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Mirror Image
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Sandra Brown (Goodreads Author)
The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn't just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish woman named Carole Rutledge, the badly injured Avery would find that plastic surgery had given her Carole's face, the famous senatorial candidate for a husband, and a powerful...more
Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
Published
June 1st 1990
by Grand Central Publishing
(first published 1990)
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Overall, I loved this story and the main plot. Mistaken identity made in a plan crash and the crash victim (Avery) undergoes reconstructive surgery and ends up taking someone else's identity. Before she can reveal her identity, she finds that the woman's husband (Tate), a senatorial candidiate is an assasination target. His wife (Carol, her new identity) was in on it. During her recovery, Tate is there daily, giving her encouragement and Avery finds Tate as the center of her world. He's very car...more
This was a long book, where I think some in the middle could have been cut out. I loved the start. You could feel Avery's dread, trapped in her own body and being changing into a person that wasn't her. I can't imagine surviving a plane crash and then waking up to people calling you be someone else's name and not being able to communicate in any way that they are wrong. Then the medical issues start to happen, a surgery scheduled to fix your face, but it isn't your face that it will look lik...more
Ahahahai, waktunya melunasi hutang! X) Aku menunda membaca buku ini selama 2 bulan (tak terlalu lama lha ya, dibanding buku lain yang sampai bertahun-tahun), dan akhirnya selesai hanya dalam waktu 5-6 jam saja. *dance* Sebuah pencapaian lho ini, soalnya belakangan cenderung jarang ada buku yang mampu membuat aku membelalakkan mata hanya untuk membaca non-stop dari awal hingga ending.
Oke, bahas ceritanya, tidak afdol kalau membaca review tanpa menuliskan terlebih dahulu garis besar ce...more
Oke, bahas ceritanya, tidak afdol kalau membaca review tanpa menuliskan terlebih dahulu garis besar ce...more
Not my standard fare, but I liked it.
Take away the cover illustration and this book could take place pretty much any time in history. With the cover image, I knew I was stuck firmly in the 1980's.
Two women are on the same flight, similar enough in appearances, that they're mistaken for one another after the plane crashes immediately upon take-off. Avery Daniels wakes up to find herself swathed in bandages, constantly being referred to as Mrs. Rutledge. As she slowly begins r...more
Take away the cover illustration and this book could take place pretty much any time in history. With the cover image, I knew I was stuck firmly in the 1980's.
Two women are on the same flight, similar enough in appearances, that they're mistaken for one another after the plane crashes immediately upon take-off. Avery Daniels wakes up to find herself swathed in bandages, constantly being referred to as Mrs. Rutledge. As she slowly begins r...more
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The plot is very similar to the film Shattered except the genders are reversed. To save herself, a woman must live the life of another woman after having survived a plane crash. It's a case of mistaken identity taken to the extreme and complicated by near perfect reconstructive surgery. Sandra Brown seems best at writing shorter stories, ones that just break the two hundred page mark. This novel at 400+ pages drags in the middle, weighed down politics and the machinations of a teenage harlot.
This is one of the most amazing books I have read in a very long time. Avery Daniels is a has-been television reporter on her way to cover a story in Dallas when her plan crashes almost immediately after take-off.
Also on the plane are Carole Rutledge and her 3 yr old daughter Mandy. Carole's husband, Tate, is running for the senate seat in Texas.
Avery manages to evacuate the burning plane with Mandy in tow and is mistakenly identified as Carole Rutledge. Unable to immediately co...more
Also on the plane are Carole Rutledge and her 3 yr old daughter Mandy. Carole's husband, Tate, is running for the senate seat in Texas.
Avery manages to evacuate the burning plane with Mandy in tow and is mistakenly identified as Carole Rutledge. Unable to immediately co...more
Ada lagi hero bodoh namun cukup memikat bernama Tate Rutledge ini. Mendengar kabar bahwa istrinya selamat dari kecelakaan pesawat terbang dan mengalami luka bakar sangat parah, namun tetap setia mendampingi "istrinya" hingga sembuh dari operasi plastik dan pulang kembali ke rumah bersamanya.
