Riptide

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Summary: At Least It's Not Boring!
Review: This book kept me reading on my subway ride to and from work! However, the story of Becca Matlock has wholes "you can drive a truck through".The book starts with Becca Matlock, the up and coming speechwriter for a governor, who is being pursued by a murdurous stalker.After that, the book is an interesting but wild roller coaster ride of improbable activity, which is exciting, if nothing else. This is a great book to keep you busy while waiting at airports, and while on an airplane.

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Summary: TOO MUCH
Review: MS. Coulter has a wonderfully suspenseful style and the original plot seemed plausible and kept me reading. Her characters were interesting and the reason for the melee seemed probable. BUT THEN, when you think the book should conclude and everyone should live happily ever after, she throws in another plotline....two for the price of one, but in this case not a bargain. A whole other book should have been written about the the added incident in the book. It made the story totally ridiculous, and lost all credibility that it had maintained throughout. So sad to see a good book go bad!!!

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Summary: Riptide
Review: This was a ridiculous book that made me want to throw it after I was finished. I won't bore you with the details since other reviews have them. The main problem with the book is that it involved both the FBI and CIA and they obviously don't know how to protect anyone. The author suggests that the protectors would allow the heroine to wander about freely and call all the shots when obviously that wouldn't be the case. During one part of the book, the government agencies neglected to think that someone could enter a house from a tree onto the roof to enter via an Unlocked HATCH which just happened to be on the roof of a house. The CIA and FBI certainly wouldn't be looking for something so obvious that one of the Little Rascals could do it. Another scene has them hoodwinked by a bad guy shooting a gun at a house. During the search for him, all those guarding a house abandon it. When they return to find an empty house, of course, they don't search the house. The pitiful story is filled with these type of plot twists. Everything in the book is very predictable as far as the major two plots concerning a murder and a stalker. DON'T BUY THIS PIECE OF TRASH!!

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Summary: Awful, awful, awful
Review: I don't think I could say enough bad things about this book. The dialog was stiff and unnatural. The plot was supremely unbelievable. Not only that, you were annoyed with the underdeveloped, useless characters for the fact that they even believed that such rubbish could be going on around them. There was subplot inside subplot inside subplot, none of which made any sense or tied together in any logical way. Unbelievaly bad. The good news is, it serves to give aspiring authors hope: if this got published, anything can!

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Summary: A great suspense novel by Coulter.
Review: This was the first suspense novel I have read by Catherine Coulter, and I will definitely try more. Besides the main storyline, there were two or three sub-storylines going on, and the author managed to weave them all in without a hitch. When Becca is accused by the police of inventing her 'stalker', she runs away to a small Maine coastal town hoping for some solace. But the stalker finds her there, and the phone calls and threats start again. Enter Adam Carruthers, who introduces himself to Becca as her 'guardian angel'. He says he is there to protect her, but won't tell her who has sent him or why. Soon, even more FBI agents are assigned to protect her. What follows is a race between Maine and New York to find a killer who is both smart and resourceful, and a confused and bewildered Becca trying to find out why the killer is after her and also trying to figure out who she is and who she knows that would warrant the kind of manpower that has been dispatched to protect her.

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Summary: For the love of God, make it stop!
Review: Having invested three weeks of my life to get through 250 pages of this drivel, I am forcing myself to finish it because... oh hell, I don't know why I'm bothering. After reading the other less than stellar reviews posted here, I think I'll put my time to better use cleaning the rain gutters.

The dialog is HORRIBLE! I spent most of the past two weeks thumbing back to see if I missed something or to decipher who was speaking (and to whom!). And don't even get me started on the plot. Or should I write "plots" because there are approximately 17 of them going at once.

My mom gave me this book to read, perhaps in retaliation for my teen years...

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Summary: Not Very Good
Review: I've enjoyed some of Ms. Coulter's novels featuring Savich and Sherlock, and they continue to be interesting characters. However, the series overall is uneven in quality, and this is not one of the better ones. The dialogue is somewhat stilted, awkward, and just a little odd at times. There are logic leaps in the plot that left me wondering how a character could reach the conclusion reached. ... This book had interesting parts, but after I'd finished it, I was annoyed with it. I know Ms. Coulter can do better, and I wish she would.

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Summary: So Dissapointed
Review: I have steadly been disappointed by C.C.'s books. It's like she can't wait to end the story,and theres no build up, it's just there.To read some of her first books, it's hard to believe it's the same author.

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Summary: i loved it
Review: Rebecca Matlock (aka Becca) is being stalked by some guy who calls himself her boyfriend. Her *boyfriend* is accusing her, saying she's sleeping with the governor. But she's not, all she's doing is writing speeches for him. THe police isn't helping at all and even accuses her of trying to get attention from the governor. One day when an old lady gets blown up, for her expense by the boyfriend, she packs up and leaves to Riptide.

For the first few days she feels safe because she covers her tracks well...or so she thinks. Then enters Adam Carruthers who says he's here to help and protect her. Savich and Sherlock also enters the scene with their group of people to help Becca. But even with all these people, the stalker was able to find her and take her away. He returns her though, in a really daring way and thus begins the cat and mouse chase but who will win...the cat or the mouse ?

I just finished reading this book and I really do love this book because it seemed as if the killer was always one step ahead of you but Rebecca never quits. She's always strong and refuses to give up. I thought this book was really captivating, right after I read the first page, I was just sucked into the book.

I especially loved it when Cathering added a few kicks to it. Like the twist about the killer and the humor in it. I cracked up when Becca said that Adam was gay (it was his cover) Plus the other little comments that the characters made, so the story wasn't totally gloomy.

I'm giving this a 4 instead of a 5 because I think a 5 would be too perfect. Although I did love this book, it seemed to be missing something that makes it a 5.

^_^ ~ Izzy

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Summary: Amazing
Review: I loved this book...while some of the reviews were unsatisfactory i thought it was amazing. If you appreciate people who write stream of consciousness then you will love this book. I found her style of writing refreshing and over all intensly different. Very few writers impress me as much as Catherine Coulter! As a teenager who finds Tom Clancy annoying and over exagerated it's really great to find an author who writes so well.