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Every Breath You Take (2006)

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0345479912 (ISBN13: 9780345479914)
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Every Breath You Take (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

Decidely flat.Mitchell Wyatt grew up as an orphan, a ‘charity case’. Sure, he had the best education money can buy, but he had no one to claim him as part of their family. He spent holidays with friends from school, but that never lasted once they found out he was a ‘charity case’. But when Stavros Konstantatos took Mitchell under his wing, he taught Mitchell everything he knew, and Mitchell learned well.Now a self-made billionaire, Mitchell can afford the best of the best, and now that the Wyatt family is claiming him as family, Mitchell doesn’t want to feel anything for the man who made sure he’d disappear out of their lives as a newborn. But Mitchell’s half brother was different. William hadn’t known that Mitchell existed, and tried his very best to include Mitchell in his life. But then William disappears without a trace, and the DA swears it’s because of Mitchell and is trying to build a case to prove it. Meanwhile, Mitchell is on vacation aboard a friend’s yatch in Anguilla.Kate Donovan recently lost her father in an apparent drive-by shooting. Her boyfriend, Evan, whisks her away to Anguilla to help her grieve, only to leave her there as he is summoned back in court. Then she meets Mitchell, and as much as neither wants to believe, they are drawn to each other.But as luck would have it, they get one incredible night together, but that wouldn’t last. While Kate returns to her villa to pack her things, intending to break up with Evan, Mitchell is summoned back to the states, now a suspect in his brother’s murder now that his corpse has been found. When Kate explains to Evan that she’s leaving him for Mitchell, he tells her it was a set up on Mitchell’s part as he’s sure Mitchell knew Kate was his girlfriend. When Kate tries to find Mitchell, she believes that he’s left without her and believes that she could still be with Evan.But those aren’t in the cards. Mitchell finds out who Kate is and believes she’d set him up, just as she him. They split ways, but when Kate finds out she’s pregnant with his child, Evan wants an abortion, something Kate refuses to do.And now she’s alone. She’d managed to make a name for herself in the restaurant business and is raising a child on her own. But when her son is kidnapped with a ransom of 10 million, she knows she has no choice but to hunt down Mitchell. She hadn’t told him about their son, having remembered what he’d said about his previous wife wanting kids and he didn’t, which resulted in divorce. She didn’t want to burden him, but with the kidnapping, she has no choice to involve him for he is the only one she knows who would have that kind of money.So, with that synopsis, I can honestly say: Read it, thought it was *shrug* okay. While it wasn’t a waste of a read, I don’t think I’d have picked this up if it wasn’t for a book of the month. I’m not one for a straight romance - to me, they all start the same and finish the same. I’ve read this scenario so many times that I just really couldn’t get into it. While I felt Kate was somewhat real, and there seemed to be sparks between them, I felt Mitchell really didn’t have anything to him. You read what he’s feeling and that for him it’s not normal, but it fell flat - deja vu.I was hoping for more of a case with the murder of his brother, but it was sidelined. And the kidnapping… I expected it right when I find out she’s raising him on her own. And again, the main characters had no part in finding their son, just like they weren’t part of William’s investigation. While the book is almost 500 pages long, the ending was rather abrupt and I didn’t like it. I just need more ‘kick’, more ‘oomph’ in a story - something this book just didn’t give me.But I won’t say is was a bad book. For me, straight romance just doesn’t cut it. But for those who like nothing but romance, you may enjoy it.

4.5 สนุกมาก ชอบมากเลย หนังสือชุดนี้ชอบทุกเล่มเลยค่ะ อ่านแล้วติดใจอยากอ่านแนวนี้อีก เดี๋ยวไว้มีเวลาจะย้อนกลับไปอ่านอีกสักรอบ(แต่ก็หนาซะเหลือเกิน) ในเรื่องมีแมทกับเมอริดิธ แล้วก็แซคกับจูลี่นิดหน่อยด้วยบนเกาะทะเลแคริบเบียน นางเอก เคท โดโนแวนได้ไปพักผ่อนต่างอากาศที่แฟนเป็นคนจองโรงแรมไว้ให้และตั้งใจว่าจะไปพักผ่อนด้วยกัน แต่ก็ติดธุระด่วนไม่สามารถเดินทางมาพร้อมกันได้แต่ก็จะตามมาทีหลัง ในระหว่างนี้เองเคทได้พบกับพระเอก มิทเชล ไวแอท นักธุรกิจที่สร้างตัวขึ้นมาได้ด้วยตัวเอง และความรู้สึกที่เกิดขึ้นระหว่างคนสองคนมันก็ยากที่จะต้านทาน ทำให้นางเอกตัดสินใจที่จะออกนอกลู่นอกทางไปกับพระเอก เคทย้ายไปอยู่โรงแรมอีกที่หนึ่งที่พระเอกเป็นคนจองไว้ ที่นั่นทั้งสองก็ได้มีความสุขด้วยกัน แต่ความสุขมันก็หมดไปเมื่อเพื่อนชายของนางเอกกำลังจะเดินทางมา นางเอกตัดสินใจกลับไปที่โรงแรมที่แฟนเป็นคนจองไว้และตั้งใจจะบอกความจริงที่เกิดขึ้นทุกอย่าง ส่วนพระเอกก็บอกนางเอกว่าจะไปรอที่ท่าเรือ แต่เหตุการณ์ไม่คาดฝันก็เกิดขึ้นเมื่อบิลลี่(หลานชายพระเอก)โทรมาบอกว่าพบศพพ่อแล้ว(พี่ชายพระเอกที่หายตัวไป)ให้รีบกลับมาที่บ้าน ทำให้หลังจากนั้นพระเอกนางเอกไม่ได้พบเจอกันอีกเลย

What do You think about Every Breath You Take (2006)?

