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Summary: IT [was] SO BAD!
Review: I WAS SO DISSAPOINTED IN THIS BOOK THE SEX WERE NONEXISTENT .ARE WE SURE THAT JUDE DEVERAUX IS WRITING THESE BOOKS. IF SHE IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WAY SHE USED WRITE HER OLD BOOKS WHEN I FIRST STARTED READING HER BOOKS. ANY TRUE DEVERAUX FAN WOULD KNOW THE WAY HER WRITING SKILLS HAVE CHANGED OVER THE YEARS.
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Summary: Not as good as JD's other books
Review: As said previously, read JD's other books. Much more interesting than this one. The characters are weak - the heroine is childish, the hero is irritable, the plot details are sketchy, the romance is off and unbelievable. The ending is vague and just thrown together. The only character that looks interesting but has too few pages/ lines is Putnam.
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Summary: Do not share this book!
Review: I only own this book simply because, since high school, I have collected all of Deveraux' books. NEVER would I share this book with anyone that I loved or cared for. Deveraux needs to stop packaging her current style of writing as "Romance" so her fans will not be blind-sighted again. This gruesome book belongs in the "Horror" or "Sci-Fi" section or maybe simply taken off the shelves. I've felt that Deveraux lost touch with her fans about four books ago! However, on the long slide to the bottom, Deveraux has finally reached it with this book. I never thought I would pick up a Deveraux and read in horror about the gruesome deaths of children and members of the beloved Montgomery family. Wise choice to attack the one creation that everyone loved. The characters are never polished anymore and you get the impression that there was a deadline to make, so thus the ending never truly develops. It would be wise to return to the classic Deveraux formula of Historical Romance if she wants to please her fans. It is highly unfair to force her newfound style of writing on those of us who have been her biggest fans since the beginning.
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Summary: The controversy is what makes it interesting...
Review: This book was definitely different, but extremely interesting. I must say that I think that Jude Deveraux did an outstanding job at keeping the readers' attention and starting up a huge controversy with this winner. You can't help but think that the heroine is whiney and tries to get over on her more than generous boss, but that's what makes this book so good. The fact that you get so engrossed in the characters and their personalities makes it seems like you're watching a movie instead of reading a book. In the beginning of the book I didn't care too much for the heroine, but then I realized that she was just an average person who was out to make a quick buck. I find that to be realistic in today's world and it made her relationship with her boss more interesting. There's nothing wrong with throwing some realism into fiction novel these days, not every Jude Deveraux book is going to be a happy fairy tale with Prince Charming in it!
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Summary: Do not buy this book,
Review: Let me get this straight---I am hired at 100,000 a year and follow absolutely no order my boss gives me. I supposedly am falling in love with my boss, get irritated with him and try to fry his brain: he falls on the ground in horrible pain, bleeding. Hmmm. Strange love. Doesn't bode well for the future. Never irritate this woman.
This book was a horrible joke on Jude's fans. The heroine is vastly unappealing, although I think we are supposed to find her cute and perky. She takes money from her boss (in addition to her pay) in order to save to pay her would-be fiance 7 million dollars??!! We only hear bits and pieces about this fiance, and stories about her mother's neglect, and yet they come in the end to save her from certain doom. Oh my. Where on earth did that come from? We don't even get to see the ending. It is told in epilogue chapters.
I am so glad I can return this book to a used book store and get a dollar back for it. I have, in the past, considered Jude's books to be keepers. But her last few... Please, please, please stop with the occult, supernatural, time travel, reincarnation themes. I am begging Jude to go back to her perfect genre, the medieval era. Her older books were wonderful!
Do not buy this book!
