Advantages: Fabulous book, one of Ludlum's best.. Disadvantages: None at all..
The Tristan Betrayal
Author: Robert Ludlum
Pages: 521
About the author and the book
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Robert Ludlum is the author of 23 novels published in 32 languages and 40
countries, and, at one time was the world's best selling author. His novels are a
blend of sophisticated plotting and extreme pace.There are more than 210 million
copies of his books in print. He is best known for 'The Scarletti Inheritance',
The Chancellor manuscript , Osterman Weekend and the Jason Bourne series -
'The Bourne identity, The Bourne Supremacy and 'The Bourne ultimatum' among
others.
His plots are intricate with twists upon twists, managing to mesmerize the readers.
He is an expert at writing Political Thrillers.The Tristan Betrayal is a classic
Political Thriller set in the 1940's in Paris , Moscow both reeling under Hitler ...
Advantages: A half decent read. Disadvantages: Very long and too detailed in parts.
was a little dubious, the book is called "Betrayed" and the cover displays a little girl clutching her teddy bear, ok the signs were not looking good!
Upon explaining to my friend about my avoiding these books for a while she allayed my fears by explaining she was also tired of them and this book was completely different, ok, I thought, lets give it a go!
The story - The scene is set by the lead character Lyndsey, it starts with first meeting her husband, then her marriage to Mike.
The story takes a long time to get going, though in fairness she does need to set the scene for the reader to understand how terribly she felt after the "betrayal".
She states herself she has never been one of those women that gravitates towards female counterparts, but after meeting Tanya develops into one of the greatest friendships of her life.
Over ...
Advantages: Good,compulsive story Disadvantages: Very Americanised
This review is on Betrayed, the second book in P.C. And Kristin Cast's House of Night Saga. The books are teenage fiction, published in 2007 by Atom. There is a warning on the back of this book declaring that it is not suitable for younger readers, and I agree whole-heartedly with this!
There are some spoilers from the first book (Marked) here, but I've tried to keep them to a minimum.
Betrayed begins a month on from where Marked left off, which was with Zoey Redbird taking over from Aphrodite as leader of the Dark Daughters and as High Priestess in training at House of Night. House of Night is a school for fledgling vampyres (in Zoey's world, vampyres and humans co-exist and have always done so). The rules are simple, you succeed at school and you live, but if your body rejects the change from human to vampyre, you die.
In Betrayed ...
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