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Title: Still Waters
ISBN: 0553292722
Author:
Tami Hoag
Publicate Date: 1992-10-01
Publish: 1992-10-01
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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1: Romance More Than Suspense...
I am a fan of Tami Hoag and her later works. I picked this book up thinking it would be a mystery/suspense. It was a romantic/suspense, but leaned heavily towards formula romance. In that genre, it enjoyable though it is predictable. Tami Hoag has improved through the years, this was one of her earlier books, first released in 1991 and re-released in 1999. A lot of the dialogue was simplistic and repetitive. The main character called everyone "Sugar" which soon became annoying. Once I got past those issues with the book, it was an enjoyable read. I do like her later books better.
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2: Not impressed...
Really not impressed with her writing. Don't know if I'll bother to read any more of her books. I've read a few already and have not been too impressed. I just wanted a good scary book! This one was too much romance thrown in.
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3: Like a Broken Record
The only thing that has ever allowed me to distinguish this title from the rest of this author's very similar pulp is the creep Amish guy. Other than that, this book is like reading the same thing with characters that just so happen to have different names.
There's the Strong, Opinionated, Smart woman doing a Man's Job, who is better at these things than anyone else, not to mention that she's Beautiful.
There's the Bitter, Ex-Jock/Cop/Hero, who's coming back into his own following a Personal Disaster, usually he's been Widowed. He's sexy and a Man's Man.
Put these two cookie cutter charaters together, there's some hot sex and a convoluted mystery, and the same miserable things in every one of these books. Yawn.
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4: Not bad but not great either
Elizabeth Stuart and her teenage son arrive in Still Waters, Minnesota to start a new life after a bruising and very public divorce from an Atlanta media mogul. Elizabeth, along with her old college friend Tess, buys the town newspaper, determined to live up to its motto and print the truth. Because she's sexy and beautiful - not to mention the fact that she discovers the body of an unpopular developer, the first murder victim in Still Waters in 33 years -Elizabeth causes quite a commotion. She meets Sheriff Dane Jantzen for the first time at the murder scene. Jantzen is an embittered ex-football player forced to retire due to a knee injury. He's also bitter because his ex-wife walked out on him when the going got tough.
And that's where the problems start. Jantzen is so bitter and one-dimensional it verges on the ridiculous. After insulting each other (Jantzen initially considers Elizabeth a murder suspect) they fall into bed in a matter of days - an all-too-common theme in Hoag's novels.
On the plus side, Hoag portrays small-town life beautifully, especially the issues and problems facing a community where the Amish and English live side by side and the reluctance of both to change their way of life. The heroine comes across as feisty and likable and you find yourself rooting for her to have the happy ending she desperately wants. Hoag's written better novels so buy this one used if you possibly can.
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5: Bad Lifetime movie
I've read some of her other books, and I thought they were pretty good for the suspense genre. This was almost impossible to get through. It reminded me of a Lifetime movie, and a bad one at that!
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