A. O. Neill

Dunno how to rate this.

Reviewed: 01-29-21

I want to give it 5 stars, but it kept me awake until 9am. I've read and liked Harlen's books before, but I haven't loved one this much. It's well-written, intense, sad, sweet, romantic, thrilling, scary af, and everything you want ina thriller.

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I started with one of mr. methos's books yesterday

Reviewed: 01-28-21

Here i am on book 2 and ready to get book 3. not sure i'll get much else done but i'll enjoy doing nothing for at least 5-12 hours (depending on how long the next one is)

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Clever, with great twists.

Reviewed: 01-27-21

The main character wasn't really my favorite, but ther est of the cast wer amazing. only one of the twists did I see coming, which is rare. Great story that had me anxioujs to read(so anxious i stayed up until 5am)

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This book is amazing

Reviewed: 04-20-19

99 times out of a 100, I can answer the mystery, even in books I love, I can tell a twist/killer/ending before the end of the second chapter. Rarely, it takes five chapters or so. This book had me until the end. It's just simply brilliant.

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Everything about this book was terrific.

Reviewed: 07-28-18

Holy crap was this good. The narrator is just the highlight of a book filled with a hero I wanted to meet in real life.

The only downside of this love story, was it wasn't really a love story in the traditional sense. If you're looking for a romance, look elsewhere. if you're looking for suspense, amazingly written fiction that has a love story, this is what you want. I can't say enough good things about this book. It's sex-positive. It's feminist. It's filled with a real hero. And none of those things are overdone.

Probably the best Nora Roberts I've ever read. And probably the best 'romantic suspense' i've ever read. They need a new category for this book. Suspense with Romance?

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Great book in spite annoyances

Reviewed: 07-11-18

This largely anti-science, anti-atheist, anti-progressive book is really well-written. As much as I wanted to put it down because it's so ridiculously transparently (yes using all the adverbs ALL OF THEM) pro-life and pro-Christian that I was annoyed. Then it hit me that I should listen to it anyway because I actually LIKE the book. The bad parts about this book, ignoring the above, are that it's cliché. Like the trifecta of cliché.. The fat chick friend who can't get a bf because she's fat (in this day and age? Really? The author is not paying attn to high school if she thinks that's how it goes nowadays). The main character is a semi-Mary Sue, minus the gorgeous looks. Instead, the love interest is the Gary Stu. Apparently, he's so amazeballs that no one cares what he says or does, he's just *that* dreamy. Everyone wants him. Everyone loves him. Everyone wants to be him. IDEK IDEC either because I *still* liked this stupid book lol. I'm writing this review before finishing the audiobook. What prompted that? Well, let me tell you, slight spoiler, though I've kept it mainly vague, a scene in which one character is lamenting on how science is not comforting while God is about another character who is in the hospital. Being treated by doctors and nurses. But God is the comfort there and science is zero comfort. Just an fyi, stupid heroine, if you're not comforted by science, maybe take the sick person to the church and forego all that gross uncomforting 'science' stuff. So with the understanding that I'm a leftist, progressive, pro-choice(kinda), atheist, this book is tropey and cliché ridden, but it's well-done regardless. It's a YA novel to the T (or the Y, in this case). If you're annoyed by a pro-life message, you'll be annoyed by this book. If you're annoyed by an anti-atheist message, you'll be annoyed by this book. If you're annoyed by anti-science and turning the progressive movement into some sort of anti-Christian, anti-life, pro-eugenics movement, then you'll be annoyed by this book. If, like me, you can roll your eyes at those things and the clichés (I don't think there's many YA novels that don't have them), then just enjoy an interesting, fun YA novel with a kinda cool premise and an inner monologue that feels more real in a heroine who is not perfect and who makes wrong decisions--which is why I liked this book a lot. I'll leave with this final note. The heroine in this book is a Mary Sue in some ways, but she's also flawed. And not flawed like some YA novels in that she's too friendly or too pretty, but *really* flawed. She longs to fit in and be liked, she longs to be popular, she lusts and croons over the popular boy, she makes very bad decisions, not TSTL decisions ,but realistic decisions that have real consequences. Ultimately, this is what made me like the book even more.

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Fun listen.

Reviewed: 07-09-18

This is one of those books that has layers. It's a 'suspense' but if you're expecting Iris Johansen type book, you'll be disappointed. And I was, at first. Then I realized I was still listening because this book has layers of suspense and none of the important ones are the 'crime'-ish part of the book. I liked it. A lot.

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Wow. Women are their own worst enemies

Reviewed: 07-09-18

The narrator is good, not incredible, but good. The problem is this story in general. Every woman in this story, except the main character, is written as an awful, jealous, horrible, 'bit*h'. That's not just the takeaway, that's literally written about even women who pass by the main character. I'm substituting w for b in this review to keep it clean, but the book describes them with a b, bear this in mind. The mom is a jealous, overbearing snotty witch, the flight attendant is so overwhelmingly llust smitten by the LI that she also becomes a raging jealous witch who can't control being snotty, obnoxious and unprofessional and fawning all over the LI, the sorority sisters from the MC's past are mentioned as, also, witches. I turned it off when even the best friend turned out to be a raging witch. I'm sure she was sleeping with the ex-fiancé or something. I didn't stick around long enough to find out. Had my fill of the misogyny.

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Zoned out towards the end

Reviewed: 06-26-18

It was a little tough to get through at times. The characters were fat and dull. And, storywise, think in a romance novel, it's tough to have a suspenseful scene with the heroine when you know that almost all romance have a HEA. This was such a case. I felt no threat from the antagonist/s. Also, some technical things felt forced to make the story work and 'explain' technology.

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wow

Reviewed: 01-03-16

I rarely find good books about writing. this one is amazing. I'm about to listen to it for the second time.

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