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3.0 out of 5 stars
This author still needs some fine tuning, August 9, 2006
This review is from: Flashback (Mass Market Paperback)
I give Flashback 5 stars for the romantic tension between Rachel and Kyle. The two bicker constantly. She can't stand him, and he can't get enough of her. Unfortunately, this is the only good aspect to this novel.
The author repeats herself continuously. The book starts out slow, with no clever hook to keep the reader wanting more. There is a suicide, with no foul play to warrant an investigation and no killer to suspect. There is however a villian, but that too is predictable due to the lack of red herrings the author failed to include.
Is it worth buying?
If you want a good tension filled romance, than perhaps. However, I do suggest checking it out from the library instead. As far as a Romantic Suspense goes, it falls considerably short in that category. There are plenty of other authors out there that have mastered to balance the two aspects perfectly. Cait London just needs some more work fine tuning her skills as a writer or a better editor.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, February 22, 2006
This review is from: Flashback (Mass Market Paperback)
The story begins with a young Rachel Everly wanting her Mom to adopt Mallory, a girl that is in a foster home. With already 2 daughters of her own, Trina Everly accepts to take Mallory in her home to live.
Years later as three daughters have different lives, Mallory goes down the wrong road and commits suicide.
When Rachel comes home to Neptune's Landing for the funeral, she receives a letter that Mallory wrote before she died leaving Rachel her business which is Nine Balls, a pool hall.
Feeling like she has let her sister down over the years Rachel moves to Neptune's Landing to get the business running again and to find out more about her sister's death.
Rachel knows her sister had some kind of relation with Kyle Scanlon, the Hunky Mechanic. But Rachel blames him for not helping her sister more.
Every meeting with Kyle (Even though Rachel loathes him), gets more and more intimate.
After finding pictures Mallory left and things from other men that Mallory had dealings with, Rachel is determined to find out who was mean to her sister, and make him pay.
The plot to this book was good, but the story line just never got anywhere. The point to the book in my oppinion was to see how many times Rachel and Kyle could seduce each other in a day.
I was looking forward to this book, the cover was really great, but the story was flat and lame.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Boring, November 20, 2006
This review is from: Flashback (Mass Market Paperback)
Mallory talked to people more, and people talked to her more, when she was dead than alive. Same questions to Mallory from Rachel, over and over again. "What do you want from me Mallory?" "You're still here aren't you Mallory?" "What are you trying to tell me Mallory?"
Kyle was focused on Rachel's breasts. He was always thinking about them, talking about them, staring at them or touching them.
Then there were the inconsistencies.
Kyle takes a cold shower but the bathroom is steamed.
Rachel "removed her long scarf and threw it into the driver's seat with enough force to show her anger." We're talking a scarf here, which would be more likely to float.
Repetitious: "He gave her a concerned look and said `We're concerned about you.'"
In one short paragraph; "get to him", "he was getting to her", "get what she wanted".
This book wasn't horrible, it just wasn't very good.
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