Riptide

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Summary: A Very Good Read!
Review: Though, in some points the characters weren't develop as I would have liked, the story captured my attention. Not as good as her book "The Edge" but it will still keep you reading.

Becca Matlock is at top of her profession, she was doing very good when an unknown man started stalking her, warning her that she shouldn't sleep with the governor she was working for. A very frightened Becca Matlock reported this to the authorities who in return didn't believe a word she says.

Without any options left, she ran for the safety of coastal Maine, seeking to hide from the stalker as well as the authorities. Riptide, Becca dubbed as her santuary..she felt safe and secure from everything else.

She met Tyler McBride and landed with a new twist in her life, never expecting anything else to complicate her life, but this man did---in a form of a quiet little boy and a skeleton in her basement.

Already in soaked up with her bad luck, Becca meets Adam Carruthers who adds another twist in her life. With all these complications in her life--Becca needs all the help she gets.

Mystifying and electric the story just keeps you interested in the outcome. Mixed with romance, the book itself is a bonus!..a very satisfying read!

Alyssa B.

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Summary: I can't believe how awful this book is
Review: I came to this site about 10 chapters in, just to see if anybody else felt the same way I did about this book. Thank god I'm not the only one who thought this book was awful! I found it had no flow what-so-ever, I found her writing style very hard to follow, the characters meant nothing to me, and I did'nt really care what happened to them. I finally could not take it any more and skipped ahead to the end to find out who the stalker was - just to end my torture. I have never read a Catherine Coulter book before (this one was given to me by a friend) and I never will again! DON'T WASTE YOUR VALUABLE TIME!!

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Summary: A big disappointment
Review: I'm a big fan of Catherine Coulter, but when I attempted to read this book, I was very disappointed. I didn't like the way the wording of the story was written; sometimes it seemed to jump to different points in the story without a smooth transition. I made it to chapter 7 before I finally gave up and went to the last chapter to figure out who was stalking her. In my opinion, not one of Catherine Coulter's better stories.

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Summary: Riptide Plot Twists Keep You Reading!
Review: Riptide, fifth of the FBI series, is good contemporary suspense with an original plot full of vivid characters, unexpected twists, and satisfyingly unpredictable denouements. The riptide currents of Coulter's plot keep the reader off balance, engrossed, and breathless until the end.

Becca Matlock receives increasingly intimidating phone calls from a menacing stalker who identifies himself as "your boyfriend" and threatens to kill her boss, the governor of New York. The police don't believe her, even after the stalker kills a homeless woman. When her mother dies of cancer and the governor is actually shot, Becca flees New York City and her job as a senior speechwriter for the governor. Disguising her appearance, she escaping to Riptide, a small town in Maine, for sanctuary, but soon finds herself at even greater risk when a skeleton falls from her basement wall during a storm and brings the unwanted attention of the local authorities. In Riptide, she is reunited with Tyler McBride, her old college friend, and confides in him.

Then Adam Carruthers, a mysterious, handsome man, appears to be her "guardian angel" protector. As Becca and Adam work to puzzle out the stalker's motives, secrets about Becca's past, like a father she has long believed dead, are revealed. When Becca and Adam realize who their enemy is, Dillon, Sherlock, and her husband Savich from Coulter's previous novels join forces with them to help stop the stalker's threats.

When Regency novelist Catherine Coulter moved to suspense a few years back, as a loyal fan I followed her. Riptide lacks deep romantic development between Adam and Becca, but the suspenseful twists made up for it. An enjoyable recreational read for anyone, Coulter fans or not!

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Summary: Absolutely a Dreadful Read - THE TIDE IS OUT AND IT STINKS!
Review: This book is so bad I was moved to right a review. The author neither paints pictures of places or events; no movement, no drama. Not a single interesting character, not a single interesting event. Neither is there a suspenseful or interesting twist in the whole book. I should be commended for finishing the read in hopes of finding something of interest. It's not often I make the effort to share my dissapointments, but spare yourself the effort, even TV reruns of Dragnet are of more interest and suspense. JUST AWFUL!

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Summary: liked story line
Review: i liked the story line of this book. i don't think the characters banter was very good, and alot of times i didn't know who was speaking. the plot was great but i have read more engrossing FBI books.

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Summary: Loved It
Review: When my best friend Brittani, first told me that she wanted me to read this book, She gave it to me with no information but the fact that there is a girl who is being stalked(don't let that creep you out just yet...) When I read the book I was drawn in so fast it took me by surprise. Becca is such a strong female Character that I feel like I know her personaly, the way that Catherine Coulter has portrayed her. This book will keep you guessing all the way to the end. I'd recomend this piece of art to anyone who likes an immensly good Mystery/romantic yet intreging book.
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Summary: Not her best work
Review: I have thoroughly enjoyed Impulse and Beyond Eden, but Riptide is definitely not Coulter's best work. The storyline is fairly good and at times I was very engrossed in the plot. However I did not become too invested in the characters as they were not likeable. The heroine is somewhat annoying as she tries so hard to be strong and tough, but in the end you realize how stupid she actually is. All in all, I would not recommend this book.

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Summary: NOT QUITE
Review: The 3 stars are for the Basic plot idea. It rambles around a bit, perhaps she tried to write a longer novel..however it would have been MUCH better if she'd tightened it up instead of rambling and sometimes not making any sense at all. Her characters.. again, they are great, simply not fully developed and don't quite become real people. The lines they speak are shallow and cutesy. This style worked well in her historicals, but not in modern romantic suspense. The author thanks Iris Johansen, Kay Hooper and Linda Howard in her dedication. It might help if she read one each of their books and then compared it to one of her historicals. MISS COULTER, Please try again. You start off with great ideas. Sigh...

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Summary: Another in the FBI series by Catherine Coulter....
Review: This is a pretty good romantic suspense by Catherine Coulter it is part of the FBI series but Dillon and Sherlock are not the main characters in this one.

I had a bit of a hard time with the reader his female voices sounded more male than his male voices did.

I was also able to figure out who did it a bit to early in the story for me. But...

In this story Becca Matlock is being stalked but by whom. When she goes to the police they think that not only is she nuts but is a danger to everyone out there...especially the governor of New York. But, then things take a turn for the worse... And she flees New York to a town that one of her college buddies has mentioned - Riptide, Maine. Which is a fictional town that is a bit to laid back for what is about to happen. Not only does her stalker follow her but she finds a body in her basement. Then along comes a bunch of other people to help her out of the situation (I won't tell or it will spoil the story) and in the end while predictable it was still a good audio book!