Carrie D. reviewed on + 22 more book reviews
One Scream Away is a heart pounding, palm sweating, intensely suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you are turning the pages to the very end.
Chevy Banks is an insanely psychopathic stalker serial killer who collects his victims screams as trophies of their deaths. Beth Denison is an antiques expert who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, became the one woman that got away from The Hunter, and would remain a woman haunted by the events of that day several years later until former FBI agent Neil Sheridan investigates his way into her life and her heart.
Kate Brady masterfully tells this tale, and even though you know who the killer is there are lots of gripping moments and secrets for the reader to discover. The only issue I had with One Scream Away is that it is marketed and categorized as a romantic suspense. I felt that this story was 10% romance, and 90% suspense. This in and of itself is not a bad thing, in fact I would not change anything about the story, but for the fact that I expect a romantic suspense to be just as much a romance as a suspense(50/50).
It seems to me to be a case of the publisher knowing that more romance novels are selling in this tough economy than other genres, so they decided to market a book that is more of a suspense novel as a romantic suspense novel to launch this newly published author. However, this does not change my impression of this book. I thought One Scream Away was a great summer thriller and believe that any fan of Nora Roberts is going to love Kate Brady!
Ratings:
Romance=1.5
Passion=1.0
Kleenex=1.0
Overall= 3.0 as a romance, but as a suspense a 4.5 so overall I would give it 3.75 stars
reviewed for Seductive Musings http://seductivemusings.blogspot.com/
Chevy Banks is an insanely psychopathic stalker serial killer who collects his victims screams as trophies of their deaths. Beth Denison is an antiques expert who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, became the one woman that got away from The Hunter, and would remain a woman haunted by the events of that day several years later until former FBI agent Neil Sheridan investigates his way into her life and her heart.
Kate Brady masterfully tells this tale, and even though you know who the killer is there are lots of gripping moments and secrets for the reader to discover. The only issue I had with One Scream Away is that it is marketed and categorized as a romantic suspense. I felt that this story was 10% romance, and 90% suspense. This in and of itself is not a bad thing, in fact I would not change anything about the story, but for the fact that I expect a romantic suspense to be just as much a romance as a suspense(50/50).
It seems to me to be a case of the publisher knowing that more romance novels are selling in this tough economy than other genres, so they decided to market a book that is more of a suspense novel as a romantic suspense novel to launch this newly published author. However, this does not change my impression of this book. I thought One Scream Away was a great summer thriller and believe that any fan of Nora Roberts is going to love Kate Brady!
Ratings:
Romance=1.5
Passion=1.0
Kleenex=1.0
Overall= 3.0 as a romance, but as a suspense a 4.5 so overall I would give it 3.75 stars
reviewed for Seductive Musings http://seductivemusings.blogspot.com/
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