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| Incomplete and with poor formatting!I had finished reading this edition before I realized it was incomplete. The Bedford Park edition The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, with attractive cover illustration of London Bridge, is a much better edition overall, with proper formatting of numbers, and contains all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.
It was extremely annoying to encounter strange symbols every time a number is mentioned, and to be forced to decipher badly-formatted html to figure out what number was being stated. Also, a variety of line breaks in the wrong places were very frustrating.
This edition is simply not worth trying to save $0.99.
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| so-so superhero novelI bought this as an airport novel, and I think it turned out to be a moderately entertaining one. The first third of the novel was quite dull, but eventually it became interesting enough to finish - not a classic by any means, just the sort of book that is a nice diversion if you have nothing better to read.
Basically, this is a kind of superhero novel; Salander uses her brainpower, her computer skills, and her skill with weapons to defeat any enemy, including one who is basically a supervillian- a giant who feels no pain. When Salander is not part of the action, the novel drags; most of the supporting characters are not particularly memorable.
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| Enchanting Review: Triple ExposureTRIPLE EXPOSURE
COLLEEN THOMPSON
Romantic Suspense
Rating: 4.5 Enchantments
Killing her would-be attacker did not save Rachel Copeland from terror. She left Boston to return home Marfa, Texas, hoping to escape the media and a stalker, who believes Rachel didn't act in self-defense, but as a seductress and murderer. Believing if she left it all behind, she could start over.
Zeke Pike is a loner. He is perfectly happy not having to deal with people on a daily basis. He'd rather work with his hands, creating wood furniture, or ride out into the desert, alone. He has left his past far behind, missing it, but never to seeking to repair it.
Rachel and Zeke strike and unlikely friendship that quickly leads to passion. But the past is not ready to be buried. Who seeks to hurt Rachel, and why the animosity? Can Zeke and Rachel find happiness, if the killer doesn't get to them first?
TRIPLE EXPOSURE is a masterfully spun tale of romantic suspense. I was not able to correctly guess the true villain, though I had many suspects in mind. I was completely absorbed into this gripping story. While the thrilling suspense kept me glued to my seat, the compelling tenderness Zeke felt for Rachel, and her returned passion was wonderfully captured into words. I felt as if these two were perfect for each other. Though they had to work at realizing they were meant to have a future together. I was highly amused when the high school classmate of Rachel's was humiliated by her own actions, I always enjoy seeing a "mean girl" get a shot of her own medicine.
I look forward to reading more books by Colleen Thompson, who, prior to writing suspense wrote historical books as Gwyneth Atlee and Colleen Easton. She currently lives in Texas with her family. When she's not writing you can find her with her family or with a book in her face. You can learn more about her on the web at: [...]
Aemelia
Enchanting Reviews
October 2009
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| Where Did Katniss Go?I just finished Mockingjay five minutes ago, and I'm so disappointed. I don't even feel like I've read a book from The Hunger Games series. When I was reading it I kept thinking, where is Katniss? It didn't even feel like I was reading from her point of view. I didn't feel any of the emotions that Katniss was going through. It was all so blah. I feel completely drained after reading this book. Not the usual pumped up feeling I got from The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. I just don't feel a sense of closure with this book.
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There were a few key points that totally ruined the book for me.
#1 Finnick's death is written so insignificantly that I didn't figure out right away that he had died. The writing tried to be very poetic and sophisticated when it usually came off as too wordy and confusing. And why spend so much time writing him as this major character, one that Katniss actually trusts, and then throw him away with three other non-important characters.
#2 Prim's death just seemed like such an after thought. If anyone in Katniss's family should have died, it should have been their mother, for wasn't the whole series based on the fact that Katniss entered the Hunger Games in order to save her sister's life? Just to have her burned in a street as a medic? WHAT? Basically, everything Katniss accomplished was for nothing because Prim died anyway. I could not believe that. That is honestly just so poorly thought out. And I kept waiting for Katniss to have the thought, "All of this was for nothing." But it never came.
#3 How can you wrap up the Gale/Peeta love triangle in just a few sentences. We've waited two books to know who she chose's only to find out in a paragraph? I was waiting for the Peeta/Katniss make up scene the whole book and got nothing. It blew my mind.
#4 We were totally left hanging on ALOT of things. What exactly happened to Cinna? How did Gale turn out? Does she see her mother? I mean it's just like, come on wrap up the story please!
I honestly will view this as completely separate series from the first two. There was no life in this book. I didn't feel that itch to just keep going. But luckily there's enough life in the first two to keep me satisfied with the series.
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| [insert pirate joke here]Wonderful. This book is a must read. This was the first classic I downloaded (for free nonetheless) for my Kindle and could not be more impressed with the quality of the novel. I expected a sort of lame adventure-Disney pirate hybrid but instead found myself looking forward to each and every turn of the page. The book is not terribly long (so you won't feel like the author fancies the killing of trees for sport) and keeps a rather good pace of narrating the action. Treasure Island is a must read. (A) It's free, (B) You'll knock out reading a classic, and (C) You'll feel all that much more enlightened when you throw up in front of it's namesake hotel in Vegas. Yarr.
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