Avery Daniels, reporter TV yang ternyata selamat ini, mengalami krisis identitas apalagi setelah wajahnya mengalami operasi plastik. Namun Avery tidak bisa mengaku karena pada saat dia kom...more
Avery Daniels, reporter TV yang ternyata selamat ini, mengalami krisis identitas apalagi setelah wajahnya mengalami operasi plastik. Namun Avery tidak bisa mengaku karena pada saat dia kom...more
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This book is like Old Faithful to me...I go back and read it again and again. The story is fantastically woven, and the characters are so enjoyable to read about. And the little sense of mystery in it never disappoints, even though I could almost recite the entire book from memory, for having read it so often! In fact, I might read it again this weekend! That is how much I LOVE this book!
Avery Daniels is in a plane crash. She survives but is badly injured and unable to speak. She is mistaken for Carole Rutledge, wife of Tate Rutledge who is running for the Senate. Tate hires a renowned plastic surgeon to reconstruct his wife's face using photos of her before the accident. Avery knows that she is about to become another person but she is powerless to prevent it. As she lies healing in the hospital she has a visitor who reveals a secret. Someone close Tate is planning to assas...more
Saya tidak terbiasa membaca novel luar negri yang menurut bahasa saya adalah "novel orang dewasa". bukan tidak ada artinya saya memberi julukan seperti itu, karna memang di dalam novel ini ada beberapa adegan orang dewasa-nya. (you know what i mean, hehe) over all, novel ini mampu memadukan antara cerita ala detektif yang dibumbui dengan cerita roman dengan baik. Yang paling menarik dari novel ini adalah Ide Ceritanya yang out of the box. dan benar2 original. Buku ini cocok dibaca bagi...more
This is by far one of my favorite Sandra Brown books. It pulls you in immediately and keeps you guessing til the very end. One of my favorite kind of books, because it's mainly mystery, but a little dash of romance thrown in on the side.
Some authors are good. As a reader you enjoy their story, like the characters, and have the plot figured out by midway through the book. A few authors are amazing and excel at their craft. As a reader you are totally engaged in their story, love the characters, and can't figure out the plot until the very end. Sandra Brown is one of those authors. She is amazing! She is so skilled at keeping the reader on the edge of their seat by the constant twists and turns within the story line. One t...more
I believe this was Sandra Brown's third book. I thought it was well done for the most part. Her characters were great, the story was involved and the romance was hot. The only thing I didn't like was the unrealistic recovery time for a woman who survived a plane crash. She had second degree burns all over her arms, legs and face but yet in only a few short months was a raving beauty. Sorry, my mom suffered severe burns to her legs (long story, ultimately my falt) anyway it took six months b...more
Fast, light, easy and absorbing, just what I look for when I need help getting out of a book standstill. So it's not high literature, it's implausible, mostly predictable, dated, the main character's morals questionable, so what? Sometimes you just need a Jackie Collins-esque book that requires little attention, that's what you get here. If it wasn't a throwaway book, meaning I wouldn't read it again or remember much about it in the future, I'd almost give it four stars because of the fun factor...more
It's a good read. I appreciate the way Brown keeps the twists interesting, they make it hard to put down.
I had bought this paperback because I thought it was a new book; turns out it was written in 1990. I was disappointed at first thinking it was new but I'm glad I read it. I've been reading Sandra Brown books for years. This book was written 20 years ago and I can see how her writing has improved over the years. In this book I had narrowed it down to two "suspects" where in her more current writings there is always 3-4 people. As always, just when I thought I figured this one out,...more
I liked the beginning. Sandra Brown has a way of coming up with a highly unlikely but just barely possible scenario - which she certainly did here. And I enjoyed the last several chapters. However, the middle dragged just a bit. I just found myself thinking "get on with it already" a few times. And, while I was able to buy into the general storyline, there were a few too many times when I thought "okay, nobody's that stupid". Also, this one seemed to me to be a bit more ...more
portrays one's struggle to become other where the only similiarity is the face...
This is my first Goodreads First Reads win, which I received for free and it's very nice ;)
“Mirror image” was written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown and was first published in June 1990 and since then it was republished 4 times, which speaks for itself in my opinion. For me, she is one of those authors whose books I read even when the annotation is ambiguous and unclear or absent altogether – her books are always a good read.
