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Haunting Rachel (2004)

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0553587714 (ISBN13: 9780553587715)
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I am terribly disappointed by this book , the book was very promising , as a matter of fact I was enjoying it very much , the suspense was great , the mystery was even better , the characters were interesting though Adam and Rachel had no chemistry whatsoever , but the mystery itself had me hooked so much that I didn't really care about that , I was waiting for an ending that ends with a bang but instead I got a little beep sound that died halfway before it even finished.The whole book went downhill the second the villain was exposed , now I think the choice of the villain was brilliant , the only problem was the complete change in the villain's character to the point where he made absolutely no sense , everything we knew about this certain character just fell apart and wasn't even pictured as if he was faking anything , it was just simply ignored , not to mention the cheesy ghost thingy that was added to the story at the end , it was so ridiculous and lame , there was absolutely no reason to add anything supernatural to the story especially that all it did was ridicule and ruin the whole book , another thing that pissed me off was how the heroine acted regarding Thomas , even if the man wasn't the character she thought he was that doesn't mean she should treat his memory with such disrespect and erase his name from the jewelery she gave him and replace it with Adam's name I was very outraged by this , the ending was also quite lame and the cheesiest thing I've ever read.Lastly the author made another huge mistake in this book which was create secondary characters who were far more interesting and charming than her main ones , I found myself looking forward to every single scene they were in , Nick and Mercy had great chemistry and were very intriguing characters and that was something Rachel and Adam lacked a lot , I wish that book was about Nick and Mercy it would have been far more interesting especially that I absolutely loved their story. An author should never ever create secondary characters that are far better than the main ones to the point where they steal the whole story , it ruins the book !!

I am a huge fan of Kay Hooper and I will read anything she's written. When I saw Haunting Rachel in the store, I knew it was one that I hadn't read yet, so I picked it up.Rachel Grant is young and in love. At nineteen years old, she is engaged to Thomas Sheridan, the dashing older brother of her best friend, Mercy. Thomas is about 10 years older than Rachel and works as a pilot transporting cargo. When Thomas mysteriously disappears somewhere in South America and is believed to be dead, Rachel's world comes crashing down. She leaves her home in Richmond, VA to attend school in New York and only returns for rare visits, not wanting to confront the pain of her past.She's able to stay away for 10 years, until her parents are killed in a plane crash and Rachel has to return to Richmond to settle the estate. When a mysterious stranger named Adam Delafield shows up, looking almost exactly like her dead fiance and claiming he owed her father 3 million dollars, Rachel is shaken. To top it all off, someone is out to kill her and she is rushing to figure out why.I really enjoyed Haunting Rachel. Rachel could be a little too indecisive at times, but overall I enjoyed the character. I loved Ms. Hooper's use of dreams throughout the story. They reflect the little threads of the paranormal that she so often weaves throughout her stories. This was a good read with a fun cast of characters.

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This was the first Kay Hooper book I read, and after this, I was hooked. I'll be honest; the title is what made me pick it up. I was on vacation and had forgotten a book to read, so while at a store I was skimming through the book section and the title caught my eye (my name is Rachel...the main characters name was Rachel-lame reason, but I'm glad I picked it up).I really like Kay's writing style. I've read pretty much all of her mystery/thriller books. She started out as a romance novelist. I've read some of those, and they are good, but I definitely prefer her mystery/thriller books.One thing I love about Kay's mystery novels is that she can keep you guessing until the end about who the bad guy will be. I'll admit there are many times I'm surprised at the end.
—Rachel

It had been ten years and Rachel Grant was living life without a sparkle in her eyes or a special someone, she was still haunted by the disappearance and presumed dead fiancé, Thomas Sheridan. With her parents’ recent deaths, their only child Rachel had many decisions to make upon returning to the family home after many years. Help came from many avenues, Graham Becket her parents’ lawyer and executor of their estate, Nicholas Ross her father’s banking partner, and Darby Lloyd childhood friend, interior designer, and antique dealer to name a few were glad to be of assistance. Rachel’s memories of Tom and her frequent sightings of a stranger in town who looked like Tom caused her to question if she had lost her mind. Adam Delafield’s resemblance to Tom was so uncanny and the revelation of his undocumented three million dollar loan from her father created suspicion. Adam was not the only one causing havoc and suspicion in Rachel’s life. Accidents that became abundantly clear were no accidents had targeted Rachel with a vengeance and Adam was there to save her life or was it a set up, and why. Bombarded with haunting nightmares, people close to her with secrets, and unresolved questions, Rachel didn’t know who to trust and her time was running out. “Haunting Rachel” was written with reasonable length chapters and easy going storyline. A few twists kept the story interesting. The premise of a deep love so powerful to transcend time to protect the living was unique. The passing of a treasured love from one to another for safe keeping was magical and imaginative.
—Lynda

I read this immediately after Hooper's far superior 'Amanda' and was very disappointed. The romance between the main characters was terribly written, passionless and unconvincing (it felt more like an afterthought, something added to the general mess the book is). There's something terribly wrong when the secondary characters are much more interesting than the protagonists, and writers should be aware of that. The plot was super silly, and the writer seemed to want it that way, as she threw everything and the kitchen sink at it: South American dictaroships, the mob, an obscure government agency, banking deals and money laundering, gas explosions, murdered parents, hoods after revenge, an asinine ghost story, putting in an appearance for the sake of it (Hooper felt the need for a 'paranormal' element,it beats me why, since the story would have been better without),family affairs, illegal diamond trade, you name it this book has it in its most feeble and formulaic form. While in 'Amanda' there was proof that Hooper can write nice love scenes, here there is no evidence of that, so no bedroom scenes worth their ink, no passion, nothing. I'm glad I read 'Amanda' first, for I'm not likely to pick up anything by this writer again. PS. I would have given this book one star but it gets an extra star for the secondary couple alone.
—Emma

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