Customer Reviews

Next Stop, Paradise

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Sue Civil-Brown is one of my favorite authors. I really enjoy her books under Rachael Lee as well. Something was just missing in this book. I kept reading anticipating better things...but unfortunately it never materialized. I never felt close to the characters. Normally in Sue Civoil-Brown's books..TEMPTING MR. WRIGHT and CHASING RAINBOW...you felt like you at least knew the characters involved. Samantha's character was alittle understandable but somewhat shallow. The real difficult one to understand was Derek. He just seemed to appear in Florida, crew and everything. I wont go into the plot because it would ruin the story....if you can call the plot a story. I'm very sorry to say that the book did absolutely nothing for me. The ending was very bland and silly. It didn't even make sense. This was a big disappointment for me and I feel let down by the author. A side note...maybe shorten some of the "silly findings" and lengthen the characters.

I love this book. I've only bought it yesterday and I've already read it twice. Something about it just draws you in. Highly recommended!

I've been following this whole series of books about kooky people in a small beach town in Florida. All of them, including this one, are wonderful. Try out Paradise, and have a good laugh!

I had already read the reviews on Amazon when I picked this book up. It was another case of not being able to trust the reviews. This book is poorly written, the characters are not charmingly quirky at all, and the plot is as tedious as sitting on the dunes on Paradise Beach.

I have read all of S.C. Browns and have enjoyed them in the past but I absolutely hated this one. Boring and completely inane plot! Usually I pass books on to my friends and this one went in the trash. I hated it!

This book was so funny, I simply couldn't put it down, and I couldn't stop laughing. The Caracters were interesting, and it was good to see old Paradise, FL favorites, like Miss Mary Todd and her Hole in the Seawall Gang, and the DustBuster Brigade, who discover seamontster footprints in the prologue. The hijinx only gets worse from there, as Miss Mary concocts all inds of ways to keep her nephew, a prefessional phenonenon debunker, and Officer Sam Barrett together. Sea monster eggs, alien abductions, the z-files, and Godzilla references abound as a local crisis turns into a circus with Sam, who desperately wants to be loved, and Derek, who desperately wants to believe in something, right in the center. Miss Mary Todd is, as usual, on the sidelines pulling strings. If you need to excercise your abs, and don't feel like doing sit-ups, I can guarantee that this one will have you feeling the burn, beginning to end.

So I was very disspointed in this book. I expected more. Generally her books are funny, enjoyable, quirky and fun to read.

I would rate this book a high three or a very low four.

This book was quirky and there were some funny parts, but much of it was just too far beyond belief. The national guard comes out to guard and egg and start aiming their guns at themselves and everyone around them? Please... The egg glows and makes colors and noises and then when the great hatching begins, no one is there to witness it? I'm sure... It was just so far beyond belief it was hard to suspend belief and enjoy the book.

To top it off, I felt that the characters were not well developed. I would have liked to learn more about what made them tick.

What saved this book from being a two star book were the funny parts of the book. The mayor with his wild clothes and bunny slippers, the alien was a riot.

I would consider buying other books by this author before I bought this one. I think there are other books out there that are worth your money more than this one is.

Can a whole town be this stupid??? This book was boring, I did finish it, but it left me feeling nothing but relief that it was over. The characters had no depth and the plot was downright foolish. My first and last Sue Civil-Brown book.

This is one book that I had mixed feelings over. On one hand, it is really a very funny book, but on the other hand, the lead characters were not very well-developed at all. I have not laughed aloud when reading romances for quite some time (maybe I'm reading all the wrong books) but this one had some really funny moments. From the mayor's rabbit slippers to the aliens who wore hockey gloves, the book kept me giggling away and laughing aloud. But the chemistry, or more appropriately non-chemistry, between the two lead characters prevents this book from being a keeper. The author did not say why the heroine did not like the hero, why the hero likes the heroine, and even what was it that made them get together and stay together. A pity that the characters were not well developed cos this book had so much potential to be a good contemporary.

I've tried and tried to like Sue Civil-Brown, but she just doesn't do it for me. She knows all the elements that make for a great contemporary romance, but she just can't seem to make them work. Zany characters - check; fun plot - check; witty dialouge -check; sensual tension - check. The problem is that it all seems so forced. Take "Next Stop - Paradise." The lead characters are promising, but the heroine is poorly developed. She's a cop who used to work in some vague corporate job - that's about all we know. She thinks the hero is sleezy because he has a television career debunking supposed miracles and strange happenings. Last time I checked, it was promoting supposed miracles and strange happenings that was sleezy, not debunking them. There's no real chemistry between the leads, and the love scenes are very rote. Then there's the plot. A sea monster and/or a very large reptillian egg appear on a beach. Why do we care? It never makes any sense, isn't explained and is nothing but a device to bring people together. Way too much time is spent on the secondary characters - we learn more about the mayor's wardrobe than we do about the lead characters' feelings for one another. Civil-Brown is striving to write like Jennifer Crusie, but the result is more like romance road kill.