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Title: Deep in the Heart by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0-06-108326-7 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great plot, but......
Comment: I had a hard time deciding on the number of stars for this review. On one hand, the love story was a great one, and the characters were likeable, the conflict believable, and the ending very satisfying.
What brought the score down was the odd anachronisms that kept jerking me out of the story. Here are just a few examples:
1) This book was first published in 1996, but we're told that Sam, who worked in a big Hollywood casting agency, used a typewriter, not a computer, for her work. Surely not. I think the author used a typewriter because she needed to use the uniqueness of typewriters in her evidence. She took the easy way out rather than doing research to find an alternative plot point.
2) The police, even when given pretty solid evidence that Sam was being stalked, not only dismiss the evidence out of hand, but they give it all back to her when she asks for it.
3) The police don't even attempt to use technology to trap the stalker, but the stalker somehow is able to follow Sam and Johnny back to a tiny little town in Texas. The FLEW there - how did the stalker find out where? Has the stalker access to better resources than the police?
4) When Johnny calls the LA cop with the name of the stalker, the cop recognizes the name immediately - even though the police didn't investigate the stalking enough to have developed a list of suspects. I got the feeling the author expected us to believe this cop knows everyone in town. I can believe that of Johnny and Cotton, Texas, but in Los Angeles???? I don't think so.
Another reviewer mentioned the fact that Sam could easily have carried a cell phone - I don't know about that (I didn't have one myself until 2000), but that is one more instance where the author used plot devises that fit more in an eighties book than a modern one.
As I said, though, the story itself is a very nice one, and if you can suspend disbelief enough to get past these lapses in technological know-how, you should enjoy this book.
Ms Sala has written another book with a similar plot that I actually like better, though: Tallchief, written under her penname Dinah McCall. I think it is a better book all around.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Favorite Book
Comment: I won't go over the book again, since the other reveiwers
have covered it quite well. There are some stretches of
the imagination required to completely "get" this book.
For instance, it's hard to believe Sam never kept in touch
with ANYONE in her hometown and so didn't have any idea
what had become of her first love. One also wonders why
Sam doesn't have a cell phone. But that aside, I loved
these characters so much they make up for a few weaknesses
in the plot. John Thomas is strong and dependable, and his
obvious love for Sam, even as he tries to fight it, is touching.
Sam is funny and bright and not afraid to lean on him.
The supporting characters are interesting as well, although
the story primarily centers on Johnny and Sam. The suspense
is pretty good and the stalker almost impossible to guess.
I would love to see these two characters show up in another
of Ms. Sala's books just for an update on their story.
A really good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sharon Has Done It Again!
Comment: What can I say Ms Sala has done it again. She has managed to pen an emotionally charged read.
Samantha Carlyle and John Thomas (Johnny) have a past. Together they grew up, they were best friends, and before Johnny went away to boot camp they became lovers for one night but circumstances beyond their control seperated them. Both promised to always be there for each other. Samantha calles on her best childhood friend to come and save her. Someone is stalking her in Hollywood and no one not even the police believe there is someone out there wanting to kill her.
John Thomas receives the letter calling for his help and he does not hesitate to get on a plane for L.A. in order to help the only girl that he has ever loved.
John Thomas takes Samantha back home to Texas. He is a sheriff of a small town and feels that he can keep Sam safe if she is away from L.A. Once in Texas they start remembering the past that they both shared. They are both fighting feeling that are powerful and deep. At the same time it looks like the stalker has followed them to Texas. Samantha is now on edge and fearing for her life.
This was a wonderful read. I love Ms. Sala's characters since they are very believable and you find yourself falling in love with them as you read their story. I found myself surprised by whom the stalker was and was unable to guess it until the very end. Be prepared to feel all the emotions that this book touches on.
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Title: Second Chances by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0061083275 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Amber by Night by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0373764952 Publisher: Silhouette Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.25 |
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Title: Finders Keepers by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0061083909 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lucky by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0061081981 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Chance McCall by Sharon Sala ISBN: 0061081558 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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