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Oh, I really liked this book. And since I've been in a reading slump for weeks, a reread is just the thing. Maybe it will shove me out of my slump.
Yay!!!!! So happy it was finally chosen.... I love Marc..... he's right on top with Sam from Mr. Perfect.
One of my favorites!!!! Looooove Marc!!
I thought for sure To Die For was going to win. 2nd place for two months in a row, how sad. Kill and Tell looks really interesting, can't wait to start it.
Anita wrote: "I thought for sure To Die For was going to win. 2nd place for two months in a row, how sad. Kill and Tell looks really interesting, can't wait to start it."You'll love it Anita!!
Anita wrote: "I thought for sure To Die For was going to win. 2nd place for two months in a row, how sad. Kill and Tell looks really interesting, can't wait to start it."You really will like Kill and Tell. Maybe To Die For will win next month. The vote was very close. I looked at it at noon and it was even, then by 10 PM someone voted for K&T
Kill and Tell and Dream Man were the first Linda Howard books I read, and the reason why I keep reading LH books..
Well, Blair will not take kindly to being 2nd. That is a lady who ALWAYS will see herself as 1st all the way.
I'm on page 22 and already they killed off Dexter and shot Rick Medina. Although I have not read any of these older books, I know that Medina comes back in at least two other books, right?
In the beginning, I didn't know if I really liked Marc's character. He seems too good to be true, but as I got further into the book I thought ok he really is a man's man.
Dee wrote: "In the beginning, I didn't know if I really liked Marc's character. He seems too good to be true, but as I got further into the book I thought ok he really is a man's man."I agree the whole calculated seduction left me unsettled. He was on a mission and had a single minded focus - to get her into bed. I don't blame her for running.
Sandra J wrote: "Keep reading! [spoilers removed]"Got it now.
Marc does seem to be a bit of a player. I mean what is a guy gonna do when all these women just fall in love with him. Later he does redeem himself.
What do you guys think about Kill and Tell? It took me a few days to figure this out, but (view spoiler)
I read this a few months ago and enjoyed it. I get what you mean about Marc, Dee, at least in the beginning. I wasn't sure if I was going to warm up to him but he did come through.
Re your spoiler, (view spoiler).
Well, that just threw me for a loop! My sister's name is Sandra and, me being the youngest, I always followed her name. My whole extended family refers to us as the one unit:)
I had not read this one before, but after kind of slow start, I started to really get into this story. I loved Marc from the start. He was just so smooth and take charge. I would have liked to have seen more interaction between Marc and Karen and less of the bad guys though. Although the story probably wouldn't be the same. As usual, Linda's writing rises to the occasion. And Kill and Tell also goes on the keeper shelf along with her other great books.
I really liked this book, then, I really like anything writtrn by LH. Even her so-so books are better than just about anyone else. The plot was real and the book didn't show it's age. Marc wa just yummie and Karen was stricken and pulls it together. The senator was heinous and so egotistical, as only one born to priviledge can be.
I have read a few books(Naked in Death for one) in which a congressman is committing heinous crimes. I know that they are just humans, but I sure hope they aren't having someone killed for there own selfish needs.
I really liked this book, and I must say, I liked Marc right from the beginning. That balcony scene is one of my all-time favorites from any author. Yes, it was calculated, but I like a man who knows what he wants. I agree (with Angela) there could have been a little more of the romance and a little less of the bad guys, but I feel picky even saying that, since I really enjoyed the book. One of my favorite LH lines is in this book, but I'll wait on that.
It is a tough line to walk between the romance and the suspense. I like my romance hot and my suspense scary. A lot of the time it falls heavy on one or the other. If the book has a see through plot, I'm disappointed - unless it has the really hot romance, then I give it a pass.
I love this book... it's one of my favorite and I love Marc.... and against popular views love him more than John Medina.I love how in a book not longer than this one Marc's changes are shown really well. He starts out as this really smooth guy that can charm everyone.... he's calculated and plans ahead of everything....
"Still, there had never been a woman he'd wanted whom he hadn't gotten and he had no intention of letting Miss Karen Whitlaw be the exception."
but ends up possessive, out of control, making strategic mistakes...
"There was nothing light about the way he felt. It was dark and powerful and startlingly primitive. He, who had never before treated a woman with anything but the utmost courtesy, had been torn between the simultaneous and uncivilized urges to either spank her bare ass for leaving him, and therefore putting herself in danger, or to throw her on the bed and make love to her until she knew deep down in her bones she belonged to him and would never leave again."
All because of a woman. It's just panty melting.
Ame wrote: "I love this book... it's one of my favorite and I love Marc.... and against popular views love him more than John Medina.I love how in a book not longer than this one Marc's changes are shown rea..."
Well said, Ame! I totally agree.
I liked this book better the 2nd time I read it. I think because there was more suspense than romance. Once I'd gotten through the plot, I could focus on the romance. And the romance was so good - that balcony scene is genius. I didn't mind that he was a bit calculating because I like a man who goes after what he wants.
I also liked it better the second time around. I wonder why that is that there are books that are better after the first read.
I'm guessing you're able to focus on the nuances once you know the details of the plot? I was confused the first time about how the man murdered at the beginning (Medina?) fit into the rest of the book so that kept me off-balance. But I really don't know the answer. lol
I understood Rick Medina had been tricked by Senator Lake into killing Karen's father. Medina was told Whitlaw was "out of control" or whatever by Lake when the truth was that Whitlaw was blackmailing the Senator. Then Lake had Medina killed and dumped in MS. Whitlaw wasn't carrying "the book" and so Medina hadn't found it nor had it on him...so on to trying to find it by Lake and the hoodlums he hired.
Jane's explanation is the way I understood it, Carly.
Jane's explanation is exactly right!! One of my fav's!! I've read at leat a dozen times!!
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Homicide detective Marc Chastain considers the murder nothing more than street violence against a homeless man, and Karen accepts his judgement-at first. But she changes her mind when her home is burglarized and "accidents" begin to happen. All at once, she faces a chilling realization: whoever Killed her father is now after her. Desperate for answers, Karen retrieves the only thing than links her to her father-the notebook he had sent months before. Inside its worn pages, she makes an unsettling discovery: her father had been a sniper in Vietname and the notebook contains a detailed account of each of his kills.
Now running for her life, Karen entrusts the book and its secrets to Marc Chastain. Together tehy unravel a disturbing story of politics, power, and murder-and face a killer who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the kill book.