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Book Reviews of Shocking Pink

Shocking Pink
Shocking Pink
Author: Erica Spindler
ISBN-13: 9781551669625
ISBN-10: 1551669625
Publication Date: 5/1/2002
Pages: 512
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 98 ratings
Publisher: Mira
Book Type: Paperback
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42 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Shocking Pink on + 108 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
a real page turner! 3 young girls, bounded together by family disaster, stay forever....evn after a haunted murderer retirns to silence them from a crime in 1983.
EllyMae58 avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 31 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This was the first Spindler book I read, and so far, it's my favorite. I thought it was excellent!
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Helpful Score: 3
Spindler forgets nothing in her plotlines: a peek into each person's character, a touch of romantic involvement, hints about what is to come--it keeps a person engrossed in the details! This story, about three young girls who have formed a binding friendship, moves from recounting a very special summer in their past to a present where each young woman has matured and become an individual. Oh, you'll know "who done it" in plenty of time, because it's the race to the ending that keeps the pages turning!!
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Helpful Score: 3
The mysterious lovers the three teenage girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about.
Fifteen years later....the friends are confronted with their past with lots of twists and turns would will really enjoy. Good read, as all of Spindler's books. I think you would enjoy this unsual story.
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Helpful Score: 2
THIS WAS A "GOTCHA"....A GREAT READ!!!!
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Helpful Score: 2
Great thriller! I highly recommend!
jaapyle avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This was so much better than I expected! It kept me guessing until the end and will definatly read more of her books!
reviewed Shocking Pink on + 28 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Great read. Gripping plot and great characters. Erica Spindler is a great author.
esjro avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 900 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Andie, Raven and Julie are three young women who are more than best friends - they consider each other to be family. When the girls look in the window of an abandoned house, they see two people who they refer to as Mr. and Mrs. X engaged in a very risque and potentially dangerous adult game. The curious girls return another night and discover that Mrs. X has been killed. The aftermath of the discovery threatens to tear the girls apart.

The trio reunites again in adulthood when Julie's marriage breaks up so she heads back to the nest. Then strange things start happening: Andie receives a newspaper clipping about Mrs. X's murder, Julie has a sadistic new secret lover, and Raven suspects that her new client is using business as an excuse to insert himself into her life. When another woman is found dead, the local sheriff realizes that the three girls' memories may hold a clue as to who the killer is, and all secrets are revealed.

This book is very good for what it is - an escapist thriller geared towards women. Spindler takes the time to develop her characters, and although the book is a bit long it is still a page turner.
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Helpful Score: 2
Nice twists and turns through the course of the book. I like this author because no one is always all bad and no one is always all good. A little more like life.
reviewed Shocking Pink on + 38 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I have always enjoyed all Erica Spindler books!!
andi89 avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 98 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Very good book. I didn't want to put the book down. Kept you guessing until the end.
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Helpful Score: 1
Suspense and obsession, two of my favs in a book. Very interesting, good read, definitely a beach book.
tomcat avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 26 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I like all of Erica Spindler books!
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Helpful Score: 1
Twists and turns in the plot. enjoyable story to read.
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Helpful Score: 1
I found this story a little unsettling at times but it was good and definitely different from my usual mystery novel. They aren't graphic but it is about S&M so make sure you don't have an aversion to material containing sex and bondage.
Lissa avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 224 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
good book - lots of suspense
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Helpful Score: 1
I love Erica Spindler books. This one, like the others are fast moving, and intriging.
reviewed Shocking Pink on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Could not put this one down. Had to finish once it was started!
ilovedale3 avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 524 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great plot twists! The first "suspense" novel by Spindler and its a winner! I can't wait to read more of her books.
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Helpful Score: 1
This is an awesome book! I could not put it down..keep me on the edge of my seat till the very end! One word of caution..it does contain a sexual nature that some may find offensive.
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Helpful Score: 1
one of the most provacative, cant put down thriller ive ever read!
oftheson avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on
Helpful Score: 1
Gripping. Very intense
reviewed Shocking Pink on + 50 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A great read. Spellbinding. A too hard to put down book.
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Helpful Score: 1
Good suspense and easy read!
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Helpful Score: 1
Again. Spindler NEVER disappoints!
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Helpful Score: 1
One of her first books that I had read after this one I had to read her other ones.
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Helpful Score: 1
A chilling shocker, with some amazing twist.
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Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book! Very easy read.
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Helpful Score: 1
great book
LilMomof2 avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 23 more book reviews
I couldn't put this book down, it's a real page turner. Once again Erica Spindler at her best!
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I found Erica Spindler. Read about some of her books and read the reviews. So I had to order them and have voraciously gone through 7 books.
Such a different story line. It got a bit confusing but that's how Ms. Spindler works her magic. Then it all comes out in the end.
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3 friends spy on a sex game in progress between a man and a woman...or is it just games? the games are involved in a vacant house and one night the man leaves, but not the woman. years later the 3 friends are stalked by the man involved in the sex game that led to death...must read!!!
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They were only watching.

The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game on none else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession...

Now 15 years later, someone is watching Andie. Someone who won't let her forget the unsolved murder of "Mrs. X" or the disappearance of "Mr. X". Suddenly Andie doesn't know who her friends are...because loyalty can be murder.

Andie, Julie, Raven...Three very different women bound by more than friendship.
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I enjoy all of her books
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They were ONLY WATCHING......
curledupwithabook avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 169 more book reviews
A good romance thriller, albeit formulaic. If you need a good beach read, this will do. Three chums become involved in a murder, but just HOW involved is the question. Fast-paced with enough twists to keep you interested. And enough steamy sex to keep your heart pumping.

Spindler knows how to please.
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Excellent story line and a "can't put it down" book!
Linda avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 770 more book reviews
The first of this author's that I've read ... I'll be looking for others of hers. Strong characters, excellent mystery ... kept me glued to the book until the very last page.
cashew avatar reviewed Shocking Pink on + 14 more book reviews
Excellent read. Wasn't completely sure "who dun it" until almost the end. Had my suspicions but this author adds just enough twists to make you go "well maybe....."
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loved it
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haven't actually read it, was picked up in the airport for lack of anything to read and haven't touched it since...