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| Jeffery Deaver | | Hardcover:
| 448 pages | | Publisher:
| Simon & Schuster | | Publication Date:
| December 26, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1416541187 | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 21 reviews |
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 Not as good as the original.Apr 06, 2010
After reading Deaver's first book in the twisted series, I was very excited to recieve this book. I was quite let down by this one. In the first book I could not figure out what the twist was going to be. The stories in More Twisted were predictable and I think deaver lost a little of his touch. They were not boring stories, they just lacked the element of surprise. The best story in this book was Born Bad, it had the element os suspense, and kept you guessing right up until the end and BAM!!! You are blown away by the surprise. But that is just my opinion. The first book was so much better.
 GREAT short reads for anywhere you have 10 or 20 minutes....Apr 04, 2010
I loved the surprise endings, always have, but these were sometimes hard to find and hit in your the face at the end. I love this author and will read just about anything he writes, but I truly enjoyed the dramatic endings, the briefness of beginning to end is nice at times, yet he creates the characters for you in just a few pages. Highly recommended.
EntertainingJan 16, 2010
Sixteen short stories with surprising twists in the plots. These stories are about crime or suspense. Interesting, good examples of short stories. Examples of how to use fear in writing are illustrated.
He uses 5 essential fears in writing.
1. Fear of the unknown.
2. The fear we experience when others are in control of our lives.
3. The fear of others lacking control of themselves. They do not play by the normal rules.
4. Our own lack of self control. The sensation of feeling we can fly off a cliff for example.
5. Fear because we see or sense the icons of fear. People who look a certain way, a burning cross, a noose, blood, darkness, various phobias such as the fear of darkness, fear of the occult.
Two rules:
1. The characters and therefore the readers stand to loose something important if the calamity comes to pass. This requires that the characters be developed so the reader knows them.
2. Objective is to make the reader afraid but never disgusted or repulsed. No graphic gore or violence against children or animals for example.
Deaver at his bestNov 25, 2009
Prior to buying this book, I had yet to find a Jeffery Deaver book that I didn't like, and this one did not disappoint. "Twisted" is the only word to describe these stories. Just when you think you have it figured out ... you don't. If you are a Deaver fan, or a suspense fan, you will like this book.
Manufactured twists in most cases. Average leisure read.Jan 17, 2009
I picked this up as a leisure read, and because I wanted something I could chew up piecemeal. I gave it the three stars I did mostly because I was able to do just that: read a story or two a day, and not worry about remembering anything beyond that.
But make no mistake, it wasn't great. Yes, there were twists at the end of each short story (the basic premise of the book). However, in almost every case, the twist wasn't something that was carefully planted, something the reader could have picked up on, or at least said, "Of course. It was there all along." In each case, the twist wasn't ludicrous; it just wasn't carefully cultivated and nurtured through the story.
And ultimately, I believe that's what we all want... twists that not only surprise us, but that make us think, "It couldn't have been any other way." So lots of promise, but very lacking in the delivery.
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