Bir Judith McNaught eserini sevmeme hakkına sahip miyiz? Ciddiyim. Blog dünyasına adım attığınız an her tarafta Judith görmeye başlıyorsunuz. Herkes ona tapıyor, birilerine yazarın kitaplarını okutmak için çıldırıyor falan. Açıkçası, İçinde Aşk Saklı'yı okuduğumda ben de bu düşünceleri onaylamıştım ve yazarın bir kitabını daha okumak istediğimi belirtmiştim. Düşler Krallığı ve Aldığım Her Nefeste okumayı istediğim iki eseriydi yazarın. Düşler Krallığı'ndan hala umutlu olsam da Aldığım Her Nefeste bana göre biraz... şey... fiyaskoydu?Bir Judith eserini sevmeme hakkına sahip miyiz diye sorma nedenim, okuduğum diğer kitabını oldukça sevmemdi. Bu nedenle diğer kitaplarının da aşağı yukarı aynı olacağını sanıyordum. Yanılmışım. Her ne kadar bu kitaba bayılanlar olsa da, ben, üzülerek bir olumsuz eleştiri yazısı yazacağım.Açıkçası, bu yazı ne kadar sağlıklı olur bilemiyorum çünkü kitabı bitiremedim. Blog ve vlog dünyasında bitirmediği kitaplara yorum yapan bolca insan var ve bu yanlış bir şey demiyorum, değil, ama daha önce -sanırsam- yapmadığım bir şey olduğu için çekindim sadece. Bir yanım kitaba devam etmek istese de diğer yanım hiiiç istemiyor. Niye mi?Çünkü kitap sıkıcıydı ve sonunda Kate'le oğlan evlenseler de, Kate'in üstünden buldozer geçse de, Mitchell elektrikli testereyle ortadan ikiye ayrılsa da umurumda olacağını sanmıyorum. Kate karakteri, konu, ögeler, kısacası her şey bana göre yaratıcı değildi ve okurken sıkıldım. Çok klişe geldiğinden midir nedir bilemiyorum ama hikayeye bağlanamadım ve dediğim gibi, karakterlerin ne yaşadığı pek umurumda olmadı. Belki Mitchell karakteri, ucundan kıyısından ilgi çekiciydi ancak bu karakter bile beni hikayenin içerisine çekmeye yetmedi.Kitabın konusundan bahsetmedim, çünkü nasıl bahsedeceğimi pek bilemiyorum. Kısaca, oldukça karışık bir aile geçmişi olan varlıklı oğlanımız Mitchell Wyatt, bir tatilde, Kate isimli bir kızla tanışır. Sevgilisinin dönmesini bekleyen Kate, yalnız olduğu zamanda tabii ki zengin, yakışıklı bir adamın çekimine karşı koyamaz.Roman, bundan daha ileri gitmeden bıraktım. Ki uzun bir süre bundan öteye gitmedi, inanın bana. Ben bu tarz aşk romanlarından her daim hoşlanırım diyorsanız bir göz atın, belki seversiniz. Ben pek sevemedim.
—Deniz

I really wanted to give this a 41/2 stars but since I couldn't I did not think my complaints justified only 4 stars I gave it a 5 star rating I loved this book. It kept me in suspense wanting to know how it was going to all come together at the end. The author made sure to build the main characters, Kate and Mitchell slowly so that you felt like you were right with them as their relationship took place. It broke my heart to see them break-up and how they assumed things. Bout the other without talking/fighting it out. My main complaint is that with all the time the main characters were built, the secondary characters were kind of two dimensional.the other complaint is a minor one. About 2/3 a way through the book, there was a scene at Mitchell's office where a new assistant is starting her first day. The old one explains, I to complicated detail, exactly what Mitchell does for work. Also the new assistant just made no sense why the entire thing was just plopped in there and then never mentioned again. Distracting to say the least. This book was well worth the read.
—Leslie Mesmer

I read this last April, I think, and really enjoyed it. Judith McNaught was my favorite author for many years. I stopped reading her and didn't even know she had a new book out. Well, new compared to her classics that I read back in the day, almost 20 years ago. So I found this at a used bookstore and voila, the magic of McNaught caught me up. This is a very different setting for her. Much of the book takes place at a tropical beach setting and some in Chicago. I loved the beach part - so beautiful and romantic, I felt like I was there. This is a great chick flick, beach read, summertime read. Not as well developed as some of her other books, but still, I read everything she writes. Things I liked/loved about this book: The tropical setting. Nothing is more romantic, to me at least, than the beach. The music in the background. It was mentioned at different times throughout the book and it added a lot to the atmosphere. The way McNaught describes the child, Daniel, and how he interacts with his dad. It was so cute and I could really "see" it all unfold. Things I wish were different: I really wish the ending was better developed. In fact, McNaught did rewrite the ending already. But it still needed more, I thought. There was the usual big misunderstanding, big separation, that could have very easily been resolved if everyone involved took the time to communicate properly. I can't believe that people could be such blockheads. The murder mystery plot and idiot ex-boyfriend/lawyer was a super jerk and I can't believe heroine believed a word he said. She's pretty gullible. Well, McNaught worked it out. It's not by any means my favorite story by her, but I still loved reading it and will probably even re-read again one summer in the future. It's always good to have comfortable summertime reading.
—Zumbagirl

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