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    Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction
    Fatal Attraction
    Audiobook7 hours

    Fatal Attraction

    Written by Carol Smith

    Narrated by Colleen Prendergast

    3/5

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    About this audiobook

    When Rose sees Joe in an Oxford bar, it is instant infatuation. He is everything that turns her on: gifted musician, wit and high achiever. In her mind, at least, they are ideally matched. But Joe has no intention of settling down. All Rose will ever be to him is part of his student past. Instead he embarks on a dazzling career which takes him abroad, leaving Rose alone with shattered dreams. She knows what true happiness can be like. Her parents have always been very well married, and the late arrival of her kid sister, Lily, helped make the family complete. But when Joe returns and falls for Lily, a dangerous rivalry ensues...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateFeb 1, 2008
    ISBN9781407415833
    Fatal Attraction
    Author

    Carol Smith

    Carol Smith is an award-winning journalist and editor for NPR-affiliate KUOW in Seattle. Previously, she worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Los Angeles Times. Her newspaper work has won dozens of national and regional awards and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize a remarkable seven times, and her writing has appeared in more than a dozen literary journals. She was recently named Editor of the Year by Public Media Journalists Association.

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    • 3/5
      Not as good as some of her other novels because the plot is very one-dimensional and the main character, Rose, is not very sympathetic. Everything is focused on Rose’s irrational, 20 year obsession with Joe; a one-night-stand from college. She is a truly idiotic character. Intellectually she is a genius and works a corporate job at which she excels and gains promotion after promotion. Emotionally she is a moron and fixates onto Joe with a fierceness and lack of embarrassment that is hard to take. She continually throws herself at him and is harshly rejected. Eventually Joe marries her younger sister, but even this does not deter her. Instead she hatches a complicated plot to get Joe back. Yep, she thinks she had him once and that they are destined to be together. Deluded much? She’s pretty repulsive and I don’t wonder why Joe wants nothing to do with her. The ending while interesting, lacks follow through. We’re given a glimmer of what may come, but because we’ve been basically bored to tears with the proceedings up until this point, we don’t care all that much. There is no upshot, no impact, it just sort of fizzles. I think if less attention had been paid to Rose and other plot threads worked in, the emotional level might be high enough for the reader to care. Smith might also have given us more sympathetic characters to latch onto instead of Rose, but we’re left with boring and ineffectual puppets that basically deserve what they get. As it is, I do hope Rose gets what’s coming to her, but don’t really give a shit if she doesn’t.