Anyway, I just finished After Caroline by Kay Hooper. Now, this one is older and kind of slow. It's when she was just starting out with novels more about mystery than about romance.
Joanna lives in Atlanta as a reference librarian. On July 1st, she gets into a car accident, and while her car is totalled, she emerges without a scrape. But as she is standing outside the car in awe, a tree falls on her car, and she is electrocuted. They revive her, but something weird starts happening.
Joanna is plagued by dreams from a place called Cliffside, and when she finally figures out where it is (Oregon, near Portland), she goes only to find out that she looks just like a woman named Caroline.
Caroline was also in a car accident on July 1st, and Caroline wasn't as lucky as Joanna.
Joanna is absolutely convinced that Caroline wasn't in an accident, and starts to dig into her life. Given the small town, it's easier than it could have been.
This, of course, piques the sheriff's interest in her, and Griffin decides to stick close. As time goes by, Joanna reveals a lot of secrets in this seemingly happy small town, but the most dangerous is about Caroline's last lover.
It was really slow to start out with. The first 100 pages or so, I didn't really care that much. The romance angle (Joanna and Griff) takes for-freaking-ever, and even then it's slightly unbelievable. Scott (Caroline's husband) and Lyssa (who works for him) have a thing, but it's slightly unbelievable too. It seems to be about settling often.
Anyway, it was fine. Not overly stellar, not terrible. Once you get into it, you really want to know who did it, but before then you only kind of care. At least, that's how I felt.
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His interest was "piqued"...
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