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michael__'s review against another edition
2.0
I think every reader has heard of Mary Higgins Clark. Her books always go straight to #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, and she's been writing for what seems like hundreds of years. So, when this novel came out, I figured I'd give her a try.
What I found was a quite mediocre thriller. It begins with the murder of young Broadway actress Natalie Raines. Soon after, Jamie Evan's, Natalie's roommate, is found dead. All signs point to Gregg Aldrich, Natalie's fiance and agent. This book follows Emily Wallace, the assistant prosecutor.
This book is basically one long court scene after the other. The first half, especially, moves along very slowly. Between these court scenes, though, we have Emily's neighbor, Zach, who basically creeps into her house because Emily gave him the key so he could "take care of her dog." He goes around touching everything she has worn, setting up a recording device in her house, etc., and it's not hard to realize something isn't quite right with him. The storyline with Zach was actually more entertaining than the courtroom scenes.
I think I would have liked this book more if the final twist hadn't been so easily alluded to on the dust jacket. For those of you who haven't read this yet, I don't want to spoil it, but I thought the ending was downright disappointing.
Maybe Just Take My Heart wasn't the best first book to read by Mary Higgins Clark. I'll go on to read others by her, but with considerable reluctance.
What I found was a quite mediocre thriller. It begins with the murder of young Broadway actress Natalie Raines. Soon after, Jamie Evan's, Natalie's roommate, is found dead. All signs point to Gregg Aldrich, Natalie's fiance and agent. This book follows Emily Wallace, the assistant prosecutor.
This book is basically one long court scene after the other. The first half, especially, moves along very slowly. Between these court scenes, though, we have Emily's neighbor, Zach, who basically creeps into her house because Emily gave him the key so he could "take care of her dog." He goes around touching everything she has worn, setting up a recording device in her house, etc., and it's not hard to realize something isn't quite right with him. The storyline with Zach was actually more entertaining than the courtroom scenes.
I think I would have liked this book more if the final twist hadn't been so easily alluded to on the dust jacket. For those of you who haven't read this yet, I don't want to spoil it, but I thought the ending was downright disappointing.
Maybe Just Take My Heart wasn't the best first book to read by Mary Higgins Clark. I'll go on to read others by her, but with considerable reluctance.
lindseydawn's review against another edition
1.0
DNF at page 59. I love Mary Higgins Clark, but this book just was not it. I’d feel like I’d read 20 pages and it’d be 2. There was way too much going on. Way too many characters & I was just confused the whole time. To be fair, courtroom dramas are not my favorite - so that played into it. However, if I don’t want to pick up a Clark book, there’s something wrong. This one just wasn’t it for me.
butterfly2507's review against another edition
1.0
Ich habe das Buch leider nicht beendet. Es war langweilig und ein grosses Durcheinander zugleich. Wurde auch mit Emily nicht richtig warm, was blöd ist, wenn man bedenkt dass sie der Hauptcharakter ist. Schade.
krystlekouture's review
2.0
The book had great potential with the murder of a starlet, but it fell short.
The perp was very predictable, I figured it out about 100 pages from the end, and I'm usually not good at that kind of stuff.
The only high point was the protagonist's dog, very funny and relateable.
The perp was very predictable, I figured it out about 100 pages from the end, and I'm usually not good at that kind of stuff.
The only high point was the protagonist's dog, very funny and relateable.
novelesque_life's review against another edition
3.0
3 STARS
"Natalie Raines, one of Broadway's brightest stars, accidentally discovers who killed her former roommate and sets in motion a series of shocking events that puts more than one life in extreme peril.
While Natalie and her roommate, Jamie Evans, were both struggling young actresses, Jamie had been involved with a mysterious married man to whom she referred only by nickname. Natalie comes face to face with him years later and inadvertently addresses him by the nickname Jamie had used. A few days later, Natalie is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound.
Immediately the police suspect Natalie's theatrical agent and soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. He had long been a "person of interest" and was known to have stalked Natalie to find out if she was seeing another man. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when Jimmy Easton, a career criminal, suddenly comes forward to claim that Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill his wife. Easton knows details about the Aldrich home that only someone who had been there -- to plan a murder, for instance -- could possibly know.
The case is a plum assignment for Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor. As she spends increasingly long hours preparing for the trial, a seemingly well-meaning neighbor offers to take care of her dog in her absence. Unaware of his violent past, she gives him a key to her home...
As Aldrich's trial is making headlines, her boss warns Emily that this high-profile case will reveal personal matters about her, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant. And, during the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury.
In the meantime, she does not realize that her own life is now at risk." (From Amazon)
A fair suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark.
"Natalie Raines, one of Broadway's brightest stars, accidentally discovers who killed her former roommate and sets in motion a series of shocking events that puts more than one life in extreme peril.
While Natalie and her roommate, Jamie Evans, were both struggling young actresses, Jamie had been involved with a mysterious married man to whom she referred only by nickname. Natalie comes face to face with him years later and inadvertently addresses him by the nickname Jamie had used. A few days later, Natalie is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound.
Immediately the police suspect Natalie's theatrical agent and soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. He had long been a "person of interest" and was known to have stalked Natalie to find out if she was seeing another man. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when Jimmy Easton, a career criminal, suddenly comes forward to claim that Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill his wife. Easton knows details about the Aldrich home that only someone who had been there -- to plan a murder, for instance -- could possibly know.
The case is a plum assignment for Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor. As she spends increasingly long hours preparing for the trial, a seemingly well-meaning neighbor offers to take care of her dog in her absence. Unaware of his violent past, she gives him a key to her home...
As Aldrich's trial is making headlines, her boss warns Emily that this high-profile case will reveal personal matters about her, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant. And, during the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury.
In the meantime, she does not realize that her own life is now at risk." (From Amazon)
A fair suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark.
filipaavmonteiro's review against another edition
2.0
A história não me prendeu muito, apesar de ser uma leitura bastante leve, é um livro que se lê extremamente bem!
lisam0183_bookworm's review against another edition
4.0
Emily Wallace takes on a high profile case as actress Natalie Raines is found shot dead in her home. The main suspect is her ex husband, Greg Aldrich.
Being so wrapped up in the case, Emily fails to see that her own life is also in danger.
This was a good page turner and I enjoyed all the drama that unfolded in the courtroom. There were a few surprises along the way, but none so much as the huge plot twist at the end that I didn't see coming.
Being so wrapped up in the case, Emily fails to see that her own life is also in danger.
This was a good page turner and I enjoyed all the drama that unfolded in the courtroom. There were a few surprises along the way, but none so much as the huge plot twist at the end that I didn't see coming.
scrublife3011's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
lindajo's review against another edition
3.0
This book was pretty good. I enjoyed the twists in it and I think it was better than the last couple before this one. It seems that most of her books are starting to go stale.
rwidiani's review against another edition
2.0
awal buku ini panjaang, bertele2. eh kok ya akhirannya maksa, cepet bgt