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A Calculating Heart
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (2006-02-02)
ISBN: 0141008245
EAN: 9780141008240
Paperback: 352 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Too much chicklit influence
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-05-17
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is part of a series, but despite that it is clearly written with just the right amount of explanation about the characters who have appeared before. I also liked the author's style - she is not afraid to use words of more than two syllables. However, there is far too much about the personal lives of the characters, jumping from one group to another instead of an interwoven plot. The most interesting part of the book concerns the professional life of the protagonist, and this is skilfully interwoven with his personal life; if all of the book had been up to this standard it would have been a better book than it actually is. Another problem is that although the author is convincing in rendering life in chambers, the subplot involving drugs is not. This is only a moderately good read.
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Honestly ...
Rating (3)
Date: 2004-05-19
26 out of 26 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was excited when I heard this new book was out having been totally caught up with the lovely Leo - you felt like you knew him personally.
Overall the book was good, although whilst the intial focus is supposedly on the new tenants of Caper Court they don't play a huge role in the book.
Towards the end I could not put it down, just wanting to turn page, after page ... so caught up again with Leo and his antics. However, the final chapter came to a close BANG and to be honest I felt let down. Maybe Caro Fraser has done this on purpose to leave the door open for the saga to continue but the ending was diappointing particulary given the climax a few pages before.
Worth a read, but not outstanding.
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