Customer Reviews

Hide and Seek

5 star:		(45)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

My first book by Cherry Adair was KISS AND TELL. I really enjoyed the story and have been eagerly awaiting the next book from her, HIDE AND SEEK.
It is about Kyle Wright (the brother of the heroine from K&T) and Delanie Eastman. They were lovers several years ago and had not seen one another since then. They meet up in a secluded fortress owned by a suspected drug lord. Delanie is pretending to be the lover of the drug lord. Kyle doesn't know whether to trust her or not. She doesn't trust him either and so does not tell him the real reason she is there.

Kyle and Delanie strike sexual sparks together immediately in the story and like KISS AND TELL, it has lots of action. There were times I got a little squeamish, but it was not gory. Just a suspenseful story that you don't know where it will go next. The love scenes are plentiful, and hot, especially the one in the bedroom after Delanie drinks spiked wine.

I will admit I preferred KISS AND TELL more, but putting comparisons aside, I admit this is just as good and deserves my 5-star rating. I am looking forward to the next installment about the Wright family. If you are looking for an action packed romance, with hot love scenes, you won't go wrong with this.

All of you who LOVED Kiss and Tell will be blown away by Hide and Seek! Cherry Adair has given us an awesome romantic suspense with a "to die for" Alpha hero and a heroine you can't stop cheering for!

Dr. Kyle Wright, a T-FLAC operative working undercover at the cartel headquarters to destroy drug lord Ramon Montero, who plans on producing and selling small pox virus to terrorists worldwide, suddenly finds Delanie Eastman there posing as Montero's girlfriend. She is the one woman he can't forget from an encounter four years ago when she chose him for a "one night stand" to lose her virginity. Kyle suddenly has a dilemma. He either has to rescue Delanie or kill her! Thus begins a drama as each try to decide whether the other is a good guy or bad, and the sexual tension between the two is explosive!

Delanie has posed as a bimbo dancer and convinced Ramon to bring her to his headquarters, but she is there to find her sister Lauren, who had last been seen with Ramon in Las Vegas but hadn't been heard from since.

The action is non-stop and the tension incredible! If Amazon.com thought Kiss and Tell a bestseller, they'd better stock up on Hide and Seek!

Karen

I loved Kiss and Tell so much, I ran to the bookstore to get the second book in the series, Hide and Seek. Like in the first book, this one features a very likeable and extremely sexy male character, Dr. Kyle Wright. But the heroine is nothing but an annoying bimbo, who simply gets in the way and messes up the anti-bioterrorism mission. Being a female reader, I was hoping the Delanie character would pick up somehow, develop brains and show some common sense. She never did! Her only true asset was a great body and incredible, steamy sex. This book could've been written by any chauvinistic macho author out there.
And speaking of sex.... c'mon! Kyle Wright is a highly trained anti terrorist agent, about to complete a mission that has taken 4 years of his life. Do we really want to believe he spends most of his time drooling over Delanie, rolling around and making love to her every three hours in the middle of the jungle, while being chased by the bad guys? Uh-uh... I don't want to think our US special forces boys would act like that. At least I hope not!

This book is super HOT and very fast paced romantic action adventure. This is the 2nd book from Ms. Cherry Adair that I have read. This is a spinoff from the "Kiss and Tell" novel. Kyle Wright has been working undercover for 4 years for T-FLAC to help stop a terrorist/drug lord. Delanie Eastman, a kindergarten teacher, has gone "undercover" herself in hopes of finding her missing sister, Lauren.

Kyle and Delanie have a history - a steamy one-night stand 4 years ago (before he was shipped off to start this current undercover job). Fate brings them back together under very tense and hostile circumstances. Their love and lust for each other is rekindled.

Jake the Tin-Man resurfaces in this book (the character from Kiss and Tell). Plus its obvious the next book/series will cover Kyle's boss, Darius and Delanie's sister, Lauren.

The book is very intense, very steamy and very good. I read the book in 24 hours. Its a keeper to be re-read again and again.

I am somewhat at a loss with Cherry Adair's action/romance books. On the one hand, they are extremely well-written, engrossing reads with strong characters and hot sex scenes (which is why I gave her 4 stars). On the other hand, after much thought, I feel they are just too violent -- at least for me (which is why I did not give her 5 stars). HAS has multiple scenes of violent death and torture, including scenes of torture of the heroine by the sadistic lesbian mother of the terrorist kingpin. The problem, for me, is that Adair is so adept at painting scenes with words that I felt like I was WATCHING a particularly violent action movie -- especially horrible when the terrorist Ramon executes a young boy and then feeds him to an anaconda. So, if you don't mind violent action movies and want a good read, this book would be an excellent choice for you -- as long as you don't read it right before going to bed! (Note to readers: Hide and Seek is much more violent than Kiss and Tell.)

Take a ditzy, blond, bimbo who is the girlfriend of an international crime lord with a hidden agenda. Throw in an agent posing as an associate of the crime lord really to take him down after four years of carefully setting the stage. Throw in three passionate nights over four years ago that neither has forgotten and watch the sparks ignite. Delanie Eastman is a kindergarten teacher who assumes a persona of a sex kitten while searching for her sister. Kyle Wright is a man of many faces; doctor, scientist, agent, and commando all rolled into one. She'll stop at nothing to find her sister. He'll let nothing stand in his way of stopping an international incident. Nothing can stop either of them, that is until they find themselves face to face after four years. Throw in disreputable crime lords from around the world, the sadistic mother from hell, and you have an attention-grabbing read in store for yourself.

