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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Melody Evans needed a hero--and got one!, August 22, 1998
Harlan "Cowboy" Jones, a Navy SEAL, not only saved her from a probable fate-worse-than-death but showed her the flip side. They spent a marvelous leave together after the rescue and Melody has quite a souvenir to show for it. But there's no point in regrets, even if she had any. Until Cowboy calls and wants to see her again. But she's seven months pregnant! And he doesn't know anything about it, and Melody has decided she'd be better off with an everyday, average guy who comes home every night instead of going off to save the world. So she tells Cowboy that she meant what she said when they parted: it's better to make a clean break. She didn't count on one thing: Navy SEALs never give up. There are a lot of romances that feature SEALs, but this one rings true. At one or two points I could just shake the adamant Miss Evans, but she finally wises up. The secondary characters are neat...The next book is going to be Harvard's Education and I am waiting in line. Impatiantly!
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30 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I'm sorry, I tried to finish it, but couldn't., March 10, 2004
What I love about Suzanne's books are her smart, original characters--both men and women. However, in "Jones," the conflict and the heroine were just too unbelievable. Melody starts out interesting--smart enough to successfully pose as a man and worldly enough to know the true danger she's in. Then she devolves into a one-track woman: "I can't marry you, Harlan, even though you are a superman who risked your life to save me and the sex with you is fabulous. It's true that I am having your baby, but I don't really KNOW you. You're not an ordinary, boring man that, for some crazy reason, I want." Even the love scenes are boring, just a few sentence flashbacks. Harlan is determined to marry Melody, although I personally would have said, "Okay, you refuse to marry me. You're right--you're too boring for me." And another thing. . . the town seems shocked, shocked at Melody's out of wedlock pregnancy. Huh? Do they live in the l950's? In short, I bet Suzanne was bored by this herself when she wrote it, or, as I suspect, she wrote it quite a while ago. The woman has surpassed this level of writing a long time ago. Don't buy "Jones"--wait with me, for a her new book, coming out March 30th.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a classic, but a fun light-hearted read, April 4, 2004
I enjoyed this tale of a Navy Seal and the hostage he rescued but found it lacking in depth and intensity. The storyline itself was engaging...Cowboy enters an embassy under attack by rebel forces to rescue 3 hostages and falls in love with Melody, the hostage he is assigned to. The first part of the book flies by as they evade enemy forces and escape. From there on, things slow down a little bit as Cowboy and Melody deal with her pregnancy and Cowboy tries to convince her to marry him. It ends rather nicely, but the book left me wanting more... I felt like the characters were never really fully developed. "Cowboy" Harlan Jones is a great character... he's smart, dedicated and has a quirky sense of humor that makes him endearing. Melody, however, seems too one-dimensional. I wish Suzanne Brockmann would have spent more time on her character. "Harvard", Cowboy's partner, was actually the most interesting character in the book. I'm looking forward to reading his story. Having said all that, my primary purpose for reading is to be entertained and enjoy a little escapism. This book definitely provided that for me and I enjoyed reading it.
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