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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780440242932
ISBN number: 0440242932
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 608
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
Publishing house: Dell
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 41145
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With over 13 million copies of her books sold in twenty-two countries, #1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter delivers “crime fiction at its finest.” Now she returns to Grant county, Georgia where the lightning-fast plot, vivid forensic detail, and heart-stopping suspense will thrust readers into the darkest corners of their own imaginations—and push Slaughter to the top of the national bestseller lists.
Sara Linton—resident medical examiner/pediatrician in Grant County, Georgia,—has plenty of hardship to deal with, including defending herself in a heartbreaking malpractice suit. So when her husband, Police chief Jeffery Tolliver, learns that his friend and coworker detective Lena Adams has been arrested for murder and needs Sara’s help, she is not sure she can handle the pressure of it all. But soon Sara an Jeffery are sitting through evidence, peeling back the layers of a mystery that grows darker by the day—until an intricate web of betrayal and vengeance begins to unravel. And suddenly the lives of Sara, Lena, and Jeffery are hanging by the slenderest of threads.
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I will try to express what I felt about this book. I am an avid reader and Karin Slaughters series with Sara and her husband was one of my favorites.
With the introduction of Lenas life drama in previous books, I was waiting for her to learn from her mistakes and grow. She didnt, hasnt,and now, in this latest book, her actions have lead to the death of someone who always stood by her time and time again. Her character is too ignorant and weak and I have now lost all empathy with her after this book. She should have been the one to open the mailbox...
The story began with Sara so unlike herself, and in an intolerable position, and it ended with even worse...she did not deserve this treatment from the author.
I would have rather had the series end, if that is what is happening, with a divorce...not this darkness and death.
The story started out interesting, lost cohesiveness, and then took a dive..
Im not sure I want to read the author again...
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Here is the order in which I approached this book:
1. I discovered and bought it at the airport, lack of anything else looking promising. I (European) was reluctant, as I had been disappointed by a number of recent American "thrillers" in the past; they were too simple, too PC, too much boring filler sentences. Needless to say, "Beyond Reach" was my very first "Karin Slaughter" book.
2. I read the book and got completely fascinated by her creative, dense, multi-fold and yet reader-friendly writing style. Slaughter thinks about the tiniest logical details, she builds up enormous suspense, and the best is, she then takes the reader by his hand to make sure he gets all the solutions. I especially liked the two intermingling timelines. It is a literary accomplishment, to keep both those stories alive and connected at the same time like Slaughter does. Also (but this is probably the same with all her books), I like how vividly she relates the somber, thick atmosphere in redneck America to the reader.
3. I check the Amazon page - completely buffled by discovering the disappointed comments of all those faithful readers feeling apparently cheated by this book. I just thought: If this is one of her worse books, how excellent must be all her previous books!
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Having been a huge Karin Slaughter fan since the beginning, I can honestly tell you I wouldn't buy one of her books now even if I were about to embark on a 24-hour-train ride through a remote desert, I would much rather read the graffiti on the train's toilet instead.
It's bad enough she kills off the main character, Jeffrey Tolliver, but she has the rudeness, callousness and arrogance to wait until the last page to do so, and, to top it all off, his arm has to go flying across the driveway, and his heart has to be visible, too. Letting him die otherwise wouldn't have been brutal and sensational enough, I guess.
On behalf of all disappointed readers, I'd like to point out that whatever cunning plot twist this lady may have in store for those still willing to pay for her concoctions, it's pure heartless disregard for her faithful readership to pluck this character from life on the very last page.
I will donate every single one of my Slaughter books to the local charity shop, at least some good will come from them.
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I will never read another of her books. I feel so betrayed and ripped off. Karin, honey girl, you just killed your writing career, based on all the reviews I've read. You may have had a huge fan base in the past, but you screwed up. You forgot that an author is no-one without their loyal readers. Our loyalty was rewarded with a lousy book and an emotionally devastating ending. So as payback, I won't read you any more.
I only gave you one star because I had to in order to get this review posted. Consider it retracted.
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In Beyond Reach, Lena Adams returns to the small town of her youth, where she becomes the prime suspect in a vicious murder. It is up to her boss, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, and his wife Sara Linton to prove her innocence. Their case is not helped, though, when Lena goes on the run.
This book deals more with the character Lena Adams, than the other books in the series, and I found it quite a depressing read. It's not that I don't like Lena's character, but I feel the author really piles on the misery in this one.
As for the storyline itself, I found that it was quite slow moving for the most part, and only really got me hooked towards the end. Overall, an okay read, but there are better books in the Grant County series.
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