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4.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 stars. Excellent, entertaining mystery. Didn't want to put it down. The ending was good but weak., January 29, 2009
This review is from: Behind the Shadows (Berkley Sensation) (Paperback)
STORY BRIEF:
Kira's mother Katy is dying and needs a kidney. Kira wants to donate her own kidney but blood tests reveal she is not the biological daughter of Katy. She eventually finds Leigh a wealthy heiress who is the biological daughter. They were switched at birth. Leigh doesn't want to believe any of this and is reluctant to take a DNA test. Meanwhile, someone is trying to kill Kira. Max is an attorney who manages Leigh's inheritance. He's been close to Leigh's family for years. Kira and Max are drawn to each other, yet they are on opposite sides of this conflict and potential law suit.
REVIEWER'S OPINION:
During most of the book I kept thinking this is a fabulous story. I didn't want to put it down. When I did, I couldn't wait to get back to it to read more. However, the ending was a little weak, as described in the Spoiler below. There was a happy ending, but it didn't wow me as much as the rest of the book did. This was mostly a mystery with some suspense and some romance. I usually prefer more romance than what was here, but the story and characters were so good that I didn't mind having a little less romance than normal. However, the romantic developments were warm and satisfying. Overall, the book was a great escape and left me with some thoughts I've pondered since.
DATA:
Story length: 324 pages. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: 2. Total number of sex scene pages: 7. Setting: current day Atlanta, Georgia. Copyright: 2008. Genre: mystery with some suspense and some romance.
OTHER BOOKS:
To date, I've read one other book by Patricia Potter. My 2.5 star review of "Beloved Stranger" copyright 2006 was posted 3/22/09.
CAUTION SPOILER:
Toward the end, the heroines did something stupid and against character for the sake of the plot, which bothered me. Because of several murder attempts, security people are with Kira at all times. The bad guy calls Leigh with a lie to get Leigh to come to him. Kira then drives Leigh to that location. Kira doesn't ask the security guys who are currently with her to come. Also, when they get to the location, the security guys who should have been there were gone. But, the two women go right on in to the clutches of the bad guy. That troubled me. Kira was smarter than that. It was the only weak part of the book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Some genre clash, but a delightful ride, December 8, 2008
This review is from: Behind the Shadows (Berkley Sensation) (Paperback)
Patricia Potter manages to pull off, in the space of one book, a primary love plot, a secondary love plot, AND a mystery/suspense. It's really pretty impressive. There's plenty of tension. Best of all, I love watching the romances develop. I have to give Potter some pretty serious credit for creating much more believable and natural-feeling romance progressions than I'm used to seeing in books.
I enjoyed the characters, and I enjoyed watching Potter create tension between them without making half of them into bad guys. She does a bang-up job of simply giving them conflicting, yet understandable, needs and points of view. She also gives the men more personality and depth than some romance authors do.
The only real problem I had is that the suspense genre has one or two semi-fundamental conflicts with the romance genre. Let's just say that in order to conform to the needs of the romance genre, assuming someone knows what those assumptions are and realizes this is a romance, you remove some of the tension of the suspense side of things. Still, there's enough mystery, I believe, to keep the reader happy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"A Gift Of Life", June 20, 2010
This review is from: Behind the Shadows (Berkley Sensation) (Paperback)
Patricia Potter did a superb job in the subplot. There was so much excitement at the beginning of the story line. I finished "Behind The Shadows" in one day. Kira Douglas's mother has renal failure. Kira went for a blood test to decide whether or not she could donate a kidney to her mother. The test results, no match. And, Kira isn't Katy Douglas's biological daughter. Kira and another baby were switched at birth.
"Behind The Shadow" was more about a gift of life. The devotion and determination to find her mother a donor. Kira Douglas was in a rush to find her mother's biological daughter. Her mother has two weeks to live without a transplant.
Kira hired Chris Burke a former police lieutenant. He's a neighbor and a friend to Kira and Katy Douglas. Chris narrowed it down to one possibility. Kira was able to obtain a DNA sample from Leigh Howard under false pretense.
Leigh Howard is the biological daughter. Kira needs to convince Leigh to donate her kidney. Leigh is an heir to her grandfather's estate. Kira doesn't want any part of the estate nor will she contest the will. She's willing to sign documents that she doesn't want any part of Westerfield estate. Leigh is afraid she's going to lose her fortune that she refuses to take a DNA test.
A suspenseful thriller. Three attempts on Kira's life. Is she getting too close to the truth that there was a baby switched and why? I recommend "Behind The Shadows"
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