Hurricane (MIRA)
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ISBN13: 9780778323075Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper takes readers into the eye of the storm, where two parents fight to rescue their children from the overwhelming menace of a hurricane. With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Randi, left home earlier that morning to go out on a Jet Ski with Thad Brockman, a boy Julie barely knows. Now Randi and Thad are missing -- and the hurricane that hours ago was just another routine warning has turned toward shore. With local law enforcement absorbed in emergency response measures, Julie has only the help of Zack Brockman, Thad's father. Together they begin a race against time to find their children -- but first they must battle not only Mother Nature, but an enemy willing to use the danger and devastation of the storm for their own evil ends.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
Have you ever ridden a hurricane
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Ms. Harper's suspense thriller lived up to all expections of her usual writing style. As a native Floridian who has survived many hurricanes her descriptions were accurate and on point. The only thing I missed was a more vivid desciption of the surprises and horrors of the aftermath.
I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and would recommend it to any Floridian.
I have read the other negative reviews and find many of their comments baseless.
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Summary:
BORING!!!
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Comment:
This was the first Karen Harper book I have read and it was so boring. I skipped pages and pages to just find out who were the bad guys and get to the end of the book. I am not sure if I would read another Karen Harper book. Thank goodness this was passed on to me and didn't waste my own money on it. Don't bother reading this one.
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Summary:
Disappointing
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Comment:
My first Karen Harper book was Inferno and I liked it so thought I would try another. Big Mistake! Mostly I couldn't stand the heroine, Julie. She is absolutely annoying (the woman never shuts up) as are most of the female characters in the story. Julie is the ultimate know it all. You have a Navy Seal trained for rescue and our Miss Julie isn't going to listen to him because he took off once without her. Boo Hoo! Then the next portion of the book becomes the liberated female who needs no man even if he is a Navy Seal to help her. She is so dumb it's unbelieveable. Zach is trained in rescue and Julie hasn't a clue and had no business out in the storm but the author is trying to make her the macho rescurer. Then our Navy Seal becomes a wimp! Oh lets get real. The whole book is just annoying. I finally quit reading and tossed the book aside because I reached a point I could care less about the characters or how it ended. I don't know whether to take the chance on another of KH's books. I do see good reviews on some of her books but this one was just annoying. There was no depth to any of the characters.
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Summary:
Hurri-can't
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Comment:
To get one thing straight, right up front - there is nothing really *wrong* with this book - the writing is good enough, the *main* characters are mostly developed OK (although all the women main characters are so neurotic that I just wanted to smack them), and the premise seemed like one that would provide plenty of suspense. But it didn't - provide suspense, that is. Honestly, I just didn't care. I can read a book of this length in about 5-6 hours, if properly motivated and, to give a bit of a comparison, I have spent over a MONTH trying to force my way through this one. I finally just gave up and said ENOUGH.
The basic idea is that Julie Minton and her daughter Randi have moved to Florida, down into the Keys, where Julie has opened up a center for girls who are "cutters" (that is, they cut themselves obsessively in order to help make themselves feel more in control of themselves and their lives), where she and her friend Kaylin spend a couple weeks with each group of girls to help them curb their impulses and turn them toward more positive actions. Kaylin is a former cutter, which turns up as a plot devise later on. Randi has a crush on Thad, who is the son of Zach Brockman - who, ironically enough, Julie had a bit of a crush on when she was younger, but upon which she was not allowed to act because her family was rich and Zach was "beneath" her. At any rate, Randi gets to ride with Thad on a Jet-Ski and they go missing. Right before a big-ol' hurricane is due to come up.
At this point we are hurriedly introduced to a dizzying array of characters who are mostly not developed enough for us to differentiate between them - or, who are developed by the use of clichés. To add to the confusion, Julie stumbles upon a couple murders, and finally a ransom note. We are left as befuddled as the characters - more so, since we have no idea who these people are! Were the kids kidnapped? If so, why? Were they witnesses to a drug deal? Is it to force Julie to sell out the ancestral home? Or were the kids just in an accident on the Jet-Ski and forced to hole up on one of the 10,000 Islands of the Keys? Or did they maybe just run away to New York or New Jersey? By this time, honestly, I didn't even care. The only reason I kept going as far as I did was simple stubbornness. Do yourself a favor - don't waste your time like I did.
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Don't understand the rest of the reviews
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Comment:
I really enjoyed this book, to me it was not boring. Once I started it I
finished quickly and then started reading her others.
I have found though that lots of time books I read I then check to see
the rating on here and it sometimes amazes me how different people's
opinion can be.
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