Customer Reviews
"A very good read" - By: M. A. Dennis, 19 May 2008 
I have just finished reading "Don't Tell", & quite honestly could not believe some of the bad reviews this book had been given. I found this to be an excellent read with very believable characters, the storyline flowed & alll I can say is, well done Karen Rose for another truly
"holds the attention" read. I would say to anyone who has not read this author before, is to give her a try, I think you will not be disappointed!.
Great read - By: Snowdrop, 12 May 2008 
I can't believe some of the reviews I've just read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The romance is a good counterfoil to the suspense - means I can read it before bed without nightmares!
mysterylover - By: pat book lover, 29 Feb 2008 I bought this book thinking it was only a murder mystery but found out that it was also classed as murder/romance
I found the story & characters very good & i reallly enjoyed it & at times couldn't put it down but must admit that i found the romance part appeared far too often & went into far too much detail & also the main characters thinking about each other was a bit repetitive
Sticking to the main story would have made it a better read but since the story line was reallly good i give it 4 stars
Romance dressed up as a thriller. Okay plot, poorly written - By: KFH, 23 Feb 2008 
The first thing anyone thinking about buying this book should be aware of is that it is published by "Warner Forever", & is marketed as "Romantic Suspense". In my ignorance, I thought I was buying a mystery/thriller novel so was bitterly disappointed.
The plot is basicallly an okay one: abused wife flees her husband and, together with her young son, starts a new life. The narrative kicks off about ten years later, when the husband discovers his wife is still alive & sets out to track her down.
However, the idea is let down by the painfully cliched dialogue, characterization & descriptions. It reads like something out of a cheap airport romance. I am aware this is the author's first novel, so perhaps her later books are better written. I recently had the misfortune to read one of Tess Gerritson's earliest efforts & it was of much the same calibre as this - & yet she has now matured into a gripping crime writer.
If you are looking for a Mills & Boony type thing, I imagine you might enjoy this. It has a strong, feisty female lead with a dark, brooding male love interest, both recovering from painful pasts.
If you are looking for a new crime writer, please do not touch this book. Within the first 50 pages I was already having to skip whole chunks of schmaltzy "romance" sections & by about two-thirds through, I basicallly just skimmed to the end to find out what happened.
Dreadful - By: Mrs. J. Roskilly, 15 Feb 2008 
This is quite possibly the most badly written book I have ever attempted to read. It is full of stock characters, the attractive but crippled university professor who, of course fallls at "first sight" for the plucky but formerly battered wife who has started a new life with her protective son. The writing itself is of the most cliched type: "This was serious electricity", "The need to kiss her lips was overwhelming", "the leggy redhead". All this in half a page & so it goes on, presumably throughout the novel, although I had to give up after the first 150 pages. I gave the book one star because of the plot, although even that is not original concerning, as it does, a brutal husband who surprise, surprise is a police officer, searching for the wife & child who have now made a new life after faking their disappearance. If you want to read a romantic thriller, stick to Mary Higgins Clark. She may be fairly predictable but at least she can write a bit.
