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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My first venture into Bev. Barton Stories, January 21, 2005
This review is from: As Good As Dead (Zebra Romantic Suspense) (Paperback)
Since this was my first venture in a Beverly Barton suspense thriller, I should have known better to start with a book that finished a series.
I have to tell you that I was seeing double and doing double takes when it came to all the characters included in this book. Wow. Keeping track of them took all my concentration.
A murderer is killing redheads and wouldn't you know, Reve and Jazzy are redheads and just learning from DNA testing that they're sisters separated at birth.
Barton does a great job of carrying on several sub-plots, both romantical and subverse along with the main plot story. She pulls all the strings together in the end and ties them all up in a nice little knot. For me, I'd like to have known a bit more detail about how the story lines ended, but then maybe what I'm really missing is the beginning of the story. I think I'll give Barton's other books a try and start this series over from the beginning.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved this book, October 14, 2004
This review is from: As Good As Dead (Zebra Romantic Suspense) (Paperback)
As Good As Dead by Beverly Barton is a gripping book in the Cherokee Pointe Series.
Reve Sorrell grew up a daughter of privilege. She is not so sure she wants to be related to Jazzy Talbot, her look alike. Jazzy is the polar opposite of Reve. But Reve is drawn to this sleepy little town and wants some answers.
Sheriff Jacob Butler has his hands bull with a possible serial killer on the loose. At first meeting Reve with her high class ways really rubs him the wrong way...Or does she? The sparks between Jacob and Reve are high voltage. Jacob realizes whoever is killing red headed women has their sights on Jazzy and Reve.
Jacob sets out to protect Reve from the growing danger. But she poses a bigger threat to his heart.
The suspense is riveting, you can feel the evil lurking. Reve and Jacob start out as less then friendly but they have a passion and a connection that is amazing. I love Beverly Barton books, I think this is the best one yet.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money, August 31, 2005
This review is from: As Good As Dead (Zebra Romantic Suspense) (Paperback)
When I picked up this book, I had no idea that it was part of a series. Although it did seem obvious that there was more to the story than the author touched base on.
I had several problems with this book. First off, way too many characters were introduced at the start. Maybe if I would have read the other books first, I would have known who they were, but as BB started jumping around at the beginning to touch base on each family and how miserable their lives were, I found it very boring. I found it a bit much to read how almost every man in the county cheated on their wives and slept with prostitutes. Even some of the unmarried ones did. There is something really wrong with that. Sure it was supposed to create more red herrings, but it was just annoying.
Secondly, the romance part of it was lame. The two bicker and fight until near page 250 and then all of a sudden they are hot and heavy. Too much of the story focused on all the sordid details of everyone else's sex life and affairs than on Reve and Jacob. I would not call this a romantic suspense in even loose terms. Yes there was sex, but way too late in the story to create the same type of anticipation the reader looks forward to.
Lastly, either this author does not know the definition of certain words or there are a few typos that are really bad. For example, one of the funniest ones talks about how Jacob's BACK hair fell across the pillow. Okay, that is just gross if he really had so much hair it piled over the pillow. I realize the author meant to say BLACK hair, but now you see what I mean by typos. Other ones are even worse where the words used have entirely different meanings and make the reader wonder if that is what BB meant to say or what it should have read.
Other than that, the reveal of the killer is dragged out until the very end but it is pretty obvious who it is. As my first Beverly Barton book, I was not impressed in the least. Linda Howard wrote that the book was fast paced, multi-faceted and absolutely riveting. Multi-faceted, yes. Anything other than that no. Kay Hooper wrote "a powerful story that kept me up very late-with all the lights on. With a villain you won't soon forget and nail biting suspense." If this was nail biting and too scary to keep the lights on, she must be reading children's stories because there was nothing about this book that was anywhere near to that description. Sorry to lay it all out, but this one is not worth the buy.
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