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Title: Mad River Road
ISBN: 1597376485
Author:
Joy Fielding
Publicate Date: 2006-01-03
Publish: 2006-01-03
List Price: $97.25
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Audio CD
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1: UTTER MADNESS REIGNS
This mystery is really a character study in mental and emotional disorders. We have a particularly nasty and vengeful villain, a chameleon of a man who can go from Prince Charming to Jack the Ripper in the blink of an eye. His enjoyment comes from taunting and playing mind games with his victims before disposing of them. Then we have a trio of women characters, Jamie, Lily and Emma, each leading a somewhat shabby existence due to something or someone in their past. Each of the protagonists are weighed down by assorted secrets, compulsions and an excessive amount of emotional baggage and each, it appears, has a date with destiny that culminates in a house on Mad River Road.
This is a suspenseful and psychologically engaging thriller. It has some moments that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up while others will disgust and anger you. The Jamie character was gullible and annoying in her insecurity, but at the same time believable (I have worked with a couple of Jamie's in my life and have wondered how they would ever survive in the big world).
Joy Fielding is a perfect seamstress and she has taken the varied pieces of each characters story, added in the colorful threads of adjunct individuals, like the controlling ex-mother in law), and neatly pieced them all together to give the reader a compelling crazy quilt of a tale.
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2: Not worth it!
This was a first book of J. Fielding I read. A friend is trying to convince me to give a try to another one of her books. I did not have to get too far in the book to pretty much put together what's going to happen. The main character could not be more stupid, is that how Fielding views women? Fielding used characters that had absolutely nothing to do with, or contribute to the main story. The way I see it she needed to have more pages for the book, so she wrote, frankly, useless conversations to give it bulk. The book is very shallow, not a good fiction and not even "true" to real life, not a thriller. It leaves you empty.
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3: Mad River Road
A suspenseful novel with a surprise ending,but not as well written as some of Fieldings novels. I still couldn't put it down. A real page turner.
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4: 3.5 STARS......GOOD READ...............
Jamie Kellogg thinks that she may have finally found her Prince Charming. While drowning her sorrows in a local bar over her married boyfriend, she meets the handsome and gregarious Brad Fisher....who convinces her, after a night of passion, to throw caution to the wind and take to the road seeking adventure. So the two do just that...with the intent being to eventually end up seeing Brad's young son, who lives with his ex-wife. It is during the roadtrip, however, that Jamie finds out exactly how naive she has been. That Brad Fisher is nothing like he professed to be...and that she has now become an unwilling accomplice to burglary, murder....and quite possibly a whole host of others. What she does know now is that Brad is headed to Mad River Road, to exact his own revenge. Additionally, Jamie herself has become a victim...is there anything that she can do to redeem herself, and perhaps turn this entire nightmare around?
Read on, to see what happens. 3.5 stars only, for me, however; the lead characters do nothing to endear themselves (with the possible exception of Lily), and Jamie's naivete can quite easily be viewed as mere stupidity. The storyline is strong throughout, however...until the end. To me, there was such a tremendous buildup, that the end was sort of a fizzle...rather than the resounding bang that I'd expected. A good read, nevertheless.
DYB
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5: I am disappointed!!
Though it expected it, it was the book which it was very disappointed, and was dull.This book will your time and money.
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