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Title: Prime Evil by Judith Kelman ISBN: 0-553-56437-4 Publisher: Fanfare Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Most ridiculous book I have ever read
Comment: Worse than the "Famous Five" books I read as a child. Completely agree with previous 2 reviews. The writing style is laboured and verbose, the plot bordering on insane, the sub-plots even more so... a handsome doctor falls in love with a heavily pregnant woman, who continues to stay in a decrepit old country mansion with a malevolent atmosphere that frightens her while she edits a book by a stroke victim which happens to be the most eagerly anticipated piece of fiction in the world? Yeah - THAT sort of thing ALWAYS happens in real life! Do yourself a favor. Take these three reviews on board and don't bother reading this book. I have certainly been put off reading any of Ms Kelman's other works.
Rating: 1
Summary: TURN ON YOUR FAN! THIS ONE's A STINKER!
Comment: I am in full accord with a previous reviewer who said this book was excruciatingly stupid. It is of extremely low caliber for an otherwise talented suspense writer. The story is implausible and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Good question -- why didn't the protagonist just leave Bramble Farm if she had bad feelings about the place? Her host was a bizarre, quasi-gothic figure who maintained he hid parts of his wife's novel so the protaganist could find it and edit it for the market. The whole story is just a foray into foolishess. It is really not good.
Rating: 1
Summary: Excruciatingly Stupid
Comment: I'm really not picky when it comes to thrillers, but this one seems to have no redeeming features whatsoever. I only finished the novel out of stubbornness -- it was truly awful. Kelman's favorite way to create suspense is simply to describe situations as "terrifying" --- quite arbitrarily. It was never clear to me why the heroine's experience at Bramble Farm was so "terrifying," and I don't know why she didn't just leave the annoying place once it started getting to her. The plot concerns a brilliant writer who is incapacitated after a stroke and who hides parts of a manuscript, which the heroine is editing, around the house. Kelman's narratives include many excerpts from this "literary masterpiece." These pretentious passages are even worse than Kelman's own tedious prose! All in all, Prime Evil reminds me of one of those really bad suspense novels from the 1970s. My advice: skip it.
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Title: One Last Kiss by Judith Kelman ISBN: 055356272X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Someone's Watching by Judith Kelman ISBN: 0553291009 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: More Than You Know by Judith Kelman ISBN: 0553562703 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The House on the Hill by Judith Kelman ISBN: 0553291017 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Hush Little Darlings by Judith Kelman ISBN: 0425117391 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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