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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not crazy about this one, May 14, 2009
This review is from: Kill for Me (Hardcover)
I usually love Karen Rose's books, but this one just didn't hold my interest. Usually I read a good book in about two days but I have been struggling with this one for over a week and I honestly don't think I am going to finish it, which is a shame because I am 3/4 of the way through. It just feels like too much of a struggle.
It is very well written, so that's not the problem and that's why I gave it 3 stars as opposed to 1. I just think there is too much going on. Too much killing. Too many characters. Too much to keep track of. I'm having a hard time remembering who's related to who and who fits into the rapes that happened in the previous books and keeping track of who is killing who. It's just confusing me and making the book drag. It would help if I remembered the first two books, but I read them a long time ago and I am an avid reader so I've read many books in between. And I don't want to have to go back and read them again just to understand what is going on in this one.
Like I said, it's well written. I just think there is too much going on and it makes the book drag. I do look forward to her next one though.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
-Spoiler alert-, April 20, 2009
This review is from: Kill for Me (Hardcover)
This book has many, many problems: enough to make it only the second book that I've not been able to finish. In no particular order:
1. Even though I've read the prequels, I had a hard time keeping up with all of the characters in this book. There are literally dozens, each with their own piece of the story to tell. Those storylines connect them to the main story, but every few pages (sometimes not even that) is a different character/different story perspective, so the clarity and continuity are non-existent. It makes for a choppy, non-linear read.
2. There is never a break in action. Someone is either being murdered or attacked. No lulls at all. This is exhausting.
3. There is no real romance. I made it to page 203 without anything more than 'long, lingering glances' in which both the H/h feel like there is a connection between them, but have too many personal hangups to do anything about it. Of course, this book is about a child trafficking/prostitution ring, so there really shouldn't be any room for romance, but there are so many broken characters, I would have liked to have seen a HEA for someone (I'm told this *does* happen, but I didn't make it through the book in order to experience it).
4. The heroine is annoying. Yes, she's been through hell. Yes, she has every reason to feel badly about her past and what she did/didn't do. However, this self-hatred is expressed every time the character talks to anyone or has internal dialogue; she ends up being both self-deprecating and self-loathing, neither in a charming manner, thus, she comes across as whiny with no real redeeming qualities. Her standoffish manner is supposed to hide a vulnerability, but it really just made her seem like a [...].
5. I'm sure the Hero would be an amazing man, given the right circumstances, but throughout the entire first half of the book (I made it to page 203 before giving up) he is working on a child trafficking/pornography case with multiple victims both dead and exploited, so all we really get to see is how stressed out and burned out he is. That he also has to deal with an attraction to the h made me feel bad for him: she's not worth it.
To sum it up: don't bother with this book. It's convoluted and unnecessary. But it is also a blip. Karen Rose usually writes intelligently, with emotion and guts. Every other book I've read of hers is top-notch, and hopefully her next book will redeem her.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Now a Karen Rose fan, February 6, 2009
This review is from: Kill for Me (Hardcover)
Kill for Me by Karen Rose
Let me start off by saying this is probably going to be one of the shortest reviews I have ever written... in a good way! I am afraid if I go into too much detail that it would be a spoiler to those that have read the other books in the series.
Karen Rose is the author of Die for Me, and Scream for Me, a New York Times Best Seller. I can see why she made the best seller list!! Having not read her two previous books in this trilogy, I did at times feel like I had missed out on some major crucial details in Kill for Me, but every single moment of this book was engaging, and suspenseful to the max!
Susannah Vartanian was one of the girls raped thirteen years ago by a group of young rich boys, and has yet to be able to live a normal life. With the help of Agent Luke Papadopoulos and the whole PD and FBI Dept's in Dutton, Georgia and a few other states, Susannah may finally get some insight to her past, and find out what her brother Simon had going on in his sick head. Susannah is about to discover that her whole life has been something other than what she has known, she will have to do something she has never done before. Lean on Luke to help her through this, that may prove to be more difficult that either could have ever expected.
Nothing is as it seems in Kill for Me, there are so many dark buried secrets, a huge cast of characters, and a whole lot of danger. Explosive, cunning, and purely magnificent, I have no other choice but to pick up the other two novels I haven't read. Karen Rose has got the skill it takes to enthrall a reader. In the beginning I was overwhelmed because as I said I think I missed a lot of history from not reading Die for Me and Scream for Me, this shouldn't be a stand alone book... but somehow it kind of works. 5 Hearts
Hachette Book Group
ISBN# 0446510300
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