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14. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain - 3 1/2 stars
I wasn't expecting much from this book, another "serial killer thriller". So here I am rather surprised that I enjoyed this book as much as I did. It has all the standard ingredients, a troubled lead dective with dark secrets, a young ...
"Tell her to get a good night's sleep."
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
"Don't you just love the rain?"
"She wasn't pretty, exactly. Striking was definitely the word for it."
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
"Would your kid have pink hair?"
#67 luv2read97: yes, I actually had my hand on the next one yesterday and then put it back cause I hadn't read Heartsick yet. I will have to go back and pick it up. You're right, if you are going to read about serial killers - you want it to be scary and gross!
I started Heartsick by Chelsea Cain last night. It's about serial killers and appears to be appropriately gross and thrilling.
Looking for a quick read as I know some library books I ordered will be in by Tuesday, so I picked Heartsick by Chelsea Cain off the TBR stacks. It's a serial killer crime story and looks like it's going to be pretty good.
"He was. They talked him into coming back to lead the new task force."
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
"Where am I supposed to find him?"
Sorry everybody, I didn't check back sooner.
From Heartsick by Chelsea Cain Page 44
Clue Nbr 1: inclination
... - Hand Of Isis
G Ghosts And Grisly Things by Ramsey Campbell
H Georgette Heyer - Frederica
H Heartsick - Chelsea Cain
53. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
As a reader of true crime even some scenes in this book got to me. Very graphic. It was good in a sick sort of way.
I will probably read her next book.
... Dane
Stories for a Woman's Heart
At the library I checked out:
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Here's the Story by Maureen McCormick (Marcia of the Brady Bunch)
I need to start reducing my to be read pile instead of increasing ...
Interesting bunch of books you've read this year. I also read Sweetheart this year, and later read Heartsick and enjoyed both. Your comments about Still Life have got me to add it to my TBR.
The last three that I practically devoured: The Birthday Present, Heartsick and Sweetheart
I loved Heartsick and Sweetheart too. The third one is coming out later this year. I can't wait!
48. The Birthday Present, Vine
http://www.librarything.com/review/43425936
49. Heartsick
http://www.librarything.com/review/43425801
50. Sweetheart
... Present
Continuing with my Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine craze:
http://www.librarything.com/review/43425936
34. Heartsick
http://www.librarything.com/review/43425801
#91 - Jonesli - it sounds as if you really enjoyed Heartsick which is good to know as it is on my TBR pile.
Currently I am reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson and it's very, very good!
I just devoured Heartsick and hopefully will begin Sweetheart later this evening.
From the Library today:
Whose Body my first Dorothy Sayers, should they be read in order?
Death of a Glutton, Heartsick ,Sweetheart, The Birthday Present
From Bookmooch: A Sleeping Life and from Overstock Fer-De-Lance
15. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Rating: ★★★1/2
Thriller. First novel in the series about Archie, a police detective, and Gretchen, a totally uncompromising female serial killer. I ...
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This thriller is the sequel to Heartsick , which I read in 2008. It definitely needs to be read as a sequel, and not as a standalone, as much of the story is dependent on events that happened in the first ...
Just finished Heartsick byChelsea Cain Quite a good read, has anyone got books they think I might enjoy? thanks in advance.
15. HeartSick by Chelsea Cain
(finished 2-21-2009)
great psychological thriller
I am reading HeartSick by Chelsea Cain.
Currently reading Heartsick by Chelsea Cain and after that I will start Sweetheart also by Chelsea Cain.
... The plot was fast-paced, with the inevitable twist at the end startling and unexpected. This was better than her first book Heartsick and I suspect I will be reading the next in the series.
Recomended books
1.The Book thief by Markus Zusak read (Feb 15th)
2.Heartsick by Chelsea Cain read (Feb 2nd)
3.Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain read (Feb 3rd)
4.The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz read (Feb 17th)
5.Still life by Louise Penny read (Mar 18th ...
... picked up Natsuo Kirino's Grotesque after being knocked out by Out. Hopefully I'll also read Chelsea Cain's Heartsick , which I've heard good stuff about. Hmm... that's more mystery than I usually read in a year. (Do all these crime novels I mentioned count as 'mystery'?)
