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Crescendo
by L. Marie Wood
Product Group: Book
Publisher: PublishAmerica (2003-11)
ISBN: 1592866689
EAN: 9781592866687
Dewy Decimal #: 813.6
Paperback: 348 pages
SKU: T071012-7462
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. A name. Front cover crease. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Customer Reviews
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Awful
Rating  (1)
Date: 2004-09-28
1 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
*sigh* I'm kind of wondering if all these glowingly positive reviews came from friends of the author?? Same goes for those quotes on the book jacket ... I read a blurb recently in a local paper about the author, and being one to devour this type of fiction (King, Koontz, Due, LA Banks, etc etc) I thought I'd stumbled on a new fav. Not! I LITERALLY had to force myself to finish this book. The characters were one dimensional (did any of them even have day jobs?) archetypes (long suffering wife, betrayed best friend, unfaithful murdered wife of best friend - *yawn*) writ large, and I found I really didn't care one way or the other what happened to any of them. The amount of detail used in describing places and objects was overkill and really took away from the flow of the story - such as it was. What she wrote in 350 pages could've been summed up in less than 200 by a more masterful writer. I am now out $24 bucks (and what is UP with such a high price for a paperback book??) and several hours of my life reading this dribble, neither of which I can ever get back. Ugh.
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A Darkly Compelling Read
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-02-21
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
It is said that a wounded friend is the bitterest of foes. James is about to receive empirical proof of this maxim in lurid detail. L. Marie's Wood's first novel entitled "Crescendo" is a compelling love bite upon the imagination whose swiftly-paced storytelling and visceral atmosphere will leave you thirsting for the story to continue. `Crescendo" is the best kind of fiction; that rooted in universal themes and subjects that often are often unnerving, sometimes ugly, but always easily related to by the reader. Its tale burns all the hotter for the perfect plausibility of it all, since readers will find themselves thinking, as I did on so many occasions throughout my read, This could happen. Wood has fashioned a horror tale born of an expertly interwoven mélange of subtexts and underplots that challenges the very nature of trust, fidelity, and madness, and brings the reader nose-to-nose with smart characters who are never so human as when they are acting-and in many cases, reacting-inhumanly to one another. "Crescendo" leaves no relationship untested, be they friendship, marital, or familial in basis, and readers will empathize with these characters, many of whom embody the shaking anger and duplicity and impassioned resentment that every reader has known at one time or another. Here at last is a novel that doesn't let us turn away from the mirror just because the image it reflects is dirty. I truly enjoyed reading "Crescendo", and consider it an affectionate gift to the walking wounded among us; one that will leave you stinging with your wish to have the show go on and on.
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Venture into the World of Wood
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-12-19
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Author L. Marie Wood has taken the simple life of an average man and distorted it into a vast maze of horrendous confusion. She is quite the clever writer who pays close attention to detail and draws you into the story, making every place and character clearly visible within the mind.If you haven't checked out L. Marie Wood yet, you are missing out on much frightful delight.
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Wow!!! Excellent!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-12-05
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This story will keep you going. Is he sane or not? Loved it looking forward to the authors next book.
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Yawn ...
Rating (1)
Date: 2003-12-04
3 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Read the reviews and thought I would check this out. Big mistake. Reads like a sophmore's creative writing sample at best. Redundant, slow pacing. And at times ham-handed.
Don't bother.
Might make a good door stop if it was a little thicker.
Save your money.
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