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Deadly Deception (2013)

by Andrea Johnson Beck(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1612184561 (ISBN13: 9781612184562)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Montlake Romance

series

Deadly

review 1: I had a hard time deciding between two and three stars. The basic plot was pretty interesting, and the plot moved at a good steady pace. I found the awkward writing style very distracting, however. I frequently wondered if the novel had been translated from another language by someone for whom English is not native. The author's refusal (or inability) to use the past perfect tense to indicate when one event happened in relationship with other events caused a lot of confusion. There were also many misplaced and dangling participles that were amusing ("Feeling the vibrations on the floor of passing trucks..." is one example. Here's another: "He stepped over a rusty rake holding a gasoline can.") There were also numerous typographical errors that should have been correct... moreed, but these did not actually hurt the flow of the novel. The repetitive misuse of past participles when the simple past tense was appropriate (and vice versa) was also distracting. The author also routinely used regular personal pronouns instead of possessive ones before gerunds. This grammatical construction gave an amateurish tone to the novel. Here are some of the 60 or so awkward and unclear phrases/sentences I noticed: "...felt a twinge flit through her hips..."; "...a memory imprinted in her life..."; "Tangling his fingers through her hair and arching her face up towards his, his mouth collided with hers in a fervent display." (how does one arch his/her face?); "She couldn't consume his presence fast enough."; "...dreaded that her eyes would never fall upon his face again."; "...clouds that skirted deep in the sky..."; "She knew confronting Adam would be haphazard..." (what does the author think "haphazard" means?; "...whimpers ricocheted through the vague room." (what does this mean?); "Anne exited the main gate of the cemetery through flooded eyes..." "Casey had vaporized next to her while she had been deep in memory." (I guess she meant something like "materialized"?); "He imparted his firearms skills upon her..."; "...gunshot would Carter had bestowed upon him..."; "Time stopped in the breath of a second."; "...sent the hair on her neck to stand on end."; "...depression had sucked her into a loathing abyss."; "...scars she accepted to bear like a scarlet letter."; "...the one to free them both from the binds that tie them to a savage being."; "...she entered the stifled room..."; "..Anne heaved her arm from his clutches.";
review 2: I am dumbfounded.....how are the ratings this high for this book? I was as confused as the heroine most of the time. Nothing made sense. She was in love with Adam but broke off her engagement after one conversation with a man that disappeared on her? The FBI was brought up once but then never again.....what happened to them? They were just sitting back watching her get kidnapped? Carter killed a girl in front of her fiancé and father but now they are both working for him? Like he would really trust them. I flagged at least 15 things like this that were so unbelievably stupid. Then the ending.... I thought my iPad broke down in the middle of a chapter but it was the end of the book!?!? Horrible waste of my time and money. less

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