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Endless Fear
For twelve long years, April Farraday has struggled to recall what happened the night of her mother's fatal fall down a flight of stairs. Did she push her mother to her death? If she is ever to be free to spend her life with the man she loves, April must return to scene of the crime and confront her forgotten past. But there are those at Calendar House who also fear the return of April's memory, including the man she loves, and they will do anything to keep the truth from coming out. Including committing another murder.
249 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1992
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NEW RELEASE!! The Skinny On Jack book #2 in the humorous Jack B Smart cozy mystery series.
https://amzn.to/2Kg7S0q
Jacqueline Bouviér Smart, aka Jack B to friends and family, is an aspiring mystery writer and part time amateur sleuth who has once again sworn off men and murder.
Inheriting shares in a weight loss company over the holidays should be a good thing, not something that leads to bombs going off and your car getting blown up. Right? Jack B doesn’t think so. Nor does she trust on again, off again beau, Seattle Police Detective Stone Maddox to catch the culprits.
When she starts to investigate, she discovers more might be disappearing at the weight loss clinic than pounds. The owner has been missing for a few months. Before she can figure out what’s going on, her counselor dies. Then Stone gets involved, and his brother Duke, and three gun-totin’ grannies, and even her deceased ex-husband. Before Jack B knows what hit her, she’s up to her favorite hoop earrings in men and murder. Again.
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July 10, 2015
Great Book! I couldn't stop reading it until the end.
July 12, 2022
At age 14, April Farraday’s life changed when her mother, actress Lily Cordell-Farraday, fell down the stairs and died. That was 12 years ago. Since then, April has not been able to get the thought out of her mind that she may have been the one to push her mother down.
Having spent the intervening years in a sanitarium, April is now back at Calendar House, her old home, where she has been invited for the formal engagement party of her stepbrother, Thane Garrick.
An ominous note has warned her to stay away, but April is determined to go, hoping to unlock the memories around her mother’s death. Meanwhile, it appears that whoever sent the note has some dangerous plans for her. Accidents keep happening to her, and April is unsure who to trust.
Is old love Spencer to blame, or her stepmother, Cynthia? Will she recover her memories in time or end up losing her life?
It was hard to get a timeline on this book, but since none of the characters had cellphones, I assumed it was the eighties.
The passages written from the viewpoint of the villain of the piece were rather weak. The entire mystery felt very tepid at the end of it all.
There were a lot of proofing errors in this book. Some of the descriptions are banal. 'With her blood the temperature of ice water.' In the same paragraph, we get 'her mouth felt as dry as the desert outside, her palms as damp as the dew on the cacti.'
We are told that April’s father forgot ‘amenities,’ instead of the right word, ‘niceties.’
The descriptions are another annoyance. There are repeated references to the colour of character’s eyes and hair, which is distracting and takes away from the action. Spencer’s hair is at first chocolate, then coffee brown, and then chocolate again. His eyes are dove gray, then pewter.
The number of times that Spencer and April kiss each other before Spencer pulls apart is once too often. The forward and backward dance between them continues throughout the book. The entire misunderstanding between them could have been sorted out if they had only spoken, but neither seems to have the good sense to do that. And so, we are left with a book which could have been shorter.
There is a lot of repetition. A lot of characters staring at each other over a certain number of ‘long seconds.’
The Farradays name their children after the month in which they are born. So April’s dad is August, her aunt is called March, and her half-sister is called July. This comes across more as a gimmick than an eccentricity. What if a boy were to be born in May or June? Or a girl in February?
Crusty old Aunt March didn’t get enough space in the book. And then there was all the skirting around Spencer. April though of Cynthia as her stepmother, and Thane as her stepbrother. But Thane’s twin brother, Spencer, was not once referred to as a stepbrother. That was awkward.
Having spent the intervening years in a sanitarium, April is now back at Calendar House, her old home, where she has been invited for the formal engagement party of her stepbrother, Thane Garrick.
An ominous note has warned her to stay away, but April is determined to go, hoping to unlock the memories around her mother’s death. Meanwhile, it appears that whoever sent the note has some dangerous plans for her. Accidents keep happening to her, and April is unsure who to trust.
Is old love Spencer to blame, or her stepmother, Cynthia? Will she recover her memories in time or end up losing her life?
It was hard to get a timeline on this book, but since none of the characters had cellphones, I assumed it was the eighties.
The passages written from the viewpoint of the villain of the piece were rather weak. The entire mystery felt very tepid at the end of it all.
There were a lot of proofing errors in this book. Some of the descriptions are banal. 'With her blood the temperature of ice water.' In the same paragraph, we get 'her mouth felt as dry as the desert outside, her palms as damp as the dew on the cacti.'
We are told that April’s father forgot ‘amenities,’ instead of the right word, ‘niceties.’
The descriptions are another annoyance. There are repeated references to the colour of character’s eyes and hair, which is distracting and takes away from the action. Spencer’s hair is at first chocolate, then coffee brown, and then chocolate again. His eyes are dove gray, then pewter.
