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Cry No More

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Fueled by an obsession to fill the void in other people’s lives, Milla Edge finds lost children—all the while trying to outrun the brutal emotions stemming from a tragedy in her past. Traveling to a small village in Mexico on a reliable tip, Milla begins to uncover the dire fate of countless children who have disappeared in the labyrinth of a sinister baby-smuggling ring....more

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Published April 27th 2004 by Ballantine (first published November 4th 2003)

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Mar 15, 2010 Shawna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of intense, emotional romantic suspense & dark, anti-heroes

Recommended to Shawna by: Lots of GR friends!

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5+ stars – Romantic Suspense

Cry No More...No kidding...I don’t think I had any tears left after reading this book. I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning to finish because I just had to find out what happened and the ending made me bawl like a baby. Seriously, I needed a box of tissues and a big hug when I turned the last page. It’s an intense, gut-wrenching, thought provoking, heartbreaking, emotional roller coaster ride that stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it.

Milla is one of...more

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Jul 10, 2008 Eastofoz rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Readers looking for an emotional roller coaster ride

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In the mood to rip out your soul, cry buckets, say OMG a few times too many for everything from abject misery to pure rapture? Then read this book! It is sooooooooo good! The hero looks like he was plucked straight out of one of Anne Stuart’s Ice novels—he is incredible. He doesn’t say much, but when he does and how he does what he does just makes you go all limp and you fall down in a puddle of what used to be you--guaranteed! He is the uber alpha/gamma hero, hotness personified. This is one of...more

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Oct 24, 2012 Lady Heather rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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5 shiny stars

I just want to start off by saying that this was probably the most difficult review I've written to date.
Even though my friends on GR 'warned' me that this would be a tear-jerker, nothing, and I mean NOTHING prepared me for actually reading, and experiencing what happened at the end of the story.

KUDOS to Ms. Howard's storytelling!

THE BEFORE

1993 Mexico

In the beginning of the story, We're introduced to Milla and David Boone. David is a surgeon working for a year in Mexico offerin...more

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Nov 14, 2010 Darcy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Meet Milla, someone who has a great life, a husband she loves, just had a baby a few weeks ago that both are enthralled with, and she has just set up time for a "first date" with her husband after the baby, you know the kind of date where there are no clothes. Everything seems to be going well in her life that she doesn't even mind all the other mundane tasks that make up life. When at the market things change in a heartbeat as she is surrounded by to men who rip the baby out from her and stab h...more

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Jul 15, 2008 Isis FG rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: romance readers

Recommended to Isis FG by: Eastofoz

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. BEWARE: MAJOR SPOILERS!

Once I started reading this book, I just couldn't seem to put it down. The storyline really engages the reader and draws them into the story.

Milla is such a sympathetic, admirable character. She's survived where others would crumble and disappear. You can't help but like her as you read about all she's been through. And yes, there were several parts where I got teary eyed, especially near the end.

And Diaz...well, he's such a contradiction. Half the time, he's a kind-hear...more BEWARE: MAJOR SPOILERS!

Once I started reading this book, I just couldn't seem to put it down. The storyline really engages the reader and draws them into the story.

Milla is such a sympathetic, admirable character. She's survived where others would crumble and disappear. You can't help but like her as you read about all she's been through. And yes, there were several parts where I got teary eyed, especially near the end.

And Diaz...well, he's such a contradiction. Half the time, he's a kind-hearted, gentle man who makes you sigh and the other half of the time, you wonder how you could like him because he kills without remorse. Sure, he rids the world of very bad people, but that's something that we're taught in today's world isn't okay. Plus, him destroying the papers about the adoptions was a really crappy thing to do. If he hadn't apologized at the end, it would have really pissed me off.

Together, the two made a very unique pair. The way Diaz took care of her was truly touching. Not every man would be able to do what he did. Especially a man who is supposed to be a stone-cold killer.

