The Morning After

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Heart Stopper.......2007-04-04

This one had me forgetting to breath at times due to the excitement and dread, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Lisa is the best!

Chilling Plot; A Page-turning Novel!.......2006-12-11

Lisa Jackson has created a believable horror story with twists and turns in the plot that throw readers off as to the identity of this diabolical serial killer. I only wish that there had been a little more hints that it was him.
The story held me spellbound from beginning to end. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants a fast-paced, interesting read with well-fleshed-out (no pun intended) characters.
As the author of "Mamie and the Root Woman", I know how difficult it is to write about something as gruesome as this without resorting to the melodramatic. Great job, Ms. Jackson!

Long, and Slow Moving Story.......2006-09-27

I don't know why this book had to be 450 pages long. I struggled to get into the story. Nothing captured my interest for a very long time. The last 200 pages were decent. At least more was finally happening in the story. The characters weren't that interesting.

I have read several Jackson books. They are all too long. I think she could improve the content if she condensed the story.

lisa jackson does it again.......2006-07-24

this author has a way with twisted, scary, and suspenseful. i enjoyed the fact that i did not want to put this book down. the killer is quite creative in that he buries his victims alive. it's so creepy and perverted and certainly gets your heart pumping. though i wasn't thrilled with the ending, i will say that the book was a thriller!

How this can possibly be called a "romantic suspense" is beyond me.......2006-07-08

A fairly typical thriller/suspense.

The Morning After features a lunatic killer who buries people alive and who sends cryptic clues to the police and media. Detective Pierce Reed is personally connected to the case when the first victim turns out to be an ex-lover of his. The killer draws him further by sending Reed notes. Reporter Nikki Gillette wants the story of her career and is determined to get any information possible, including why Reed is so crucial to the case. As they try to find the killer, everyone's lives are in danger.

This story is a good suspense story. It's well-written, complicated, dark and twisted. You're drawn into the story and what's going on, trying to figure out who the bad guy is. So it was a good read in that sense.

As a "romantic suspense", as the book is labeled on the spine, it's really damn lousy. It's the worst "romance" I've ever read, simply because there's practically no romance at all in the entire book. The book is about 430 pages long, and up to about page 250, Reed and Nikki have only 1 serious interaction, and throughout the whole book, I think they kiss twice. There's no emotional connection between them, nothing deeper than the case they are working on. And at the end, you're given only that they may be about to enter into some sort of relationship.

All that hardly qualifies this book as any sort of romance. Why it is labeled as a romantic suspense is beyond me. I was highly disappointed in that factor. If you're looking for a good thriller, you'll like this book, but if you want romance, I'd avoid it. Along with her other books, as I'm told they are much the same. Too bad I didn't know that before I bought 2 other books of hers.

Rating: 2.5 / 5 (for serious lack of romance...I am a reviewer of romance books, after all)

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Fiction, Fable, Fantasy
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel
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ASIN: 0151008116

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Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."

An award winner in Canada, Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons

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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?
Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.

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yeah, I'd recommend it.......2007-10-10

I kinda would like to rate this book a 4, because there are a few things I didn't like. I didn't like everything getting 'over-explained' in the end. That wasn't necessary. It was like the author didn't think the reader was smart enough to keep track of what was going on. That did a real disservice to the book.

And I didn't like all the start - I mean, too much opinion that seemed like an rookie blog.

But, I did recommend the book, and I wanted my Mom to read it and talk to her about it. So, what does that say? I don't do that too often. So, I gotta give it a five.

Read it and tell me what you think. :)

Fiction, Fable, Fantasy.......2007-10-10

Yann Martel's Life of Pi is at the least, a first rate adventure yarn. Even the simplest reader needs just to suspend a small amount of disbelief to join in the fun. There is enough texture to the writing-detail of place and experience-that the book is almost cinematic. You could imagine this being filmed as a simple 'survival in a lifeboat' story.
What makes this such a wonderful tale is that each little piece-the man-eating island, the orangutan, Pi's wonderful real name, is jolting and provocative. It's hard to hear the stories without connecting them to some other fantasy or alternative reality.
At the end, Pi's rescue and redemption are really nothing more than the technique of fantasy applied to the story itself. I'm sorry for the folks who were disappointed that this wasn't one kind of book and I hope they get a chance to experience the pleasure of it being a very good fable, fiction and fantasy.

