Read this as follow up to the excellent Hard Feelings. This one... not so much. Good premise. Man shoots burgler unnecessarily during a home break in and must slowly pay retribution (to the burgler's partner). Good: wife/husband dynamic- the inner life that Starr writes about very well... in that we see how self deluded the characters are (heros in their own story) .. I love that part. Also the wife has some appealing faults. The adult live at home daughter is not much of anything, yet she is the survivor, not esp. satisfying. The avenger - the would be Casanova - is not too interesting, though an nice attempt at a psychopath. Conclusion is far fetched and ... easy. ( )

This wasn’t for me. The premise was good. Two guys break into a family’s home thinking the family is away. Turns out family is home. One burglar gets killed by the homeowner. The other gets away. Then the burglar who got away stalks the family and starts a relationship with the daughter. It all sounds like it will be a good thriller. Except it’s not.

I didn’t care for any of the characters. I was bored reading it. It took me two tries to get through the book. I’m trying to think of constructive criticisms. I would tell the author to give me something about the characters that I can get to know, and care about, them. I disliked everyone. It’s hard to care when you don’t get to know anyone. Also stop telling me the criminal, Johnny Long, looks just like Johnny Depp. I’m a huge Johnny Depp fan and this part just bothered me. I mean I love seeing him mentioned in a book. This was just overkill, though.

The author had an interesting story to work with. Actually there were parts of the break in that were intense but the author lost the intensity rapidly. I should have been worried about Marissa when she met Johnny, (AKA Xan). I should have been wondering how badly thing were going to spiral. I should have been thinking about her father and mother meeting Xan. I should have wanted to hit someone or been scared for someone. Instead, I was yawning and telling myself I can power through reading it.

There really wasn’t any mystery to solve. There wasn’t enough tension or fear. It was just another day in New York City. I just couldn’t get into it. I would tell you, the potential reader, to check out a sample and see if it is for you. Everyone has different taste. Just because it didn’t work for me doesn’t mean it won’t work for you.
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This book sucks. Man, it was hyped as being freaking awesome! But it sucked. Straight up sucked.

The book jackets actually told you who dunnit. By page 10 I hated every character and I knew who did all the murders and why.

There was absolutely no suspense whatsoever. Mostly because I was just really annoyed by all the characters; but the person I'm most annoyed at - the Author. Jason Starr, you are not the bomb. Your female characters are one dimensional. Your male lead was an asshole. Your criminals were 1 dimensional AND cliche. Really? Your best description was that Johnny Long looked like Johnny Depp? You even gave him the same name - UGH!

This book was just annoying. I skimmed most of it just so I could end it all. I hate leaving a book unread, even horrible ones (except Twilight, that one I just went to wikipedia and found out the story so I could skip all the stupid teen angst and horribly anti-21st Century Girl Power-ness of Bella Swan - Bella Swan? Seriously?) So this book - it drags out. I think Starr just didn't have a story. Chapter 1 was Adam's perspective of night one. Chapter 2, his wifes. Chapter 3, his daughters. Except that we don't learn anything new and since the characters are so cliche and flat all we got was a retelling of the exact same thing! This goes on the entire book - the. entire. book.

Skip it. Just don't even read it. Ignore all the "good things" said about the book but it's all lies. All LIES!!!

Yeah, I hated this book that much. ( )

Very good book! True life story kind of! Very entertaining! ( )

" "Daddy, da ist jemand im Haus." Bis zu dem Moment mitten in der Nacht, als der Psychologe Adam Bloom von seiner Tochter Marissa geweckt wird, ist die Welt bei den Blooms noch in Ordnung. Na ja, was in Ordnung eben so heißt bei wohlhabenden und egozentrischen New Yorkern.
Aber als Adam zu seiner Pistole greift und den unbewaffneten Einbrecher tötet, bricht die Hölle über die Familie herein. Nicht nur, weil die Geschichte des schießwütigen Seelenklempners ein gefundenes Fressen für die Medien ist. Nicht nur, weil die Konflikte zwischen Adam, seiner Frau Dana und der 22-jährigen Marissa unter dem Druck eskalieren. Sondern vor allem, weil in jener Nacht ein zweiter Eindringling im Haus war: Johnny Long, gerissen, skrupellos und höchst verführerisch, will Rache nehmen an den arroganten Bonzen, die seinen Kumpel auf dem Gewissen haben. Und er weiß auch schon wie: Er macht sich an ihre Tochter ran."

Panik ist nur halb so gut, wie es sein könnte, denn unbegreiflicher Weise werden neue Informationen nicht etwa zunächst angedeutet, eingestreut oder geheimnisvoll verpackt. Stattdessen einfach banal erzählt. Dadurch verschenkt Starr viel Potential. Schade. Viel an Spannung verpufft so ehe man sie wahrnehmen konnte. Und das Ende ist nicht ganz nach meinem Geschmack. ( )