Title: Mean Streak
Author: Sandra Brown
Reviewer: Aly
Book Blurb:
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her.
While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won’t even tell her his name. She’s determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive.
Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can’t turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law.
As her husband’s deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer.
Review:
...This book…..just….this book. It was a roller coaster of misleading evidence, confusion and just overall high emotional reactions. Seriously, and it sometimes even deceives you into thinking that something is wrong with you(or maybe that was just me).
The plot was amazing! There were tons of times that misleading information or information that you just don’t have and have to try to infer leads you to the totally wrong conclusions. And the author has managed to create a twisting web of partial truths, confusion and difficulties for the readers to try and figure out. That was a hard one to deal with, especially because with one of the characters you feel as if you shouldn’t like him as much as you do(hence me thinking something was wrong with myself.)
And now that I’ve brought up the characters, each character was engaging, lifelike and just overall not a perfect human being. It was amazing to see each character learn new truths and how they handled them. Not to mention trying to figure out things alongside them.
Not only the plot but the book was well written. There were no spelling or grammar errors(that I found) and it was writing that kept the reader engaged and interested. I do have to mention that the book jumped around a bit and honestly there were times I had to reread a paragraph or two to figure out that they had moved forward or backward in time or to different locations. That was slightly confusing and occasionally pulled me out of the story but it was easy to be brought back in.
Overall Mean Streak was a really great book and a difficult one to figure out what would happen in the end. And that ending was beautiful. I won’t say any more about it but if you’re into books with lots of twisting paths and misleading evidence than this is definitely a book to check out!
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About the Author
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including DEADLINE(2013), LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL (2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006), CHILL FACTOR (2005), WHITE HOT (2004), & HELLO, DARKNESS (2003).
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
A lifelong Texan, Sandra Brown was born in Waco, grew up in Fort Worth and attended Texas Christian University, majoring in English. Before embarking on her writing career, she worked as a model at the Dallas Apparel Mart, and in television, including weathercasting for WFAA-TV in Dallas, and feature reporting on the nationally syndicated program “PM Magazine.”
In 2009 Brown detoured from her thrillers to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.
Brown recently was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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