Customer Reviews

Don't Look Down

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I waited for this book to be available via my local library, for what seemed like forever, and just finished reading it. I loved this book so much, that I just purchased a copy from Amazon so I can read my own personal copy again and again.

I feel that this book better than `Flirting with Danger' - which I happened to like very much as well. `Don't Look Down' is a continuation of the first story, but you fall in love with Rick and Sam characters that much more and watch their relationship grow and mature. By the looks of it, Sam's trust is building and I have no doubt that their romance is heading in the right direction. Can't wait to see what Suzanne Enoch will have them do next.

Usually, the second book falls flat, but not this one. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series AND because I've like the first two so much, I'll purchase it instead of waiting...

I love Sam and Rick together! They remind me a little of Eve and Roarke (J.D. Robb's romantic couple). Sam is a bit like the tough cop that Eve is except that she isn't all legal about stuff and her upbringing, though not great, is WAY better than Eve's. And Sam is more up on literature and booklearning-type stuff than Eve. Richard is a lot like Roarke in that he's rich and strong and very capable and very in love. Unlike Roarke, Rick never was poor or on the wrong side of the law.

I loved reading this book. :)

This book has more "sex" scenes than any Suzanne's historical romance books, and it's understandable why. However, all the way through half the book, I was still waiting for suspense to begin, and for action to start. The first book "Flirting With Danger" was more fast paced than this one. It's is still a great book, and the author does not disappoint with witty, funny dialogs, steamy bedroom (and not bedroom) sex scenes, suspence and action.

I was reluctant to even buy Suzanne's first contemporary title, but I'm so glad I gave her a chance. She is absolutely great at modern romance!

It has been three months since the events chronicled in FLIRTING WITH DANGER, and we open to Rick and Sam trying to settled into a settled relationship. Emotionally, Sam still has one foot out the door, terrified of commitment, whereas Rick is trying *not* to use the "L" word and scare Sam off. Sam also feels like Rick is trying to take over the security firm she is trying to start-her first legitimate venture-but all Rick is really trying to do in his take-charge kind of way is to get Sam so entrenched in his life and in a legit business that she won't want to leave it all behind for her former life as a cat burglar.

All this relationship angst happens against the backdrop of Sam's first case-one that never officially gets off the ground because her client is killed before their first meeting. Sam is determined to find the killer, and Rick fears for her involvement, which leads them to make a little bet: Rick bets Sam that the police will solve the case without her help before she can. And the game is afoot.

Further complicating matters is Patricia, Rick's viper of an ex-wife, trying to work her non-existent wiles on Rick, and Stoney, Sam's old fence and current office partner, trying to entice Sam to pull a job in Italy and furnishing their new office with questionable acquisitions.

What I love about this series is that it's very much a work in progress with regard to Sam and Rick's relationship. Sometimes I get fed up with the immediacy of happily-ever-afters in books, those endless epilogues featuring the happily married couple billing and cooing over baby number umpteen. I particularly get tired of seeing this scenario in romantic suspense books, as most of the couples in this particular subgenre meet under stressful circumstances and decide they're in love with a gun pressed to their heads or some such thing that I find largely unrealistic. It's downright refreshing to read about the birth and struggle of a relationship. It feels more real to see Sam fight the temptation to go back to stealing and to see Rick worry about whether their life together is enough for Sam. Just like with other series, recurring characters (even the odious Patricia) are like old friends dropping by. I particularly enjoy the verbal sparring between Sam and Tom, Rick's lawyer and friend. I hope Ms. Enoch has many more of these books coming.

DON'T LOOK DOWN combines the best bits of the IN DEATH series by J.D. Robb (the relationship development of the central figures from book to book) and the humor of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich with none of the elements (repetitive descriptions, TSTL moments) that annoy me. DON'T LOOK DOWN gets 5/5 stars and joins my keeper shelf.