The storyline really draws a reader in as well. I wanted to know what would happen next; where the twists and turns would go. I wanted Milla to find her son, but I wasn't sure it would actually happen. And then when it did...man, that scene with her giving up rights to him was just brutal. I was all sniffly and teary-eyed.

There was only one thing about the book - well, two things - that bugged me. One was that I wish Howard hadn't gone for the "known antagonists" where the reader knows exactly who the bad guys are for most of the book. I think it could have been done a little more subtly to up the suspense level. But that didn't bother me all that much.

The thing I didn't really like was the fact that once Milla and Diaz learn all the details of the black-market baby/organ rings, that whole storyline just fizzles away. Diaz comes in and tells Milla that True and Susanna had been arrested and that's it. After that comment, you never hear another detail about what happens regarding them. Not even in the epilogue. I really wanted to know if they'd been found guilty, gone to prison, etc. Instead all you learn is that they were arrested and then nothing. That annoyed me.

But otherwise, this book was a great read. Everything about it - the characters, the relationships, the storyline - just yanks the reader right in and doesn't let you go. I stayed up way to late reading because I was so into the story. It was just a truly great book to read.(less)

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Jul 11, 2008 Christa rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I thought that Cry No More was an absolutely wonderful book. It was one of the most emotional that I have read in a long while. The book was humorous in places, heartrending in others. The heroine, Milla, has spent the last years devoting herself to Finders, the organization she founded to locate missing children. Diaz, a shadowy, dangerous figure who has the reputation of being able to find anyone, appears in Milla's life after she begins asking questions about him. The two team up to unravel t...more

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Sep 11, 2010 Shannon C. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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5 stars: Fast paced, emotional roller coaster

I've read about 75% of Linda Howard's books and this one has become my favorite. As a mom, my worst fear is something happening to my son, so the kidnapping storyline was especially horrifying and suspenseful to me. The story was so heartwrenching--I was crying several times during the book--but it had a wonderful ending.

The book wasn't predictable--when I read the back description I figured it would go a certain way and it didn't. It kept me on the...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Diana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, favorites, romance-suspense, soa-review, featured

Narrated by Joyce Bean

While I don’t hesitate to call Cry No More Linda Howard’s most heart-wrenching and powerful book, its painful subject matter means it’s not one I’ve listened to as frequently as I’m wont to do with Howard favorites. Relistening in preparation to write this review, I gained new appreciation for the intuitive interpretation narration skill subtly employed by Joyce Bean to great effect. It would have been easy for a less experienced narrator to overplay the plight of heroine M...more Narrated by Joyce Bean

While I don’t hesitate to call Cry No More Linda Howard’s most heart-wrenching and powerful book, its painful subject matter means it’s not one I’ve listened to as frequently as I’m wont to do with Howard favorites. Relistening in preparation to write this review, I gained new appreciation for the intuitive interpretation narration skill subtly employed by Joyce Bean to great effect. It would have been easy for a less experienced narrator to overplay the plight of heroine Milla Boone. So right up front, kudos to Joyce Bean for a pitch perfect performance. I’m going to do my best to write this spoiler free for anyone who hasn’t read Cry No More because the way Howard doles out the story is pretty darn brilliant and kept me on tenterhooks right up until the epilogue.

Milla’s wunderkind surgeon husband David is doing a year of pro bono work in a small Mexican village and their idyllic life consists of David’s work and Milla’s joy in new motherhood. Tragedy strikes in an instant and without warning when Milla’s newborn is snatched from her in the sleepy village marketplace. She fights for her baby, gouging out an eye of one attacker before she is felled with a near fatal knife wound.

Ten years later and divorced, Milla’s every waking moment is devoted to running Finders, the volunteer organization that came to be as a result of her phenomenal success in finding other people’s lost and stolen children. James Diaz, a shadowy character with a fearsome reputation, agrees to help Milla. He is impressed with Milla’s single-minded quest to discover what happened to her stolen son Justin. Diaz is also convinced that Milla has been “handled” and misdirected by powerful people who put no limits on what they’ll do to keep their secrets and he’s just the man to uncover the truth.

