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lari_mcb's review against another edition
3.0
I've never read anything by Mary Higgins Clark before, but this one was a pretty good read. A lot of characters, so many I started losing track of them all, but the mystery of whether or not Eric was involved was pretty good.
neaful's review against another edition
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.25
Such a bad book that I threw it away rather than donating it to a thrift shop. No one with a brain should read this.
jcampbell338's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
triforce1006's review against another edition
3.0
I mean, I used to really like MHC. But I'm not sure if I just grew out of it, or what, but this fell a little flat for me. The ending was good, and not what I expected, but it just seemed a little "meh"
hannahcassie's review against another edition
3.0
MORE? MORE! @ P.S. I love that book!
THE WORLD: Just like we know it. It is a usual everyday world where we meet very rich, very poor and middle class people. Actually we have rather a few POVs but the perspective of the world does not change much.
CHARACTERS: Now despite there being many point of views I am going to mention only a few characters because others I just don't remember, seriously. So 'the main' lead is called Lane and she is an assistant of a designer who gets involved with a son of a criminal. Basically even tho I consider her as a lead of the story I really do not know much about her besides that she has a young daughter Kate and her husband died in a car crass when she was pregnant. Oh and also that her dad died also in a crash when she was young. Other than that all we really get about Lane is that she is lonely. That is all. Even when she goes on date to get to know each other these dates are cut off and we are just said they went on the date. Weird writing style. Next we have Eric, a son of a billionaire who took off with other people money. Now up till the end I was not sure what to make of him, actually now that the book is finished I still don't know if he was involved in fraud or not. Again we get nothing of real Eric other than that he is a kid of a criminal and that he wants things to be solved. Also he hires a detective agency to find his father and tells them that if they find some evidence of him involved they should go to FBI and of course they do find. It was a move I did not get, why Eric did this was beyond me. It's like the author wanted us to believe he is innocent but when you read about him he is so arrogant and just an unlikable person...I don't know. Politics I guess. Then there was this guy who blamed Eric and his mother for disappearance of the money. Basically his wife died and it was all Eric's and his moms fault, he was gonna kill them because you know they have to pay. This was just beyond me stupid. I mean seriously. All in all the characters felt totally flat and I will never give another minute of my time thinking about them again. Just not worth it.
LOVE: So Lane dates Eric and things unravel. Well no actually they don't. The romance, the dating here was completely dry. Booo.
PLUS: Not sure. I guess it's a plus the book was short.
MINUS: Now many things but one really disappointed me was that author told in basically first few pages that the husband who took all the money is alive and he is just a plain jerk. I wanted the mystery where I would guess if he is really dead or was he really so evil and just left his family to suffer. Bad move, very bad.
OVERALL: I read it and if you ask me in a month what it is about I won't remember. I have heard this author is pretty good but so far I am not in the mood to pick another of her books. Not inspiring at all.
MORE? MORE! @ P.S. I love that book!
THE WORLD: Just like we know it. It is a usual everyday world where we meet very rich, very poor and middle class people. Actually we have rather a few POVs but the perspective of the world does not change much.
CHARACTERS: Now despite there being many point of views I am going to mention only a few characters because others I just don't remember, seriously. So 'the main' lead is called Lane and she is an assistant of a designer who gets involved with a son of a criminal. Basically even tho I consider her as a lead of the story I really do not know much about her besides that she has a young daughter Kate and her husband died in a car crass when she was pregnant. Oh and also that her dad died also in a crash when she was young. Other than that all we really get about Lane is that she is lonely. That is all. Even when she goes on date to get to know each other these dates are cut off and we are just said they went on the date. Weird writing style. Next we have Eric, a son of a billionaire who took off with other people money. Now up till the end I was not sure what to make of him, actually now that the book is finished I still don't know if he was involved in fraud or not. Again we get nothing of real Eric other than that he is a kid of a criminal and that he wants things to be solved. Also he hires a detective agency to find his father and tells them that if they find some evidence of him involved they should go to FBI and of course they do find. It was a move I did not get, why Eric did this was beyond me. It's like the author wanted us to believe he is innocent but when you read about him he is so arrogant and just an unlikable person...I don't know. Politics I guess. Then there was this guy who blamed Eric and his mother for disappearance of the money. Basically his wife died and it was all Eric's and his moms fault, he was gonna kill them because you know they have to pay. This was just beyond me stupid. I mean seriously. All in all the characters felt totally flat and I will never give another minute of my time thinking about them again. Just not worth it.
LOVE: So Lane dates Eric and things unravel. Well no actually they don't. The romance, the dating here was completely dry. Booo.
PLUS: Not sure. I guess it's a plus the book was short.
MINUS: Now many things but one really disappointed me was that author told in basically first few pages that the husband who took all the money is alive and he is just a plain jerk. I wanted the mystery where I would guess if he is really dead or was he really so evil and just left his family to suffer. Bad move, very bad.
OVERALL: I read it and if you ask me in a month what it is about I won't remember. I have heard this author is pretty good but so far I am not in the mood to pick another of her books. Not inspiring at all.
MORE? MORE! @ P.S. I love that book!
tenteb1634's review against another edition
2.0
I was quite surprised. This book did not seem to be close to any of the style of her former books. It seemed to have very little suspence for me.
bethsitruc's review against another edition
3.0
I would have given it 3.5 probably. It was okay, decent story line. Not one that I was glued to from the first page by any means but fairly interesting :)