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Summary: So much going on here, but...
Review: ...how could someone who was repeatedly raped, beaten and drugged fall so "easily" in love and not have any issues with physical contact?
The book starts out with many different characters, and points of views switch around so much it's sometime hard to follow. But the story is good and sucks you in, and you want to know how it will all unravel in the end (even though it's all pretty obvious to everyone but Casey).
I think if Ms.Michaels focused as much on Blake's/Casey's relationship as she did to weaving the great mystery, this would have been a great book. But it was pretty good.
If you're looking for romance, this book doesn't really focus or elaborate in the area other than the super predictable - if you're looking for a good murder/mystery - this is a good read.
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Summary: a fern michael's fan
Review: Again, Fern Michael's has written another book that I couldn't put down!!! I read About Face from start to finish and Loved the suspense. I reccomend this to anyone who loves a good mystery. It's full of intrigue & some really nasty characters! I loved it & hope to see more of this kind of book from Fern Michael's.
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Summary: So much going on here, but...
Review: Casey Edwards spent the last decade as a resident of a mental institution, but recently was released to wander Sweetwater, Georgia. Casey's memory before her confinement is limited, but she knows her former home is Swan House. She begins to walk home, but Dr. Blake Hunter sees her hiking and gives her a lift to the house where her mother Evie lives with John Worthington.However, Casey's return is not celebrated. In Sweetwater, the townsfolk treat her with disdain, that is those whom even react towards her, because everyone believes she is a fratricide killer. At home, she is treated like an intruder. Someone wants her dead before she recalls all she lost. Only Blake supports her, but is he and his love enough to keep her safe as she unravels the elusive past? Though loaded with suspense and starring a heroine that readers will empathize with, the actions of the secondary characters (especially mommy dearest) seem too malevolent to believe. Their cartoon-like evil essence takes away from the tale. Still, the audience will like the lead couple and root for them to succeed as an entry against overwhelming odds. Fern Michaels provides a terse romantic suspense that her fans will enjoy. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: terse romantic suspense
Review: Casey Edwards spent the last decade as a resident of a mental institution, but recently was released to wander Sweetwater, Georgia. Casey's memory before her confinement is limited, but she knows her former home is Swan House. She begins to walk home, but Dr. Blake Hunter sees her hiking and gives her a lift to the house where her mother Evie lives with John Worthington. However, Casey's return is not celebrated. In Sweetwater, the townsfolk treat her with disdain, that is those whom even react towards her, because everyone believes she is a fratricide killer. At home, she is treated like an intruder. Someone wants her dead before she recalls all she lost. Only Blake supports her, but is he and his love enough to keep her safe as she unravels the elusive past? Though loaded with suspense and starring a heroine that readers will empathize with, the actions of the secondary characters (especially mommy dearest) seem too malevolent to believe. Their cartoon-like evil essence takes away from the tale. Still, the audience will like the lead couple and root for them to succeed as an entry against overwhelming odds. Fern Michaels provides a terse romantic suspense that her fans will enjoy. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Where is Fern Michaels?
Review: I have always loved Fern Michaels but I don't love this book. There is far too much pain and suffering in the news for me to want to find it in the reading I do for pleasure.
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Summary: Where is Fern Michaels?
Review: I have always loved Fern Michaels but I don't love this book. There is far too much pain and suffering in the news for me to want to find it in the reading I do for pleasure.
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Summary: Well written
Review: I like Michaels' style, and unlike her Kentucky trilogy that drips with sorrow and tragedy, About Face is a step up from that. It's a good murder mystery with plenty of surprises and pretty darned hot in places (oh my!). I had a difficult time grasping Casey's character, though, and her relationship with her mother once she's out of the asylum. And why, after cutting herself with glass chards obviously put in her body lotion on purpose, would she stay in that environment? A previous reviewer is correct. Someone abused, institutionalized, and drugged for so many years would not be able to cope well in this paranoia-inducing situation as well as Casey did. Well written, morose in places, but at least Casey wasn't digging up horse bones (I'm still not over Kentucky Sunrise).
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Summary: TOTALLY DISSAPPOINTING
Review: I was really dissappointed with the plot of the story. Yes, I know it's just a story, but where a mother wants to make her child insane/killed doesn't wash well with me. Most of all the knowledge that her child was being molested and had done nothing about it made my skin crawl. I basically didn't like the whole story. The only reason why I gave it two stars was because of the writing.
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Summary: About Face
Review: OUTSTANDING READ!! Fern Michaels, has created a page turner in this one!!! I absolutely could not put the book down. The twists made me think, page after page. I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE!
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Summary: TOO drawn out.
Review: The plot takes place on an island, and it feels like everyone on the island has a few chapters devoted to him or her. I think that the plot is drawn out so much that it makes the reading frustrating. She seems to give a large part of the story to characters that are inconsequential to the plot. Although, the plot is a bit dark (childhood trauma) you are hooked right away. But the interest may fade with all of the added stories. I found myself skimming pages looking for the real plot to pickup again. If you have a lot of time and patience this is the book for you. For those of us that have little patience and much less time, it is an exasperating read and I do not recommend it.
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