I highly recommend Cry No More even though it’s a given that you’ll cry buckets. Dark and tragic themes beyond baby selling abound and Howard and Joyce Bean take us through the powerful emotions Milla must deal with as she faces terrifying moral questions and impossible choices. While they chase the truth, a soul deep love born of her pain and his need to soothe that pain blossoms between Milla and Diaz. Diaz’s tender care of Milla when she needs him the most makes him one of the most profoundly romantic heroes I’ve ever met.

Joyce Bean’s reading leaves no doubt that she gets it. When I was an audiobook newbie I listened to quite a few of Bean’s narrations and now that I’ve got a more finely tuned ear, I appreciate her even more. She’s a consummate pro and her reading of Cry No More is exactly right for a story that doesn’t need enhancement but a narrator who feels it and knows exactly how to share it.

Review appears at Speaking of Audiobooks at All About Romance 7/9/12
http://www.likesbooks.com/blog/?p=8483
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Oct 25, 2008 Kathrynn rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Kathrynn by: Auntee

Shelves: romance-suspense, own, 2008, theme-loss_of_child, fiction-general, reviewed

This one definitely held my interest from page #1...it begins 10 years in the past, in Mexico, where Milla's 6-week old son is stolen from her. For 10 years, Milla searched for her son and also formed the privately funded organization, Finders, where she and others helped find missing people in both the U.S. and Mexico.

This book is not much on romance, but it is a suspense. The baby-smuggling ring morphed into "involuntary" body organ donation, but the book did not delve too much into that.

The...more

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Mar 12, 2008 Pamela(AllHoney) rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Milla Edge had her baby yanked from her arms. A mother's worst nightmare! Now she is on a crusade to find missing children, including her own. A tip leads her to Diaz, an assassin who may know something.

I don't normally get so emotional about a book that I actually cry but I did this time. A very emotional heart-wrenching ride with this one. Linda Howard knows how to pull the heartstrings. The subject matter hit home about how easy it is to lose a child through no fault of your own.

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Feb 26, 2011 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, favorite-standalone-books, linda-howard, romantic-suspense, tearjerkers, contemporary

Okay, the title of this book is "Cry No More" but I ended up crying a whole lot while reading it. What's up with that! :P

This is one of the most heart-wrenching stories I have read in a while. This story takes you on the journey of a woman's growth from a young and innocent woman, to a strong woman who has gracefully aged through divorce, loss of a child, self-guilt, and finally freeing herself and finding redemption. I really admire this woman who was so tenacious even though her circumstances...more

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Mar 23, 2010 Lady Valee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantic-suspense, favorites, books-too-good-to-be-true

I adored this book. Seriously. It has been a really long time since I have read something this good. I stayed up too many hours to be able to finish it today. It is an emotional roller coaster, So many genres together in only one book.

I don't feel very chatty today, so I won't be able to write a good review,LOL. Just know that there's no way you won't enjoy this book. It's just too good to be true. I'm adding at least 3 more Howard's books to my TBR pile.

The only problem I have found with this b...more

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May 06, 2013 ♥Laddie♥ rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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BEST Het Romance Couple and Possibly The Best Hero In Any Genre

For years I have been wanting to read this book. I waited for there to be a reprint so that Barnes & Noble would start stocking it again. That didn't happen so, finally, I bought it through the Kindle app on my iPhone. Best. Purchase. EVER.

Cry No More starts out in a beautiful spot. Milla Boone is a very new mother. We see her through her loving husband's eyes as she breastfeeds their newborn. This is one of the most beautiful ti...more BEST Het Romance Couple and Possibly The Best Hero In Any Genre

For years I have been wanting to read this book. I waited for there to be a reprint so that Barnes & Noble would start stocking it again. That didn't happen so, finally, I bought it through the Kindle app on my iPhone. Best. Purchase. EVER.

