Audio CD
Publisher: Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition (December 29, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1682621081
ISBN-13: 978-1682621080
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (138 customer reviews)
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Having read Howard's Kiss Me While I Sleep and thoroughly enjoying it (see review of 10/11/05), I chose another Howard novel thinking I would like it as well. All I can say is Linda Howard has grown a great deal as an author since White Lies was first published in 1988. KMWIS had a good balance of intrigue and romance, its intimate scenes were well written and titillating, and its plotlines were tied up nicely at the end. Not so with this one.WL started out nicely. I got into it right away when Janet Jean "Jay" Granger is asked to identify a man in a hospital by two FBI agents who knock on the door of her New York apartment. She'd just been fired from her job as an executive at a prestigious investment-banking firm and is reeling from that news when these fellows show up and tell her an amazing story...well, as much as they want to tell her in order to get her to agree to go with them. Jay is given a song-and-dance routine about why she is needed to identify the man. The man they're talking about has been seriously injured in an explosion and is covered with casts and bandages so there's little to see in order to make a visual identification. He's also in a coma. She spends weeks at the man's bedside easing him into consciousness, all the while believing him to be her ex-husband, Steve Crossfield. But is he?The suspense during the first half of the book is excellent and kept my full attention. Then "Steve" gains consciousness and things go downhill from there. I don't want to discuss the hitches I found in the storyline because I don't want to spoil the story for another reader (and I notice from other reviews that many liked this book a lot). For me, it became a series of scenarios where "Steve" endeavors to get into Jay's pants whenever and wherever HE felt like it.
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