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Summary: Terrible book
Comment: I got to about page 60 and give up. It's almost ALL interior dialogue and boring as hell. If Kat said one more time, "I'm a single mother!!!!" I thought I'd throw up. Did she really think criminals would say, oh, holy mother, sorry, you're fee to go? So she reproduced, big deal. I agree with all the other negative reviews. She was TSTL.
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Summary: Boring and Silly
Comment: A big disappointment for me. It's the first book I've read by this author. I was looking for a mystery, instead got a cheap Harlequin romance. Fortunately, it was a library book, so at least I didn't spend any money on the matter. I won't be reading any more of her work!
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Summary: Inexpicable ending
Comment: I listened to the audio publication of this book. I really liked the story at the beginning (after "Kitty Kat" became "Kate"), but there were way too many "What?" moments, especially at the end, that the book ended up being a disappointment for me. I did like Kate and Tom and their romance and Ben's relationship with his mom was sweet. I am a lawyer so I had to suspend my logic for much of the book, especially when the courtroom massacre at the beginning is not treated like the HUGE news event it would be. Kate, a hostage who supposedly has heroically escaped her captor, has newspeople hounding her for only 1-2 days? Not likely. Also, Kate is a prosecutor and it is incredibly hard to believe that the potential disclosure of a juvenile crime in which she was not even involved would scare her so much that she would put her son's life at risk. I kept waiting for the "BIG TASK" that for some unexplained reason, Kate is seemingly the only person able to accomplish. What a letdown when that comes to light and **SPOILER ALERT** a decoy is able to do it for Kate at the last minute. The confrontation scene at the end made me laugh out loud. We get an uncoerced confession by the bad guy and it all gets wrapped up neatly as though the author's publication deadline was looming and she had to get the book done. I thought the beginning of the story had a lot of promise and it was not fulfilled for this reader.
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Summary: Product Placement?
Comment: I enjoyed this book overall. It is definitely a big step up from her previous two klunkers. I found the chemistry between Tom and Kate believable. I really liked Tom. Kate did make very stupid decisions, but I could almost see how it happened - getting yourself deeper and deeper into a bad situation. Now for my criticisms (LOL): editing mistakes: her co-worker Bryan is described at the beginning as small and compact. Later on, he is stocky. Also, his name is spelled Bryan, but in some instances, it is spelled Brian. I don't know Philadelphia but it was interesting to read the comments about misuse of the river locations.
And now for my main comment: did anyone else notice the product placement in this book? Maybe it happens in other books and I've just never noticed it. At the beginning, she wears her "Hanes" t-shirt several days in a row. When Tom embraces her, she notices that he uses "Downy" fabric softener. I'm not sure if the author gets product placement fees (as movies do) or if she was just trying to add a realistic touch, but I thought it was a bit overdone. Now I don't mind when brand names are mentioned because it contributes to the story (for instance, you know a character is rich because they pull up in their Rolls Royce, etc.) But these ones seemed to be in there for no valid reason.
My other criticism is the whole gang thing - first, there's only one prisoner who survived the courthouse shooting and no one is suspicious as to why he was the only one who survived. No one interviewd him about what happened? Especially when he is evidently part of the notorious Black Dragons gang (like the Crips only worst, haha). Then at the end it is actually the mob who set this all up? I found that a bit confusing.
But I did like Kate, I liked her son, I enjoyed their relationship. As with most of these books, I thought the final denouement and ending was too quickly wrapped up.
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Summary: Better Than Obsession
Comment: I have to say this was better than her last one but still leaves a little to be desired. Some said the heroine was stupid; I would say she made some really bad decisions. She was a bit annoying in the fact that she lied about everything to her son, to Tom to the police. One could have trust issues with her. The book is a little wordy in descriptions of rooms and places and I skimmed a lot. I really didn't get into the book until the last few chapters. I didn't see the romance between Tom and Kate. It was all pretty rushed. I did like Tom's character and his family and of course Ben. Kate was the only character I wasn't too sure about. Sometimes I could tolerate her and sometimes I just found her annoying. Of course predictibly everything turns out great and the bad guys get caught and everyone lives happily ever after. Not a bad read, just not great. At least it was beliveable as opposed to Obsession which was totally unbeliveable.
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