Riptide (FBI Series) by Catherine Coulter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Riptide (FBI Series)
Book Review: Please don't bother
Summary: 1 Stars
I was in between Grisham, Balducci, Martini, Hunter, Pearson, Clancy, and Connelly, and this sounded intersting. OK, I won't say too much about the stalker, as that could have been a good story, although all the coincidences were too much.but I have NEVER read a major author that wrote worse sounding dialoge. Ludlum in his last few books used dialoge that I assumed NO human would ever use in those situations, but this one made his last books seem good.
And please, a stalker that can get to ANYONE ANYWHERE is looking for you, and you run down the street 3 miles racing your "boyfriend" and hang around in his house a while alone, unguarded. I could have taken that until she had the characters speak again. Does she think people actually talk that stupid?
I doubt I will ever read a second book by her. I can't write at all but I know I could do better than that.
sad, very sad.
Book Review: Poorly written, not worth the time
Summary: 2 Stars
This was my first Coutlter novel, so maybe this book isn't indicative of her other books, but this one was very poorly written and a real disappointment.
Her characters have no authenticity and are poorly developed. For example, the main character at one point is almost hysterical at seeing a skeleton, but soon after is boldly engaged in a gunfight with a madman. These kinds of glaring character problems pop up through the entire book.
At times the writing is very stilted, with short, simple sentences strung one after the other. It reads like a draft rather than a finished novel. The dialog is also poorly written, and sometimes I found myself having to read it twice to figure out what was being said.
The romance aspect is very poorly developed. We get no sense of a developing relationship, it seems as though the two characters barely know one another, and yet they get engaged at the end of the book.
Coulter throws in a subplot that is clunky and doens't integrate into the main story at all. Because of this subplot, the book ends up with not one, but two deranged psychos who try to kill the heroine (two psychos for the price of one!), and it seems just silly and unnecessary.
I'm glad I merely checked this stinker out from my local library and didn't spend money on it
Book Review: Praying for Becca's death...
Summary: 1 Stars
I know I'm a little late to the party as this book was released nearly ten years ago. However, I just finished reading it and was so annoyed I had to post a review. Becca is an unbelievable and massively annoying character. She is a political speechwriter on the run from a stalker. She has zero experience with firearms but decides she needs a gun for protection so she buys one of a random guy at a truck stop and takes one "lesson" from him and suddenly she is James Bond. I know that when reading fiction you often have to suspend disbelief but this novel was asking too much. Becca is surrounded by the NYPD, FBI and CIA and they are letting her (the victim/witness) call the shots on the investigation? This would never happen. Coulter tells us it happens because Adam and the agents realize Becca needs to be a part of this for her own mental well being but I think the agents would be more concerned with covering their asses and keeping themselves alive. Seriously, Becca is going to cover Adam's back as he runs to a farmhouse possibly inhabited by a dangerous killer? Not one of the MANY agents who are at the scene? There were at least two dozen times in this book where I just wanted to slap Becca. Oh, and Adam freaking out and proving to Becca that he's not gay by kissing her? What, is he in seventh grade? Jesus......Book Review: Rip it apart!
Summary: 2 Stars
I agree with the many reviewers. I bought three more Coulter books after reading Blow Out, which wasn't bad. Someone had given it to me and since the book was a bit beaten up, I thought maybe it was older. So I bought three more, 2 of which I read. Target was okay. Nice twists in it, but the dialogue was a little off. Riptide, which is after Target, was absolutely horrible in the dialogue area. I couldn't help but think that if this story line had been in Nora Roberts or Sandra Brown's hands it would have been hair on ends. But there are too many "so now" and "Now" in the dialogue. The dispatcher/assistant to the sherrif used horrible tactics in "calming" down the victim and the rest of the characters were just awful once they spoke. Even Savich and Sherlock sounded like morons at times. The dialogue made this book a terrible read, kept it from flowing, made the mystery so "blah" that I now dread reading the third book I bought from this author.Book Review: Riptide
Summary: 1 Stars
At one time I enjoyed reading Catherine Coulter novels although I have not done so for quite a few years. I was enticed by Ms. Coulter's blurb on the back cover of the paperback and bought it. What a disappointment! I did hang in and read it to its conclusion, but what a waste of time. The dialogue was inane! True, Ms. Coulter wrote the book but what were the editors and publsher thinking? Just because you have a "name" doesn't mean the public should be duped into reading nonsense.