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Summary: This Is A Good Read
Review: This book is worth 5 stars for the character's. And the fact that Lisa Jackson stays with her story.This book flows.
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Summary: Couldn't Put it Down!!!!!
Review: This book kept me up all night !!, I couldn't put it down.It started a little slow so stick with it, it is well worth the wait. The main characters are wonderful, and the story really kept me guessing almost up to the end of the book.
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Summary: Great book! A real page turner!
Review: This book was really great! I could not put it down, and since I live close to New Orleans, where the book was set, it just made it all the more creepy. Had to keep reading til I found out who the killer was! I am actually now in the process of reading the second book, Cold Blooded. Lisa Jackson is definitely an author I will be looking for in the bookstores from now on!
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Summary: Captivating
Review: This is the first Lisa Jackson book that I've read. I did enjoy the book up until say the last 50-60 pages. It seemed that the ending was rushed. What bothered me the most was the fact that a certain character was repetively mentioned but not entirely brought into the story line. Peter was Samantha's long lost brother. The author mentioned him at least 10 times but was a no show. I guess I just wondered what the point was? Other than that, I thought the storyline was excellent and it certainly was a suspense. Even though at times I thought Samantha needed someone to grab a hold of her and shake some sense into her. For a psychologist she was pretty stunned. I was a bit skeptical with her relationship with Ty also in the beginning...but things apparently worked themselves out.I'm not totally convinced enough however to run out and buy Cold Blooded when it hits the stores.
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Summary: Hot Blooded is a HOT item!
Review: This provocative, suspenseful romantic thriller proves that all serial killer novels are not created equal.
In seedy New Orleans, one by one, female corpes start popping up. The victims, all prositutes, are strangled with rosary beads, and left wearing a red-haired wig. Meanwhile, Dr. Samantha Leeds, a popular late-night radio talk show host starts receiving threatening crank phone calls.
Along comes Detective Rick Bentz, a burnt-out homicide cop, newly transplanted from a tragedy in Los Angeles, convinced that the serial killer terrorizing the Crescent City is someone from Dr. Sam's past. Together, the two of them them try to catch a killer before it's too late.
Lisa Jackson has a very easy-going writing style which makes it easy to devour many chapters in one sitting without interruption. The characters are fully-fleshed, the killer and his MO are rarely contrite, and the suspense is palpable all the way througout this book. Jackson has managed to accomplish a decent romantic suspense novel. And I must admit, the sex wasn't so bad, especially since Ms. Jackson gave it a purpose and meaning between two characters you really cared about. Gratuitous sex in these novels can be overwhelming but Lisa Jackson handled it with grace and a deft hand.
While the ending isn't quite a cliffhanger, she does leave many questions unanswered. These questions and hopefully the answers will appear in the sequel, Cold Blooded. I thorougly enjoyed reading this novel.
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Summary: Not bad but had some problems
Review: This was my first book by Lisa Jackson. It was great. Set in New Orleans a psychologist that has a nightly talk show is suddenly experiencing some encounters that bring back her frightning past. Girls in the city are being murdered and the killer is calling the show and taunting our heroine. Add to this an old plantation house on Lake Ponchitrain with it's own history, an assistant who makes no bones about wanting to be the next hit for the radio station, and then a dark, handsome, and mysterious new neighbor who is always there for her and seems to know more then he should about things regarding the murders keeps you turning the pages. A dark theme but a happy ending. This book will keep you turning the pages and guessing "who did it."
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Summary: A Real Page Turner
Review: This was my first book by Lisa Jackson. It was great. Set in New Orleans a psychologist that has a nightly talk show is suddenly experiencing some encounters that bring back her frightning past. Girls in the city are being murdered and the killer is calling the show and taunting our heroine. Add to this an old plantation house on Lake Ponchitrain with it's own history, an assistant who makes no bones about wanting to be the next hit for the radio station, and then a dark, handsome, and mysterious new neighbor who is always there for her and seems to know more then he should about things regarding the murders keeps you turning the pages. A dark theme but a happy ending. This book will keep you turning the pages and guessing "who did it."
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Summary: First Lisa Jackson book
Review: This was my first Lisa Jackson book, and I must say that it was fabulous! I'm very much looking forward to the sequal "Cold Blooded" that comes out in June of 2002. I've already added a bunch of her other books to my wish list *hint hint*... It was very suspenseful. The entire time I'm going, ok, it could be him, no wait, maybe it's him... I loved every second of it and couldn't put it down until the very last page!
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Summary: Not bad but had some problems
Review: This was my first Lisa Jackson book. I enjoyed her style and loved the New Orleans setting. However, even though the story really hooked me for a while, she lost me on page 238. When the heroine kept doing careless things like entertaining a strange man and telling herself over and over again that the weird things that were clearly happening to her was all in her head (even after the cops warned her that the danger was very real), she lost me. I also felt that the heroine didn't really DO much of anything except look sexy and get victimized. I suspect the author could have dropped 50-60 pages and tightened this story up a lot. I imagine writing a book on deadline is pretty hard, so I'll take that into consideration and give Ms Jackson's next effort a try.
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