Cry No More starts out in a beautiful spot. Milla Boone is a very new mother. We see her through her loving husband's eyes as she breastfeeds their newborn. This is one of the most beautiful times in a new family's life. The birth of a very much in love couple's first child. The blush of fresh parenthood. Milla and her brilliant surgeon husnband are living in Mexico for a year while he works with other American doctors at a clinic. After seeing the beauty of this young family the reader is pretty much then thrown into a nightmare. Milla's child is stolen and she comes very close to death. A nightmare.

First let me say that the author did a wonderful job of making the horrible thing that happened even more horrible by setting it against the backdrop of the happy way the book starts. Smart. The book then fast forwards ten years and you get another version of Milla. The woman she's become after what happens in those first pages of the book. Milla goes back to her maiden name; Milla Edge. She's started an organization, Finders, that looks for lost and kidnapped people. She's made herself into someone who can go into the worst parts of the U.S. and Mexico to find people and to talk to people who may be able to give her information about the men who stole her son; the son that Milla has never stopped looking for. She's harder though she still enjoys feminine things, she's braver, she's more determined, and she's focused. I loved the character of Milla Edge. She is most definitely my favorite romance heroine.

For the last couple of years Milla has been hearing whispers about a man named Diaz who may have had something to do with, or know something about, what happened to Milla's son. People are scared of Diaz. I think scared may actually be too tame of a word. It's said that if Diaz is looking for you that no matter where you try to hide he will find you and when he does...nothing good will probably come of it.

Diaz has a big reputation that I really thought he wouldn't be able to live up to. So many authors try to make their heroes badasses and so many authors fail. Others come close but there is just something missing. Diaz, right from the very first moment he comes onto the scene, is bone chillingly badass. He doesn't have a bunch of guns or weapons. He doesn't come in blazing bullets. He's not dressed in anything but a faded tee shirt, jeans, and work boots. He doesn't even say much. Diaz, though, is like some crazy mix of the most silent and deadly predators in the animal kingdom. Linda Howard did EVERYTHING right when it came to creating Diaz. One of the things I loved about him was that even though he killed there was a code of morals he lived by. They were his own and definitely outside of the law but still they were there. Everything Diaz did had a reason behind it; every word he said, every move he made, every emotion he had or didn't have. Diaz was just plain AMAZING.

As Diaz and Milla embark on the search for Milla's son the reader can see the connection they're forging. There's nothing overt happening at first but the link between the two of them is there. And when Diaz states his intentions, well, it was maybe the sexiest thing ever. It happens at a strange time but the way it happens is totally in keeping with Diaz's character.

The balance between the romance and the suspense in this book is damn near perfect. You find out who the bad guys are pretty early but the book still manages to keep you engrossed in what's going on in the story. I never felt like the romance was lacking or like the suspense was lacking. It was just right.

The end of this was perfect. Absolutely perfect. I'm not even going to talk about it because it's so heartbreaking yet beautiful that to hear about it before reading it for yourself would be almost criminal.

All in all, I think that everyone needs to read this book. To say that I loved it would be an understatement. I knew it would be good but it was beyond awesome. Read it!!(less)

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Dec 16, 2009 Aimee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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What an emotional ride that was! TEARS, TEARS, TEARS!

Milla Edge is the founder of Finders, an organization that finds missing people. She has been ever since her son was taken from her 10 years ago. And she's never given up the search.

Finally, more than 10 years later, she starts getting some real leads to her son's disappearance. Ones that lead her to Diaz. And illusive assasin who's name keeps coming up in conjunction with her son's kidnappers. They end up teaming up to stop the monsters who...more

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Aug 13, 2011 Layla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I have to say that writting a review for this book was never in my plans but even a week after I’ve read it,some scenes kept popping in my mind..

