Helpful Score: 8
One of the best books I've read in a long time. Filled with lots of mystery and intrigue with just enough romance thrown in for good measure. Really enjoyed the heroine and what a hero! I was up way late in the night reading the book as I couldn't wait to find out "who done it". No spoilers from me though; you'll have to read and enjoy the book yourself.
Helpful Score: 1
Read for my Mystery Book Club, albeit the story is more in the fantasy-romance genre. The real mystery here is all the good reviews for this book.
Loved it, loved it! Sandra Brown never disappoints.
Had to read for our mystery book club. Very disappointing as book would not fit the genre, more like a fantasy romance.
I buy books for a senior library at a large manufactured home park, average age 60-70s. At my age I've grown very tired of seeing authors use 'soft porn' to sell more books. I will not only never read any more Sandra Brown, I will not put into the library. I think the very obvious effort to pack some soft porn into what might otherwise be a good story, cheapens the author and makes them unappealing to me and a lot of other women.
3.0 out of 5 stars -- Predictable romantic fluff disguised as a suspense thriller. Any reader of this genre will be immediately comfortable with the stereotypical characters -- the brooding and mysterious male stranger and the golden girl heroine who wakes up in a bed in a remote cabin with a knot on her head and a concussion and no idea what happened. So, a handsome, rugged man who won't give his name holed up alone with a beautiful woman in the wilderness with wintry conditions preventing her escape; no one is fooled, or scared. His threatening aura and refusal to give an explanation for her captivity notwithstanding, she is unafraid as he promises he won't hurt her. Is he her captor or her rescuer?
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, Atlanta pediatrician and heiress, is training for a fundraising marathon when she goes missing off the trail just outside of Drakeland, North Carolina. Her frantic husband, Jeff, seeks help from the local sheriff's office there when Emory doesn't return from her weekend practice run. Detectives Knight and Grange are concerned but quickly zero in on Jeff as a possible suspect in his wife's disappearance -- after all, isn't it usually the husband in a case like this? And, it seems that Jeff has a couple of motives for wanting his wife out of the picture. Meanwhile, an FBI agent has spent 4 years searching for a man whose legacy was a shooting that left 8 people dead. Is the man who holds Emory the one he wants?
The novel is fast-paced and flips between point of view as it moves toward its unsurprising climax when all secrets are revealed. This book would be perfect for a commute or vacation read as there's nothing but mindless entertainment here and sometimes that's exactly what the reader wants.
Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the e-book ARC to review.
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, Atlanta pediatrician and heiress, is training for a fundraising marathon when she goes missing off the trail just outside of Drakeland, North Carolina. Her frantic husband, Jeff, seeks help from the local sheriff's office there when Emory doesn't return from her weekend practice run. Detectives Knight and Grange are concerned but quickly zero in on Jeff as a possible suspect in his wife's disappearance -- after all, isn't it usually the husband in a case like this? And, it seems that Jeff has a couple of motives for wanting his wife out of the picture. Meanwhile, an FBI agent has spent 4 years searching for a man whose legacy was a shooting that left 8 people dead. Is the man who holds Emory the one he wants?
The novel is fast-paced and flips between point of view as it moves toward its unsurprising climax when all secrets are revealed. This book would be perfect for a commute or vacation read as there's nothing but mindless entertainment here and sometimes that's exactly what the reader wants.
Thank you to NetGalley and Grand Central Publishing for the e-book ARC to review.
Boring! Boring! Boring!
Not much else to say about it, absolutely nothing happens in the first 100 pages and those pages were so boring I barely made it that far and by that time I was just so bored with the whole thing!
I thought Brown wrote better thrillers but this one stunk!
Not much else to say about it, absolutely nothing happens in the first 100 pages and those pages were so boring I barely made it that far and by that time I was just so bored with the whole thing!
I thought Brown wrote better thrillers but this one stunk!
Another exciting book from Sandra Brown! Loved it - couldn't put it down... twists, turns....fabulous!
This was a really good mystery/suspense. It took several turns that didn't even occur to me, probably because I just wanted to get to the next page. There were a couple of exposition spots in the book that took me out of the story a bit, and some of the language used by the characters in places didn't ring true, but other than little nitpicky stuff I really enjoyed it. I used to read a lot of Sandra Brown...I need to remember to pick up some more of her novels!
If Harlan Coben was a woman, he would write like this. But Harlan Coben isn't a woman, so his book and this book aren't really alike.
Enjoyed it very much. Like everything Sandra Brown writes.
