Riptide

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Summary: What was she thinking?
Review: The main plot was OK but the story was spoiled because the FBI let a civilian, the victim/witness, take over their investigation. I had a hard time swallowing what was going on. In addition, the text and dialog did not flow. I like this author but her heart wasn't in this one.

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Summary: How Awful!
Review: This book is well below the standard of writing that I have seen in the past for Coulter. She has developed a plot that is so implausible that I had to force myself to finish the book. There's the horrible Russian who ruined her parents' life stalking them AND the horrible Russian's crazy son who kills for fun while out to kill the main female character AND the old college sweetheart is ALSO a killer. The main character's father even though presumably retired CIA is still able to summon and command powerful legions of protectors in the FBI and CIA to help his daughter. The mother with whom she was so close, elects not to tell her daughter that she has a living father, even on her deathbed. The author must have been on cold medication when she wrote this. It was all just too much.

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Summary: Suspenseful and full of twists
Review: I enjoyed listening to this book. Catherine and Iris are my favorites when it comes to Mystery Contemporary...It did seem a bit much at the end with the extra villain, but I still enjoyed the characters. BEWARE of the unabridged audio though, the reader did a horrible job with the male characters' voices. It was very distracting with the storyline, but the story itself is excellent.

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Summary: pre-teen, juevinile
Review: Written in 5 year old prose with an adult theme.

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Summary: Good but not Coulter's Best
Review: Becca is a successful speechwriter for the Governor and somebody is stalking her. He's already killed an old lady to prove his point to Becca. Becca goes to the police but they think she is crazy. The stalker is always ahead of her. She does the only thing she can do she runs. She runs to Riptide a town that an old college friend lived in. It's a small town and not well known. She dyes her hair, changes her name and uses color contact lens. She meets a man who is there to protect her. He brings in Sherlock and her husband Savich (The Maze and The Edge) it was nice visitng with them again. Together they try to catch this stalker. There's a lot of twists and turns that keep you breathless and a subplot about a skeleton of a girl who has been dead for years. The only complaint I had with this book, is that it could have been shorter and still had the same impact. It felt like Coulter was just trying to use more pages to make a story. It wasn't needed.

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Summary: For God's sake, try a complex sentence!
Review: I haven't seen so many simple sentences since "Dick and Jane," and I haven't heard anything so choppy and disjointed since B-movies. A piece of advice for the author, there are these really nifty things called conjunctions, use them!

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Summary: Confusion and Cross-Currents
Review: Riptide, the title of Catherine Coulter's latest, is the name of a town where much of the action occurs. It also describes a shore condition where the wave action is confused by conflicting currents. Confusion created by conflicting currents well describes the situation for Coulter's heroine, Rebecca Matlock. A successful speech-writer for the governor of New York, Matlock begins to be plagued by a stalker. The police are unable to help, and then she heads for New York City as her mother goes into the final stages of cancer. The stalker follows and kills someone to show Becca how much he cares. The New York police, however, seem to think that Becca is at fault. Harassed by both police and stalker, Becca flees as soon as her mother dies and settles in Riptide using an alias. Riptide is a remote village which she knows of only because it was the hometown of a nerdy guy she befriended in college. Becca is surprised to find that her old friend Andy is not only no longer nerdy, he is a hunky sort of techno-wizzard who has moved back home. He has been abandoned by his wife and left with his stepson, a child who seems a little disturbed. As a relationship begins to develop with both Andy and Sam, along comes a guy Becca thinks may be the stalker, but who turns out to be someone who knows she is in trouble and is trying to help her. Why? He is being her "guardian angel" as a favor to a friend. Who is the friend? Why does he care about now-orphan Becca? Add another crosscurrent when, after a heavy rain the cellar wall of Becca's rental house blows out and exposes a skeleton. Is this what happened to Andy's wife? If so, why would she be buried in the cellar wall of this house-not Andy's? The riptide of plot currents keeps a reader off balance. Just when you think you have this one figured out, then you don't. Riptide is a solid read, which will keep your interest.

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Summary: disappointed
Review: I DONT KNOW IF I WOULD WAIT FOR THE PAPERBACK. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO HER USUAL

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Summary: What's this?
Review: I agree with the other reviewers. For some very odd reason, this just does not sound like Catherine Coulter writing. The dialoge is very stilted,and the plot just doesn't seem to flow along. I liked the story line, tho, and the fact that Sherlock and Savich showed up. But where did Ms. Coulter go??

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Summary: RIPTIDE
Review: RIPTIDE LIKE ON "THE EDGE" WAS SO GOOD. IT KEPT YOU ON THE END OF YOUR SEAT. I THOUGHT I HAD THE KILLER FIGURED ALL OUT, BUT BOY WAS I WRONG. THE SPENSE WOULD MAKE MY HAIR ON MY ARMS STAND UP. ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE BOOK WERE SO ON TARGET. I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT CATHERINE COULTER BOOK ON TAPE COMES OUT. I LOVE LISTENING TO THEM AT WORK AND IN MY CAR.