... One Finished August 3
41. Poodle Springs Finished April 22
34. Heartsick Finished March 30
20. Death of a Gentle Lady Finished Feb 19
Authors never read before:
1. Chelsea Cain - Heartsick (read)
2. Sheridan Hay - The Secret of Lost Things (read)
3. Judi Hendricks - Isabel's Daughter (read)
4. Paolo Giordano - The Solitude of Prime Numbers ...
...
277. Mortified: Love is a Battlefield - David Nadelberg (304)
278. Supreme Courtship - Christopher Buckley (285)
279. HeartSick - Chelsea Cain (326)
280. Sweetheart - Chelsea Cain (328)
281. The Film Club - David Gilmour (225)
282. Where’s My Jetpack? - Daniel H. Wilson & Richard H ...
... by Robert Alexander. I was a big fan of The Kitchen Boy, so I thought I would try his 2nd historical novel.
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. I've heard decent buzz on this book.
76. Heart Sick by Chelsea Cain
Bought 26/02/08 Asda Doncaster
Enjoyable but predictable murder mystery type about Detective Archie Sheridan, victim of the serial killer Gretchen Lowell, who he has spent ten years hunting before being captured and tortured himself. But he has the apparently ...
... mentioned, I like Kirino because her book brings to life the culture of the setting.
Though I myself didn't care for Heartsick by Chelsea Cain, I think she's pertinent to this discussion because of the apparently shocking character she created in the brutal female serial killer Gretchen Lo ...
I just finished Chelsea Cain's Heartsick , which had two protagonists, one a cop, the other a reporter. It was better than I expected it to be, being of the "find the serial killer" genre. Well-written and no big cheats.
We're giving away Chelsea Cain's HeartSick and Sweetheart on On My Bookshelf . Enter by September 19.
We also have a giveaway for Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict ending this Sunday. hohosmurf in 50 Book Challenge : hohosmurf goes for 100! (Aug 22, 2008, 6:44pm)
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain is a great detective story/murder mystery, and set in my home town of Portland. Very gripping as we are introduced to all the characters in this new series. Read it - but with a light on and make sure the door is locked. Creepy!
#79 - Sara,
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain, yeah, that's the one. That it has a sequel is kind of a strike against it, actually. Not that Sweetheart won't be any good, but why do so many new writers insist on creating a series (he asks rhetorically)?
By the way Off Season is really, re ...
#78: I haven't read either books, but I agree with you on the Dexter comparison.
Heartsick --the one by Chelsea Cain? Yes, I've read it and liked it. Surprisingly, there's a sequel out already (Sweetheart), which I'll have to try.
... Dexter and The Sandman, but it doesn't look like an out and out swipe. I think I may pick it up.
Has anyone read Heartsick ? I'm thinking of starting that once I finish Off Season.
... books from authors that I never in a million years thought would bother to send me one. Successful cold requests include Chelsea Cain , Katharine Neville, Brad Meltzer, Tana French, Glenda Burgess, Hannah Tinti, Tom Sullivan, Doreen Orion, Ted Dekker, Evan Balkan and Tess Ger ...
... Memory Keeper's Daughter
Nuns and Soldiers-reserved for Cushla
The Year of Magical Thinking-reserved for Cushla
HeartSick -reserved for Rebecca
Bob Flanagan, Super-Masochist, Bob Flanagan
Burn Marks, Sara Paretsky
Crash, J.G. Ballard
Heartsick , Chelsea Cain
The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard
I scored a copy of Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain! I'm thrilled, because I absolutely loved her first novel, Heartsick , I was really hoping for a copy of The Fire, as I've been a huge fan of Katherine Neville's since The Eight, but I'm not going to complain. I'm so excited!
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain!! I can't WAIT!! I absolutely LOVED Heartsick
I just finished Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. I read it in one sitting - it was captivating. Very much a Silence of the Lambs followup with a gender reversal.
... myself listen to more grinding and endless misery. It was part 5 of the download, but I don't care. Enough.
So I'm onto Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. Why does a killer worse than Hannibal Lecter make me laugh?
I agree with the Chelsea Cain comment. Heartsick was an AMAZING book & I requested the new one, too.
