Moving Target

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Summary: Elizabeth Lowell's Moving Target
Review: Elizabeth Lowell's "Moving Target" is another in a long line of fast-paced, exciting, romantic suspense stories. In many ways, this book was the meeting place, or reunion as it were, or many of Lowell's other stories. The dangerous Donovan men, including the hereto unexamined Lawe--dare we hope his story is coming soon?--and the indominable April Joy, make a minor appearance. Erik the Learned and Serena of the Silverfells, mentioned in the Enchanted, Forbidden and Untamed series play an integral in this modern version of their story. While I have always wished that Lowell would tell Erik's story after reading the others', this was the next best thing. The action prevents you from putting the book down until it was finished and the love story makes you image what it would be like to actually meet your soul mate. If there was one negative that I could mention, it is that there are a plethora of characters brought into play whose purposes are vague and unimportant, which made it difficult to track those who were involved and in what way. Overall however, the book is another example of Lowell's exceptional work.

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Summary: Another Lowell Treasure To Devour
Review: I became addicted with my first read of the Donovan series (all four books read - come on: two more at least, one for each remaining male twin!), and branched out to her other contemporaries. I read the sequel to MT first (Running Scared), and immediately dived into this book. Both are well done, but this was better in terms of the well-honed dialogue, plot and historical information on druidism and the art world. Also, there was a very neat, unexpected geneological twist at the end that I didn't see coming! Next on my list is Die In Plain Sight as I eagerly await the NEXT TWO DONOVAN BOOKS (hint hint).

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Summary: Kept trying to care...
Review: I love most of the newer Elizabeth Lowell, but I just couldn't get into this story. First, it's not really a romance. It's a thriller/suspense crime novel with a sex scene thrown in with little warning or payoff. I never really got under the skin of the hero, but Risa, the heroine, was fairly interesting. The little psychic twist seemed unnecessary and unconvincing. Still decent crime plot, some funny moments, and better written than most romances.

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Summary: Kept trying to care...
Review: I love most of the newer Elizabeth Lowell, but I just couldn't get into this story. First, it's not really a romance. It's a thriller/suspense crime novel with a sex scene thrown in with little warning or payoff. I never really got under the skin of the hero, but Risa, the heroine, was fairly interesting. The little psychic twist seemed unnecessary and unconvincing. Still decent crime plot, some funny moments, and better written than most romances.

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Summary: If you've waited for Eric's story it wasn't worth the wait
Review: I was browsing in the mysteries section and came across this book. While reading it, I kept thinking, 'how did this book end up in that section?' It's not that there is not a mystery to the book, there is a good plotline concerning a lost masterpiece of handworked writing of early books made by monks usually, who illuminated their writings. This particular book was a secular (nonreligious) one, but still very valuable due to the age and the type of gilding and jewels used on and in the book.

After finishing the book, which in spite of it being more a romance book then a mystery, I enjoyed a lot...I am still confused. Other than the age of the book, the fact that it was one of a kind, and the fact that the female protagonist found out information about her family someone didn't want her to know (I don't want to give it away)...what was the big deal over the book? A bunch of people died to keep the book from turning up again, and I am still not quite sure what the big deal was. Maybe I read it too fast!

Anyway, it's not my usual reading matter, but it was pretty good fun. The love story is nice, with a bit of history and magic woven into the story. I could do without the graphic descriptions, but that's my own personal preference.

Lowell is not the best writer I've come across, obviously, because so much is left unexplained, too many loose ends. I really enjoyed the history and the information about this type of book...I've certainly never come across vocabulary such as pampliset before. It will be fun to look some of this up online.

Karen Sadler

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Summary: A great read!!!
Review: One of the best books Lowell has written. Fast-paced and edgy, it doesn't depend on her standard highly predictable sex scenes or breathless virgin heroines. The connection to her medieval romances is intriguing and her description of medieval manuscripts is fascinating.

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Summary: Big Lowell Fan, but......
Review: This book had an intriguing plot and compelling characters. The action moved along at a good pace. There were some clever plot twists I enjoyed. However some of the romance scenes were almost laughably written. But I'm not a romance genre reader so maybe that's why I found them a little strange. I also found some of the mysticism a little out of place, but that's also not a topic I am interested in. All in all this was reasonably entertaining.

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Summary: A book that wholes you attention*****
Review: To say the least.

I read an interview with Lowell where she said that she gets paid to write from the Publisher and that what they get is what they want.

I thought it was what the READERS want!

She remarked on this book in particular.

She admitted that she never quite finished Eric the Learned's story.

Then she goes on to say something about people get too attached to characters and seemed to mock some of the people who were so hung up on her characters that she created.
To her it is easy to let go.

Shame on her.

I haven't bought a book of hers since that interview.

Fine that you don't get into the characters that YOU create.
Mock the fans that buy your books or in this instance stop buying your books!