I’ve heard about this book many times and one day, I’ve read the synopsis. It was about a woman,Milla Edge, who ten years ago lost her child but who still had the hope to find him. Dramatic, isn’t it? After I’ve read the synopsis,I’ve read a few review to find out how good the story was. What I’ve read intrigued me so much that I had to read it. Everyo...more I have to say that writting a review for this book was never in my plans but even a week after I’ve read it,some scenes kept popping in my mind..

I’ve heard about this book many times and one day, I’ve read the synopsis. It was about a woman,Milla Edge, who ten years ago lost her child but who still had the hope to find him. Dramatic, isn’t it? After I’ve read the synopsis,I’ve read a few review to find out how good the story was. What I’ve read intrigued me so much that I had to read it. Everyone said that it was a very emotional read and that many tears have been shed over Milla’s painful life. I don't usually cry at books,they have to be very intense to trigger that emotion in me and I thought „ Surely it can’t be that bad?”
And boy, how wrong I was.
By the end of the book, I was sobbing! Sobbing and crying because the story was simply heartbreaking... I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much at a book, it was astonishing.

Milla Edge is a woman with a single aim in her life: to find her baby that was stolen from her ten years ago. That’s all she wants.
I really don’t think I’ve read a more impressing character these days. I don’t have enough words to describe her. She’s tough. Hard.Vurnerable.Strong. Intense.Passionate. You’d have to read the book to understand her. I don’t know what else to say about her.
Were I in her place, I don’t know if I’d have the courage,the iron will to keep looking,to keep hoping. Just how much can this woman hold? How much pain?
I was very glad that she met Diaz, he was just the ideal man for her. I loved the way he carred about her, the way he understood her and his fierceness in protecting her,even from herself. I was glad that finally she could allow herself to love and to be loved, and through this, to slowly heal her wounds.

Diaz’s character is the perfect blend of alpha male.He has a very intense focus on what he decides he wants. It was the same way with Milla. In most cases hearing something like „I want,I take” would piss me off but in this case, I had no problems because I knew that it wouldn’t be long before Diaz fell in love with Milla. I mean, who wouldn’t?
What I really liked about Diaz was the fact that in spite of his maleness, he really understood the way others thought .He had an uncanny capacity for understanding their process of thinking .This is why, despite him being such a strong character, I wasn’t bothered by his alpha actions .
I also loved his relationship with Milla .I really got the sense that they understood each other without the words ,it is an evidence of the writer’s skill ,to be able to transmit this deep sense of belonging between the two of them .Also, I highly doubt that I would have been so affected by this book if the scenes were not depicted so well,I truly fell into them .

This book is well worthy of the 5* rating that I gave it and I’m very glad I’ve read it, even though afterwards it made me a bit of an emotional mess. I’m going to try to read more of Linda Howard’s books and maybe I’ll find another Milla-like character.

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Jan 13, 2008 Tina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thiller-suspense, romance-contemporary

Milla Boone's 6 week old baby boy was snatched out of her arms on a bright sunny day while she was shopping in an open air market in Mexico. The aftermath of the kidnapping had a profound impact on her life. She founded an organization to help people look for missing children and she continued to look for her own son.

Ten years pass and Milla is no closer to finding her son, despite the fact that her son's kidnapping made news headlines. Her single minded drive to recover her son has alienated he...more Milla Boone's 6 week old baby boy was snatched out of her arms on a bright sunny day while she was shopping in an open air market in Mexico. The aftermath of the kidnapping had a profound impact on her life. She founded an organization to help people look for missing children and she continued to look for her own son.

Ten years pass and Milla is no closer to finding her son, despite the fact that her son's kidnapping made news headlines. Her single minded drive to recover her son has alienated her family, cost her her husband and sent her into very dangerous situations.

Then Milla meets Diaz, a mysterious figure who also specializes in finding people. With Diaz's help, Milla manages to find out more about her missing child in a few weeks than she had in 10 years. And the closer Milla and Diaz get to finding out the truth, the closer they are to danger. And Milla discovers that part of the reason she never found out about her son was due to treachery and betrayal.

