- Hardcover: 302 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH); 1 edition (8 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0151012733
- ISBN-13: 978-0151012732
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,326,267 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'Be Mine' is essentially is a novel about an adulterous wife and the consequences of an affair she has after receiving a series of notes from a secret admirer.
I thought this was a great idea for a novel, but even though the writing is reasonable there are a number of significant problems with the book.
The most significant of these is that none of the characters are particularly likeable. Sherry, the main character is shallow, selfish, obsessed with looks and doesn't have any real friends. Her husband is also shallow and vain, as are the lover and the son. This really makes it difficult to care about what happens to them, which would be the only saving grace in light of the thin and predictable plot.
The other strange thing is the amount of dead animals in this book. After a while it became quite disconcerting; a deer that is run over, squirrels being shot, dead lambs in poems, even on the first page there is a dead bunny on the driveway!
One to be avoided!
I thought this was a great idea for a novel, but even though the writing is reasonable there are a number of significant problems with the book.
The most significant of these is that none of the characters are particularly likeable. Sherry, the main character is shallow, selfish, obsessed with looks and doesn't have any real friends. Her husband is also shallow and vain, as are the lover and the son. This really makes it difficult to care about what happens to them, which would be the only saving grace in light of the thin and predictable plot.
The other strange thing is the amount of dead animals in this book. After a while it became quite disconcerting; a deer that is run over, squirrels being shot, dead lambs in poems, even on the first page there is a dead bunny on the driveway!
One to be avoided!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is quite possibly the worst novel I have ever read. Thin plot with ludicrously irritating characters. Everything about the writing seems forced, even the names of the characters. Was given as a gift, started out of interest & finished out of guilt.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Rubbish!
If you can't guess the identity of the sender of the notes within 5 pages of the character being introduced then you have obviously never read a thriller before in your life.
Cardboard characters enacting a tedious rehash of a plot that has been done better so many times before. Save your money and buy an Agatha Christie instead.
If you can't guess the identity of the sender of the notes within 5 pages of the character being introduced then you have obviously never read a thriller before in your life.
Cardboard characters enacting a tedious rehash of a plot that has been done better so many times before. Save your money and buy an Agatha Christie instead.
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"Call him now Sherry. End this now!"
When Sherry begins receiving provocative notes from an someone at work, she is intrigued but not really impressed, but as the missives increase in their intensity she feels the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Eileen Shaw
Odd, morbid and just plain ridiculous!
I think I was seduced by the `American Beauty' style aspect of this novel's front cover, but alas upon opening it, that's sadly where the magic stops. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Nicola F (Nic)
Terrible book.
It seemed promising enough when I started it, but them it just got boring. I missed out large chucks and just skipped through to the end instead. Read more
Published 20 months ago by StarPlayer
Definitely a miss for me
Going by the blurb on the back, I was really looking forward to reading this book. Sadly, it was a huge dissapointment. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2009 by D. Richardson
Not worth the time it takes to read
This book is pretty predictable, which doesn't make for a good book. It also leaves a lot of questions unanswered, and not in a good, suspensful way. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2007 by N. Stubbs
Read Me!
I was actually surprised with this book - in a good way. This was a quick read for me only because I couldn't put the book down - plus, this is a thin book! Read more
Published on 6 July 2007 by Veronica Sarmiento
5 STARS
I am also offering five stars for this novel. The atmosphere is dense with foreboding from the first page, and rockets to a stunning conclusion.
Published on 27 Jun 2007 by Annie B
I think this novel is fabulous!
This is more like "Suspicious River" than Kasischke's other novels. It's exhausting and frustrating to see a protagonist take such a downward spiral, but also beautiful in a... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2007 by Amanda
beautiful tragedy
This is one of the most suspenseful and also terrifying books I've read in a long while. The author's writing is transporting, and the situation is both believable and mythical.
Published on 25 Jun 2007 by Amile
Violent & unpleasant!
This is the first books I've read by this author - and will be my last! The author seems to have taken lots of violent ideas and cobbled them together. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2007 by Nics
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