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Title: Killjoy by Julie Garwood ISBN: 0345453808 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27
Rating: 3
Summary: Not her best...
Comment: While Julie Garwood has always been a favorite author of mine, I wasn't too impressed with Killjoy. After reading the excerpt on her homepage (which is longer than the one here), I was dying to get my hands on a copy of Killjoy. I finally did only to discover that while the excerpt centers on Avery's work at the FBI, the book spends most of it's time with her on the road.
All of Julie Garwood's contemporary novels have something a little different than those you find from other historial turned contemporary authors, which stems from her amazing imagination. Killjoy is no different, having an insane aunt as the mastermind behind it all (which we learn early on). However, unlike in Garwood's fabulous historicals, with Killjoy we spend so much time running around that we hardly have a chance to take a breath and get to know the characters. The climax is relatively boring as well, something I remember from Mercy and Heartbreaker that I was hoping that Garwood had worked on.
Overall, while Garwood is still creative and can spin a tale, I think her strength is in historicals. Her contemporary novels, this one in particular, show that she just doesn't have a firm grasp of what it takes to make a murder mystery/thriller work.
This is the third one of Garwood's hardbacked contemporaries that I have bought, and I don't intend to do so again. Next time, I'm waiting for paperback. (Although if she decides to go back to what she's really good at, historicals, I'd buy it in a second!)
Rating: 5
Summary: Her Best Yet!
Comment: Killjoy is absolutely Ms. Garwood's best contemporary romance to date. This book was on par with Linda Howard and Nora Roberts who are two of my all time favorite authors. Now, I won't proceed to summarize the book, but I do want to say that I can't remember the last time I cared so much about 2 characters finally coming together as a couple. Avery's insecurities about her past were so touching and the way that John Paul handled them was beautifully done. I love how Ms. Garwood tied her previous book "Mercy" together with this one through family. As much as I love her historical romances, I hope that we have many more of her contemporary suspense/romances to look foward to.
Rating: 4
Summary: Killjoy is anything but...
Comment: In Julie Garwood's newest suspense filled romance novel, we find ourselves introduced to some new and interesting characters along with some old familiar ones. We start out with Avery Delaney who is an Analyst for the FBI. She is what you might call a problem solver. She was raised by her aunt Carrie and her grandmother who died when she was eleven. Her mother (I should use the term loosely), is a sociopath who abandoned her at birth. Her aunt Carrie made sure she new how to protect herself and also, more importantly, that she new the truth about her mother.
Now years later, she finds herself on a rollercoster ride trying to save her aunt from a hired killer named Monk, who we have met before in Ms. Garwood's previous book Mercy. Avery isn't alone in her frantic search. John Paul Renard joins her quest. We were introduced to him in Mercy as well. John Paul has been searching for Monk every since Monk tried to kill his sister, Michelle (aka Mike). Now he has tracked him down to a spa called Utopia in Colorado where Monk has kidnapped three women, one of whom is Avery's aunt Carrie. They are joined later by one of my favorite characters from both Heartbreaker and Mercy, Noah Clayborne. (As a side note, I really can't wait until she features him in a novel!!)
Anyway, I only gave the book four stars because it did start out a bit slow, but as always, when I finish a Julie Garwood book, I'm begging for more!
If you haven't read any of Ms. Garwood's books before, I recommend at least trying Heartbreaker and Mercy. I pretty confident you won't be heartbroken!
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Title: Dying to Please by Linda Howard ISBN: 0345452704 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd) Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Eleventh Hour: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter ISBN: 0399148779 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 22 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Three Fates by Nora Roberts ISBN: 039914840X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts ISBN: 0399149392 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Don't Look Back by Amanda Quick ISBN: 0553802003 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd) Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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