Number 2 in the Sam n Rick story arc.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel from start to finish. It has a most wonderfully imaginative denouement scene. Involving a girl-on-girl muddy catfight, cops and polo players. There's plenty of hot but not too graphic bump and grind. And a fairly decent plot. But most of all. It's about interlocking relationships. Between a guy and his attitudinous girl-friend, between an ex-wife and the main couple, between a girl and her surrogate Dad...and some more too. I loved them all.

I'll say it straight out. I think Sam is a great romance heroine. Clever, resourceful, beautiful. She can talk clothes, gardens, cars, children at the drop of a hat. Also. For the record. I like the way the characters speak to each other.

Definitely joining my 'to be read again' pile.

This is the one where Sam slashes the tyres on Rick's BMW. The one where Sam n Rick have sticky food nookie. And the one where quite a few times Sam hugs Rick for strength and comfort. I love all that kind of mushy stuff. Plus. It's one of those novels where the beautiful heroine drives to a Palm Beach place in a Bentley with the dishy hero following behind, convoy style, in a flashy Merc. Not that I worship money or crass style but I totally relished visualising that scene in my mind.

Very enjoyable.

This the second book in the Sam and Rick series

In this book, Sam is trying stay good and lives with her Billionaire boyfriend Rick. When Sam decides to start a security business, her first customer ends being murder. Sam feels guilt that the customer try to get help from the night before he got murder so she deicide find out who killed him. Meanwhile Rick's ex-wife, Patricia, asks Rick to help her buy a new house and tries to convince Rick to get back together.

I love everything about this books expect the fact that at sometimes I think Sam just didn't stand to up Rick's ex-wife. Patricia is constantly dissing Sam even after Sam helps her out but still Sam helps out.

This author never disappoints. The action and romance between the characters is sizzling. The book is funny and the plot flows.
I look foreward to the next installment.

Suzanne Enoch is an auto-buy for me but how well I like each one varies from 3-5 stars. Her Sam and Rick series is fun while her current Regency series about the Griffin family is played out straight.

Sam and Rick are like the characters in Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief. The genders are reversed with Sam being the thief and Rick the rich socialite. Theirs would be the story after the movie ends. The attraction between the two is understandable because they are both intelligent, interesting people who could get along fine by themselves but are better together. The conflict is Sam wanting to maintain her independence and Rick being pushy because he thinks he will lose her if he cannot make her feel obligated to him for his help. One thing that still needs to be explained is Sam's skittishness about relationships. Her former occupation may have made it difficult to maintain one. However, since she is out of the thieving business, it should be easier for her to accept Rick in her life.

Maybe the book could be a movie. A getaway at the beginning. A burglary in the middle. A polo match at the end. I am not sure how long this series is meant to be but I look forward to the next installment.

This series was recommended to me because I enjoy the In Death series by JD Robb (Nora Roberts). This series is similar, but doesn't have the same depth or skill in characterization as Robb's series. Don't Look Down wasn't quite as good a read as the first book in the series. The plot seemed to drag more and didn't hold my attention as well. I think that the hero is a little too angsty for me, too. Throughout the book, he has to be careful what he says and does in order to not scare off the heroine (he's more invested in their relationship than she is - or more than she admits she is). This theme got a little repetitive. I guess I prefer a little more "alpha" in my heroes after a point. That said, I enjoyed it enough to recommend it to those who want to continue with the series. (It rated more toward a 3.5, but I rounded it up.) If you want something grittier, more intense, check out the In Death series by JD Robb (starting with Naked in Death).

Perhaps I should have read the first book in this series first because while it stood on its own reasonably well, the relationship between Sam and Rick didn't work for me. I just found the two of them to be so annoying. I wanted Sam to be funky and spicy and all she really did was just conform to Rick's ideals. I found myself wanting them to have a massive fight and for Sam to resort back to her old ways.

Tough luck for me because it was a typical happy ending.

It was an okay book. It took me forever to read. But I got there eventually.