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Call After Midnight

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This book is a good romantic adventure originally published as a Harlequin Intrigue. I wish that it had been orginally stated that this book was a Harlequin Intrigue published in 1987, it might stop someone from making a duplicate purchase.

based on the writing, this book should be in the 'romance' section. while the plot is engaging, it is only superficially worked out and the characters have no depth. the writing is pure mass romance with men with hard bodies and fainting women being rescued, at the last minute of course.

I found this book at a thrift store after having read a few of her Maura Isles books...and boy, was I disappointed. I told my husband that it was more like a Harlequin romance book, then I find out here that it was originally published as a Harlequin! And not even a great one at that...I mean, how many times does a person start to trust someone, then totally flip out on them, then do that a few more times. It got very tedious. But I really love the books she's written in the past decade or so, so don't be deterred by this one.

I listened to this book on CD on a long car ride and was very disappointed, especially after I'd assured my partner that based on all the wonderful books I'd read by this author we were sure to enjoy the eight hour tale. The characters are unbelievably shallow, especially the main female who is a laughable caricature of a lady in distress. Madly in love with her uncommonly good looking husband of two months, she finds that it's just as easy to fall head over heels in love with the state department worker who has been assigned to give her the bad news about her husband's untimely death. We found ourselves ridiculing these two characters as they bungled their way through Europe, in search of the husband, who may not be dead after all.

Typical romance novel with some stuff thrown in to make it seem like suspence.
I just couln't stomach this book. maybe it's because I'm older and over all the fluff in books.
I was extremely bored and frustrated while listening to the book. The main characters made me roll my eyes and finally I just stopped...
Don't waste your time!

This audiobook was published in 2010, so I snapped it up thinking it would be a "typical Tess Gerritsen": intricate, interesting, well-written novel. What a waste. According to her Wikipedia entry, this was her first novel which was published in 1987. So, perhaps if one were interested in how far she's developed as a writer, start with this one. I had to quit it half way through.

I bought this novel expecting a thriller, instead the only value I got from it was a comedy one. The characters are incredibly shallow, the plot denies credibility and the style is Barbara Cartland. If you're looking for a thriller don't look here. Romantic comedy wold be a more accurate classification!

Uma chamada telefônica no meio da noite acorda a recém casada Sarah Fontaine, que estava esperando pela ligação de seu marido que estava em Londres. Mas, ao invés da voz familiar, Nick O'Hara, do governo norteamericano traz notícias devastadoras para ela: Goeffrey Fontaine, o marido de Sarah, há dois meses, morreu num incêndio de um hotel... em Berlim.
Convencida que há um engano e que seu marido ainda está vivo, Sarah força um confronto com Nick e cruza a Europa numa busca desesperada por Geoffrey, colocando ambos (Sarah e Nick) num terrível perigo.
Bom, agora que já fiz um breve resumo do livro, vamos ao que interessa:
Um suspense romântico da escritora de best-sellers da série Rizzoli&Isles, publicado em 1987, no início de sua carreira. É claro que para o leitor que é fã dessa série, este livro é, no mínimo, uma surpresa. Se você está esperando um novo thriller da Tess, ESQUEÇA! NÃO PERCA SEU TEMPO! - como é que a mesma escritora pode escrever de duas formas tão diferentes, em tão pouco tempo? Essa é a prova de que tudo pode melhorar...
Apesar da trama ser interessante, é muito superficial, sem credibilidade, e os personagens não tem profundidade psicológica.
É basicamente um romance com homens malhados e mulheres que vivem desmaiando para serem salvas no último minuto, de algum tipo de perigo. Quase caricaturas rizíveis de Barbara Cartland.
Fiquei extremamente frustrada e entediada, porque adooooooro todos os livros da Tess - meus olhos não paravam de revirar - acho que tive uma síncope, imitando a heroína do livro! Finalmente, desisti...

I agree with a librarian friend that Tess Gerritsen and Tami Hoag were mediocre romance writers who blossomed into excellent thriller writers.

This is a good story, maybe a little long but it sure passed 8 or 9 hours of travel time, I enjoyed it... Pat