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The Code Shop - Partners

Partners
List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Bella Books
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5Average rating of 3.0/5

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781594931307
ISBN: 1594931305
Label: Bella Books
Manufacturer: Bella Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2008-12-04
Publisher: Bella Books
Studio: Bella Books

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Summary: more of the same & a boring mystery
Comment: the romance is this book is according to a pattern which readers of gerri hill have by now come to be familiar with. they start out as friends, cannot help but fall in love, try to deny it first but cannot help the gravity of their feelings. been there, read that. as if in compensation, the love scenes are quite hot.
what really killed me was the mystery, however. it was just boring, boring, boring. and to end the book with a cliff-hanger, that seemed to be quite lazy.

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Summary: Not sizzling or intense for me...
Comment: I'm really torn about this latest book by Gerri Hill.

It's the continuation/conclusion of the series started with Hunter's Way, so it's a return of beloved characters. The story focuses on Casey, the character introduced in the second book of this series, In the Name of the Father, in addition to the case the homicide detectives have to solve in this crime/romance novel.

I liked the case, trying to solve the murder of young women killed by a peeping tom, I liked how the detectives worked together and brainstormed and what not.

I did not like the romance part of the book, the blurb on the back cover already alludes that Casey will fall for her new partner, Leslie Tucker (not Turner as the blurb says ;)) in a manner that is similar to the romance of Tori and Sam in book one. And that's exactly what happens, basically a re-telling of the Tori/Sam plot with some alterations thrown in. I felt bored with it and ripped off at the same time.

I wonder if it's arrogance to write/sell something that basically you've done before, or pressure to publish something, or some genius stroke of writing I fail to recognize. If you can't think of anything new to write in a series it's maybe not a good thing to continue it?

The author's note says this is the last book in the series, which I guess is a good thing, on the other hand, the crime plot of the book would provide enough material to dive into that world again, but not if the characters don't have more to say.

It's too bad that the two components of this book just aren't on the same level.

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Summary: Partners
Comment: This is a very quiet and lovely story that I dismissed at first reading but have learned to love and can now read over and over. The heroine's future looks very bleak indeed, but her hard circumstances lead her to look for God. There are some very profound spiritual truths here having to do with God's care for us when life is difficult -- not everyone comes out unscathed -- and the main characters come to know God during the course of the book.

Customer Rating: Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5
Summary: A sweet story of faith and responsiblity
Comment: "Partners" is a story about a man and a woman who only know each other from passing each other on the stairs at the decrepit boarding house where they both live. One night, the man finds a baby lying on the boarding house doorstep and nearly frozen to death. Together he and the compassionate young woman fight for the baby's life, and fall in love in the process. It's a little bit simpler than a lot of Hill's books, but it's still a sweet story with a message of faith at the core.


Editorial Reviews:

Tori Hunter always worked solo, but in Samantha Kennedy she found a partner, in more ways than one. Casey O'Connor isn't thrilled to learn that she has a new partner on the way. It's been hard enough to transition from working with live victims to dead ones. Now Leslie Turner is going to slow down the process.

Professional duty trumps personal issues as the detectives focus on their latest case, a killer whose choice of victim is solitary women. The investigation raises a lot of questions around the killer's means and opportunities. Leslie would be happy if the questions stopped there, but she's also wondering why she'd rather spend time with these women--specifically Casey--than with her fiance.

Casey would also like to stick to business, but as the case intensifies she finds herself also watching Tori and Sam and wondering how they balance their public personas and private passions. Figuring it out is a pointless exercise, she tells herself, because that kind of lightning can't possibly strike twice.

Partners concludes the series that began with the chart-topping bestseller Hunter's Way, and continued with the Lambda Literary and Golden Crown finalist In the Name of the Father -- with the sizzling intensity that only Gerri Hill can deliver.


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