Customer Reviews

Enticing (Casey / Caught in the Act)

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

 

 

I purchased Casey's story as an individual E-book so I don't know anything about 'Caught in the Act'.

Casey has matured into a great man over the Buckhorn Brothers series, which I consider one of my favorite series, but I'm not sure whether he is the same guy we have grown to know and love.

I felt as though I was reading about three separate Caseys and not three parts of one hero. 17 year old Casey is generous, slightly controlling, and adorable. He was my favorite. 27 year old Casey #1 was cold and jaded. 27 year old Casey #2 is protective, in love, and overall a respectable guy. But the transition from one Casey to the next just wasn't smooth enough.

The only other part of Foster's writing here that slightly discomforted me was her failure to follow through. Casey always referred to his cousins as neices and nephews but no one corrected him. At least he recognized that his brother was still his brother despite being 17 years apart in age. I'm a numbers gal so when authors screw up the math I get overly irritated. Gabe who is approximately 39 by my math, could not have a 9 year-old daughter because when Emma left EIGHT years ago, Elizabeth (Gabe's wife) had not yet announced her first pregnancy. Also in Gabe's book, its aknowledged that Gabe and Ceily went to high school together but here Ceily is implied to be in her early thirties. If I was wrong to infer such a thing then well I would have liked Foster to aknowledge that most women in their late 30s would show some distress over dating a younger guy. I am not saying that it should or would stop them just that there is usually some internal turmoil.

Lastly, the ending was sort of cheesy. I will not give it away but it was predictable and nothing special. I did appreciate Foster's turn on the girl who returns to her hometown changed. At least there was no cliche grand make-over. This book was good but not fabulous.

This book contains the following two stories.

4 stars for CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Good, enjoyable romance story. There were a number of good things about this story. Someone took a shot at Del, and the related danger provided interesting conflict. I loved the characters. I was delighted with the heroine's actions at the end.

This is the third story in the series around Dane Carter's detective agency. The anthology Fallen Angels has the first two stories: Beguiled about Dane Carter and Wanton about Alec Sharpe, both private investigators. Caught in the Act is about Mick Dawson, a 26 year old undercover cop whom readers first met in Beguiled, when he was a teenager.

Sexual language: moderate. Number of sex scenes: six. Setting: present day U.S. city. Copyright: 2001. Genre: romantic suspense.

3 stars for THE BUCKHORN BROTHERS: CASEY.
This is sweet, light and fluffy - a nice, pleasant romance story. Emma has problems with her parents and runs away from home at age 16. She returns 8 years later to visit her dad who is in the hospital. Casey had been a friend to her as a teen but missed her after she left. Now he wants her and woos her. Everyone in the story is likeable, generous and sympathetic except Emma's parents and a few jealous females. There is almost too much likeability in this story.

There are at least four other Buckhorn Brothers stories, published separately. These are about Sawyer (Casey's dad), Morgan, Gabe and Jordan.

Sexual language: moderate to strong. Number of sex scenes: four. Setting: present day Buckhorn, Kentucky. Copyright: 2002. Genre: contemporary romance.

I enjoyed the story line immensely. The caring interaction between Casey and the woman he finally realizes that he's loved since high school. The second story was just as good as the first. I enjoy reading Lori Foster's books and she didn't disappoint me this time. I would recommend this book to all my friends as well as strangers.

Casey ~ I've recently "found" Lori Foster. I had just finished reading about all of Casey's brothers, so I had to go "find" Casey. :) I was nice to be able to tie in ans find out what happened to him, too.
Caught in the Act ~ Now with reading about Mick and Delilah? I'm having to search out the rest of that "family". :) Lori Foster has a way of drawing you into her characters. Makes you want to know not only them...but their friends, also. Off to find out about Josh and Zack....
Thanks, Lori Foster, for some great entertaining reads!

It's enough to say that i have already read this book more than 4 times and i'm still not tired of it.

I enjoyed the Buckhorn books. I would like to read the next book after Caught in the Act. Is it a series?

I read all of the Buckhorn Brother's stories(4 in all) and had to read Casey's story. I didn't think the story line was as good as the first four, due to a lot of rehashing, which I guess is in there for any one who is new to the story line but a little bit much. But I loved finding out what has happened to the brothers and their wives. Worth the money to read the happy endings!

I got this book specifically because I wanted to read Casey and Emma's story. It sucked. It took me three days to finish because I got bored and moved on to read three other novels. The second story, Caught in the Act, is very very good and I really loved it. That being said, the price is not worth the money for only one good story.

Both books are very good. I recommend reading the rest of the series of each of these books.

They re-released the Buckhorn Brothers, which makes a body want to read "Casey" (the related novel). But then, when they re-release Casey, they package it with another novel which is related to four others. So, I read "Caught in the Act" and got sucked into yet another Foster series.
But I guess I can't really complain, since I wouldn't get sucked in if they weren't great works. :)