Customer Reviews

FOUNTAIN

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A page-turner with a somewhat gruesome plot, in which a group of well-to-do and famous people start dying in a horrific manner after taking part in a secret rejuvenation program. The book ends much too abruptly, and there are some editing errors, such as missing words, in the Kindle version I read, but all in all it was an addictive, can't-put-it-down thriller. Recommended!

Wow! You don't see this coming. You think this book will be the typical semi-mystery and Wham! it's hits you when you least expect it. I enjoyed reading something different in the thriller world of books.

This could have been a great read. It was an excellent idea for a story. They should turn it into a movie. For that reason alone, it was worth the read.

The problem with it was that it was very poorly executed. The characters that were developed decently were only in the book in small spots, and those that turned out to be main characters were so thinly attributed that they could have been anyone. I actually started imagining them being played by my own choice of cast just to try and give them some substance that I could relate to.

In some spots, the dialog was terrible. There was one specific paragraph where a character was speaking and I actually thought to myself, "Wow, nobody would actually say that out loud." After reading it again, I realized that what probably happened was that the paragraph had been hastily rewritten and forgotten. Who ever edited this book didn't deserve what they got paid.

I would have given this book a lower rating on that alone, but I want to say again that the storyline itself is great. Very imaginative, and even if it was written so simply and carelessly, pages did still turn right up until the end. I have certainly read many books that were worse and I don't feel like I'm out $10 for picking it up.

In FOUNTAIN, Stephanie Lynn Ramsey writes about the seedy and expensive pursuit of everlasting youth. After a beloved politician's mysterious death, the police are baffled by the politician's corpse which has aged so rapidly that he is almost unrecognizable. To make matters eerier, the word "FOUNTAIN" is found scrawled out near the body, sparking a fast paced investigation into Reed Pharmaceuticals and its powerful female executive who promises youth and beauty from her "rejuvenation regiments." More mysterious deaths are connected to Reed Pharmaceuticals, and the company will do anything, including murder, to silence anyone who threatens to unravel its monopoly on the "fountain of youth." Ms. Ramsey delivers up one interesting character after another while interweaving their stories together in one unforgettable and literally "explosive" climax. FOUNTAIN is a fast paced, sexy, and sleek mystery that delves into sensuality and vanity with no apolgies.

I have never written a bad review on a book before. But this book was so bad, I wrote this as soon as I finished reading. This book had no redeeming value. None of the characters were the least bit appealing, or even believable. I can't even describe the dialog -- no one speaks the way these people did. The only thing that made me continue to read was the hope of a reasonable ending. That was a false hope. The book was bad from beginning to end.