Romantic Suspense
B
Target feels like a complete season of the TV show 24 in book form. It takes place within a single 24-hour period, and instead of chapters, the story is broken down into hours. As on the show, we follow our hero, in this case Army Intelligence officer Diana Lockworth, through a nonstop series of som ...
I really hope Berkley manages to place Tangle of Lies in airport bookstores, because I think it would be a perfect airplane book. As I read it, it reminded a lot of the paperback thrillers I've used to pass the time on flights over the years. Most readers will know the kind of book I mean. It's noth ...
C-
Summer Abrams guides people on wilderness trips, roving the United States to countries afar as she scales mountains, traverses canyons, and kayaks down rapids. She likes the brevity of it all – she is not into commitment or staying long in one place. Since her father died in a fire twelve years ag ...
B
Hmmmm...romantic suspense...not usually a favorite of mine. As I chose to read Jigsaw and review it, I told myself to put aside my preconceptions of romantic suspense. I was going to accept the evil villain lurking around every corner and graciously read all pages wherein the H/H were running from ...
The Dangerous Protector the second book in a series, and for a time I was totally lost among a crowd of strangers. Evidently the characters had all been introduced in Seductive Imposter and I felt like a Hatfield at a McCoy reunion. While I enjoyed the book, I never quite got over wanting to ask, ...
C+
I love a good bodyguard novel. There's something about all that forced togetherness that just racks up sexual tension. To The Edge is a bodyguard novel that begins very slowly, but picks up about the middle of the story and ended as a better than average read.
Jillian Kincaid's family are very pr ...
Technically, this book is romantic suspense. There is a complicated, emotional suspense plot, and there is a little bit of romance on the side. While this is not bad, per se, both of these elements need to work together to make a great book. In this case, they're almost unrelated. Su ...
B-
B.J. Daniels's Crossfire is an effective action/suspense story about a SWAT team's attempts to defuse a hostage situation. While the premise doesn't allow for much romance, it's still a good read and one of the best books in the Code Red continuity series so far.
Five years ago, Anna C ...
Well, gee, here we go with another average book, made slightly less so by a cartoonish villain, a really precious cute-meet, and a truly Unfortunate Puppy Faux Paws that had me berating the hero for his idiocy. As far as cute-meets go, this is one of the cutest – and that is not a ...
To a big degree, this new kick-butt heroine trend is not my thing. Or, rather, maybe a better way to put it is that I'm v-e-r-r-ry picky about my heroines and the way they kick butt. Susan Grant, for example, writes the kind of strong and capable heroines I adore, while the Bombshell style of female ...