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Title: Be The One by Linda Hamilton, April Smith ISBN: 0-375-41588-2 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 27 June, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not The One for Me
Comment: This book is one long annoying read. The tense, for one thing. Instead of, "she said, she saw" etc. it's (sometimes) written in present tense which is incredibly irritating. And the flashbacks are way, way, way overdone! Where are the editors for this kind of book? The tone is rambling, the characters shallow and unrealistic, and I really didn't care what happened to any one of them. Ugh. Don't bother.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than I thought I would be
Comment: I purchased this book after reading several reviews and wasn't sure how it would measure up to North of Montana, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I have to admit I enjoyed it alot more than I thought I might. Originally, I was a little skeptical about the story line, and there were a few far reaches with some of the characters (Galinis was a little hard to believe and to get a feel for)but overall it had a good pace and keep my attention with great baseball insight and several well written characters. I would recommend this to other fans of April Smith.
Rating: 4
Summary: Baseball thriller, heroine with attitude
Comment: Right now I'm a bit mad at April Smith. I started the book a few days ago, then stayed up until 3:30 in the morning to finish it. So this is definitely a page-turner. As a baseball fan, I enjoyed the descriptions of a scouting meeting and of spring training. The author obviously works hard at producing well-crafted prose; once in a while she reaches too far and produces an unintentional oxymoron. Example: when someone is massaging Cassidy's shoulders, they are like granite; she's been working under the kind of pressure that would liquefy stone. As other reviewers have mentioned, there are a couple of loose ends in the narrative (can anyone tell me how Nora knew where to find her father?). Back to Cassidy: if you don't like a heroine with an attitude, who is so driven that she habitually operates way out of bounds, and who has a drinking problem, then you won't like an April Smith book; both Cassidy and Ana, the heroine of North to Montana, April Smith's previous book, fit the description. Plus they are NOT into housekeeping and have pretty bad luck at relationships. Having said that, I'll confess that Cassidy kept coming in and out of focus for me. She seemed to be less sharply drawn than Ana. But even in those patches where Cassidy seems like a shadow, the plot kept me riveted. Do you like baseball? Like thrillers? Read it.
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Title: North of Montana by April Smith ISBN: 044922502X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Good Morning, Killer by April Smith ISBN: 0375412409 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452550 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich ISBN: 0312265867 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt ISBN: 0446612537 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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