Buy Used
Used - Good See details
Price: £2.81
Fulfilled by Amazon

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Colour:
Image not available

 
See 1 customer image
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Pretend I'm Not Here [Mass Market Paperback]

Chris Gavaler (Author)

Available from these sellers.


Books Trade-In
Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. Learn more.

Product details

More About the Author

› Visit Amazon's Chris Gavaler Page
Chris Gavaler
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
First Sentence
This week's bachelorette wobbled more than usual, as if thrown off balance by that crown of blonde curls. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

Customer Reviews

There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com: 4.0 out of 5 stars  7 reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Start 17 July 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was a good book, though I would not give it anything higher than a three. The humor was good - I liked the author's style, but the storyline was a little confusing at times and seemed to go around in circles a lot. Her heroine came off more masculine and brave than the hero and for me that was a slight put off - a romantic suspense where I couldn't find anything attractive about the hero! I would definitely buy her next book because I think the author will get better. She has a good start with Pretend I'm Not Here. I just think she needs to reign in the plot better.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not really a romantic suspense 1 Dec 2002
By ali - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Although I generally liked this book, I'm not sure why it was categorized as a "Romantic Suspense" instead of just "Fiction".

The heroine, Ashley, stumbles into a den of intrigue when she finds a dead body in the course of chaperoning the winners of a dating game show. She then splits her time between getting *way* too involved in trying to figure out what actually happened (and jumping to an awful lot of wrong concludions on the way) and trying to convince people that she *didn't* murder the guy.

Overall, the writing was fairly witty and gripping. It was told from the first person, which worked very well for this character, and allowed the reader to know only what Ashley knew. At times the plot really did seem to drag. Several times I thought I had everything figured out, when I realized there was more than half of the book left. But the main character was quite charming, and very self-aware of her own flaws, which made her all the more endearing.

However, I fail to see how this is categorized as a romance. The whole story is spent *chasing* the hero. They spend all of 6 or 8 *hours* together. From what little the reader knows of him, he seems like a good guy. HOwever, there is very little development of him or their relationship. I would instead classify this as a murder mystery or a suspense novel which happens to have a *small* element of romance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprising Gem 5 Sep 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Gavaler is a fine technician of the language, has an eye for detail, a keen sense of humor, a snappy writing style. I loved his characters, especially Ashley, the heroine. But they are all well drawn. Like other reviewers I believe the book was mis-categorized. It's light on the romance (not necessarily a bad thing)and heavy on action and derring-do. I enjoyed the plot's twists and turns. Mystery/thriller better describes this book. Shouldn't it have been issued as a hardback, rather than a checkout counter book? It is surely at least as good as most thrillers published these days.

All in all a worthy first effort. I'd like to see more from this author.

Were these reviews helpful?   Let us know

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

    Your Shopping Basket is empty.

    Give it purpose -- fill it with books, DVDs, clothes, electronics and more.

    If you already have an account, sign in.

    There's a problem previewing your shopping basket at the moment.

    Check your Internet connection and go to your cart, or try again.

    View Shopping Basket (0 items)

      Customer Discussions

      This product's forum
      Discussion Replies Latest Post
      No discussions yet

      Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
      Start a new discussion
      Topic:
      First post:
      Prompts for sign-in
       


      Active discussions in related forums
      Discussion Replies Latest Post
      fiction discussion forum
      Please keep self promo for the Meet Our Authors Forum!       		447 1 minute ago
      fiction discussion forum
      Great Authors who are ignored probably because they haven't been on a reality show       		83 3 minutes ago
      fiction discussion forum
      What are you reading now?       		8093 10 minutes ago
      romance discussion forum
      Cant seem to get into another book!!!!       		5784 13 minutes ago
      thriller discussion forum
      Coming to the end of John Connolly's Charlie Parker series and need something else.       		15 54 minutes ago
      romance discussion forum
      Looking for books like Slammed, Beautiful Disaster, Easy,       		7371 55 minutes ago
      fiction discussion forum
      Self-published books: pain or gain?       		6009 1 hour ago
      thriller discussion forum
      easy thrilling reads you just had to keep reading and couldn't put down.       		76 11 hours ago
      Search Customer Discussions
      Search all Amazon discussions
         
      Related forums

      Listmania!

      Create a Listmania! list

      Look for similar items by category

      Feedback