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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Tale of Two Stories, January 9, 2005
I like Elizabeth Bevarly's books, I really do. They are very witty and have interesting characters. It was hard to decide how many stars to give this book because it has two separate stories in it, only connected by the most tenuous of threads.
First, you have the story of Hannah and Michael, which I would give 3 stars. I liked the characters and their emotional connection, but the plot was pretty far-fetched and it seemed Ms. Bevarly couldn't come up with an idea about why the villian of the piece was a threat. Also, this story had an absolutely flat ending with a non-resolving resolution.
The story of Selby and Thomas was more enjoyable with an actual end to their story. They each found themselves to be better than they had realized. Thankfully, no villains were involved in this story that had a decent romance plot line and an emotionally satifying ending.
Many novels with parallel plot lines at least have some plot-advancing interactions among the various protagonists. This one has only the sparsest of connections.
Having read it, I didn't feel like my money or my time had been wasted. I got some belly laughs out of it and enjoyed all the protagonists, but the potential buyer may want to take all of the above into account when deciding how to spend his/her gift cards/money/gift certificates.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Romantic, very funny, but incomplete, April 7, 2005
Well, I for one really enjoyed Bevarly's wacky humor in this book. (It's my first time reading her work.) The repetitions were intended as humor, and I found them funny. In fact, only the first one, which was used more often, got old. Yes, many of the sentences start with "and," "but," etc. People do not think in complete sentences, and much of what is written is the workings of the minds of one of the characters. I thoroughly enjoyed both romances in this book; the characters were very well developed, and their relationships were emotionally compelling, romantic, and steamy.
The suspense could have been equally good, and I thought Bevarly would tie everything together at the end. Unfortunately, she did not. The two romances barely tied together, and the spy plot was left dangling with no resolution. That was bad, very bad. She could so easily have connected the spy plot to Pax's computer business and tied everything together. Alas!
So, great on romance, and I thought it was very funny, but the lack of resolution in the spy sub-plot and the failure to tie the two romances together loses some points. Come to think of it, Bevarly doesn't really put the finishing touches on the second roance either. I've set the stars at 4 because the rating could use the boost, but it's really about a 3 to 3.5.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
I'm not seeing a real resolution here- 2 1/2 stars, March 6, 2005
This story was set up to be a romance with a suspense twist, but the suspense part is left hanging. There were two parallel stories told of two budding relationships, but I never felt like the suspense part was developed. Without the promise of a thrilling climax to the suspense aspect, the stories could have stood on their own without the reader feeling like the resolution was left hanging.
This also took me over a week to read which means it was not very compelling. All in all it was a below average read.
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