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Title: Jake & Mimi: A Novel by Frank Baldwin ISBN: 0-451-41058-0 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (14 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Waste Your Time or Money
Comment: It's a surprise others have been so generous towards this book. Usually, I'm the one to be positive when a book has let me down but I honestly can't recommend this. The story is marketed as a 9 1/2 week thriller but it missed it's marked.
The first mistake is noted in other reviews...poor character development. Jake's character is tolerable if Mimi's wasn't so weak. You never get the feeling as to what makes her tick or motivates her to the voyeristic behavior she increasingly displays. Just when you think the book could salvage itself (by having Jake & Mimi get together and finding out the results) it doesn't happen. The ending was such a yawner that I barely registered the words. By that point, I just wanted to finish the book.
I don't like wasting my time and money to be disappointed when it could have been so promising.
Rating: 3
Summary: Jake & Mimi, oh darn it - I was almost there!
Comment: This was a pretty good book, which could've been a great book if the characters had been fleshed out (no pun intended). Jake's a master of seduction, yet we're never told how or where he's been trained or what kind of training? Kama sutra or tantra - inquiring readers want to know.
Mimi's character was really underdeveloped. Considering what she's risking readers should know what motivates her. The author misses opportunities to draw us deeper into Mimi and Jake's minds. I wanted to feel the passion that rules Jake and the desire that has Mimi risking her fiancé. Mr. Baldwin gets high marks for all else, especially his handling of the scenes between Jake and the ladies. They were arousing without being explicit or uncomfortable (for me).
Unfortunately the ending just didn't hit my spot, it left me unsatisfied, unlike the women who'd been with Jake! More detail and development next time!
Rating: 5
Summary: To Die For
Comment: Jake is an effortless seducer. He can have any woman in less time than it takes another man to watch a movie. His conquests get more screaming orgasms out of him in an hour than they will with their husbands or lovers in a lifetime. Jake has torture down to a silken art form - his women don't just have sex with him, they totally submit...and love it.
Mimi works at the same financial firm Jake just got hired onto. She's less than a month from marrying the man she's gone steady with for six years. In a single moment, she's seen in Jake's eyes the power he has over women, and he's sensed her vulnerability - and need. Jake invites her to watch one or two of his overnight conquests, just so she knows what she's getting into. Mimi's weakening. Because she wants to. She can't believe how skilled Jake is. He's to die for.
Problem is, before it's all over, someone will.
This is a very clever, extremely well-written erotic thriller - with the emphasis on "erotic." It's been called a cross between 9-1/2 Weeks and Silence of the Lambs, though it's actually more reminiscent of David Lindsey's Mercy and some of Anne Rice's or Laurell K. Hamilton's works. The story is pretty straightforward, and Hitchcockian - very voyeuristic, and suspenseful. What elevates it - again, like Hitchcock - is the author's style, employing multiple first-person viewpoints to craftily play with the reader's perceptions.
The only real flaw with this book is that it takes a little too long to really get cooking - aside from the sex, that is. But that's a minor flaw, for the ultimate satisfaction.
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Title: Pressure Points by Larry Brooks ISBN: 0451410017 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 29 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Panic Snap by Laura Reese ISBN: 0312272758 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: BALLING THE JACK: A NOVEL by Frank Baldwin ISBN: 0684845814 Publisher: Touchstone Pub. Date: 28 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Darkness Bound by Larry Brooks ISBN: 0451409450 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Serpent's Dance by Larry Brooks ISBN: 0451207955 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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