... e.
Right now I'm reading:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (love the book but it is so HUGE, and taking me forever)
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
The Etched City by K.J Bishop
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (my one requisite classic)
and I'm about to start Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton ...
... book reading and explaining to everyone else why the heck he does what he does. Great collection. Very funny.
18. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain - I love dark and twisty stories and this one fit right in with that description, although I could have done with a little more character ...
In the heart of the heart of the country
Heartsick
Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart
The heart of the matter
The tell-tale heart
17. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
rmathews in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : rmathews joins the challenge (Mar 10, 2008, 2:21pm)
... Fate
7. The Darkness Novel by Kerri Hawkins
8. You Suck: A love Story This book did not need to be written.
9. Heartsick
10. Dime Store Magic
11. And then there were none
12. Sagittarius is Bleeding: Battlestar Galactica 3 written by Peter David who I love, and Battlesta ...
I really enjoyed Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. It is a thriller set in Portland.
... Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire (finished 7/21/08)
7) Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (finished 7/26/08)
8) Heartsick by Chelsea Cain (finished 10/9/08)
... killer ever and the cop who doesn't want to deal with him.
2.The Diana Chronicles, Tina Brown - fun trash
3. Heartsick , a decent thriller about a female serial killer
4. Midnight rambler - a very bad, implausible thriller involving the stupidest ex-cop you will ever have the ...
... 1/25/2008
Stone Cold by David Baldacci Finished 3/25/2008
The Second Mouse by Archer Mayor Finished 6/6/2008
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain Finished 6/12/2008
In The Woods by Tana French Finished 7/6/2008
The Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver Finished 8/1/2008
No Country for Old M ...
... in 2007
1. The Story of Forgetting – Stefan Merrill Block
2. World Without End –Ken Follett
3. Heartsick – Chelsea Cain
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
5. Lottery – Patricia Wood
6. Still Summer – Jacqueline Mitchard
7. ...
... Canto by Ann Patchett
4. How they met, and other stories by David Levithan
5. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
6. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
7. Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris
8. Blindness ...
... Michael Connelly
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
Honorable Mention: Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
... on. The buyer, agent, publisher, and above all the author should receive forty lashes. With a cat-o-nine-tails.
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain was unbelievable, unrealistic, uninteresting, unlikely and damn near unreadable.
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck not only stumbles but ...
SPOILER ALERT: for Silence of the Lambs only
Chelsea Cain's new novel, Heartsick , bears some strong similarities to the now-classic thriller The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. Both novels deal with the hunt for a serial killer who preys on young, innocent women. The protagonist ...
Random Order:
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
... (in no particular order)
He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins
... and really enjoyed it. What an ending!
I'm anxiously awaiting 2 books that I know I'm getting for Christmas:
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain (lady at B. Dalton said this was really good)
The Reincarnationist by M.J. Rose
Oh, and the other bookstore clerk asked me if I'd read the ...
Received from Amazon today: HeartSick by Chelsea Cain and
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
From the public library:
The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach
... I didn't like at all (Bel Canto), two that I enjoyed (Sunshine and Midnighters 3), two that I really liked a lot (Heartsick and The Devil in the White City) and one that I adored and is definitely my favorite for the month - American Gods.
Finished Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. Most compelling thriller I've read in quite a while. Started American Gods by Neil Gaiman, I've resisted this for a long time and now I have no idea why as I am enjoying it immensely.
30. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
I dug it. Exciting, fast-moving plot. Primarily great characterization is what made it fly above other thrillers. It has been a long, long time since I've stayed up past my bedtime reading
Currently reading: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Just started Heartsick . Holy moly is it good so far.
I'm about 50 pages into Heartsick by Chelsea Cain. So far, it is really intriguing, and I consider myself a fairly jaded thriller reader.
... in the beginning, but a good exciting ending that was not completely predictable (at least by me).
Currently reading: Heartsick by Chelsea Cane
... it so far
Edited to add a stop at Half Price Books resulted in
Middlesex
Stargirl
Feed
Pastwatch and
Heartsick
landing on my shelf as well. This is pathetic, and I am definitely an addict.
65. Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Suspenseful but only ok-ish.
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