----Lynn Hoffman, author of New Short Course in Wine,The and the slightly fabulous bang BANG: A Novel

What a fantastic ride!.......2007-10-07

A great book should not only answer questions, but lead us to ask questions about the very nature of our lives: our perceptions and beliefs. This book delivers all of that and more. Life of Pi is an amazing literary journey that carries the reader through the life of a young boy as he experiences life and becomes a man, a postmodern bildungsroman. It's all here: relationships with parents, God, nature, humanity, love, adventure, a quest for meaning, and a survival story. This is the stuff life is made of!

Martel is an apt storyteller, and this tale drips with allegory, symbolism, and skillful description. I didn't want it to end. I felt so connected to the story and characters, unlike any story I've read recently. I'm so grateful for the journey. Wow.

From interest to anger.......2007-10-05

This book plays on the reader's gullibility. I was willing to believe up to the man eating island. Then I just got upset. Is this book supposed to help me find God or is it supposed to prove that I am gullible enough to believe in a "better" story? Where do you find 16 year old boys who spend pages philosophizing on tigers while their own life is in great danger? The Boy Scout in my enjoyed the survival story of Pi, but the amazement of survival becomes overshadowed by things that don't add up. It made me lose sight of the meaning of the story. Then part 3 comes along and I am more confused about which of two unbelievable stories I am supposed to believe. It reminds me of Jesus' parables where even his direct reports couldn't understand. It leaves me asking "Why?". Why don't you just give me a story that clearly supports your point?

An Entertaining and Unique Piece of Art.......2007-10-05

I literally just finished reading this book a few minutes ago, and the first thing I did was come to this site to see what others said about it. I think this is going to be one of those pieces that grows on me the further away I get from it, like how I felt about the movie American Beauty, which by the way turned out to be one of my favorite movies after all.

My first feeling after I was done with it was of shock, but the longer I sit here, thinking about it and reading the negative "1 star" reviews, the more I find myself defending and liking it. All the people that said it was "unbelievable" in their reviews need to seriously get a grip. This is a work of FICTION, and an interesting and entertaining one at that! When did we start berating artists for creating works that are unbelievable? So should we bad mouth the movie ET for depicting a boy flying around on his bike with an alien, or the Harry Potter series for assuming that there can actually be wizards and witches living amongst us in secret? Come on, those are some of the most beloved works in pop culture history, and they, like Life of Pi, are FICTON. Isn't that why we read and watch fiction? To be entertained with a good story and take our minds off of our mundane lives? Besides, that's exactly what Pi was trying to tell the Japanese men at the end....sometimes we all just need a good story to make us forget all the bad stuff that we have to endure in the real world. At least that's why I enjoy it.

With that being said, I thought the Life of Pi was a very entertaining read. Yann Martel does a great job of infusing his own brand of philosophical musings about God, country and family into a straight good old fashioned piece of adventure themed story telling. If you're squeamish or have a hard time dealing with violence and extreme situations, then you probably won't be able to get too into this book. I found myself grimacing a few times actually, but it's not worse than most of what you find on the Discovery Channel on any given afternoon. Also, if you don't enjoy a fluid, sometimes digressive, often ambling narrative and prefer the style of more straightforward prose such as that of Dean Koontz, then this might not interest you as well.

The only other book I've read recently that reminds me of this one is the very popular Cormac McCarthy Pulitzer Prize winner and Oprah Book Club selection, The Road. They both chronicle the journey of a boy (in The Road's case, a boy and his father) beating unbelievable odds and inconceivable circumstances to try and survive after a catastrophic event. Both are also written in a way that makes you feel as if you are experiencing the distress of the main characters, but in opposite ways. The Road has short, grammatically incorrect sentences that convey the urgency and erratic behavior of the parent and child on the run and trying to stay alive. In Life of Pi, the author sometimes rambles on in a nonsensical way, the same way your brain would function if you were suffering from hallucinations while nearing death on a lifeboat in the Pacific for over 200 days. I think that the authors' styles are what take both of the stories from just a couple of unremarkable novels you'd find in the discount bin, to truly memorable works of art.

