Last Gasp (Signet Eclipse) [Paperback]

Carla Cassidy (Author)

Book Description

Series: Signet Eclipse | Publication Date: April 7, 2009

Ever since she found her mother and siblings murdered, Allison Clemmins has hated her father, Hank, who is imprisoned for the crimes. Then Seth Walker arrives in town, a lawyer determined to exonerate Hank, to unearth the secrets that should have been revealed long ago. He also offers Allison the one thing missing from her life—the ability to trust a man.

But as fate finds them in each other’s arms, a psychotic killer— either the original or a copycat—makes himself known...

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Signet; 1 Original edition (April 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451226607
• ISBN-13: 978-0451226600
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #997,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carla Cassidy lives in the Midwest with her husband, Frank. She's the author of over eighty books and can't think of anything she'd rather do for a living than tell stories.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Last Gasp, April 21, 2009

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Amy Light (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Gasp (Signet Eclipse) (Paperback)

I have loved all of Carla Cassidy's romantic suspense books and I enjoyed the basic plot line for Last Gasp. However I did not like or appreciate the violence done to animals in this book. I wish I had known about it before purchasing because the book would've remained on the shelf.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Impressed, October 19, 2009

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This review is from: Last Gasp (Signet Eclipse) (Paperback)

This was my first Carla Cassidy book and more than likely my last.

While I thought the storyline was decent, the amount of graphic violence to animals totally turned me off both the book and the author. If you're an animal lover, don't even bother with this one.

I also didn't care for the author's writing style at all -- it seemed that everyone was always "exclaiming" things, but none of them were actually exclamations, or really anything more than straight sentences. I also didn't feel the characters were really developed at all -- Allison and Seth just kind of fell in love one day, Rick saw a lonely boy and took Eric under his wing, but what more did we really know about them, Michelle, or any of the other many characters? I also thought the author did a poor job wrapping up the story, as there were a number of characters we don't know what happened with, and there were characters that should've been interacting with the ending that were nowhere to be found without too much of an explanation.

Disappointing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My first and last Carla Cassidy read, September 28, 2009

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R. Spiker "Avid reader" (Martinsburg, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Gasp (Signet Eclipse) (Paperback)

Last Gasp was was my introduction to the works of Carla Cassidy, and I must say, I was extremely disappointed. While the plot was interesting, her writing style was very distracting. I found her overuse (and misuse) of the word "exclaimed" to be obnoxious. The same is true of her repetition of the title throughout the story.

Also, she spent so much of the book trying to throw the reader off with red herrings that she didn't fully develop the main characters or build their relationship. It was a very difficult book to get through. I wondered if this was one of her earlier books, so immature was the writing. Unfortunately, I realized that this was her latest release, so I have little hope that any of her other books would be much better. With that in mind, this book will definitely go in the donation box, and I won't be buying anymore.