The Target (FBI Series) by Catherine Coulter Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Target (FBI Series)
Book Review: Unsettling Ending
Summary: 2 Stars
The story took a turn for the worse after Molly showed up. It was just a little unbelievable (and slightly creepy) that the man was so hung up on this little girl and basically he wants to marry, not because he's in love with the mother, but because he wants to be the child's father.Book Review: Wanted: Editing
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the first Catherince Coulter novel I've read in a few years and I was really disappointed. There's a decent story in here...it's just 3/4 drafts from being finished. A lot of the dialogue felt awkward and unnatural to the point of taking me completely out of the story. Some pages really seemed amateurish. Many of the characters' actions seemed completely illogical especially given that some of them are supposed to be highly educated and experienced law officials. The bad dialogue and strangeness of their actions really kept me from getting interested in the characters. I also noticed one big inconsistancy that should have been caught in basic editing.
This really felt like the work of a first time author instead of one with many novels under her belt. If it had been the first Catherine Coulter novel I'd read I really doubt I'd have read another. I'd reccomend skipping this one and reading "The Sherbrooke Bride" which I'm going to reread and hopefully remind myself why I liked this author.
Book Review: What was I thinking when I bought this book!!
Summary: 2 Stars
I have read the comments from a lot of readers and I have to agree with the ones that disliked this book. This is the first time that I have read something by this author, and believe me it will be the last. The characters were unbelievable, ever changing, etc. There just seemed to be too much focus on dumb things, for example the girl's braid, I don't know how many times it was mentioned, give me a break! I kept on going just because the author promised that you would not be able to guess who was the bad guy. Turns that I did, about halfway throughout the book. I could not believe the end! Did she get bored too?Book Review: Yeah . . . not even gonna finish this one
Summary: 1 Stars
I haven't read the two preceding books, but I sincerely hope that they are better than this one. I'd like to think that a federal judge would have better sense than to keep an obviously raped 6 year old in the woods for a week "until she learns to trust him." Meanwhile, her poor mother is searching town after town with no indication from him that she is even alive. I feel very doubtful that said mother, on discovery of the man with her suddenly verbal child, would say to him, "I would have done the same thing in your shoes." Even knowing that he wasn't the original kidnapper, I'm pretty sure I would have sent my daughter out of the room and shot him anyway.
No thanks to Ramsey, the kid hasn't died from internal injuries, and now that the mother (who is far, far more clever than every incompetent law enforcement agent in Colorado) followed the only solid lead that the police "blew off" and is back with her daughter, I think I'll leave them to go on the run without me.
Lazy writing -- it wouldn't have been hard to create a situation where Ramsey and the child together made sense.
Book Review: a good book
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the first book of this author that I have read, and I enjoyed it a great deal. I think the suspense of finding who hurt Emma is the key part of the story, less than the relationship between her mother and rescuer, which is how it should be. I just wish she had gone into more detail about how the Eve situation got resolved, and about her relationship with her father. But it's nice to see a strong female character, and I enjoyed the adventure and suspence in this book.