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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
ve long been a Susan Forster fan....,
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This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)
Susan Forster has always been great at defining her characters, and this story shows no change. Rio and Carlie both have many problems to overcome, things stretching back to their childhoods, but do so. I hesitate to say they do so together, because for most of the book they spar around one another, not convinced that the other one isn't guilty. They have problems trusting, which for any good relationshiip is deadly. Rio is a mysterious character, who has a sixth sense, though refuses to call it pysychic. To him it is a learned 'power'...he just learned to listen better than others. Carlie comes from an extremely dysfunctional family though, on the outside they look perfectly normal. I loved reading this story and breaking into the many layers Ms. Forster plots out for us. This story itself holds many twists and turns, and to be honset, I didn't know 'who dunnit' until the end. Its not often a book surprises me, but this one did. I do not know how accurate her psychological profile of stalker victims are, (since I have no pysch related education) but it seems very well presented. I felt that I was in the mind of the victim. My only criticism is that at times I thought the book was choppy or jumped around too quickly. Its not that I had a hard time keeping up with the story, but I would have liked some explinations or longer descriptions on what was happening. We would be one place which one character, then another place with another character, often times not knowing for a few paragraphs who we were with. I suppose that's one sort of literary license, but I didn't care for it. I also had a hard time defining fact from fantasy. Carlie has some fantasies and many of the scenes are written in such a style that I can't tell (until later) if what I am reading is happening to our heroine or is another of her fantasies. Overall though, this is a great contemp. suspence romance, and pick it up if you can!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Suspenseful, but problematic,
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This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)
One of the more ambitious romantic suspense novels I've read in a while, EVERY BREATH SHE TAKES was undeniably suspenseful, but the romance was hard to buy. Rio and Carlie spend so much of this novel disliking and distrusting each other that their whiz-bang gee-I-love-you revelations at the end left me shaking my head. Rio is an appealing, if somewhat unbelievable, hero. Carlie has enough back story issues for two tortured heroines. They needed to spend a lot more time together on the page communicating calmly and rationally instead of hurling accusations at one another. That time should have come from the excessive amount of time allotted to secondary characters such as Danny and Jo Ellen (both of whom had enough issues to fill an entire novel). Forster starts with an interesting premise, but the execution could have been a lot smoother.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book sucked me in, then sucked!,
This review is from: Every Breath She Takes (Paperback)
The first half or so of the book was engrossing, but somewhere mid book the heroine becomes TOO STUPID TO LIVE (TSTL). I felt the author deliberately manipulated things to the point where none of it was believable anymore. The ending was terrible.
SPOILERsss How many murderers do you know stop in the middle to go to the bathroom. Even so why not just shoot the bastard when he comes out? And ummm, exactly why is the murderer trying to kill the heroine when he really didn't commit any murders to start with?? And why doesn't the heroine (personal safety expert) grab her handy dandy golf club under the bed? And why didn't she have even a clue what she was going to do with the bastard when she'd deliberately lured him? I mean going to a drive in alone, with no weapon to meet a stalker???? huh? And so on and so forth.
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