In fact, I'm finding it very discomfiting that so many people gave it such bad reviews. I read through some of them, and I think the negative things they had to say about it says more about them than Martel's work. One review says they wish they were illiterate so they wouldn't have had to endure it and it made them vomit and want to scratch their skin off in the shower like a drug addict. Gee...I don't think I have to explain myself on that one. Others said it was boring, which makes me question our society's attention span more than anything because many of those same reviewers said they didn't even finish reading it. These same people are the ones that stopped watching the tv show Lost at the beginning of last season for the same reason. Well, if they would have just stuck around for a little while longer, in both cases, they would have been in for a pleasant surprise.

*Spoiler Alert in this Paragraph only*
Also, a common theme in the bad reviews was their distain for the ending. I thought that the ending was what really made the book something special. While anyone with half a brain would know that his original story had to have been false, whether he knew it or not since his delirium was quite advanced at some of his lowest points, the fact that he actually gives an alternate version of the story to the Japanese men, felt like a big payoff to me. I'm the kinda gal that likes to know what really happened...it helps me to bond with the characters and ultimately enjoy the story more in the end.

I was starting to get really upset with all the "1 star" reviews, until I did the math. A staggering 78% (as of today) gave it 4 or 5 stars which means they liked or loved it. Well, knowing that at least restored a little bit of my faith in the general public, because though it's not perfect nor the best thing I've ever read, it definitely doesn't deserve to be called horrible.

If you read a lot, like I do, and are looking for a unique story told in a distinctive style, and have an open mind, then definitely give this one a try.

After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees

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Honest and Lovely Essays

After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees

Manufacturer: Sunrise Ventures
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ASIN: 0818702869

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Korean adult adoptees speak out in this anthology. Through memories, reflections, and poetry, adoptees speak to the range of issues that accompany adoption: feelings of belonging and difference, self and other, culture and accomodation, love and loss. We now know that it is in late adolescence and young adulthood that many adoptees move full-tilt into struggling with these issues. These writings offer a wonderful tool to help adoptees move through the process.

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Honest and Lovely Essays.......2006-06-22

"After the Morning Calm" is a series of essays by Korean adoptees. They discuss growing up adopted and Korean in countries other than their birth country. Whether discussing travelling back to Korea to meet or look for their birth families or heritage, writing about the families who raised them, feeling different from others or comfortable with themselves, ultimately these all are stories of identity and of finding oneself as a Korean adoptee.

I have nothing but praise for every author in this book, for writing with unflinching honesty. The editor did a wonderful job, particularly for choosing essays by people of all ages (ranging from those adopted just after the Korean war to those who are young adults now).

Most striking to me was how universal the search for identity is. I saw that whether age 24 or age 50, the issues discussed seem specific to the author's age. Each essay is about a search for or comfort with his or her self as a Korean adoptee -- as Korean in a largely "white" neighborhood or family, as people who appear different from others or are treated differently from others, or whose differences are glossed over by their families, to those at peace in his/her own ways. Yet while they are a striking and poignant look through adoptees' eyes, I was surprised by how much they represent an almost a universal time-line toward adulthood and comfort with oneself (expressed far better than many of us would at each of their ages) -- from "Mirror," in which a young woman at first resists her own reflection in the mirror, to "Love the Life You Have" by perhaps the eldest and most comfortable-in-his-skin author. Life is a journey, and these essays tell the journey to identity through being adopted internationally.

I bought this book as a prospective adoptive parent to see how Korean adoptees feel, to see if I would be doing a disservice or something great for a child. I wanted to read how the children feel as teenagers and adults. (It is, but not completely, telling in that regard, as the political climate and reasons for international adoption have changed with each generation.) I thank every author who contributed for teaching me about yourselves and for sharing your experiences and thoughts so honestly. Most special was the sincerity, whether painful or joyful, of these essays.

Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea)

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Jean Rhys: The Complete Novels (Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, Good Morning, Midnight, Wide Sargasso Sea)
Jean Rhys , and Diana Athill
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The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986

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Compelling and provactive
Fascinating

The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986
George F. Will
Manufacturer: Macmillan Pub Co
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The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994

ASIN: 0020554508

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Compelling and provactive.......2000-03-27

A compilation of articles from reknowned conservative commentator George F. Will. Will presents us with plethera of political and social issues of the 80's agrued eloquently and presuasively. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the social and political melieu of the 1980's. A true classic.

