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Title: Blood Orchid by Stuart Woods, Alison Fraser ISBN: 0-399-14953-8 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (Audio) Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.08 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A fun read
Comment: In Blood Orchid Stuart Woods switches from his Stone Barrington character to a woman police chief, one Holly Barker. It is a positive switch and I found holly much more fun and certainly more interesting than his rather wooden Stone Barrington.
I don't mean to lay out the plot here, since you could easily read any of the other reviews here & get that. If for some reason you have never read any Stuart Woods, well by all means do so. Woods writes the perfect beach novels, good books to take along on a long plane ride. He knows perfectly well how to get his readers to keep turning the pages.
I write myself...and I know how difficult it is to keep the material fresh and moving. But in recent years Woods' books haven't done it for me the way they used to. I sometimes feel as though he's just cranking them out. In this book, Blood Orchid, he is back to a type of character that he once hit gold with---police chiefs. If you have never read his book, Chiefs, go get that one instead. Chiefs had soul. It wasn't just a fun page-turner, it had characters you cared about.
Rating: 4
Summary: Standard Woods
Comment: This book is standard Stuart Woods: lightly entertaining and a quick read featuring familiar characters and larger-than-life crime. It is three-and-a-half star material all the way.
In this story, Holly Barker, police chief for Orchid Beach, becomes embroiled in a real estate scheme that has murders attached to it. Befriending a developer who is almost killed himself, Holly gets involved from the inside as well as in her cop role. What follows is the sort of quick paced action one expects out of one of Woods's books.
As entertaining as the book is, it's also far from perfect. Any veteran mystery reader will have the villain pegged pretty quickly and there are other bits of silliness. For example, I doubt most people would think that "Blood Orchid" would be a good name for a housing development.
On the other hand, Holly is much more interesting than Woods's principal series character, Stuart Barrington, although not as developed as Will Lee. For a fun quick read, this book fits the bill, but in the grand pool of mysteries, this book is definitely on the shallow end.
Rating: 1
Summary: what the???
Comment: I LOVE Stuart Woods. I have read pretty near all of his books. However, this book bombed! WHY? Because it is just so far fetched it's unreal. Holly Barker is the chief of police in Orchid Beach, some small town that no one has ever heard of. She seems to go outside of her jurisdiction more in this book then five local cops do in a life time. She hooks up with an undercover FBI agent in the book, and trusts and relies on him, yet she doesn't even know what his undercover case is. It's just way too long and dragged out. During the first 4-5 chapters, you are able to figure out who the "bad guy" is, and you are forced to wade through 300 more pages of her not realizing it's him, and befriending him. Stick to Stone Barrington, he is at least more credible then this.
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Title: Orchid Blues by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451206711 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Orchid Beach by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0061013412 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dirty Work by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0399149821 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Short Forever by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451208080 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cold Paradise by Stuart Woods ISBN: 0451205626 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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