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Epicurus.com - Sweetheart
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List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $16.47
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312368470
ISBN: 031236847X
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Release Date: 2008-09-02
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Editorial Reviews:
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With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnered rave reviews around the world. But the riveting story of Archie and Gretchen was left unfinished, and now Chelsea Cain picks up the tale again.
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Portland’s Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the last time they found a body there, more than a decade ago: it turned out to be the Beauty Killer’s first victim, and Archie’s first case. This body can't be one of Gretchen's—she’s in prison—but after help from reporter Susan Ward uncovers the dead woman's identity, it turns into another big case. Trouble is, Archie can't focus on the new investigation because the Beauty Killer case has exploded: Gretchen Lowell has escaped from prison.
Archie hadn't seen her in two months; he'd moved back in with his family and sworn off visiting her. Though it should feel like progress, he actually feels worse. The news of her escape spreads like wildfire, but secretly, he's relieved. He knows he's the only one who can catch her, and in fact, he has a plan to get out from under her thumb once and for all.
Chelsea Cain has topped her own bestselling debut thriller with this unputdownable, unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat read.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: good read
Comment: i read the book in one sitting! The author writes a captivating story. the characters are real and enjoyable. I do not like the grisly type descriptions of murder victims. Rather unneccessary, for instance the opening page describes a victim like this:
"Animals had eaten her face, exposing her eyes and brains to the forces of putrefication. Her nose was gone, revealing the triangular bony notch beneath it; her eye sockets were concave bowls of greasy soaplike fat. The flesh of her neck and ears were blistered and curdled.."
Not what you will like to read while munching on a slice of pizza! However, the story itself presents some interesting twists and turns and is capable of keeping a reader who is not too familiar with the thriller genre guessing. In spite of being able to fairly guess how the story will end, you still keep turning the pages.
I did not read Heartsick before writing this review, because i did not want to be biased. So without comparing it to her first book i will give it above average. You do not need to have read her first book either. This book is complete on it's own
Read and enjoy it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Feeling It
Comment: I looked forward to reading this series set in Portland; however, I was put off by the dark and graphical nature of the book. Though I enjoy suspense and mystery, this one is definitely not my sort of fiction. You may enjoy it if strong language and depictions add to your enjoyment of suspense, but I did not.
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Summary: great sequel
Comment: This was a terrfic sequel - i bought the original and this book for my daughter to read. Archie continues to be troubled and looking for resolution. When Gretchen calls him darling its chilling .... cant wait for the next book !!!
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Summary: Eyes wide open...
Comment: Eyes wide open...
Chelsea Cain's latest offering Sweetheart, like Heartsick, reads like the interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.
I would not recommend reading this book before going to bed! Modern, Gruesome, Psychodynamic. --Katharena Eiermann, 2008
Customer Rating:
Summary: Reaching the Tipping Point
Comment:
After reading her first novel, "Heartsick", I was pretty eager to read this follow-up. And again, we have a tense, gripping story of psychopathology as detective Archie Sheridan - aided by his friend Henry Sobol and reporter Susan Ward - try to track down the perpetrator of a series of murders in the Portland, Oregon area.
Archie seems to be on the road to recovery from his addictions to Gretchen Lowell, the Beauty Killer he captured some years ago, and prescription painkillers. He's moved back into his home with his wife and kids, and has stopped his weekly visits to Gretchen in prison.
But the current case endangers all the progress he's made, and threatens to destroy all he's achieved.
I enjoyed this book, but I have to say that I'm starting to lose my sympathy for Archie. Yeah, he made real strides forward as this novel begins, but the fact that he relapses so badly - and I'm not giving away anything that doesn't happen pretty early in the story - has brought me to the point where I'm starting to feel this guy needs someone to give him a swift kick in the butt.
It's very possible to have a continuing series centered on flawed characters; when done well, it makes for compelling reading. Dave Robicheaux's an alcoholic; Harry Bosch is riddled with melancholy; Bob Lee Swagger is trying to deal with the effects on his skills of advancing age.
But Archie Sheridan is absolutely WALLOWING in abject self-pity, and frankly, it's getting very hard to take. I personally have very little to no sympathy for that quality in people.
If this series is going to continue, Cain's going to have to find some way to resolve this and move the character forward.
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