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Title: The Edge of Doom by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0-345-45237-2 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: well written but disapponting
Comment: I have read all of the previous Kate Fansler novels so looked forward to this one. Alas, the prose is stiff and formal while the plot barely moves from page to page.
The converstaion is so perfect, almost literary. Perhaps there are people who speak like this everyday but it does not make for exciting reading. I appreciate good writing and well edited books but this one comes across more like emotionless non-fiction.
Rating: 2
Summary: Amanda Cross in poor form
Comment: I hadn't read an Amanda Cross mystery in years, but I remember being fond of her feminist academic Kate Fansler, so I gave this one a try. I'm sad to say that this one is way off form. The plot is contrived in order to conform to a group of Shakespearean quotations - a conceit that has been far better by other writers - and although it is somewhat convoluted even I, who am generally not one to figure things out before the author explains, was able to see what was coming a mile away.
Further, I have to say that the character development was wooden, the mechanism of the plot was creaky, the dialog stilted. I did enjoy some of the academic overtones, but that probably isn't enough to give this one a recommendation.
Scott Morrison
Rating: 1
Summary: Dreadful drivel
Comment: This has to be one of the worst books I've ever read!. I can't believed I finished it. I set it aside many times and felt that it had to get better so I finally finished it. What a waste of time! It's dialogue was so stilted and unbelievable. The main character is so cold and restrained and she is suppose to be so intellectual. She supposedly didn't even know that the 'witness protection agency' was real; she thought it was a 'made for tv' concept.
I think the author should stick to her day job. Although I shudder to think she might be teaching my daughter in her college years.
And what was with her political agenda being pushed in one paragraph half way through the book? It had nothing to do with the story and just seemed to be so out of place.
Do yourself a favor and pass on this one! There are so many better books out there.
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Title: Honest Doubt by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0449007049 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Puzzled Heart by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0345418832 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 20 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: And Justice There Is None by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0553579304 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Murder in the Rough : A Sarah Deane Mystery by J. S. Borthwick ISBN: 0312984537 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Sweet Death, Kind Death by Amanda Cross ISBN: 0345352548 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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