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Bezig met laden... Play Dirty (Bounty Hunters Series) (editie 2010)door Lorie O'Clare (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I had a lot of trouble with this series. Dog the Bounty Hunter kept cropping up in my mind and I just couldn't get past that. In this book, I had trouble with the fact that the mother left the family years ago for reasons that she thought were important, but never contacted the family in any way to let them know she was okay. For years they thought she was dead, but when she comes back into their lives, she is accepted again without much resistance or reservation. That put me off on the whole series. ( ) I had a lot of trouble with this series. Dog the Bounty Hunter kept cropping up in my mind and I just couldn't get past that. In this book, I had trouble with the fact that the mother left the family years ago for reasons that she thought were important, but never contacted the family in any way to let them know she was okay. For years they thought she was dead, but when she comes back into their lives, she is accepted again without much resistance or reservation. That put me off on the whole series. Wow, getting through this book was more challenging than reading The Iliad! I've not encountered Lorie O'Clare before, so had no idea of her writing, but the style is messy and drawn-out and in the end I just didn't care about any of it. Reading this book was a little like listening to a boring old relative tell you a LOOOOONG story. "They went there. And then they had a shower and put on this outfit. But that was after they'd done that. Then they drove here while they reminisced about this. And then they sat over there and thought about something that happened twenty years ago. Then they got changed. But then they were distracted by that. Then they said this. Then they went there..." Ignoring the plot and the characterisation, there are a few major things that made it very difficult to read. 1. The confusing prose. Things were explained, over-explained and then explained again, to the point I kept going back to reread and try and figure out what tangent the author had gone off on this time. This confusion included weird sentences such as: "Greg pulled out his pocketknife and flipped it open. It wasn't the kind of knife most fathers carried around with them." (Here's the thing. I didn't realise fathers carried knives with them! I mean, my father was in the army and he doesn't carry a knife. Maybe only non-military fathers carry knives...) 2. So much telling, NO showing. For example, the first twenty pages give us the life stories of all the main players. I can't stand one information dump, let alone five or six of them at once! 3. !!!!!! - A thousand of them per page. A writer should be able to convey their point without an overuse of extreme punctuation. 4. Repetition. Using `precinct' three times in five sentences, for example. Then there was all the description that just went on and on. This is how Greg is described, starting on page 15: "He'd worn a muscle T-shirt and his body definitely gave credit to the name of the shirt. There wasn't enough shirt to hide the perfect specimen of man who wore it. Greg looked incredible, the epitome of perfection. Haley had stared at thick slabs of perfectly chiselled, heavily built-up muscle. It was as if he'd been carved, each cut painstakingly moulded so there would be no faults. She knew if she'd been able to touch him, every inch of his body would have been harder than stone. Tight bands created precise lines across his stomach that were plainly visible under his shirt. Greg gave new meaning to a "six pack." His arms were smooth, round curves and his shoulders taut ripples of roped muscle." Major, serious overkill there. Perhaps it was the writing style, but boy did I ever feel like this book missed its mark. The potential for this plot was great - I'd read bad reviews but still thought maybe I'd enjoy the story of a married couple who were forced apart and are finally reunited. Plus they're BOUNTY HUNTERS!! How could this book go wrong? But nope; there was no emotion to go with the truckload of description, and when I finally reached the reunion scene I was left feeling cold, despite gratuitous use of words you hopefully wouldn't hear anywhere near the kiddies. I want to feel something, experience something, not just be told about it. The hero and heroine of this one are parents to the twenty-something men they work with. The whole thing was strange, and yes, the guy on the cover of the book is nothing like the hero of the book. I don't think it works at all to have the first book in a series about the parents. While I do like having slightly older characters, it just didn't work here - especially as there appeared to be little difference in the personalities of the characters of different ages. In fact, for the most part it seemed like they were all about sixteen. I don't like people in their mid-forties squealing and thinking about `boobs'. I don't like people in their thirties, or twenties, or even teens squealing and using the word `boobs'. In fact, if nobody ever squeals again I'd be very happy. So, basically what it comes down to is that this book was nothing like I expected, and was not something I enjoyed. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Heartthrob bounty hunter Greg King knows how to work it--and he knows that he can have any woman he wants. But there's more to Greg than meets the eye...and he's still haunted by the memory of his beautiful, estranged wife. Much as he's tried to move on, he's never been able to stopstopped wondering why Haley left him. Or what he could have done to make their marriage better--and make her stay... After putting a vicious criminal behind bars, Haley King had no choice but to leave her loved ones behind and enter the witness protection program. Turns out that, in her new life, Haley has once again found herself in serious trouble--and needs help from the only person she can trust: her husband. Now, as old secrets threaten to tear them apart and danger closes in from all sides, it's up to Greg to keep Haley safe...and convince her that this time, he's playing for keeps. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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