This is my second book by Cherry Adair and I have to say I enjoyed it just as much as the first. Ms. Adair has the most fascinating characters. I love the way they interact with each other. The characters ooze sex appeal and the dialogue flies between them. The heroine, while clearly out of her natural element, displays a spunk that can match anyone. The hero is tough, sexy, tender, and smart. The plot? Well, the plot is pretty lame. But you know what? You won't notice it or care with all the suspense, excitement, and sex that flow throughout the book. When I buy a book by Ms. Adair, I know I am going to be entertained!

Dr. Kyle Wright recognizes the breasts of Delanie Eastman, a woman he shared the best sex of his life with four years ago but has not seen since. Both are shocked because San Francisco is very distant from the isolated South American mountaintop above San Christobol where they renew their former acquaintance. However, they coincidentally meet at the fortress of drug cartel chief and terrorist Ramon Montero. Delanie claims to be a bimbo dancer, but in reality is a kindergarten teacher, searching for her missing sister last seen with Ramon in Vegas.

Kyle needs to get Delanie off the mountain before the deadly confrontation between his side and Ramon occurs. Kyle has worked undercover for the anti-terrorist group T-FLAC for four years by pretending to be developing a small pox virus that will cause many deaths. His benefactor Ramon is about to unleash that virus on the world. Now Kyle finds himself falling in love with the one woman who could inadvertently destroy his and his cohorts plan to stop a potential pandemic conflagration.

Cherry Adair follows up her RITA finalist, KISS AND TELL, with another strong romantic suspense novel. The story line is fast-paced and loaded with nonstop action that enhances the growing attraction between the lead couple. Though having two civilians, even if both are volunteers, in the war with Ramon seems stretched, readers will find HIDE AND SEEK a total joy, rooting for this couple to not only be victorious in battle, but in their relationship.

Harriet Klausner

I really enjoyed Cherry Adair's first effort Kiss and Tell, mostly because of the flirty and genuine interplay of Jake and Marnie. I liked that Marnie knew what she wanted and was willing to gently seduce the loner hero with her saucy sense of humor and loyal caring. Even when the cloak-and-dagger stuff stretched credulity, it was the likability of the two main characters that had you rooting for them, and Adair showed a wonderful flair for writing engaging teasing byplay.

Unfortunately, this doesn't translate so well into her second effort. Kyle and Delanie, the hero and heroine of Hide and Seek, are so hostile to each other for the first half of the book that you don't see what their attraction is, to each other or to the reader. So what that they had amazing sex 4 years before in what amounted to an anonymous one night stand? They didn't seem to learn anything about each other enough to like, and as the whole first half of the book they both impersonate bad guys, you wonder at their taste.

Furthermore, the whole drug kingpin adventure backdrop tends to overwhelm in this one, to the point where I just kept thinking Delanie was too dumb and naive to deserve to live. The extreme contrast between the goodies and the baddies is laughable -- Delanie is a kindergarten teacher, practically virgin, who takes on the burden of caring for her whole entire extended family, willing to risk certain death to save her sister (she woulda made a good nun); Kyle is such a genius that he skipped 8 years of school so that he could attend keggers in med school (he would have been, what? 14); and the villain is so evil, he is the richest drug overlord/terrorist/arms dealer/random murderer in the world with an incest thing for his mom and he's -- gasp! -- gay, as well. I mean, come on! Even Delanie's sister coming out alive at the end seemed a little ridiculous. I'm willing to suspend disbelief, but honestly, it was all too groaningly awful.

Now Kiss and Tell had some of these problems too, but because the romance was center stage, and Jake and Marnie so engaging, all the shootin' and fightin' were less of an issue. Here, unfortunately, Kyle and Delanie aren't very likable and there's no sense of them knowing enough about each other to build any sort of long-lasting relationship. It seems like the only attraction is sex, and that gets pretty boring after a while.

Despite this criticism, Cherry Adair has talent and when she focuses on the romantic interplay between the two main characters, she shines. So even though this one's a miss, I will still look forward to seeing her coming efforts.

I'm a big Cherry Adair fan, loved the first one and couldn't wait for the others. This book was very enjoyable until the last few chapters. Apparently Kyle and Delanie met four years before the action in this book takes place, and he relieved her of her virginity without bothering to use protection (or at least to ascertain that the incident did not have consequences). He had to take off on a long mission, so it seems he had no intention of starting anything with Delanie, who became pregnant as a result of their first encounter, and then miscarried. Not unnaturally, this was pretty traumatic for her. So what does Kyle do at the end of this book? He makes Delanie come after HIM, because she needs to prove to him how much she really cares. Any man who just assumes that it's OK for him to walk away from a one-nighter, but the woman has other obiligations, is a 24-carat jerk. AND he NEVER apologizes to her for having gone through the miscarriage by herself! It's also unclear whether or not he's been with other women since, but I would suspect that he has. Double-standards are standard in romance fiction, but this one is over the top. She gives him her virginity, loses his baby, has slept with no one else in FOUR years, AND she's supposed to come to South America to get him at the end? When the hero proves himself to be such a putz, it kind of throws off the whole happy ending thing.

If you're like me, and you love those action packed thrillers, who of course have hero's to die for, you'll love Cherry Adair. She's got a place on my keeper shelf right next to Linda Howard, she's that good! In Hide and Seek, Dr. Kyle Wright is on a covert mission of huge magnitude when he sees a...face from his past in the home of a huge drug lord. A face he's never been able to forget...And the adventure starts here! This is a not to be missed read if you're a fan of suspense--Ms. Adair keeps us on the edge, and although we know who the villain is, there is no lack of thrills and suspense. I can't wait for the next one!!