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Absolute Fear
written by Lisa Jackson
Studio : Zebra
by Zebra
Publisher : Zebra
Released : 2008-03-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780821779361
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 39 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $1.00
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Book Description |
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Every Serial Killer... A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For... Eve Renner knows Our Lady of Virtues Hospital well. As the daughter of one of its doctors, she spent her childhood exploring its secrets chambers, hidden rooms, and forbidden passageways. Now, somewhere in the decaying asylum lies the key to a betrayal from the past whose echoes are being felt with a vengeance--a crime beyond imagining that seems to lead to Eve herself. The Perfect Victim... As each new body is found and forgotten, memories surface, and Eve must race to put together a deadly puzzle, one terrifying piece at a time. A killer is watching, planning, luring her back to the ruins of Our Lady and the shocking truths hidden there. For the sins of the past must be revealed, and the price paid--in blood... |
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it was ok.. |
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i thought it started out very slow. Then it got really good, then the end..it just seemed rushed. The ending to me, didn't really have anything to do with the story. As one person wrote, you don't know how Eve's and Cole's relationship ended up, besides them getting back together. It just seemed Jackson wanted to hurry and start her new book which apparently is the sequel to this one. |
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Check your birth certificate |
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By the end of this book, it seemed that everyone in it was related to everyone else and about the only person who wasn't a blood relative to the killer(s) and/or victims was the reader, and the family tree was so convoluted I began to question my own lineage. And wasn't it convenient that all the people involved in the cover up or frame up or who were unwitting victims all had names that were palindromes? What about the tatoos? Honest, I knew what the tattoo meant the first time it was mentioned and the second time and the third time. I wanted to scream at the detectives in this one: Wake up, idiots! And these were detectives I liked in previous works by Lisa Jackson. This book was kind of interesting for the excitement end of it, but the mystery was no mystery (except when the ultimate bad guy turned out to be someone we hardly even meet in the book) and the romance between Cole and Eve was simply ridiculous. He was so abnoxious, I can't believe Eve was so shallow as to have any interest in him at all. On the other hand, why would this intelligent rising star of a lawyer be wasting his time with such a self-destructive airhead as Eve Renner? Maybe it was because he managed to lose his apparently substantial amount of accumulated wealth in about a month. He lost his house, his car...Everything and for what? Because he was a suspect? Cole definately needed a better financial planner. Okay, he had a great body and she was willing to do the deed with him whenever oppurtunity knocked. I wonder how their relationship will be in twenty years when he isn't the great hunk anymore and she's still hopping into bed with any stud who has a little animal magnetism. I don't know what to make of the explanation of the 'phantom' sperm. That was just way too convenient for the bad guy. Then there was Kristi, who found out late in the book how she was related. Kristi quit her day job on the off chance that she might be successful as a writer of true crime stories. Did she ever stop to think she might have to live for maybe a couple weeks before she started receiving royalty checks? How about an advance check if she had even started to write something? I don't know how that works, but can an unpublished, unknown and even unstarted writing writer earn a living? Anyway, I continue to count myself a Lisa Jackson fan, but this one was close to puting me over the edge and saying no more. I look forward to her next novel, but ABSOLUTE FEAR was not up to her usual standards. Bring on LOST SOULS! Maybe I'll re-read SHIVER or THE MORNING AFTER. Those are Lisa Jackson at her best. |
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rubbish |
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One word can describe this book. Trite. This book is so very bad, from the cliched conversations to the overuse of quotation marks. Who talks like this? I have been trying to read this book for 3 1/2 months and can't stop mentally rolling my eyes enough to get very far. I can do without what she thinks is romance and stick to the suspense, but even that is far from satisfying. I love the true crime and suspense genre. The Hannibal Series by Thomas Harris is one of my favorites. But this...this is neither suspenseful nor intriguing. I think that perhaps I'll try to finish it and read it to the obvious conclusion that the characters somehow can't seem to figure out. But I can guarantee that this is the last Lisa Jackson book that I will ever read. |
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very similar to previous book |
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Absolute Fear was very similar to Shiver. There is a lack of variety among the characters and the plot. Many of the characters seem to be carbon copies of each other. |
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GREAT BOOK |
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I LOVED THIS BOOK, NOW I HAVE TO BUY THE NEXT ONE, LOST SOULS, CANT WAIT TO GET IT. |
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