Sehr spannend, Liebesgeschichte etwas kitschig ( )

This is a very good mystery/suspense book. As others have noted, it's pretty graphic. I do think it is a romance...there are strong romantic elements and the whole storyline revolves around the hero and heroine coming to grips with their past and learning to trust and love again. This was a page turner, and hard to put down! ( )

This was the last book I brought with me on holiday, and if I had more choice, I would not have read it. (I was on a plane and the tv was broken) It wasn't especially well written with the occasional real clunker of a sentence. The characterizations slowly grew deeper, but the writing never really improved.

The murders were too hard core for me. I felt it verged on torture porn. I hate torture scenes and don't need to be anywhere near them, and this was too explicit for me. A crazy man tortures people to hear them scream and then paint them from the video tapes of their deaths. He then puts the images into a computer game which rocks due to its explicit realism. A bit far fetched, no?

Anyways, nice guy cop Vito Ciccotelli enlists the help of gorgeous blond archaeologist Sophie Johannsen and they fall in love against this hideous background. C+ ( )

Die For Me has received almost unanimous 5 star reviews from everyone whose read it that I know personally. I'm gonna have to add mine to it. Well written, extremely well plotted without sacrificing one ounce of character development- Ms. Rose is an author to watch!

She must be, considering the fact I'm almost fed up with the serial killer/stalker plot. In fact, I almost put DFM down soon after I started it because of this, but the intriguing characters and my curiosity about them kept me going.

Sophie is an archaeologist called into to assist the police in a homicide investigation when a body is found on a deserted piece of property. She's tall, prone to hippy clothing, bold and blond- and just as vulnerable as you and I. Vito is a detective with soft heart. He's seen the worst- including an event that killed the woman he loved, but he hasn't given up on humanity. When they meet, there is an instant attraction and, despite all that's going on around them, and their respective baggage, they fall for each other in a big way.

The killer in this story is unconscionable, heartless, and not as intelligent as he thinks! Too late, he finds himself up against a formidable investigative team- a team who cracks the shell of his evil deeds putting themselves one step ahead of unknowing him through most of the book. (Which is something that I LOVED about DFM. These cops were no dummies!)

This book is a nail-biter and the inevitable climax and resolution is satisfying enough to suit even lil ol' jaded me! (Sophie ain't no wilting flower waiting patiently for her knight in shining armor- although Vito is indeed that!)

Good read! ( )

This one is classed as Romantic Suspense but I found it much more loaded on the Suspense side than the romantic. I'll be honest - I didn't enjoy it as much as I did Count to Ten. I found the graphic nature of the murders a bit disturbing and not enough of the romance to really counterbalance it. I'm not used to reading books quite this heavy duty. I was also slightly bothered by the fact that we got into the victims heads before they were brutally tortured. That made it a bit tougher too. Of course, this cold could me making me more week kneed than usual.
Still - she's a good writer and I have two more of her books that I'm looking forward to reading ( )