With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daugther, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi andThad are missing- and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning had turned toward shore. With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their chidren-but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to
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Hurri-can't,
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This review is from: Hurricane (MIRA) (Mass Market Paperback)
To get one thing straight, right up front - there is nothing really *wrong* with this book - the writing is good enough, the *main* characters are mostly developed OK (although all the women main characters are so neurotic that I just wanted to smack them), and the premise seemed like one that would provide plenty of suspense. But it didn't - provide suspense, that is. Honestly, I just didn't care. I can read a book of this length in about 5-6 hours, if properly motivated and, to give a bit of a comparison, I have spent over a MONTH trying to force my way through this one. I finally just gave up and said ENOUGH.
The basic idea is that Julie Minton and her daughter Randi have moved to Florida, down into the Keys, where Julie has opened up a center for girls who are "cutters" (that is, they cut themselves obsessively in order to help make themselves feel more in control of themselves and their lives), where she and her friend Kaylin spend a couple weeks with each group of girls to help them curb their impulses and turn them toward more positive actions. Kaylin is a former cutter, which turns up as a plot devise later on. Randi has a crush on Thad, who is the son of Zach Brockman - who, ironically enough, Julie had a bit of a crush on when she was younger, but upon which she was not allowed to act because her family was rich and Zach was "beneath" her. At any rate, Randi gets to ride with Thad on a Jet-Ski and they go missing. Right before a big-ol' hurricane is due to come up. At this point we are hurriedly introduced to a dizzying array of characters who are mostly not developed enough for us to differentiate between them - or, who are developed by the use of clichés. To add to the confusion, Julie stumbles upon a couple murders, and finally a ransom note. We are left as befuddled as the characters - more so, since we have no idea who these people are! Were the kids kidnapped? If so, why? Were they witnesses to a drug deal? Is it to force Julie to sell out the ancestral home? Or were the kids just in an accident on the Jet-Ski and forced to hole up on one of the 10,000 Islands of the Keys? Or did they maybe just run away to New York or New Jersey? By this time, honestly, I didn't even care. The only reason I kept going as far as I did was simple stubbornness. Do yourself a favor - don't waste your time like I did.
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Don't understand the rest of the reviews,
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This review is from: Hurricane (MIRA) (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book, to me it was not boring. Once I started it I
finished quickly and then started reading her others. I have found though that lots of time books I read I then check to see the rating on here and it sometimes amazes me how different people's opinion can be.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lacking zing...,
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This review is from: Hurricane (MIRA) (Mass Market Paperback)
When I read a book, I expect/hope to have characters that about whom I really care. While the plot had promise, it felt as though much of it was just thrown in without any intent to actually develop it. Many aspects of the plot and character development felt like an afterthought.
While this was, by far, NOT the worst book I have read, I wouldn't waste my time to read it again.
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