Fascinating.......1998-01-16

Whatever your views, this book should make you think about what they are and why you hold them.

His discussions relating to abortion (especially of the permanently disabled) is particularly poignant, since his son has Down's syndrome. He becomes particularly vocal where his son is concerned (what father wouldn't?) and makes a undeniable case against abortion.

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A major study of U.S.-Cuba relations warns that America is ill-prepared for the serious dilemmas and even threats posed by a post-Castro Cuba.

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An accurate account of reality without concern for fluff........2004-11-29

How refreshing to read a book that deals with reality, rather than the romantic rantings of liberals enamoured with Fidel Castro, cheap rum and desparate prostitutes. This book is a seriuous analysis of the problems Cuba will face in the future, and the legacy of hardship its people will have to endure thanks to the failed socialist experiment.

Anyone interested in a serious look at the costs of the "Socialist Paradise" where "everyone is equal" and there are "no poor people," should read this book. The disaster of this social experiement will impact us here in the USA whether we like it or not.

It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it........2004-06-06

Yes, Cuba is a charming and seductive place to visit. But as any one of the thousands of desperate migrants from that troubled land can tell you, it is a brutally hard place to live. Those women the tourist meets stolling along the seawall aren't out there for the view or the exercise. They are locked in a heart-wrenching struggle to eck out another day's subsistence using the only thing the state hasn't stolen from them (yet).

So it is a dirty job, but someone has to look past the charm and facade of today's Cuba and examine the cruel reality of Castro's legacy objectively. Numbers don't lie--they are what they are. That Cuba's numbers are horrible is not the fault of the author; those numbers (and the human suffering they entail) are the fault of Castro and the legions of boot-licks who have kept him in power, lo these many years. Left-wing American journalists, academics, democrat politicians, and celebrity activists figure prominently in that group, to their shame.

Mark Falcoff did this dirty job about as well as anyone could have expected. It's always a challenge to study a closed society such as Cuba's, where important facts are hidden away, crucial incidents are covered up or denied, and the official story is always a deliberate lie. I've studied Cuba closely for years, and I have always hoped that the long-sufering Cuban people would one day have a brighter future, free of Castro's suffocating bite. I was as disheartened as the previous reviewers were to be confronted with the ugly facts, but there they are. Complaining about them won't help.

Those who really care about Cuba should thank Mr. Falcoff for the 'heads up' this book provides. I hope our policy makers are aware of the information and analysis this book provides, and have some kind of plan to deal with the societal implosion the book predicts.

It misses the Cuban spirit.......2004-02-24

Most books on Cuba talk about the charm of her people, the delights of her women (for male authors, anyway) and the chaos of her economy. I visited Cuba in December of 2002 and can cheerfully report that Cuba is a highly seductive place, a place of great charm and beauty, and Cuban women are the sweetest in the world.

In this book, we see a very different Cuba, Economic Cuba. And Economic Cuba is a disaster. Harvests are failing. Equipment is failing. Sugar cane is rotting in the fields. Tourist hotels are booming but enrich only a tiny percentage of the population.

Economic Cuba, then, doesn't have a chance. The author paints a grim portrait of a country time forgot, one where there was little hope of any kind of economic recovery.

I have no doubt that this book is factual, as far as it goes. But it reads like someone who has never taken a stroll on the Malecon, the seawall. Beautiful but decaying examples of ancient architecture line the vast, American-built promenade. On the other side, the ocean, in its magnificence, and beyond the twin towers of the Hotel Nacional and the slick sterility of the Melia Cohiba hotel. The occasional Cuban girl offers the male tourist his favourite kind of company, as he strolls past enjoying the sunset.

In other words, this book underestimates the pull and the charm of Cuba, for tourists and future residents alike. If Cuba is opened up to investment from Americans, if investment laws can be made fair and the ugliness of Communism swept away into the dustbin of history, I have no doubt life on the island will become dynamic and fun once more.

But those are a lot of "if"s. If this book had done a good job analyzing them, I would cheerfully recommend it. But its analysis, in 25 brief pages, is superficial and reads like it came from someone who has never visited the island or enjoyed its charms.

