Charade

by Sandra Brown | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0446601853 Global Overview for this book
Registered by CJWorkingGirl of Lemon Grove, California USA on 3/22/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by CJWorkingGirl from Lemon Grove, California USA on Tuesday, March 22, 2011
From Publishers Weekly
Soap opera star Cat Delaney gets a new heart--literally and figuratively speaking--in bestseller Brown's ( French Silk ; Where There's Smoke ) latest contemporary romance. The heart transplant that beautiful, arrogant Cat endures in the first chapter transforms her soul along with her cardiovascular system. If Brown had first established Cat's personality with some depth and credibility, that might have been the basis of an emotionally involving story. But since Cat is little more than a vessel for the concept, before we can blink, she is a good-hearted citizen who abandons stardom and Hollywood for San Antonio, Tex., where she hosts a local TV program featuring children up for adoption. Cat hardly has a chance to enjoy her change of heart and her new heartthrob, bad-boy crime novelist Alex Pierce, because a stalker is after her. Whatever suspense might have been activated by this scenario is immediately stymied as Brown rushes through events whereby three potential heart donors are knocked down like dominoes: obviously the stalker is a bereaved nut determined to kill all the transplant recipients who might have received his lover's heart. But Brown fails to develop even a modicum of tension, since the rushed pacing then slows to a crawl where nothing much happens except Cat's cliche-ridden romance with Alex. Too late in the novel, we finally get a more full and sympathetic characterization of Cat.

Journal Entry 2 by CJWorkingGirl at 1930 Englewood Drive in Lemon Grove, California USA on Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Released 13 yrs ago (3/22/2011 UTC) at 1930 Englewood Drive in Lemon Grove, California USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Since my sis-in-law is a fan of Sandra Brown, this one is going to find its way to her.

Journal Entry 3 by wingshawing at San Diego, California USA on Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tnx sis. I will put this in my TBR stack and then release it into the wild.

Journal Entry 4 by wingshawing at San Diego, California USA on Friday, May 20, 2011
Page turner indeed! I never skip ahead to see what is going to happen next. With this book, I was jumping to the end of the chapter several times to see what was going to happen. I would have rated this a 9 except for the many sex scenes (I am not a prude).

Journal Entry 5 by wingshawing at Vons At Adams Ave. in San Diego, California USA on Friday, August 26, 2011

Released 12 yrs ago (8/26/2011 UTC) at Vons At Adams Ave. in San Diego, California USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

released for the one word challenge

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