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kathydavie's review against another edition
4.0
Patricia Gaffney's Days of Laurie Summer was both funny and sad. If you've ever wanted to see the world through a dog's eyes, this is THE book. Very well done.
Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy was sweet.
J.D. Robb's Missing in Death was sadly satisfying. One can't help but sympathize even though...
Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy was sweet.
J.D. Robb's Missing in Death was sadly satisfying. One can't help but sympathize even though...
bookloverchelle's review against another edition
4.0
Picked this up because I'm a big JD Robb fan and the novella did not disappoint. Obviously a very quick mystery but still had all the fun elements I'm come to expect from Eve and Roarke. Plus this collections gave me a chance to try a few new authors. Enjoyed some stories more than others, same complaint that I have for all novellas that they are not long enough. But overall a fun collection.
vmorenojackson's review against another edition
3.0
On average, this rates 3 stars. I really enjoyed the first of the stories by J. D. Robb, and will probably check out the series which features the characters included in this story. I skipped the second story which seemed sad and disturbing. The 3rd story was eh - story only had original element, not necessarily engaging, and the writing was okay. The 4th story was completely unoriginal, unbelievable, and I really enjoyed it. For some reason, I was able t read it like a would a fairly tale, and I really enjoyed the setting and the characters.
bianca_horkan's review against another edition
3.0
Missing in Death -- interesting ending for our Eve. I don't think I would've seen it coming -- and yet, at the same time, it feels like a cheat for Eve's character. I'm still not sure if I buy this behavior from her...which makes me hover between 3 & 4 stars.
wildflowerz76's review against another edition
1.0
Ug. The completist in me made me get this one though I'm not generally a short story fan. I'm reading Robb's In Death series, but I've never heard of any of the other authors. I only read Robb's story and didn't bother with the other three. It wasn't interesting at all and I could barely get through it. Blech.
njdamschroder's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoyed two of the novellas, but the other two were not to my taste so I didn't read them completely. Nothing wrong with them, just not my thing.
cranberrytarts's review against another edition
4.0
This was a good collection of stories. I started it for the In Death, but ended up enjoying all 4 novellas.
ssejig's review against another edition
2.0
Meh. The first story is the reason I picked up this book. Love the Eve Dallas (J.D. Robb) series and was delighted to be able to read the newest one so close to its release. Like most short stories that are part of a series, it was okay, but not great. The other stories in this book definitely did not help the grade. A woman who drowns and comes back as a dog, a pure woman sent to help ease a 200-year-old curse. The last story "Legacy" is the only thing that would make me want to bump this up to a three star book. It was a charming story about a woman who finds some unexpected family and true love.
melodytime's review against another edition
3.0
The Lost is an anthology of four authors. I read it because it included one of my favorites, J.D. Robb. I usually try to read the other stories in the book in the hopes of discovering a new author I'd like to read.
In Missing in Death, J.D. Robb yet again shows you the scope of her inventiveness. Lieutenant Dallas is called to the Staten Island Ferry because a woman is missing. In her place in the ladies' washroom is enough blood to guarantee that someone is dead. With no windows or vents large enough to escape through, how did a murderer and a dead body disappear from a ship with 3,000 passengers?
I enjoyed Patricia Gaffney's The Dog Days of Laurie Summer and found it quite charming. Saved from drowning, Laurie is in a coma. But for some strange reason, she finds herself in another body—one with four legs and fur, and living with her husband and young son.
Mary Blaney's Lost in Paradise is the story of a young woman who travels to a Caribbean island to nurse its inhabitants for a year. But is that her real mission, or is she supposed to save the man in the old fort/castle from a centuries-old curse. I found this story to be quite insipid, and if it hadn't been a short novella, I would have put it down long before I finished it.
In Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy, Aidan quit her job to care for her terminally ill mother. Now, her mother has died, she's overburdened in debt and has no job. When contacted by the attorney for a man in Ireland who believes she could be his long-lost granddaughter, Aidan has no choice but to travel there if only just to claim the money promised her for her trouble. This story had a good start to it, but I think it would have been better had it been a full-length novel. It ended way too quickly, and was just too pat.
In Missing in Death, J.D. Robb yet again shows you the scope of her inventiveness. Lieutenant Dallas is called to the Staten Island Ferry because a woman is missing. In her place in the ladies' washroom is enough blood to guarantee that someone is dead. With no windows or vents large enough to escape through, how did a murderer and a dead body disappear from a ship with 3,000 passengers?
I enjoyed Patricia Gaffney's The Dog Days of Laurie Summer and found it quite charming. Saved from drowning, Laurie is in a coma. But for some strange reason, she finds herself in another body—one with four legs and fur, and living with her husband and young son.
Mary Blaney's Lost in Paradise is the story of a young woman who travels to a Caribbean island to nurse its inhabitants for a year. But is that her real mission, or is she supposed to save the man in the old fort/castle from a centuries-old curse. I found this story to be quite insipid, and if it hadn't been a short novella, I would have put it down long before I finished it.
In Ruth Ryan Langan's Legacy, Aidan quit her job to care for her terminally ill mother. Now, her mother has died, she's overburdened in debt and has no job. When contacted by the attorney for a man in Ireland who believes she could be his long-lost granddaughter, Aidan has no choice but to travel there if only just to claim the money promised her for her trouble. This story had a good start to it, but I think it would have been better had it been a full-length novel. It ended way too quickly, and was just too pat.