I was kinda disappointed in Linda Howard's last few offerings. They seemed really subpar to what I know this author it capable of. This book is more like the Howard I know. This book is a curious amalgm of "Son of the Morning" and "MacKenzie's Mountain" both very good books (Mackenzie's Mountain is simply excellent).

Milla is like Grace St. John of "Son of the Morning." She is a very feminine girly-girl who would have been content to be a Doctor's wife and schoolteacher and raise her own children. But because of one moment of violence she is forced to become a tough survivor (still very girly-girl) who doesn't hesitate to kill if she must.

Diaz, on the other hand, is very much life Wolf Mackenzie. A tough, loner who immediately wants to protect "his woman." Howard does a great job of making Diaz one of the scariest good guys you'd ever meet on paper.

There are some nice little plot twists and the resolution of Milla's baby search is pretty much a tearjerker. I only gave the book four stars because there were some points that I would have liked to have seen resolved or at least revisited in an epilogue such as Milla's relationship with her family and the aftermath of Rip and Susanna's relationship. I was also very disappointed that the plot with the smuggling ring was ended "off-stage" as it were. I would have loved to know what the bad guys' reactions were to getting caught after all this time. But overall a good story. I recommend. (less)

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Jun 17, 2010 Michelle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantic-suspense, audio, read-in-2010, ebooks

Wow! Now I know why this book got such great reviews! It was absolutely amazing and a definite tearjerker so make sure you have a box of tissue nearby! This was also the first Romantic Suspense book that I read and I really enjoyed how I was kept at the edge of my seat!

My heart ached for Milla as she searched for her son. She never gave up, despite what anyone else told her. She knew that one day she'd find the son that was so aggressively stolen from her very arms.

Diaz was such a mysterious,...more

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Mar 01, 2010 Photojim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010-reads, mystery, romance, jim-swap-shelf

Young Milla is with her extraordinary Dr. husband and six week old in Mexico when her child is snatched from her. The rest of the book is set 10 years later and is our heroine trying to track down the people who stole her baby. It was certainly an emotional trail to follow.

I liked our heroine. I thought she was strong and smart. Not as funny as I've grown accustomed with my usual authors. But I will certainly be willing to give Linda Howard another shot.

I was going to give the four stars, but th...more

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Nov 07, 2012 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemp-romance, angsty, favorite-heroes, favorite-alpha-males, favorite-heroines, favorites, intense, suspense-romance, tearjerker, 4-5-stars

Boy was this a great read-bittersweet, beautiful, heartbreaking, unforgettable! I haven't cried like this in a while. I'm excited to have found a new author to love. I'm also sporting a huge crush for the hero (Diaz) in this book. Milla's character is inspiring and I'm in awe of her bravery. This one is going right into my favourites shelf-a definite recommend! Have some tissues handy, you'll need them.

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Feb 10, 2009 Susanne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Cry no more is not a good title for this book. I cried at the beginning, middle and end. Very good. Not the ending I expected.