Oh dear this is bad.......2004-02-21

This book is written by a man who doesn't care about Cuba. The island is for him only a place to fear (e.g. he actually discusses the possibilities of virus injected into migratory birds as biological warfare), or a place for future investments. The book is actually worse than I expected, and it makes me sad that scholars can produce such useless material about an interesting place as Cuba is. I guess Falcoff just isn't curious, or feels no empathy for other cultures. He says "Americans are - unlike their European, Canadian, or Latin American counterparts - intrusive and inquiring". I know the author is an educated man, but this to me is nothing but stupidity. Save Cuba from this!

The Morning-After Proposal (Silhouette Desire)

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The Morning-After Proposal (Silhouette Desire)
Sheri Whitefeather
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The Morning After: Making Corporate Mergers Work After the Deal is Sealed

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A weak sister to two masterpieces

The Morning After: Making Corporate Mergers Work After the Deal is Sealed
Stephen J. Wall , and Sharon Rye Wall
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Real-world strategies for overcoming roadblocks and making the most out of your company's acquisitions.

Despite the economic downturn, the corporate marriage frenzy continues to proceed at fever pitch, as companies reach beyond their traditional boundaries to gain access to resources, expertise, and markets. But after the ink is dry, most experiments in corporate acquisition fail to live up to expectations. In The Morning After, Stephen and Shannon Rye Wall showcase dozens of cases to identify the seven common myths and misconceptions of mergers and offer a wealth of concrete tools for leading and sustaining successful collaborations.

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A weak sister to two masterpieces.......2000-12-06

As a corporate executive, I am always seeking material that will provide new insights into ensuring deal success. This book doesn't offer much. Many of the major findings I've either read before in newspapers or come straight from the pages of more detailed books on how to succeed at M&A. There is not a lot of detail on following through with particular strategies and the idealism of the authors suggests that they have never been true players in the process. This book seems like a diluted version of the two pioneering books that have already said it all --"Joining Forces" and "Winning at Mergers & Acquisitions". In my opinion, no integration can truly work without implementing the guidance set forth in these two masterpieces.

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The Morning After Death
Nicholas Blake
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Morning After (Forbidden!) (Harlequin Presents)

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One of my favorite Michelle Reid titles, this is very unique
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Sizzling!
This is one of the best books...!
My all times best book!

Morning After (Forbidden!) (Harlequin Presents)
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One of my favorite Michelle Reid titles, this is very unique.......2006-01-13

The main synopsis has already been given & I don't wish to give too much storyline away because that ruins it, but I wanted to say that this is a unique and fascinating Harlequin by Reid.

The hero is a bit too diabolical I agree, but he definitely changes his tune pretty quick! The heroine has a bit of spite in her too, to add to the spice of the book. They are each hiding their true selves from the other, at the beginning. Reid added an interesting history & back-story to these characters, giving them depth and nuance. I enjoyed reading about the beautiful supermodel heroine who wasn't what she seemed.

To find this book, you can search on this page with the used books link, or do a search on ebay. You should be able to find it easily enough.

For a full listing of Michelle Reid's books, go to her site at michellereid.com

Good, but not great.......2003-09-09

From the back: Cesar DeSanquez was right about Annie's beauty: it has made her into an international supermodel. But the only life about to be ruined was Annie's - by Cesar! In reality, she was a shy virgin, but Cesar preferred to believe in her glossy image. He passionately believed that she had torn apart his family in the space of a night. And now, in the cold light of dawn, he wanted his revenge!
This is probably one of my least favorite Reids. Ultimately, I just couldn't help wishing that Annie had found a better guy, which doesn't bode well for the story. Nonetheless, it had the same passion and intensity that I have come to love from all Reid novels.

Sizzling!.......2000-04-01

Michelle Reid pits a headstrong but vulnerable model against a self-righteous, arrogant international businessman. Angel is unwittingly lured into the clutches of her worst enemy and greatest love by the offer of a modeling job. Isolated in an island paradise, the sexual tension rises as Angel tries to escape her foe. This book was fabulous! Passion awaits those who dare to go for it!

This is one of the best books...!.......1999-05-21

I loved this book. It's very very good. I read it again and again

My all times best book!.......1998-02-16

The best book that I've ever read in romance books! I am not sure how can you find this book but have it and read it!

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