- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: BCA (2001)
- ISBN-10: 0333729900
- ISBN-13: 978-0333729908
- ASIN: B000HWYMQO
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Fails to please,
By A Customer
This review is from: Eager to Please (Mass Market Paperback)
"Brilliant" claims Minette Waters on the fly leaf (?!) Well she also said "Deja Dead" by Kath Reichs was "Unputdownable" so I guess we should all have learned to take her recommendations with a pinch of salt by now!"Laughable" might be more appropriate. Except that this book is so bad it is not funny. An implausable plot that turns only on the poor choices of cardboard characters. The daily dirge of dreary Rachel et al is described in minute detail and to no advantage that I can see - beyond padding a threadbare plot. "Preposterous" if we are expected to believe, for example, that the once beautiful but now aged beyond her years and socially inadequate Rachel transforms overnight into a femme fatal capable of seducing a muscular, young stud. The book lost me right there and then. "Forgetable". Eager To Please? Oh, please!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable, but...,
By emt0402 (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eager to Please (Mass Market Paperback)
"Eagar to Please" was my first book by Julie Parson. While I was not entirely disappointed, I would probably not look into any of her other novels. Rachel Beckett has been falsely imprisoned for the murder of her husband. She was sentenced to life, but after twelve years, she is released on a strict probation. She is not even permitted to see her daughter. After years of prison, Rachel has learned a thing or two about committing real crimes and she is determined to seek revenge on her husband's real murderer.I found the basic plot of "Eager to Please" okay. It was fast paced, with a couple of good characters, including the main character of Rachel. However, it was slow to start, with what I felt was far too much background information. Another complaint I have is there seem to be several stories mixed in. I found that the more I read, the more confused I became. And the main plot had no real twists. Overall, I would say it is a basic mystery of sorts, and there are a great many authors out there who can do so much better. Skip this one.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Implausible, disappointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Eager to Please (Hardcover)
I loved MARY, MARY, Julie Parsons's first novel, so much that I read it twice. Her second book, THE COURTSHIP GIFT, was a letdown. And EAGER TO PLEASE is a disappointment on almost every level -- except that of writing style, which is excellent. This book takes forever to get started; for more than 100 pages virtually no forward movement takes place. Instead, the reader is served the same backstory in several different forms, and forced to watch as Rachel, the central character, moves with little purpose through her first days after release from prison. Rachel, convicted of a murder she didn't commit, is sympathetic at first, but once she sets her revenge plot in motion -- and makes use of innocent children and their innocent mother in the process -- she becomes repugnant. Her brother-in-law Daniel, the object of her vengeful scheming, rarely does anything that makes sense. I was constantly asking, "Why on earth is the man doing that?" and was never provided with answers. And Rachel's revenge is based on such a threadbare, B-movie concept that I was disappointed by the writer's lack of imagination. MARY, MARY is also a story of revenge, but written with much more imagination and flare. Julie Parsons writes beautifully, but this is probably the last of her books I will bother to read.
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