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I Know Your Secrets and You Know Mine..., October 11, 2007
This review is from: Say You Love Me (Mass Market Paperback)
There isn't much else I can say about this book other than it's AMAZING, and a complete page turner one right after the other. At first I was skeptical about the whole storyline, and characters but this book got to me in a heartbeat. I couldn't put it down until I was finished, and I fell in love with the trouble detective who everyone thinks is a hero, but himself.
And he falls hard for the leading lady, Britta, from the first scene you just know. But they take their coming romance slow, to the point you want to tear your hair out because Herron likes to tease her readers. She has a few scenes where Jean-Paul and Britta come close, but don't, and when they do it's a beautiful read.
Suspense is great. Book is AWESOME! Check it out!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Secrets uncovered in New Orleans and the Black Bayou, June 13, 2007
This review is from: Say You Love Me (Mass Market Paperback)
Britta Berger, columnist for New Orleans' popular erotic magazine hears the secrets and fantasies of the city's populace. Beneath her public mask, Britta has dark secrets of her own, especially of one past terrifying night. Britta receives an anonymous note, "I know your secrets. And you know mine..." with details from a possible murder included, she contacts Detective Jean-Paul Dubois. As the details of ritualistic murders unfold, Jean-Paul realizes that Britta might be the key to solving the string of serial killings that begin just as Mardi Gras approaches. Can Britta and Jean-Paul overcome the dark secrets of their past in this race against time? Most importantly, can they trust one another enough to reveal those secrets before it is too late?
Rita Herron writes the landscape of her novels brilliantly. New Orleans and the Black Bayou are dark, breathing entities that infuse the novel and the characters. The landscape itself is a character. Herron captures the dark underside of the South that hides and lurks in the landscape and in the soul. Rita Herron has a style and a way of writing suspense that keeps the clues and possibilities open. Even if the reader knows the villain --- we hear his voice --- which one of these twisted characters has gone way over the edge? It could be any of them. The suspense encourages a fast-paced excited read while the landscape and the romance encourages the reader to savor every word. The romance of the novel builds as the hero and heroine fight their own personal demons in the hunt. The reader feels the heroine's struggle with the perfect amount of psychological realism poetically portrayed to feel her depth. Together with the hero, can two wounded souls heal the darkness that emerges from the interior and physical landscapes that surround them?
Rita Herron writes about dark, twisted people and their secrets. On the flipside, she writes about the subtle light, the emerging courage of her characters, and a love born from the secret depths of the heart and soul.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Intriguing plot and ingenious MO, July 25, 2007
This review is from: Say You Love Me (Mass Market Paperback)
In a twisted cult ritual on the banks of the Black Bayou outside New Orleans, teen Adrianna Small learns that she is to become the sacrificial bride to an evil polygamist cult leader's son as his rite of passage. All her instincts cause her to fight back in a deadly quest for her safety, and she eventually emerges from the swamp alone, frightened, and determined to escape the rough life her mother exposed her to. Thirteen years later, she has once again reinvented herself, this time as Britta Berger, the editor of an erotic magazine, and is in receipt of graphic photos of a serial killers latest conquest. When she turns them into the police, she and Jean Paul Dubois, the lead detective are immediately smitten with each other, though they both plan to steer clear for their own reasons. As the killer closes in and makes Britta his confidante, it is apparent that the killings as well as the killer's interest in Britta are tied to her past. More victims are found, and soon it is apparent that a trap must be set to catch the culprit once and for all. The suspects are piling up, many with plenty to hide, but are any of them killers?
Herron's post-Katrina bayou thriller will have the reader enthralled from the opening paragraph. She has, created an ingenious MO for her serial killer (and pretty graphic at times), as well as a conflicted hero and tortured heroine. The chemistry between the leads is scorching. I did feel a little shortchanged on the identity of the culprit - I hate when authors create tons of red herrings and suspects only to toss in a surprise character with little page-time. Other than that, my only gripe is the end came too quickly.
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