Grave Secret
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- ISBN13: 9781410420565
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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New in the series from New York Times bestselling leader of the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two small girls they both reflect of as sisters. But, as permanently happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface.
To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from his older brother that their father is out of jail and trying to reestablish contact with additional family tree members. Tolliver wants no part of the man- but he may not have a choice in the matter.
Soon, family tree secrets ensnare them both, as Harper finally discovers what happened to her missing sister, Cameron, so many years before.
And what she finds out will change her world forever.
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This is the first book I’ve read written by Charlain Harris. It’s also the last. Why she felt she needed to repeat, over and over again, the fact that her main characters, Harper and the step-brother were lovers is beyond me. Was she just trying to write a longer book? Tell the reader once and go on for crying out loud. And how many times do we need to know how regularly they ordered room service? In total, there were probably 10 pages worth reading. I felt like a 12 year ancient wrote this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Pleased, because I’m on chapter 3 of this terrific book that I’ve been waiting for so long.
Sad, because I’m hearing this is the conclusion to this series.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book came via the seeler, Treebeardbooks. I received it quicker than I have received books from any of the additional non- amazon sellers.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As if the third book in the series wasn’t terrible enough, this fourth book is even worse.
The pseudo-incestuous “thing” goes on (Tolliver and Harper have sex and then call each additional brother and sister just a few moments later!!!). Rumor has it that Harris thinks herself to be a courageous writer a la V.C. Andrews or something, but she is highly flawed in that assessment. The relationship is described in the books in a creepy and sick way.
The tale itself is simply a hasty wrap-up of Harper’s personal problems done most bizarrely. Suddenly every member of Harper’s family tree has some kind of sick secret (that should have come out years earlier). New vital evidence in the case of Cameron’s disappearance comes out of nowhere. Characters act in the most stupid and unreasonable way. There are suicides, senseless murder attempts, people suddenly confessing crimes they are never questioned about. God, this book is a huge mess!
Charlaine Harris proves once again to be an extremely unreliable writer. She has such a fantastic skill for characterization and weaving a fantastic tiny-town mystery, but each and every series of hers she ends up taking in a ridiculous direction before killing it completely. I am frightened to reflect what she is going to do next with her Sookie books. The last two are terrible as it is.
Two stars only because I finished it and it was a moderately quick (although ridiculous) read.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I like the special skills of the charactors in these books (yes I’m writing a all-purpose review for the whole series)….
But, I’ve been disapointed with the ending of all of them. There are permanently huge plot points that aren’t cleared up at the end and it drives me NUTS!!!! Grave secret for example: Why was Mathew taking pictures of the girls? He said “I know it was pretty low. But you know how I was THEN.” So why take pictures now?
And then, they start talking about genetics (and um hi, recessive genes), when if you had read the additional books Harper repeatedly talks about her mom and step-dad sleeping around and yet…. that baby can’t have green eyes. REALLY? Rumor has it that no one else she was sleeping with had sperm that knew how to swim? Or are we supposed to judge a used up junkie would make them wear a condom? So stupid!!
~And while i’m on my soapbox, Harper said Gracie’s eyes were milky blue when she went to the hospital and green when she came home, that she thought they just took longer to turn their right color~ How does that make sense if she should have been a brown eyed baby?
Then Mark killing Cameron for what? And thinking Tolliver would support him when he’s spent the last six years with Harper? STUPIDEST plot line eva!
IF that wasn’t enough Mark starts spouting off about Gracie not having a home….yea, adoption already happened…. that would make it a done deal.
And all that stupidness in ONE chapter…. Ugh!! So dissapointed.
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Now for my issues with the series as a whole.
Why oh why did Harper and Tolliver have to get together? Wasn’t it enough that they were there for eachother and loved one another as siblings? or friends? Come on!!
Did we have to hear about how she got her ability over and over again in every single book?
Do any of us really care about her sorry childhood? I stopped feeling terrible for her nearly immediatly…. I get it, Woe is you… enough already.
Trust me, I don’t care where they ate every meal!!! I don’t want to hear about the bedspread of every motel they stay at. I couldn’t care less what the clerk looks like.
And aren’t there some reasonably smart people she could do readings for who may really judge that all she knows is who they are and how they died? And language of that in ‘an ice cold grave’ the cops never question her to clarify the deaths of the boys…. not to mention she says over and over again how she can only see the last few moments before death and yet she can say so-and-so was tortured for days and then left to the fundamentals? How does that make sense?
Why pray tell does there need to be random retarded and completely stupid violence in every book? Can she work a case lacking getting shot at or beat up? And if that is such a treacherous life they lead WHY OH WHY does she keep going out on her own and then acting all shocked when she gets attacked?
I’m going to stop as I could write a novel on all the stupid parts… plus I read all four books so what does that say about me? All I know is I felt let down by every book but that I kept hoping one of them would have some substance and I wouldn’t feel like something that could have been really fantastic was completely ruined.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5