Hate to be a downer, but I think it's over for Catherine & Me

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	• Double Take: FBI Thriller Catherine Coulter Putnam's Sons, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 61 reviews view larger image
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I too, had trouble with this one

I actually gave up on it after 145 pages - just couldn't get into it. The writing was choppy, the characters just weren't interesting enough to hold my interest -- I felt almost like I was reading an intermediate reader's book, with very short chapters and shorter sentences! The main character was from a much earlier book and I just don't remember enough about him. It's too bad, I was looking forward to this one as I love the rest of the series.

Hate to be a downer, but I think it's over for Catherine & Me

I started reading the FBI books back when The Cove first came out. I have read every one of them, but unlike most of my audio books, I didn't have this one set to ship the day it came out. I love the characters, but I don't like the narration. Sandra Burr and Phil Gigante co-narrate the book and they are both fine voices, but it doesn't use his voice for some of the book and hers for other parts, instead he reads the narration and voices up until we get to a "she said" and then suddenly we switch voices. I sounds good in theory but it's really off-putting in fact. I think this may have to be my last purchased book in the series. It's not just the narration. The stories have been going down hill for a while. I really loved those first ones. I just went back and reviewed them to try and figure out what happened and figured out that I loved the first three. And liked the next three. And I've read another five because I keep hoping that the characters will come back to their roots. Yes, I guess it's over for me. This happened to me with her earlier romance titles. They began to seem formulaic. Though I read them all, when I started letting my daughter read adult romance, I didn't give her those. In each series, if not in each book, there was a man with a tortured soul which caused him to abuse the woman who loved him anyway. Not healthy. Coulter has managed not to do quite so much with unhealthy relationships, but still, the characters just don't get anywhere. Instead of being light-hearted the banter has become more heavy-handed. It's like saying good-bye to a family who were once your best friends, but now you're sort of glad that they're moving. I'm going to miss Sherlock and Savich.

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An engineering disaster (Applies ONLY to audio book)

I've always enjoyed Catherine Coulter's books and this one is no exception. Sandra Burr and Phil Gigante are fine readers on their own. In this reading, Mr. Gigante reads the book as well as all the men's parts, Ms. Burr handles all the female characters. The credits say they are the producers as well. Unfortunately they should stick to their day jobs, this is an engineering nightmare and almost impossible to enjoy. His voice is recorded sounding very dark and muffled, her voice is the opposite, louder, brighter and very sibilant. There is NO way one could ever imagine these two characters being in the same room together. It sounds as though they recorded each part separately in different states and edited them together afterwards. Totally awkward sounding. Please let a professional engineer record you next time. Not at all up to standard.

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Plenty of Exciting Scenes and more!

Sometimes I enjoy fast paced thrillers, but when I want a well-thought out mystery novels then I read a book by Catherine Coulter. I have enjoyed her FBI series books with Sherlock and Dillon and in "Double Take" is was good to see Cheney and Dix make their return after appearing in Point Blank, which happens to be one of my favorites.

Overall, I didn't think this was one of Ms. Coulter's best books. I had a hard time keeping track of the characters and almost got to the point of keeping a score card as to "who" was "who". For me this "family tree" of characters caused a lot frustration on my part. However, let me say that mid-way through the book the story moved along at a brisk pace giving me plenty of exciting scenes. Soon, I found myself reading page and page until I finished it. Except for a few "kinks" in the story Catherine Coulter didn't disappoint me in this terrific story. And as always I look forward to reading her next novel.

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