Live to Tell

Very good

Read it in one night and it was hard to put down! Great characters and great plot.

10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Live to Tell

As usual - Wendy is a great writer. Couldn't put this book down! A little different is the way Wendy jumped back and forth between characters. However, I liked it well enough to buy Scared to Death - the sequel. I have read Wendy for many years and have enjoyed her thoroughly. One of my favorite writers!!!! Highly recommend this book -

6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Had me hanging until the end

This was well worth the price!!! Had to hang in there in the beginning because it bounced around a little to different characters until it had everyone tied in. Once the groundwork was layed....WOW!!!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

It is a great title. I really like her books, you can hardly put them down!!

I had to get used to the characters in the book in the beginning and all of the different stories that each of them had. I thought the ending should have been in more detail with the death of Nick and his girlfriend. Because it really doesn't share any information with how Lauren told the kids and what was going to happen after that. I read the preface of her next book and I can see that it is going to continue on with some of the characters but not all of the characters. I read this book in two days! I have read most of her books and I really enjoy her writing and the suspense in her books! Each story is filled with thrilling and captivating information and story lines. You can really get involved with the characters and put yourself in their shoes. I like how you really don't know who the "Villians" and then the characters that you think are guilty really aren't! Like for instance Sam! He ended up to be an innocent bystander and was really trying to help Lauren and her children!! I wish that she would turn out books faster than she does now....She is an author like Mary Higgins Clark. I can never figure out the "Villians" and character in her books are also very difficult to figure out. I am looking forward to reading some more of her books and I hope that they will have the same thrill as the rest of her books!!

4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

highly entertaining suspense thriller

A man is being chased and he needs a place to hide a memory stick. He steals a young girl Sadie's rabbit and leaves it at the lost and found at the Grand Central subway station

In Glenhaven Park, New York Lauren Walsh struggles to cope with losing her husband to another woman. However, Lauren notices someone watching her house especially her daughter Sadie. Her child tells her mom someone entered her room because the invisible wire she put on the door is on the floor.

Republican gubernatorial candidate right wing Garvey Quinn has a secret if revealed would destroy his political career. He has someone seeking the individual with the information that would ruin him. One of his trusted aides says it is inside a pink rabbit dropped off at a lost and found. Sadie's father picks up a pink dog as that is what he though his angry ex ordered him to find. Quinn's aide targets the Walsh family as he will do whatever it takes to obtain the memory stick. Meanwhile Elsa Covington mourns her son abducted a decade ago; Quinn is the tie between these two moms.

This highly entertaining suspense thriller grips the audience who knows what is happening but not why as whatever Garvey conceals at any cost to others remains unknown but tantalizes readers into trying to guess the answer. Garvey makes the tale work as a fully developed villain who uses loyal people to commit crimes that cannot easily be tied to him so he can claim plausible deniability. Lauren is reeling with the ugly divorce, but remains strong especially a lioness protecting her cubs. Fans will root for her and Elsa knowing anyone who accidentally ends up inside of Garvey's circle either as a friend or not is an expendable pawn.

Harriet Klausner

4 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Kept me on the edge

Great Read. I love they way it skips around to all the characters and then brings them all together in the end. A little tough to keep up at first but that's what makes is so great.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Ok if u leave out the conservative bashing

Ok but of course the bad politican has to be a conservative

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Kept me guessing!

Family, excitement, jealousy, love, fear, and suspense, LIVE TO TELL, by Wendy Corsi Staub, has it all! This is the first Wendy Corsi Staub novel I have read, and without question, I am impressed. I will most definitely follow this author. I cannot wait for the sequel!
You would think that raising three children, in suburbia, would be relatively predictable. Not if you are Lauren Walsh and your husband, who is apparently having a midlife crisis, with an older woman none-the-less, somehow manages to bring home the wrong stuffed animal from lost and found and connects your family to political secrecy, crime, and murder. This well written story keeps you guessing throughout the book, and guessing wrong at that. I love a suspense novel that I am unable to predict, and LIVE TO TELL, was that for me. If you are looking for a page-turner, take a look at this one.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Not a great read

This book was predictable. I have read her other books and they were great. This book was reptitious. I would not waste my time reading it.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Beginning too fragmented

The beginning chapters kept moving to and from different character reference points; by the time each point converged, the story was too unbelievable. OK read, but disappointed at the end.

Awesome!

This book had me entertained all the way to the end! I took a chance on an unknown (to me) author, and I was NOT disappointed! I am now onto finding the next book in this series. What an ending!

OK

Not for everyone. It was a little scary

Great read.

This is a new author for me. I'll be reading more of her work.

recommend

This was my first book by this author. I really enjoyed this book and will read others by Ms. Staub

you might want to check it out

A different story..hard to believe, even in fiction

great weekend read!

This was a surprisingly good read... for me it started out slow, getting to know the characters, but Staub did a great job creating her characters and bringing them to life. Some parts were a bit predictable, but there was a great twist at the end. I will definitely check out the next book in the series.

Kept my attenton

Very interesting the way multiple characters were pulled together at the end. Kept your attention waiting to see how they were connected. A few confusing spots to me, but overall very good

Highly Recommended

A very good read, looking forward to her next book!

I recommend this read. Had a hard time putting it down.

Enjoyed her writing very much. Would read other books written by her.

Highly recommended

Loved it. Can't wait to start the next book "Scared to Death"

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.