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Summary: Follett "gets it"
Review: Those familiar with Follett's work see him time and again get into the mind of a woman. It gives pause... how does he know these things so instinctively? The landscapes in this story are so real you swear you are there. But it gets better... he has written perhaps the most intensely erotic love scene in the history of fiction. I defy anyone to say those pages are not dog-eared from numerous revisitation!
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Summary: Absolute worst Follet novel
Review: Was this terrible book really written by the same guy who plotted such masterful thrillers as Eye of the Needle, and A Dangerous Fortune? Actually, all the stock Follet ingredients are there: feisty independant woman stuck in some crucible, love triangle, life-or-death pursuit. But I have to disagree with a number of reviewers here: the characters are *not* well-developed, consistent, or believable.
As a character, JANE makes zero sense. She's sketched out as an intelligent, resourceful woman with a clear sense of ethics who loathes betrayal...yet after an unforgivable betrayal, she seems to get over it and forgive the traitor in, oh, about 10 minutes. JEAN-PIERRE, her villainous husband, actually thinks such "dastardly" thoughts as "Now I'll get you--and you'll be mine forever!" This is villainry on the cartoonish level of Austin Powers' Dr. Evil (especially when compared to the complex hero/villain of Eye of the Needle.)
Please don't buy or read this book. If you want to try Follett, sample the two books mentioned above, or The Pillars of the Earth, an expansive, ambitious novel that can't really be pigeonholed as a thriller.
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Summary: Regarding Sirken:
Review: What is the matter Russian, you don't like the book? You don't like the book because it portrays Russians as the bad guys? I'm sorry to tell you this but your country was the bad evil stinky stupid dumb BEAR.This was one of the best books of all time. An amazing story with amazing characters. Full of suspense, actions, and Romance. Must Read to Believe.
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