Charley's Web: A Novel
by Joy Fielding
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Read in March, 2008
03/29/08
TITLE/AUTHOR: CHARLEY'S WEB by Joy Fielding
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Suspense/2008/437 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: Stand-Alone
TIME/PLACE: Present/Palm Beach County, FL
CHARACTERS: Charlotte Webb/newspaper columnist
FIRST LINES: Hey, Charley: Just a brief not to let you know that aside from bieng the worst columnist who ever lived!! you are quite possibly the most self-absorbed woman on the planet!!!
COMMENTS: library book. Charley is a flawed charancter, ha...more
TITLE/AUTHOR: CHARLEY'S WEB by Joy Fielding
RATING: 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/# OF PGS: Suspense/2008/437 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: Stand-Alone
TIME/PLACE: Present/Palm Beach County, FL
CHARACTERS: Charlotte Webb/newspaper columnist
FIRST LINES: Hey, Charley: Just a brief not to let you know that aside from bieng the worst columnist who ever lived!! you are quite possibly the most self-absorbed woman on the planet!!!
COMMENTS: library book. Charley is a flawed charancter, ha...more
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Read in March, 2008
Jill Rohmer, a convicted child killer with a borderline personality disorder, lures Charlotte Charley Webb, a popular columnist for the Palm Beach Post and single mom, into a web of danger and deceit in this spine-tingler. When Jill invites Charley to collaborate on the true story of what really happened to the three children she was convicted of murdering, Charley at first thinks it sounds like a great idea. Her sister Anne is, after all, a bestselling romance author, so why couldn't Charley ha...more
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Read in March, 2008
This is my first Joy Fielding book and after I read it, I ran to the library to get more! She writes romantic suspense with complex, psychologically flawed characters and intricate plots. Charley, single mom, writes a column for her Palm Beach paper. It's a controversial column that mirrors much of her life and she gets alot of hate mail. The mail suddenly turns vicious about the time she receives a proposal from a young woman in prison found guilty of torturing and murdering small children t...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
anyone who likes a suspenseful mystery with engaging characters and great writing
I REALLY enjoyed this book!
I read a lot of mysteries, and this kept me engrossed and guessing up until the last moment.
The main character is a reporter with the Palm Beach Post, and the emails she receives from the readers of her column are interspersed throughout the book, and were interesting to read.
I highly recommend this to anyone who likes a suspenseful mystery with engaging characters and great writing.
I read a lot of mysteries, and this kept me engrossed and guessing up until the last moment.
The main character is a reporter with the Palm Beach Post, and the emails she receives from the readers of her column are interspersed throughout the book, and were interesting to read.
I highly recommend this to anyone who likes a suspenseful mystery with engaging characters and great writing.
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Read in July, 2008
This book is littered with red herrings; many of the characters are presented as the possible villain, so many that it was a tad too much to contemplate. I often think that I’ve read too many mysteries/thrillers because I often correctly guess the culprit. I guessed right here but I wasn’t absolutely certain until Joy Fielding wrote the final reveal. I really enjoyed this book despite its predictability. The characters are interesting and the story is engrossing. Joy Fielding writes well and...more
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Read in April, 2008
I just happen to love Joy Fielding. She has the best suspense fiction and I was hooked immediately to the story when I started listening. I was so engrossed by the story that I had forgot that it was a whodunit so it was nearly the end of the book before I realized I needed to try and figure out who did it. It was a quick read for me, and if you enjoy suspense then you will enjoy this book
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Read in June, 2008
Charley's Web is the story of a young woman who writes an irreverant newspaper column weekly. Out of the blue a female child murderer on death row writes to her requesting she consider telling her story. Charley steps into a world of lies, deception and evil.
As much as I liked the story, I liked the weekly "columns" even more. The author uses them to reveal the emotional, observational and judgmental aspects of the main character as well as moving the story along. A fun book.
As much as I liked the story, I liked the weekly "columns" even more. The author uses them to reveal the emotional, observational and judgmental aspects of the main character as well as moving the story along. A fun book.
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Read in May, 2008
This was a very good read. It maybe let me down a tad at the end of the story, but still I highly recommend it. The main character, Charley, writes a column for the local newspaper, has two children, and a very fractured family of sisters, brother and parents. She has just been asked to write a story of a child killer on death row. In the process, she patches up her family, but not without almost losing her own two kids along the way.
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I liked this book and the way it progressed. I don't read a lot of Joy Fielding, but having enjoyed this character as much as I have, I would definetly read her stuff in the future. This book has a lot of rising action, and a couple of nice red herrings to keep you distracted from the evil-doers. It leaves you second guessing yourself, and then exhausted on behalf of the main character when you are done.
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Read in August, 2008
I find Joy Fielding's books to be uneven--some are engaging and others are annoying with characters I dislike. This one had lots of twists and turns, but in the end, and while it was intertaining, I was unsure what the motive was for the situation in which Charley found herself. Her earlier books were better: The Other Woman and Kiss Mommy Goodbye were good and Whispers and Lies was excellent.
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I'm trying another one. I didn't get through 25 pages of 'Heartstopper.' I'm on page 3, and I'll keep reading... unless it gets really bad. :) I love many of Fielding's earlier books. Some of them were pure genius. I recommend 'Whispers and Lies,' for example. Page 50, I quit. It was like slogging through molasses. Joy, where have you gone with your great suspense novels!?
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Read in May, 2008
A little bit of everything leads to a lot of nothing in this book. There's a bit of romance, a bit of mystery, a bit of family drama and a lot of boring, boring boring story. This book reads like someone writing a recipe for a mystery. All the parts are there with little of the flare that makes something special.
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Read in March, 2008
Yeah, it's complete mindless popcorn, but it's skillful mindless popcorn. And a very fast read. And even though I thought I'd figured out the villain's identity, I hadn't.
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Read in April, 2008
This book was really disappointing! I have always been a big fan of Joy Fielding, but lately I feel like her books have lost something. She used to be able to shock readers with suspense and unexpected twists, but her recent books have sadly been predictable.
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Read in August, 2008
I enjoyed this book. I have always enjoyed Joy Fielding except for her last 2 books. But this one was much better. I did have it figured out well before the end. However she throws a twist in & then maybe you don't have it figured out.
A good read for sure.
A good read for sure.
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Read in July, 2008
I wish they had half stars on this... really the book is probably a 3.5 instead of a four.
It was enjoyable and a bit brainless. Sadly it was one of those books that I was able to guess the twist but maybe I've just been reading too much.
It was enjoyable and a bit brainless. Sadly it was one of those books that I was able to guess the twist but maybe I've just been reading too much.
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Read in April, 2008
This was not one of my favorites from Joy Fielding. Not sure why. Usually love her stuff. I listened to it on a cassette and felt the woman who read it did a lot of shouting instead of reading. Perhaps that is skewing my opinion.
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Read in August, 2008
WOW! Talk about an intense, enjoyable book with a shocking ending!! I loved it to much I couldnt put it down..Ive never read this author before, but this one will not be the last book of hers that I read.
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone!
I have read all of her books. This is her brand new book. It was fantastic! I highly recommend that you read it. It certainly kept me guessing right up to the very end. Very well put together.
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Read in April, 2008
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Mystery lovers
This book is like a roller coaster. A little slow but interesting at the beginning and a WILD ride at the end! I really enjoyed this one- it was a 'can't put down' book!
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