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Summary: Didn't make it to the end
Review: I borrowed this book from the library and I only finished up to ch. 5 and have had enough of this book. I felt this book was poorly written and the characters were plastic; I couldn't connect with them. The storyline just didn't seem realistic. Reading this book was like watching a very bad TV show. I stopped at ch. 5, skimmed through the book and read the last chapter and returned the book back to the library way before the due date. If you want to read a good romance novel with a sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural element, check out the Roswell High series by Melinda Metz, or even better, watch the Rowell tv series to be rerunned on Sci-Fi Channel beginning Jan. 2003. Skip this book Forever!
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Summary: Rush ending
Review: I am a great fan of Jude Deveraux's. I love the Montgomery books and most leave me wanting more however this one didn't. There were several times when the change in setting and focus left me saying "WHAT?" and I had to reread to figure out who was where and what was happening. [I should only have to do this if I put the book down for a long time and a these books are a two hour read for me.] What happened to Montgomery's parents was very out of the family story line so I had a very hard time with belief now if it had been her parents and Montgomery was the one with the sight then well... The ending was very bad. I felt as if the author lost interest [or the editor was screaming shorter shorter] near the end so it was a slapped condensed version of what should have been much much better. Instead it left me with a he said then she said feeling. The book left me sorry I didn't pick it up at a library book sale for a quarter. Advice get it from the library if you feel you must read it.
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Summary: Jude Deveraux at her best
Review: I absolutely adored this book. First, who can resist the fabulous Montgomery family? I think I have to disagree with Sweet Liar's Samantha...I'd like to have an affair with a Taggert, but marry a Montgomery. As for the book itself, it was fabulous. It really reminded me of the Jude Deveraux of old. The characters were funny and sassy, the plot was quick-paced and
fascinating, the atmosphere was wonderfully spooky. Remember those books we used to read as a child, scary ones we read with a flaslight under the covers? This is one of those books, just for grown-ups. Anyone who loves the supernatural will read this book non-stop. It's an absolute must for all Jude Deveraux fans as well.
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Summary: Disappointing ending. Bah Humbug!
Review: Everything about the book is delightful. The characters are just right; you love Darci, you hate Adam, until he mellows out. You understand the storyline as the story happens, it all fits together well with the evil truly being evil, and then it's like the editor said, "this is enough pages, we don't want you to describe the ending, just do a synopsis in the epilogue." I was horrified that there was no description of the conflict, no passionate reunion with the hero and heroine, and no the true vanquishing of all foes, etc. It was like the editor and publisher decided the book was too long and cut it off at the knees. This book MUST have a detailed ending for it to work. It's very very disappointing to come to a denouemant and not have one. AND NO SEX?!? What gives? If you need help writing a good ending, let the fans do it. Trust me, we are not shy about what is good to experience through reading.
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Summary: Yuck!
Review: If I was Adam Montgomery, I'd have fired Darcy for sexual harassment! I could not relate to her at all - she's way too contradictory to be real! She doesn't think she's pretty, but she's constantly coming on to Adam, in the most blatant & obnoxious ways. She's supposed to be intelligent, but she believes that she's in debt to her fiance? Come on, Jude! You've written so many wonderful books. This one just doesn't measure up. I have been a fan of Jude Devereaux since I picked up Sweet Liar, and have eagerly read everything she's written. I can see that this book is a departure from her normal genre, but I've read horror novels that have more going for them than a grasping, dippy heroine and a one-dimensional hero. Where's Adam's story? How come we only hear that he's "annoyed" and snappish? The parts of this story that could be truly gripping were completely glossed over. Other parts (mainly mutilation & murder) were emphasized, as if to say "See, this really is a horror novel." We, the readers, do not have to be bashed over the head with gore to understand horror. A little suspense would have done the trick. The ending just left me speechless. We're supposed to believe that everyone is living together all comfy-cosy? No one has recurring nightmares? No one is in (much needed, in my opinion) THERAPY for the horrors they've been through? It's too neat, and, sorry to say, trite, for words. I have turned this one over the the second-hand bookstore. It's not a keeper. Use your library card if you want to read it, as you'll want to get it out of your possession as soon as you're done.
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