep you guessing until the end!
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This was a great story....kept me on the edge the whole time!
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Was pretty slow and plodding. Predictable ending, and the love story part was not explored in any detail, just thrown in all at once. Not bad, just not overly good.
keeponreading avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 122 more book reviews
5 stars.
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Was very different and lept me interested all the way thru.
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2nd book I have read of hers. She is a good author.
knittymama avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 424 more book reviews
Enjoyed it. Very fast paced. The chapters are short and the story moves along very quickly. Full of suspense with just a hint of romance. Not too sappy like other romance/suspense stories.
FitMommyOf2 avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 85 more book reviews
Another great KH book!
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Another excellent Karen Harper book
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I enjoyed reading it.
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Not her best but an ok read.
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Very good suspenseful novel.
tripletmom avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 225 more book reviews
Great story, that keeps you wanting to turn the pages to see what happens next. A must read!
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Two kids missing,killers on the prowl, a hurricane coming in, and a little romance, it doesn't get much better than this! I loved it!
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great quick read.
MELNELYNN avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 669 more book reviews
Counselor Julie Minton has renovated her family's Osprey resort on one of the 10,000 islands near Naples, Florida so that she can bring teen cutters for a few weeks of therapy. The other counselor Kaylin McKenzie "arranges" for Julie's fourteen year old daughter Randi to share a water jet ski with seventeen years old Thad Brockman; the younger teen has a crush on the older boy. When they fail to return with Hurricane Dana bearing towards the islands, Julie panics.

Julie meets with Thad's dad charter fishing operator Zack, a former military Special Ops soldier. The widower agrees that they should search for Randi and Thad though he feels they are all right and probably out of gas on one of the smaller islands. However, as they begin their search starting with asking his estranged in-laws if they stopped there, Randi and Thad are in deeper trouble than anyone can imagine, having been netted by drug traffickers.

Karen Harper provides a powerful romantic suspense thriller that never slows down until the final confrontation in the eye of the storm. The storyline is action-packed as a frantic Julie and a calm but concerned Zack search for their missing children before Hurricane Dana strikes, but are unaware that the kids are in deeper water with the drug dealers who they know. Though the romance seems inane, rushed and unnecessary with so much else going on, fans will enjoy this exhilarating Type 4 drama.
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Julie Minton and Zack Brockman work together to track down their teenage kids, who took off together on a jet ski. But they must find them fast as a hurricane is bearing down on the southwest Florida community.
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LOVED IT! A real page turner. Different from other Karen Harper books, but great.
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Good hurricane story. Being a Floridian I am very familiar with hurricanes so I found this interesting. For some reason I ended up with two copies of this book.
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This was a great book. . . suspense, hurricanes, romance, believable characters. You'll enjoy this one.
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Another excellent mystery by Karen Harper! Keeps you guessing till the end!
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New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper takes readers into the eye of the storm, where two parents fight to rescue their children from the overwhelming menace of a hurricane.
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With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad aare missing-and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore. With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race aginst time to find their chilldren-but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastation of the storm for their own evil ends.
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With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of Southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton can't leave. Her fourteen year old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a jet ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing-and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore.
With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their children-but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastation of the storm for their own evil ends.
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With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing...and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore.

With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their children..but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastation of the storm for their own evil ends.
motrailrider avatar reviewed Hurricane on + 43 more book reviews
Lots of action - really good read!
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With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her 14 year old daughter Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out of a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing--and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned towards the shore.

With local law enforcement absorbed in emergancy respons3e measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their children--but first they must battle not only from Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastion of the storm for their own evil ends.
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With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing -- and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore.

With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their children -- but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastation of the storm for their own evil ends.