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Brief Encounters: Put Your Guy On the Cover (Harlequin Blaze, 101)

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This story opens with Swan McKenna interviewing models for her men's underwear line. Since most of the models have come in costume, when a very sexy telephone repairman walks through the door, Swan thinks he's another model with stage freight and helps him to shed his clothes. Only when the pants come down and he's not wearing a pair of her underwear (or any underwear for that matter) does she realize this is really a telephone repairman. The story only gets better from there.

The repairman is actually Rob Gaines an FBI agent who is trying to gather information in a five million dollar embezzlement case. Swan of course is an innocent dupe in the whole embezzlement. The loan officer who gave Swan and her partner a loan to keep their business afloat, hid a cashiers check in an organizer he gave Swan as a gift. Rather than go to jail, Swan agrees to let her three-store fashion tour be used to smoke out the loan officer's accomplice. The only problem is that without the loan (which was also fake), there is no money to pay models for the tour. Swan convinces her assistant Gerard, Rob and Rob's partner Joe to model for her. The resulting fashion show is a riot.

The sexual tension between Swan and Rob sizzles. Comic relief is provided by Rob's partner Joe and Swan's assistant Gerard.

Swan McKenna has worked hard at making a success of her company Brief Encounters, whose prime product is sexy men's underwear. Now that she is about to see the fruit of her labor looming on the horizon with her Los Angeles show, she is accused of stealing five million dollars.

Special Agent Rob Gaines is assigned to watch over Swan. She, in turn, sees the hunk as an opportunity by having him model her new line. To convince a prim and proper Fed is hard enough, especially one who is supposed to catch you in the act of committing a crime. However, to fall in love with a white-underwear hero is too much to ask of Swan or is it.

Suzanne Foster mixes heat with humor in a tale filled with plenty of heart (and of course underwear). The story line is fun to follow due to two delightful amusing lead characters regardless of the underwear they wear. The moral of this tale is that mom was right in telling us to wear clean underwear. However, on the other hand (avoid the obvious pun), her reasoning of in case of an accident is inane as it should have been in case of getting lucky.

Harriet Klausner

To know "what" the book is about, read other reviews. To know "how" the book was, read this review.

This twisted little book had an unattractive, hard to believe plot, plus immature characters who would jump at the oppurtunity to look bad. I couldn't get anywhere near finishing this one. Nearly every word and part was irritatingly stupid, and drawn out with a hint of sickness. The beginning was terrible. If I wanted to know about a woman who is constantly having urinary urges, I'd ask my ill aging mother, not read about it in a book that is supposed to be fun, flirty, romantic and sexy! Or maybe I'd just look back at my own past of having an overactive bladder. The story seemed to be penned by a young emotional unimaginative hand that tries too hard to make any scene substantial and worthwhile, but actually comes off with it being poorly written, terribly lacking in everything good and normal. The first chapter was really bad, which wasn't much of a positive lead to the other chapters. It was a really strange book that made me blink and frown nonstop. The heroine was just as strange. I love strange, but bear in mind there is good strange and bad strange. Never before have I come across a book so odd that it was somewhat revolting. Wait, I have, just not like this. I'm sure it had it's good parts, but nobody buys books just for a few prize pages. We want a real story that grabs hold of us. Most reviewers here didn't like the book either, and I completely understand why. Most of us don't have the time or the mind to waste on what was perhaps best unpublished.

Swann McKenna's racy men's underwear company, Brief Encounters, is on the brink of incredible success... when she's accused of stealing five million dollars! How can she launch her newest naughty designs with a federal agent watching her every move? Of course, once she gets a glimpse of Special Agent Rob Gaines, all she can think about is seeing his moves. With his government-issue good looks, he'd bring down the house modeling for her upcoming fashion show. And she desperately needs models... But little does Swan expect Rob to help her out by reluctantly agreeing to strut his stuff. Nor does she realize that once she sees Rob in his underwear, she won't be able to resist catching him out of it...

Harlequin Blaze and Kensington Brava are the best lines for light erotic romance. I've embraced the Blaze series because it has thus far satisfied my appetite for the aforementioned genre. However, I am somewhat disappointed with Suzanne Forster's Brief Encounters. FBI agent Rob Gaines wants to catch the culprit who embezzled one million dollars in bank funds. To make matters worse, Swan McKenna, a gorgeous lingerie designer, is one of the suspects. Rob needs Swan's cooperation. But does he really have to model for Swan's male underwear line? He'd rather eat dirt! There are things that Rob hadn't anticipated -- Swan's frisky ways are one of them.

There are some laugh-out-loud moments in the novel. The erotic scenes are also wonderful. However, I found Swan's fascination with Rob's manhood a bit silly. The bathroom scene was difficult to follow, not to mention unreal. This is the weakest Blaze book I've read thus far. I'm not giving up on Blaze, but I hope that the other books have elements of male and female sexual tension without the childish games illustrated in Forster's weak effort. It's a shame, for she's a talented writer...

I wasn't even able to finish this one! I know the Blaze line is racy but this one was just laughable. The story opens when the main character, Swan, (yeah - that's her name), is interviewing men to model underwear and ends up depants-ing a telephone repairman who forgot his undies. Later on the same man turns up as an FBI agent and tries to arrest the heroine while she's on the toilet. When she tries to finish her business and prepare herself to be arrested she somehow becomes hopelessly entangled in her own clothing. This scene goes on forever and is very hard to follow and believe. When the innocent Swan finally asks what she's under arrest for (she was too busy with her undies for a while) the reader wants to scream at her that she's been framed for embezzlement and forgery, since we all saw it coming a mile away. Eventually the FBI agent tries to help her and somehow gets tied up in her clothing as well. Then I put the book down. I don't care if they had to gnaw their hands off to save themselves! The situation and the dialog are both astoundingly unconvincing and laughable. I'm done with the whole line.