The Morning After
by Lisa Jackson
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Author: Lisa JacksonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN: 0821772953
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Zebra Books
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Book Review: How this can possibly be called a "romantic suspense" is beyond me
Summary: 3 Stars
A fairly typical thriller/suspense.
The Morning After features a lunatic killer who buries people alive and who sends cryptic clues to the police and media. Detective Pierce Reed is personally connected to the case when the first victim turns out to be an ex-lover of his. The killer draws him further by sending Reed notes. Reporter Nikki Gillette wants the story of her career and is determined to get any information possible, including why Reed is so crucial to the case. As they try to find the killer, everyone's lives are in danger.
This story is a good suspense story. It's well-written, complicated, dark and twisted. You're drawn into the story and what's going on, trying to figure out who the bad guy is. So it was a good read in that sense.
As a "romantic suspense", as the book is labeled on the spine, it's really damn lousy. It's the worst "romance" I've ever read, simply because there's practically no romance at all in the entire book. The book is about 430 pages long, and up to about page 250, Reed and Nikki have only 1 serious interaction, and throughout the whole book, I think they kiss twice. There's no emotional connection between them, nothing deeper than the case they are working on. And at the end, you're given only that they may be about to enter into some sort of relationship.
All that hardly qualifies this book as any sort of romance. Why it is labeled as a romantic suspense is beyond me. I was highly disappointed in that factor. If you're looking for a good thriller, you'll like this book, but if you want romance, I'd avoid it. Along with her other books, as I'm told they are much the same. Too bad I didn't know that before I bought 2 other books of hers.
Rating: 2.5 / 5 (for serious lack of romance...I am a reviewer of romance books, after all)
Summary of The Morning After
A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive, and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic killer will hear. To journalist Nikki Gillette, this disturbing story is a ticket out of small - town Savannah and on to the big time. She's already given the killer a nickname - The Grave Robber - and she's spending every minute dogging tough cop Pierce Reed's investigation, trailing him through Savannah's deep thickets and crumbling cemeteries...even though she's starting to wonder about the secrets he's keeping. Another body is found...and another. Each gruesome discovery unnerves Nikki a little more...there's something familiar about it, something she should know. Now, as a serial killer pulls her ever deeper into his sick game, she has no idea how close she's getting to the truth - or how deadly it will be.Literature & Fiction Books
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