Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors
by Natalie R. Collins

Behind Closed Doors
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Author: Natalie R. Collins
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-02
ISBN: 0312934866
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

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Book Review: Amateur writing, silly plot, ridiculous characters
Summary: 1 Stars

This is one of the most badly written books I've read in years. The author thanks her "wonderful editor" who can "find the weakness in a manuscript and hand you the answer effortlessly." I found no evidence of editorial judgment whatsoever.

The plot is contrived; the characters' dialogue and reactions are consistently unrealistic and over the top, respectively; no one does or says anything without the color draining from their faces or rushing to their faces -- or some other cliched physiological response; the protagonist faints, passes out, and otherwise hits her head so often she ought to be wearing a crash helmet; and her "hero," a cop, doesn't actually seem to have a job since he spends all his time chasing around after her and ignoring basic police protocol.

Nothing in this book is believable, and the author guarantees our scorn by solving all her plot problems by killing people off.

Finally, returning to the question of editorial competence, there are so many inconsistencies that you have to wonder if the editor actually read the manuscript or simply reviewed a plot outline. Every other page has some kind of absurd consistency error, like the one on pp. 288-89, where the cop is following the damsel -- he in his car, she in hers -- and then, a sentence later, his cell phone rings, he answers, and she looks at his face and knows he's going to drop her off and go back out.

The entire book is clumsy, repetitive, tedious, ridiculous, and contradictory. Skip it.

Summary of Behind Closed Doors

For twenty years, they had been closer than sisters, sharing girlhood secrets, their hopes and dreams for the future-and a soul-searing promise. Melissa was the only one who knew what had really happened to Jannie beyond the sacred walls of the Mormon Temple the night that changed her life forever..
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UNTIL HER BEST FRIEND VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE.
Now Melissa has gone missing, just days after entrusting Jannie with a mysterious box that someone would kill to possess. And someone has-leaving in their murderous wake an innocent victim and a trail of blood that leads to the heart of Jannie's hidden burden. Desperate to protect her secret, and to find out what has happened to Melissa, Jannie trusts no one. Not the stranger whose piercing green eyes have already seen too much, nor the family and friends whose familiar fold may be shielding a cold-blooded killer who is lurking
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

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