The number of times that Spencer and April kiss each other before Spencer pulls apart is once too often. The forward and backward dance between them continues throughout the book. The entire misunderstanding between them could have been sorted out if they had only spoken, but neither seems to have the good sense to do that. And so, we are left with a book which could have been shorter.
There is a lot of repetition. A lot of characters staring at each other over a certain number of ‘long seconds.’
The Farradays name their children after the month in which they are born. So April’s dad is August, her aunt is called March, and her half-sister is called July. This comes across more as a gimmick than an eccentricity. What if a boy were to be born in May or June? Or a girl in February?
Crusty old Aunt March didn’t get enough space in the book. And then there was all the skirting around Spencer. April though of Cynthia as her stepmother, and Thane as her stepbrother. But Thane’s twin brother, Spencer, was not once referred to as a stepbrother. That was awkward.
September 12, 2021
My favorite line - “For a woman who was normally even-tempered, around Spence she seemed as touchy as nitroglycerin.”
Did the author forget this “normal woman” spent 2 years in a nut house & over a decade waging war on her own memories?
I love the writing style, but golly gee I hated April. I could NOT root for her. And the step brother thing?… published In 1992?! Waaayyy ahead of it’s time. Trash. Trash. Trash.
Did the author forget this “normal woman” spent 2 years in a nut house & over a decade waging war on her own memories?
I love the writing style, but golly gee I hated April. I could NOT root for her. And the step brother thing?… published In 1992?! Waaayyy ahead of it’s time. Trash. Trash. Trash.
January 10, 2021
Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars
July 26, 2016
"Endless Fear" was like taking a walk down memory lane for me.
In my teenage years I have come across some dime novels with almost always the same content: Located on deserted islands, haunted places, bleak moor land or moonlit nights in castles, a beautiful young woman must struggle for her and her lover´s life against sinister attacks.
Storms are raging outside, it is either raining heavily or foggy, while the protagonist is trying to regain her memory of the brutal and traumatizing events which happened to her in the past; and her assaulter is losing no opportunity to end the life of the heroine. In the majority of the cases however, the heroine wins at the end...
This book follows exactly this pattern!
It is very well written and there are no scenes for mature audiences.
However I wasn´t wondering for long about who the attacker could probably be, but focusing on the engaging writing and the atmosphere the author created with it.
What prevented me from rating this book higher, was the fact that April, our heroine, waited 12!!! years to go back to her parents home. It seemed like her family disposed of her, leaving her at a sanitarium to deal with her trauma all on her own. No contact with Spencer, her great love from before the accident...
In fact, he did not even tried once to reach out to her and pay her a visit or so!
I am still trying to wrap my head around this...
November 27, 2016
"Endless Fear" is the classic Gothic novel ... only set in present day. While it was published in 1992, the only give-away that it's a bit outdated is the concept of a keyless ignition as revolutionary. As we now have them in all kinds of cars, you need to gloss over that ... and it's not an important detail to the plot.
April Farraday is going home for her stepbrother's engagement party ... after spending 12 years in a mental hospital following her mother's death. April is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and still retains some level of amnesia surrounding the events of her mother's passing. She's hoping to regain the rest of her memories by going home.
Home isn't quite like it was when she left it, of course ... and she has a stepmother to deal with. She also has the now stepbrother who was her childhood love ... and it seems like he, along with everyone else, is determined to keep her from learning the truth about her mother's death *or* regaining her memory.
So, of course there are all manner of "warnings" and "accidents" that happen around April, even as though she (and the book) marches inexorably toward the truth.
I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to others who enjoy this type of novel.
April Farraday is going home for her stepbrother's engagement party ... after spending 12 years in a mental hospital following her mother's death. April is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and still retains some level of amnesia surrounding the events of her mother's passing. She's hoping to regain the rest of her memories by going home.
Home isn't quite like it was when she left it, of course ... and she has a stepmother to deal with. She also has the now stepbrother who was her childhood love ... and it seems like he, along with everyone else, is determined to keep her from learning the truth about her mother's death *or* regaining her memory.
So, of course there are all manner of "warnings" and "accidents" that happen around April, even as though she (and the book) marches inexorably toward the truth.
I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to others who enjoy this type of novel.
August 26, 2016
Mirror Image
April is beautiful. She has golden hair, aqua eyes, and a classic bone structure. She resembles her mother Lily, who was a famous actress. April's lovely mother is dead. And April is afraid she may have killed her.
April has spent the past twelve years of her life in a mental institution. Her father invites her to her stepbrother's engagement party. But April receives an anonymous note right after the invitation, warning her to stay away.
In spite of the note and her fears, April returns to the San Juan Islands. She must face the past. Will it cost April her life?
April is beautiful. She has golden hair, aqua eyes, and a classic bone structure. She resembles her mother Lily, who was a famous actress. April's lovely mother is dead. And April is afraid she may have killed her.
April has spent the past twelve years of her life in a mental institution. Her father invites her to her stepbrother's engagement party. But April receives an anonymous note right after the invitation, warning her to stay away.
In spite of the note and her fears, April returns to the San Juan Islands. She must face the past. Will it cost April her life?
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