2/20/2023 0 Comments The cutting edgeWritten in 1985, she seemed to be cutting her teeth on romance. It's very dated and seemed incredibly YA for LH with the H and h analyzing her ying to his yang for pages. PLOT: The H has been hired to investigate embezzlement and is distracted by the flirty and very Southern heroine. I really like Linda Howard for the most part, and this almost made it to a 3 star except for a couple of things. I, myself, am in the minority who likes her more contemporary stuff.more I would recommend this strictly for fans of LH's throwback romance books. The best thing about this book was the unintentionally loltastic prose (I believe "a cauldron of love" was mentioned, among other fantastical expressions) and the fact that the hero sounded and, in my mind, looked like Ron Burgundy, Anchorman. Here, she falls in love on the second date (lmao) and gives up her V card on the third. The heroine is also the typically ditzy doormat who happily sits at attention, tongue lolling, ready for her treat, no matter how many times her Master hits her on the head with his rolled-up newspaper. Every single time of course, the hero, though he is supposedly a genius at his cloak and daggers stuff, is too dense to realize his target is innocent, and even after he realizes who the true, mustache-twirling, criminal mastermind actually is, he fails to so much as apologize for his first class, shit-for-brains, donkey-faced shenanigans. She has used the trope of the undercover dude out to nail the femme fatale, in both senses of the word, to death ( Mackenzie's Mission, Loving Evangeline, Almost Forever). Every single time of course, the hero, though he is supposedly a genius at his cloak and daggers stuff, is too dense to realize his target is innocent, and even after he realizes who the true, mustache-twirling, criminal mastermind actually is, he fails to so much as apologize for his This is paint-by-the-numbers Linda Howard. This is paint-by-the-numbers Linda Howard. There are plenty of Jayne Ann Krentz heroines who don't break the law who would have scooped him up. (Make him suffer, honey.) And for the computer genius for forgiving his girlfriend for embezzling the funds. Heroine was dignified throughout.īut I had to knock off a star for the quick forgiveness by the heroine. (Her throat was so sore from crying she could barely speak!) Hero was remorseful. Four star angst after the hero had heroine arrested for embezzling. But I had to knock off a star for the quick forgiveness by the heroine.
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