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Jan 24, 2013 D.W. Nichols rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Empieza con una escena profundamente cotidiana, casi simple, y echamos un breve vistazo a la vida de un matrimonio, el de Milla y David Boone, una pareja normal y corriente, padres recientes. Un momento tierno en el que el padre, asombrado y feliz, mira a su esposa y a su hijo, dormidos, y rememora cómo llegó hasta el punto en que esas dos personas se convirtieron en su mundo.
Nada hace presagiar la tragedia que está a punto de ocurrir.
Milla es atacada en el mercado, su hijo es secuestrado y ella...more Empieza con una escena profundamente cotidiana, casi simple, y echamos un breve vistazo a la vida de un matrimonio, el de Milla y David Boone, una pareja normal y corriente, padres recientes. Un momento tierno en el que el padre, asombrado y feliz, mira a su esposa y a su hijo, dormidos, y rememora cómo llegó hasta el punto en que esas dos personas se convirtieron en su mundo.
Nada hace presagiar la tragedia que está a punto de ocurrir.
Milla es atacada en el mercado, su hijo es secuestrado y ella está a punto de morir.
Diez años después, Milla, ya divorciada, trabaja en una organización llamada Rastreadores, que se dedica a buscar niños y adolescentes desaparecidos o secuestrados. Y sigue buscando a su hijo.
Se ha convertido en una mujer dura y fría, cuyo único objetivo y esperanza en la vida, es encontrar al bebé que le arrebataron de sus manos. Nada más importa ni tiene cabida en su vida. Más allá de eso, no existe nada. Pero dos hombres se cruzan en su camino, los dos fuertes, guapos y peligrosos por diferentes motivos. Ambos se sienten atraídos por ella. Y, sorprendentemente, Milla se siente atraída por uno de ellos.
Una novela obsesiva, llena de los trágicos sucesos que envuelven la vida de MIla, de conspiraciones y traiciones, y de telón de fondo, el problema real de las desapariciones y secuestros de mujeres y bebés que azota la región de Ciudad Juárez, en México.
Es una novela desgarradora, tanto por los hechos que narra como por la forma en que nos transmite todo el dolor de Milla, la forma en que su vida se hundió, todas sus esperanzas y sueños, sus alegrías, desaparecidas junto con su hijo. Y al mismo tiempo es un himno para todas aquellas mujeres que, a pesar de las terribles circunstancias que las han golpeado, se mantienen fuertes y erguidas en lugar de abandonarse al dolor o la pena, y que luchan día a día, durante el resto de sus vidas, por encontrar esperanza, respuestas, justicia o, simplemente, venganza.
Me ha gustado bastante, aunque le he encontrado un pero: la intriga no se mantiene el tiempo suficiente, pues rápidamente empiezas a sospechar de algunos personajes que rodean a la protagonista, y antes de llegar siquiera a la mitad, el nombre del principal culpable aparece como si estuviera escrito con luces de neón en la fachada de un rascacielos, por lo que la intriga se reduce a preguntarse si Milla encontrara vivo a su hijo o no.
En cuanto al romance entre los dos protagonistas… es lento. Muuy lento. Se construye tan despacio que casi parece que no esté ahí. Hasta que estalla de repente y se convierte en algo visceral, básico y arrollador.
En cuanto a él… A Milla la conocemos en seguida, y sabemos cómo es. En cambio, el protagonista es un enigma que vamos descubriendo poco a poco.
No quiero contar nada más, excepto que vale la pena leerla. Siempre, eso sí, con una buena provisión de pañuelos cerca, porque hay algunos momentos en que es imposible no echarse a llorar.(less)

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Dec 18, 2012 Kara Jorges rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Linda Howard took some difficult subject material and handled it well in this sad tale of loss. It begins 10 years ago on an idyllic day in a Mexican village as Milla Boone takes her baby shopping at the market. Things go horribly wrong and Milla’s baby boy, Justin, is snatched and she gets stabbed fighting off her attackers.

Ten years later, Milla is divorced and still dedicated to finding Justin. She has founded Finders, an organization of volunteers who look for lost people. Living in El Paso,...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Gotta rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Ok, So, this is my first reveiw so i am sorry if it's a little jumbled up.
At first I was reluctant to pick up a novel written by Linda Howard because I read open season by her and even though the book was good it was not GREAT. And I have been looking for a great romance novel lately. I've read so many novels in the past couple of months with great reviews but they never live up to their reviews. SO...last night i typed in romance/thriller novels in google and found 'Cry no more' well...again I...more

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Feb 21, 2011 Erin Kern rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The very first book I read by Linda Howard was Shades Of Twilight. Ever since I put that book down I've read every Linda Howard book I could get my hands on. I'd seen Cry No More on amazon before but was always hesitant to buy it. The fact that it dealt with a baby being snatched right out of a young mother's arms made me very uneasy.

