The Witness

Fast read and held your interest until the very end. Will pass the book along to othered to read as well.

It's never a good sign when I keep looking at the last page of a book to see how many pages till the end. It's hard to read a book when you're rolling your eyes. I'm glad I bought this book at a library sale. I wouldn't have wanted to have paid more than fifty cents for it. It veers from boring to interesting to preposterous. Brown has no sense of time. A character drives 150 miles but another character catches up with her in half an hour. She thinks someone can drive 24 mi. RT and run an errand in half an hour. The characters are flat and stereotyped. We're supposed to believe that Kendall, the protagonist, is a good person because she drags an unconscious man out of a crashed car that's teetering on the edge of a ravine. She and her three-mointh-old baby survived the crash. The kid slept through the whole thing. Right. But Kendall is actually a chronic liar. There are too many moving parts. The subplot with Kendall's best friend, Ricki Sue could have been left out. I got mighty tired of the Ricki's foul mouth. With so many people chassing after Kendall I was reminded me of the Keystone Kops. Somehow, the villainous, murderous pure evil character of her husband and father-in-law escapes her notice even though she's a lawyer who is supposed to excel at reading people and spotting liars. There's too much blood and gore. More illogic--she is accused of kidnapping the injured man from the car wreck but Brown has apparently forgotten that the man forced Kendall to take him along. This is a stupid book, There is anti-climax after anti-climax. More absurditiy--long converssations while a mad man is holding a gun on the characteres. The man she loves lies bleeding on the floor from a gunshot wound but instead of stanching the bleeding Kendall hugs him and engages in more endless conversation. So why did I finish reading it? Curiosity as to how Brown would untangle this mess. And following Faulkner's advice to writers--"read,read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad; see how they do it." One good thing I ican say about this book is that the paperback edition has very nice quality paper.

Great reading

Very good read from the beginning

I am not a fan of paperback books. It arrived on time and transaction was done properly. Thank you

GREAT.

Another win for Sandra Brown.

Not one of her best books, but good summer reading.

One of her best efforts.

Sandra Brown never disappoints. Her stories are always captivating. There are twists here and turns there and I have always
been a huge fan!