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Full Circle (Mira)

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When Kate's anxiety and nightmares started, she didn't know the cause. When they started to effect her job as an emergency room doctor, she was forced deal with it.

After being fired from her job, Kate returns home to Louisiana and to family problems. Surprised to find her mother ill and her best friend being abused by her husband Kate reluctantly takes a job in the local clinic, although she is dismayed to find she is working with her ex-lover Sam.

After several arguements and fights Kate and Sam finally face their relationship and start anew, although family problems and memories from a long ago boat accident may force the lovers apart.

I found this book to be good, but not enough romance. Also, the other characters, Nick, Amber, Victoria, Leo, Stephen, Pam and especially Deke weren't strong enough. I found the other sideling storylines interfered with the love story between Kate and Sam, almost overshadowing the story.

What a melodramatic soap opera!! Lies, deceit, abuse and murder! Holy mackerel - you could hardly keep up with all the characters and stories. Kate and Sam were supposed to be the central characters but they kept getting dwarfed by Deke (what a despicable idiot!), Amber, Leo, Victoria, the kids, Nick, Pam, etc. etc. Not that you couldn't keep them straight - but I found I couldn't concentrate my powers on liking them or caring for the main ones as much as I should have. There was just too much going on. It was an exciting fast-paced story - lots of suspense and good parts. BUT so much happened, especially at the end, that it left me feeling disjointed and unsatisfied.

Many people would say that this is not one of Karen Young's better books. If you are reading it for the love story, then thats probably what you think. however, if you are reading it for the mystery asspect, then its a very good book.

Kate Madison returns home to Bayou Blanc upon a suspension from her job as a trauma specialist in boston. When she arrives, Kate learns that her mother has been fighting a cancer for 10 monthes and is getting worse. Upset and heartsick, Kate accepts a job as a partner in a practice with Leo Castille, the man she has grown up with considering her father in all ways except that of blood relation.

Also at this practice is Sam Delacourt. Sam has harbored a stong resentment of Kate for 5 years, and tries to keep her from entering the practice. Incorrectly believing that she was the one who told his late wife of their affair 5 years ago, Sam had tried to put all of his guilt onto Kate. To his surprise, he finds it easier to get over his resentment then he would have though.

Then Kate discover's the body of Deke Russo, batterer and husband of Amber Russo, daughter of Leo and Kates best friend. For some reason, KAte has been getting flashbacks from a time she doesnt know exsisted. She also is extrememly sensitive to cases involving battered wives and children. Then Amber, seemingly the loving wife who forgave her husband time after time, turns out to be a corrupted witch, and the entire story kinda flips, giving it an interesting ending, leaving the reader with a hatred of Amber for being a sick person who deliberatly uses a youung boy. Then there is Nick Santana, Ambers first ever love intrest and part love intrest in the book, who then "dumps" her after finding out she is a coruppted witch, but the author leaves an open end for whether the woman who loves Nick ends up with him. OVerall, it was a good book, and totally worth my 25cents since I got it at a garage sale, and I probably would have bought it at full price as well. If you are reading it for the sub plot of kates flashbacks and the, murder mystery, its a great book, but as I have said before, the romace falls a little short.

After being suspended from her job as a trauma specialist at St. Luke's hospital in Boston, Kate Madison returns home to Bayou Blanc. Upon arrival, Kate learns that her mother has had cancer for ten months and is on a steady decline. Heartsick, Kate accpets a position in the small town practice from the man that has been like a father to her since she was six years old and lost her real father. She didn't count on seeing Sam Delacourt, whom she had a passionate affair five years before, without knowing he was married and had a child.

Sam Delacout has harbored a resentment of Kate for five years. Believing, incorrectly, that Kate was the person that told his wife of their affair, Sam had always blamed her for his wife's suicide attempt. He finds it easier to let go of his resentment that he thought, and before long Sam knows that he will not let her go.

Then there is a murder in this sleepy bayou town. Kate's childhood best friend's husband turned up murdered, when it initially looked like a suicide. For reasons that Kate doesn't know, she is especially sensitive to cases involving children and battered wives, which isn't good for her as a physician. When Young first introduced us to Amber Russo, Kate's friend from childhood, you felt sorry for her. She seemed to be the classic case of a battered wife who forgave her husband because she loved him. The reader soon found out what a twisted woman that Amber really was. She didn't want out of the marriage, as it would have been bad for her public image, which would have ruined her career. She purposely set out to use a fifteen year old boy, who ended up having physciatric (sp?) problems. She was selfish and manipulative and I really couldn't stand her. Then there was Nick Santana, who had loved Amber since she was fifteen. Believing that they finally had a chance, Nick wonders at his feelings, which don't seem to be there. Young left the reader hanging about the feelings between Nick and Officer Pamela LaRue, which she built up and then never went back to.

I've read a few of Karen Young's books, and this was not one of the better ones.

"Full Circle" is the first book that I have read by Karen Young and I cannot wait to read another. This story is full of suspense and romance, you will not be able to put it down.

Karen Young's stories always pack a wallop. She combines characters and plot lines in one seamless whole, and Full Circle is a great example. I particularly liked Kate's relationship with her mother and the backstory, too. I'm glad I had easy dinners I could prepare when I was reading this one.

A terrible event in little Kate Madison's life, the death of her father, has caused her to black out the events of that fatal night. Years later, her memory is beginning to come back, in shocking bits and pieces. And that's when the nightmare begins.

This is the second book by Karen Young that I've read and once again she didn't disappoint me. The characterization is superb, the plot filled with suspense and emotion. This is a story of love, survival and friendship at its very best. I loved every delicious moment.

This book hooks you immediately with a sense of danger. The heroine's repressed memories kept me turning the pages at a furious rate as I raced to unravel the mystery of the past. A super read!

What a great read! Full Circle is the story of how friends and families intertwine as decades pass. The characters are so real and are all flawed in some way, such as in life. I am a big fan of Ms. Young's books and feel this is her best effort to date. Her novels are thought provoking and so complex. Don't start this one at bed time!

Karen Young includes an unexpected murder and ever-pervasive sinister mystery in this novel.

It has sexual tension too...