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About Face
by Fern Michaels
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sound Library (2003-04)
ISBN: 0792728718
EAN: 9780792728719
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Audio CD
Edition: Abridged
SKU: C121TZX
Condition: Used: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A New York Times Bestseller When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Georgia road, she's a woman without a past -- her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. Her hand clutches a scrap of paper bearing the address of Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey's mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But "home" is anything but a safe haven.
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Customer Reviews
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Mom is a wanna be social climber ....... daughter is abused but lives through the drug induced metnal state she was in for years
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-05-27
I thought the booki was interesting in that it was so much like a soap opera.
It was a book I got at Goodwill so I found it a good read.
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Truly terrible
Rating  (1)
Date: 2004-01-26
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Thi is my first book by Ms. Michaels'and I am fairly sure it will be my last. I think the whole abuse them is so graphically and tastelessly done that it can hardly be considered entertaining, and any author who makes money from this sort of sensationalist rubbish should donate her time and money to rape and child abuse crisis centers.In terms of the writing, it is terrible, completely disjointed. and supposedly trying to portray her disjointed memories. But since she is supposed to have amnesia what does she really remember. And every time she asks she gets all lies anyway. It starts looking more and more like the author does not even know what information to give us to tie the whole thing together, and there are some real inconsistencies and irrelevant information about people and places that make this whole thing read like a disorganized mess in need of a really good edit. Even leaving aside the problems with the narrative structure, we don't care about the characters enough to weed it all out. The heroine Casey is so wooden and nearly always unconscious because constantly fainting, so that she is hardly of any interest and her boyfriend the wonderful doctor is too sterotyped and too good to be true. Just as the mother and step brother and fiance are all too terrible to be true, and the motives of the villains are just unbelieveable. As is the fact that Casey forgives them all in the end and they live happily ever after!! Even the good doc can't believe when Casy forgives them at the end. This is absolute drivel of the worst sort, not romance, not a thriller. Don't waste your time.
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TOO drawn out.
Rating (1)
Date: 2003-10-18
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The plot takes place on an island, and it feels like everyone on the island has a few chapters devoted to him or her. I think that the plot is drawn out so much that it makes the reading frustrating. She seems to give a large part of the story to characters that are inconsequential to the plot. Although, the plot is a bit dark (childhood trauma) you are hooked right away. But the interest may fade with all of the added stories. I found myself skimming pages looking for the real plot to pickup again. If you have a lot of time and patience this is the book for you. For those of us that have little patience and much less time, it is an exasperating read and I do not recommend it.
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Not her best, but Michael fans will like it.
Rating (3)
Date: 2003-06-30
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The story grabs your attention right away, which is good. I don't think anything by Fern Michaels is bad - many others have been better, however.
The main character, Casey, is a young woman released from a mental institution after 10 years who cannot remember what happened to send her there. She goes back to her home town to find out. With the help of the local doctor, Blake, who becomes her love interest as well, they start unraveling the horrible story of what took place in her young life. There are a lot of twists and turns here as well as shady characters to keep the reader interested. The novel could have been absolutely captivating if it had been written just a little differently. The light-hearted bantering (dialogue) between 2 main characters took away from the seriousness of the situation. It didn't seem appropriate at times it was inserted in the story line.
It is a disturbing story, how she was repeatedly raped as a child by a stepbrother, neglected by her mother, and the dark images that haunt her but that she can't identify. She has been drugged heavily for the past 10 years in the institution, and she is afraid to take any medication, but agrees to regression therapy as a last resort to try to remember what supposedly drove her mad.
It's hard not to care about Michael's characters. The "Mommy, Dearest" of the main character was a little hard to believe, yet was lots of fun to hate. It's also a fast read and keeps you turning those pages, perfect for a day at the beach or at the airport.
One thing that did surprise me about this Fern Michaels is that in the beginning of the book Casey has a daydream of home and family, complete with dog (Fern Michaels' novels aren't complete without a dog) but in the end one isn't mentioned. A golden retriever sitting next to the bassinet of the newborn would have been more like the Michaels we know and love!
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TOTALLY DISSAPPOINTING
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-05-26
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was really dissappointed with the plot of the story. Yes, I know it's just a story, but where a mother wants to make her child insane/killed doesn't wash well with me. Most of all the knowledge that her child was being molested and had done nothing about it made my skin crawl. I basically didn't like the whole story. The only reason why I gave it two stars was because of the writing.
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