Sunday, December 11, 2011

The NIGHTMARE THIEF by Meg Gardiner ***

Where to begin. Very fast moving page turner but with lots of coincidences that I'm not happy about. This rich girl meets up with a childhood scary guy who just happens to work for EVERYbody bad in the book, even the rich girls dad. There are about 40 names you're bombarded with in about 40 pages.
There were stupid moves by smart people. No one tried to escape. I mean REALLY escape. EVER. They just hung around in one general area to get bumped off one at a time.  People have been known to hide successfully in wooded areas for weeks. It's called getting lost and no one finds them for a long long time if they're any good at it.

It's a page turner, and suspenseful but so many "wow I can't believe HE showed up THERE". It's sort of suspend your disbelief for the entire book and don't get analytical and maybe you'll like it. I'm way to saavy a reader to put up with the coincidences and stupidity of the supposed smart people.

What it's about: rich girl has party about being kidnapped or something and meets her personal nightmare bad cowboy (who coincidently works for EVERYONE) the ending is supposed to be the  kids are successful and happy. Someone in dads old employ has a score to settle so he and some buds of his decide to kidnap the entire party for real during the fake kidnapping. Then the kids coincidently run into 2 sort of special ops people to help save them. Meanwhile lots of the little tweenies are killed. Most of the bad guys get what they deserve but you'll need to read it yourself and decide how out of this world it is.

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