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Always Watching

	现价: 原价: $9.99 您节约: $ 9.99 ( 100% ) 销售排行: #3679 (lower is better) 库存情况: N/A 制造商: Zondervan 作者: Brandilyn Collins 用户平均打分:
Format: Kindle Book Label: Zondervan Manufacturer: Zondervan Publisher: Zondervan Release Date: 2009-08-12
Always Watching 介绍 This daughter of a rock star has it all---until murder crashes her world. The exciting and suspenseful Rayne Tour series features sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor, on tour with her mother's popular band. Shaley lives in a whirlwind of backstage secrets, hotels, and limos. With beauty and fame of her own, Shaley wants for nothing ... except the one thing she can't have. During a concert, sixteen-year-old Shaley O'Connor stumbles upon the body of a friend backstage. Is Tom Hutchens' death connected to her? Frightening messages arrive. Paparazzi stalk Shaley. Her private nightmare is displayed for all to see. Where is God at a time like this? As the clock runs out, Shaley must find Tom's killer---before he strikes again.
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Always Watching 用户反馈: 用户打分: 用户总结: Cut off in the middle. 用户评语: deb from maine Loved the story, but disappointed to be hooked into a free book that will now cost me to get to the end. It should have been labeled Part 1 . I have read many a series, but each book had its own unique story line. 用户打分: 用户总结: A good but ultimately shallow read 用户评语: Teen Christian fiction occasionally tends to be either the uber-preachy or the type of book where the religious content feels tacked on. Unfortunately, this book is the latter- the religious bits just felt tacked on. Now since this book has a nice lengthy plot summary & several reviews who also list the plot, I'll refrain from listing it again here so I can explain my review. First off, I did like this book. The plot was decent & I'm curious enough to read the next book. The only problem? The book was ultimately a shallow read. None of the characters were really fleshed out- especially the people we are supposed to sympathize with. The authors did a decent job of writing Shaley as an average teenager, but other than that she lacks definition. The voice of religion in the book, the character of Carly stands out like a sore thumb because she wasn't developed enough to really feel like a natural addition to the plot. She shows up, talks about religion & then disappears as soon as she's done. What's sad about this is that the character & the religious talk would have actually fit in with the particular scenes & situations in the book... if only there had been more development. Now I know that I would have liked this as a teen & I do believe that most teens out there would really enjoy this book. It's not the greatest teen CF book I've ever read (Dekker & Peretti are my favorites) but it's not as over the top as some of the other series I've read. (The TrueColors series just seems to browbeat the reader with religious themes.) I just think that many teens will also be irked at the lack of development. As one other reviewer said, this book is pretty much a bare bones skeleton of a plot. In the end, I would suggest that any potential buyers check this book out at the library first or borrow it from a friend. It's worth reading at least once, but it may not be something people might re-visit over & over again. I do have to say though... if the authors work out the kinks, this should end up being a great series in the future. 用户打分: 用户总结: Shallow. 用户评语: Could a novel targeted at middle school girls possibly be more cliched than this one? The characters in this book are not good role models for teenage girls. The multiple older men who are obsessed with the main character was a disturbing element that made me wonder what the authors could possibly have been thinking, especially given that one of them was depicted in a positive light. This novel is a short, easy read. The mystery itself is actually quite good, with a red herring that can easily mislead, but with the actual killer well set up. But the mystery is the only thing about the book that's any good. Where to start? The main character, Shaley O'Connor and her best friend Brittany are both 'popular and attractive' -- thin, beautiful, fashion and makeup conscious, with no subtlety or depth to their characters. Shaley is annoyingly immature; what depth she has involves whining and throwing temper tantrums about her missing father, and her famous mother who doesn't pay enough attention to her. She insists that she would give up all the money and perks for time with her mother, but in the very next scene is off spending atrocious amounts of money shopping for clothes. Brittany, her best friend, is little more than an accessory. She has no personality, aside from the bizarre quirk of 'sometimes being able to see the future' (a very crude plot device that is used once, unnecessarily, at the beginning and is never useful again). She disappears when it's inconvenient to have her around, so that she's left behind several times when Shaley goes to do important stuff elsewhere. And when the time comes for Shaley to finally really break down and need comfort, even with Brittany right there, she calls in a third party to console her. The authors also resort to the tired and over-used device of short cut-aways to the twisted mind of the killer in a sad attempt to up the suspense. These were so poorly done -- and utterly disturbing, given how pedophilic they became -- that I eventually just started skipping them. There were so many elements that had potential, especially Shaley's relationship with her mother, but what could have been thoughtful and touching was handled clumsily and without any particular depth or insight. Top everything off with a few references to Jesus Christ clumsily jammed in, and the product wasn't worth the time I took reading it. 用户打分: 用户总结: "Always Watching" book ordered 12/26/09 用户评语: It is January 27th and I have not received the book I bought and paid for. I am very upset because I've ordered books throuth Amazon for years and have NEVER had this problem before. Lois Curran 用户打分: 用户总结: Fast and shallow read 用户评语: To "test drive" my new Kindle, I downloaded several free books... this being one of them. Nothing on the site advised this book was written for teenagers or that it has "soft" Christian overtones. Be that as it may, there are better choices for teenagers... this book is poorly written and is lame. The main characters (mother and daughter) are not developed and are quite shallow. Some of the language is ridiculously descriptive to the point of being distracting. I forced myself to keep reading, believing that it would get better. Wrong. Same sloppy writing to the last page. To find out the end, one must purchase the next in the series to follow the remainder of the story. I won't be one of those persons.