Hurricane

By Karen Harper

Book Overview

With lashing rain and brutal winds bearing down on them, residents of southwest Florida prepare for evacuation. But Julie Minton cannot leave. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Randi, left home earlier... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778323072
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: MIRA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.6" x 1.1" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Don't understand the rest of the reviews

I really enjoyed this book, to me it was not boring. Once I started it I finished quickly and then started reading her others. I have found though that lots of time books I read I then check to see the rating on here and it sometimes amazes me how different people's opinion can be.

It was good

I usually don't write reviews but I was looking over Karen's books to see when the next one is coming and saw the bad reviews on this book. The only reason I can see people not liking it is if they can't keep up with more than 2 characters at a time. It may not have been her best but I like the fact that she doesn't have the same storyline each book. I enjoyed it and the fact that it wasn't your typical "I am woman, hear me roar" type heroine. I think it was suppose to show more of the panic parents feel when the kids are in trouble than "villian meets soccer mom". Anyway, she's one of my favorites and I hated seeing this book being boo'd so much when it wasn't that bad.

I actually enjoyed it!

After reading all of the negative reviews for this book, I thought I'd get bored with it, but I actually enjoyed it. I'm a big Karen Harper fan, and this book did not disappoint me. The main characters were likable and the storyline was interesting. My only complaint was that I had a hard time keeping track of who all the extra characters were. But other than that, it was a good story and I'm glad I read it.

powerful romantic suspense thriller

Counselor Julie Minton has renovated her family's Osprey resort on one of the 10,000 islands near Naples, Florida so that she can bring teen cutters for a few weeks of therapy. The other counselor Kaylin McKenzie "arranges" for Julie's fourteen year old daughter Randi to share a water jet ski with seventeen years old Thad Brockman; the younger teen has a crush on the older boy. When they fail to return with Hurricane Dana bearing towards the islands, Julie panics. Julie meets with Thad's dad charter fishing operator Zack, a former military Special Ops soldier. The widower agrees that they should search for Randi and Thad though he feels they are all right and probably out of gas on one of the smaller islands. However, as they begin their search starting with asking his estranged in-laws if they stopped there, Randi and Thad are in deeper trouble than anyone can imagine, having been netted by drug traffickers. Karen Harper provides a powerful romantic suspense thriller that never slows down until the final confrontation in the eye of the storm. The storyline is action-packed as a frantic Julie and a calm but concerned Zack search for their missing children before Hurricane Dana strikes, but are unaware that the kids are in deeper water with the drug dealers who they know. Though the romance seems inane, rushed and unnecessary with so much else going on, fans will enjoy this exhilarating Type 4 drama. Harriet Klausner