Knowing Sandra Br...more
“Mirror image” was written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown and was first published in June 1990 and since then it was republished 4 times, which speaks for itself in my opinion. For me, she is one of those authors whose books I read even when the annotation is ambiguous and unclear or absent altogether – her books are always a good read.
Knowing Sandra Br...more
Great book with a lot of action and twists that keep you guessing.
This story was incredibly written and a truly genius idea! A plane crash causing a woman to have reconstructive surgery and before she knows it she looks like and has taken the place of someone else whose life is surrounded by turmoil, betrayal and deceit. Sandra Brown didn't forget to add the passion, the action, the tragedy and the desire into this gripping page turner. A phenomenal story, no wonder Brown is New York Times bestseller with stories like these. If only we could peek into her mind...more
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3.5* The most interesting thing about this book for me was the unusual situation Avery found herself dealing with. Setting aside the implausibility of it, it was a great exercise in imagining what it would be like to wholly inhabit another person's life, dealing with all their mistakes and foibles. Each of us is in some way prepared to deal with our own shortcomings and sins, but dealing with another's is much tougher. This is especially true since Avery chose to remain in the place of Carole, a...more
Novel Sandra Brown pertamaku. Dari semua novel Brown yang sempat saya baca, versi terjemahan dan versi Inggris, menurutku Mirror Image adalah yang terbaik.
Cerita tentang seorang reporter Avery Daniels yang menjalani kehidupan wanita lain kehidupan Carole Rutledge, istri senator Tate Rutledge, akibat kesalahan identifasi dalam sebuah kecelakaan pesawat. Avery menghadapi dilema untuk menguak identitas dirinya yang sebenarnya karena takut hidupnya dan hidup keluarga besar Tate terancam....more
Cerita tentang seorang reporter Avery Daniels yang menjalani kehidupan wanita lain kehidupan Carole Rutledge, istri senator Tate Rutledge, akibat kesalahan identifasi dalam sebuah kecelakaan pesawat. Avery menghadapi dilema untuk menguak identitas dirinya yang sebenarnya karena takut hidupnya dan hidup keluarga besar Tate terancam....more
This book is more mystery than romance as many of Sandras exceptional stories are and tis is a very good one.
The story of a reporter injured so bad in the face she had to get a new one-one from a glam socialite and along with that a senator hubby that some nutcase wants to kill.
And so it starts right away in the hospital with a visit-from said nutcase and the suspense contiues on thru the book with a romance with an involved hero-who to believe?.......
The story of a reporter injured so bad in the face she had to get a new one-one from a glam socialite and along with that a senator hubby that some nutcase wants to kill.
And so it starts right away in the hospital with a visit-from said nutcase and the suspense contiues on thru the book with a romance with an involved hero-who to believe?.......
Wonderful book! A greata heroine, who can't talk at the beginning when everyone thinks of her as a wife and a mother because she's too much damaged and hurt, she cannot even have her face back, because his supposedly husband gives her his wife's face. And then she cannot talk because she listens to someone talking about a murder and she just has to keep quiet.
I love how she conquers the love of another woman's daughter and husband.
great book!
I love how she conquers the love of another woman's daughter and husband.
great book!
First of all I'm obliged to tell you that I won this copy through GoodReads First Reads Giveaways. However, this review is all my own opinion!
I think this book is a great romantic-suspense-thriller! As an English person, I found reading about the election campaign done American style interesting. Just when I thought I had the plot and guilty party figured out, new information changed my mind, the whole way through! By the end, as the book was drawing to a close, I was getting excited...more
I think this book is a great romantic-suspense-thriller! As an English person, I found reading about the election campaign done American style interesting. Just when I thought I had the plot and guilty party figured out, new information changed my mind, the whole way through! By the end, as the book was drawing to a close, I was getting excited...more
I thought that this would be an interesting premise when I first picked up this book. I found that carrying that premise to the length of a novel was pretty unrealistic. I kept wanting to say, "Oh, COME ON!!???" I think that Brown's novel is well-written so I'd like to see her spend her writing efforts on bigger, meatier subjects. She's better than this.
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRU...more
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Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-one New York Times bestsellers, including LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), HELLO, DARKNESS (2003), THE CRU...more
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