Typically,
I love novels by Sandra Brown. Here comes the “but.”
The
format was typical for a romantic suspense, but I had no compassion for the
heroine, Jordie Bennet. She was too much
of a bitch, and when it came to softening her up for the romantic feelings and
“good person” feel, I didn’t fall for it.
Shaw
Kinnard is a gun for hire and captures Jordie for a sum of two million. Jordie has to figure out why he doesn’t kill
her right away back in the Louisiana swamp and how she can get away before it
does happen.
Shaw
has his reason for holding off on the kill.
Jordie’s brother is working for Shaw’s boss and the brother might know
where a grand sum of thirty million is stashed.
Shaw claims to be holding Jordie hostage for the jackpot.
Well,
I can see the “bad man,” Shaw, wanting to get it on with his beautiful and rich
captive, but the fact that Jordie has unwanted feelings for the man she still
believes will kill her and possibly go after her brother, too, is a touch too
unbelievable.
I
figured out the twist in the plot (I won’t give that up)
easily in the first seventy pages or so. That didn’t faze me, but …Jordie’s such a
B. I liked Shaw better than her and it’s
too bad he got hurt! I wanted him to
find another woman (he does reveal redeeming qualities). Oh, well, they’re both happy…
Happy reading,
Dawn
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