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Title: Crying Wolf by Peter Abrahams, James Daniels ISBN: 1-58788-274-4 Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.04 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: You will be crying if you lose this before finishing it
Comment: Although parts of this book are predictable it is still an extremely enjoyable read. I will definitely look for more books by Abrahams in the future. The characters are very likable and interesting although Nat could have been given a male's name to avoid confusion at times. Buy this!
Nat, male even though has a girl's name, is the pride of his small town, raised by his financially battling mother he obtains a partial scholarship to Inverness College but will have to work every spare minute of his time to be able to stay there. Not being able to afford to return home for Christmas, on route to campus security to report his dorm mate's stolen TV he witnesses two hot girls drop a fish tank. Lorenzo the Great's life is about to be cut short but Nat saves the day at the expense of some science lab brown fish. The two beautiful girls Izzie and Grace invite him to New York where he learns they are not only attractive but extremely wealthy as well.
Meanwhile Freedy with the IQ of a rock is cleaning pools in California and thinks every woman he meets wants to sleep with him. He narrowly escapes a rape charge by fleeing back to his home town Inverness.
Nat and the girls discover tunnels under the university with a hidden ballroom type place with a bed. There they plot a plan to make Nat's money problems go away but someone is watching who wants to start a pool company in Florida and sleep with Izzie and Grace.
Rating: 3
Summary: Crying Wolf
Comment: Body>This book is a victim of the author's previous works. Once you've read other offerings, you come to expect dynamic chacterization, a rock-'em-sock-'em pace along with a surprises thrown in. Crying Wolf doesn't quite cut it in all areas. The characterization is there. First we meet Freedy, a swimming pool cleaner who just doesn't get it, an Abrahams' trademark. Freedy thinks he's smarter than he is; he thinks he's sexier than he is and in demand, and he doesn't understanding what the woman's (whose pool he's cleaning) problem is when he tries to have sex with her. On the other end of the spectum is Nat, the mid-west son of a single parent, basketball playing high school kid whose intelligence and essay wins him enough money to go to Inverness. While Freedy momentarily fades from the picture, Nat goes off to college. Because he can't afford to go home for Christmas, he must spend holiday on campus--until he meets the twins, Grace and Izzy. The twins, who are filthy rich, introduce Nat to a seductive new world he could not even begin to imagine. They take a jaunt to the Carribeans on the twins' family jet where Nat meets Leo Uzig, a philosophy professor at Inverness. From there, the plot thickens and the pace, which has faltered up to this point, picks up consideraly. Under the guidance of the professor, the twins and Nat become involved in a "harmless" plot that turns deadly very quickly.
Rating: 4
Summary: I couldn't put it down.
Comment: I'd purchased "Crying Wolf" for a friend at work. Because he was out of the office and I'd run out of books, I borrowed this from his stack. I actually went to work half an hour early the day after I started reading it, so that I could finish the book before he came in to claim his prize.
I was looking for the suspense since, on the cover, Stephen King is quoted as having said that Peter Abrahams is his "favorite American suspense novelist." I really didn't find suspense. However, I found a good plot with likeable characters. While this book takes place in college - a boarding school, if you will - I kept thinking that Inverness was NOT Hogwarts...
Nat is a young man who wins a scholarship that takes him from his working-class town to Inverness College. Freedy is a young bodybuilder thug. Their paths parallel but never quite meet until...
Nat happens upon Grace and Izzie, very rich twin sisters who attend Inverness (and very different from Patti, his hometown sweetheart). The three students hatch a kidnapping scheme to try to obtain some much-needed money from the girls' father. However, as we learned as children, if you Cry Wolf often enough, when a crisis emerges no one will believe you.
While seldom actually "suspenseful," "Crying Wolf" was nonetheless a good book and a good purchase. I do recommend it; and I will be looking for more books by Peter Abrahams
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Title: A Perfect Crime by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345426800 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Tutor by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345439414 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Lights Out by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345445783 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Fan by Peter Abrahams ISBN: 0345445791 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Revolution #9 by PETER ABRAHAMS ISBN: 0345445805 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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