Type of bind: Hardcover
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: January 01, 2005
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'I'll be watching you . . .'
the cryptic e-mail read.
Taylour Halstead, psychologist and successful radio personality, is terrified that she'll never be safe again. Coming on the heels of a series of tragic and terrible events, the e-mail sends chills racing up her spine. Her safe, secure world has already been violated by her cousin Stephanie's boyfriend, Gordon Mallory, in her own apartment. Only the door buzzer and Stephanie's intervening voice rescue her, but not before Gordon promises to return. Soon after, he is killed along with Stephanie in an inexplicable explosion aboard his yacht. Or is he?
The e-mail is just the beginning. The terror campaign escalates when an electronically disguised voice on Taylor's telephone threatens to kill her, and her life becomes a nightmare. It seems the only one she can turn to is attorney Reed Weston, her confidant, protector, and, ultimately, lover. But is Reed's determination to protect her enough to avert disaster? And can Taylour trust Gordon's identical twin, Jonathan, who always seems to show up when she least expects him?
Grief and dread unravel Taylor's sanity, playing tricks with her mind and heart. Someone out there wants her dead—a crazed fan or the troubled teenage boy she's been counseling or, impossibly, Gordon himself. His vow to return and those final menacing words—'I'll be watching you'—haunt her day and night. Whoever is out there is coming closer, and Taylour Halstead has nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
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I enjoyed this story. Had a good plot and interesting characters.
Worth reading.
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While the book was suspenseful enough to keep you interested, it was extremely predictable. The culprit's identity was easy to figure out early on, and the ending of the book explaining everything went on way too long.
I also really didn't care too much for Taylour or Reed...their romance seemed forced and unrealistic. And I particularly hated the happily-ever-after epilogue -- it drives me nuts when an author puts a whole slew of unknown characters into a scene and overpowers you with dialogue where every single character must have a say or a role.
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First of all, I was shocked to find this book at a highschool library. Interestingly enough, I looked to see if it was there a year later. It was gone; the librarian had taken it off the shelf permanently.
Secondly, the story has a good plot line. BUT it could easily be summarized in this short paragraph:
A young woman almost gets raped and finds solace in a man who volunteers to help her get over her newfound paranoia by developing a romance with her, and, in short, all they do is have sex. ABOUT FIFTEEN TIMES.
But, of course, you know...that helps her. But it makes her stalker mad.
And then there are all the stalker bits, which get a little tedious, and the knight in shining armor, whose whole persona has been copy and pasted through so many books that it's not even suspenseful.
When you're finished, admittedly you've been sitting on the edge of your seat for a while despite the book's predictability and Happily Ever After.
But the story goes something like plot. Sex. Plot. Sex. Plot... (etc.)
And then at the very end when the woman has conquered her fear, she is in love with the man who helped her get over it and the last line of the book implies that they're about to go have sex.
Again.
Personally, I thought that got really tiring, but I have to admit it was suspenseful, and the actual story was all right.
But as a 17-year-old girl, I was disappointed by the overall feel of the story. It was a typical weakened/vulnerable-female-finding-solace-in-a-male-and-their-relationship-and-her-strengthening-is-defined-by-sex story. Blahh.
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Unfortunately I just didn't really like this book. I've read all of Ms. Kane's books to date and I feel like she should just stick to the regency genre and leave the contemporary mystery/romances alone. I've found that in all of her contemporary novels everything just seems to work out too perfectly and the romance seems really blah.
This book was horribly predictable and cliche and it left me wishing I hadn't wasted the time to even pick it up. I knew right away who was stalking her and the romance part of this book seemed so contrived that it was really sad. We didn't get to become emotionally invested in these characters at all. One minute they meet, are incredibly attracted to each other (supposedly), and are expressing their undying love for each other without any sign of internal conflict at all. The dialogue was weak and didn't flow well and the mystery was tepid at best. And the whole date, place and time at the beginning of each section was annoying and distracting and didn't help the flow of the story at all.
I'm sorry to have to give Ms. Kane a bad review because I really have enjoyed many of her regency novels but this one just didn't do it for me.
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Just thought it was an average mystery. Very little romance. I'm not going to write a plot summary since so many on Amazon have already did that. I had problems getting into the characters. I just felt like she didn't truly explore them and get you to feel what they were feeling. I enjoyed some of the plot twists but one of the reviews here had kinda ruined it for me, but it was also easy to figure out. I liked the premise of the radio talk show psychologist host. I was hoping that Ms. Kane would go into that area more to heighten the mystery thriller part of the book. As for romance, there wasn't any build up to that and you didn't feel their instanteous attraction either. Just wasn't believable. I will definitely try another one of her books just because of her plot premise. Don't want to buy this book. This is strictly a library checkout book.
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