I read several customer reviews, which were all raving so I gave the book a chance. All I can say is, I should not have waited to long to read this one. I read the...more

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Sep 26, 2010 Jane Stewart rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: romantic-suspense

Too sad for me.

The first 100 pages and the last 80 were full of grieving and sorrow. I was crying more than I liked. Milla's infant in stolen from her and she is searching for 10 years for him. Then she meets Diaz an assassin who helps her. With his help she gets answers and they develop a relationship. This part of the story was good. I loved the Diaz character. There were a couple of lines about Diaz that intrigued me, which follow. "women tended to be afraid of him. He tried never to be rough...more

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Jun 03, 2010 Ty rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wrote this review over on amazon several months ago - yes, I'm posting here cuz I'm lazy... It's the only book I ever reviewed on amazon, so I figured, why waste it?

*****

There are some books that you have no trouble abandoning mid-read and some that were so excrutiating that you happily added it to your wall-banging list. There are other books you come back to again and again, whether they made you laugh or cry or happy or sad. Something about it compells you to revisit the characters you met...more

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Apr 05, 2010 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: suspense-thriller, general-mainstream-fiction

Milla's 6-week-old son was torn from her arms as she visited the marketplace one morning. For the next ten years, despite the many suggestions that she move on, she continued to search for her son. It cost her a good marriage and quite a bit of herself, changing her in irrevocable ways.

This was an emotional book. I didn't actually cry (although I came close), but it was painful at times. As a suspense novel, this was a thoroughly engaging ride and some of Linda Howard's best work.

It was almost a...more

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Jan 06, 2010 Kath rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Really liked this one but it was a tough topic. If you're a parent, you'll have to try not to relate too closely to some of the content as it might be hard to get though. A great story though, with very characters that are drawn very well.

Loved Milla. One of the things that I appreciated about her was that she managed to change a terrible and tragic situation into something good. She runs and agency to find missing children after her own child is taken from her. I even liked her ex-husband who w...more

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Dec 06, 2011 lia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller, historical-romance

I love this book.
It is not a traditional romance, so i put in romance and thriller shelf.

It is about a fight of a mother who lost her baby to a criminal ring who abduct and sold babies.
Since her baby was abducted, Milla's life cannot be the same, she cannot be the same. She changed from a feminine women into a warrior who founded "Finders" organization that its sole focus is to find missing babies.

After 10 years of dead end, she finally getting help from Diaz and finally got a lead on who is...more

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Feb 22, 2010 Kandice rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book with two friends. It's not a book I would have found on my own, so it's even more special to really enjoy a book you find through others, and enjoy it I did!

The subject was horribly sad and gut-wrenching. It focuses on one woman's crusade to help find all the "lost" people in the world. Milla's baby is snatched at 6 weeks of age, and besides breaking her heart, it changes her entire life. She spends the next 10 years tirelessly searching for him and others on the way. There is r...more

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Linda S. Howington was born on August 3, 1950 in Alabama, United States. She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own enjoyment. She worked at a trucking company where she met her husband, and then decided to try and get her work published in 1980. [1:] Her first...more

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“She felt both relaxed and protected with him, at least from outside forces. Nothing, it seemed, could protect her from him, and tonight she wasn’t even certain she wanted to be. Claimed, and mated. She was his, but was he hers? And if he was, what in hell did they do about it?
“I don’t even know what you want,” she said fretfully, beginning to lose herself in rising sensation.
“This,” he muttered in a dark, rough tone. “You.
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“He unsnapped her jeans and said, “I want you just like this.” Then he kissed her.
There was nothing romantic about Diaz, no murmured sweet things, no gallant gestures, just this kiss that went on and on, deep and voracious. She’d never been kissed like this before, with an intensity that stripped everything down to the simplest components: male, female. He held her with his hand burrowed into her hair, her skull gripped in his palm, her head tilted back while he fed from her mouth. That was what it felt like, a taking. And yet he gave, too. He gave pleasure. She burned with it, the flames fueled by nothing more than his mouth and tongue.” — 6 people liked it

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