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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

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I have just finished this book and I had to let you know how good it is. It is great!!! IF you have read her other book OVER HER DEAD BODY you will recognize April as the sister of Gus. She was sold by her mother to her drug dealer when she was 9. Gus has searched since then for her. I adored OVER HER DEAD BODY and KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE is wonderful.

April Worth has lived with Phyllis and Cornelia Worth most of her life. Phyllis rescued her from her buyer's house when she was a little girl and raised her. When Phyllis had Corny 15 years ago April was there to be a big sister to the little girl. She will do anything for them. April has gone to college and is working as an apprentice to a designer. Phyllis, whom she calls her mother, works at a design house with a friend, since she no longer works as a showgirl. April loves both Corny and Phyllis and now Phyllis is missing. April approaches the one man who may help her find Phyllis. He is Phyllis's older son, Joe Worth. Phyllis left him in an ER when he was three.

Joe is a Bodyguard. He and a partner have their own business and the last person he wants to hunt for is his long gone mother. But Alice tempts him and when he finds out he has a sister he has never known about, he decides he needs to find his mother and tell her just what he thinks about her.

How hard can it be to find his mother? As Phyllis is on the move, the killer is after her because only she knows where April is. He needs April to be able to blackmail the man who sold her, who is now a big wig with alot of money. Joe is certain there is a connection between Phyllis running and what happened to April and the deeper they dig the more they find out about his mother's life. Everything started with the death of one of Phyllis's former lovers.

We are led on a wild and wooly ride to reach Phyllis and save her and April from a date with death. The romance was wonderful and the story touching. I loved it. Just what romantic Suspense should be. Do not miss it.

I love this author, and her skills as a writer. I almost envy her wit, and the way she can make a complex story come to life. When I first heard about this book by E.C. Sheedy I made sure I put my copy on order right away. Her books are rare, I think, and she doesn't come out with many as quick as some other authors do. She takes her time, I think, and the end results are always amazing!

With this book, I have to admit it was hard at first to get into. All these characters were thrown at me at once and I wasn't really sure which way to go. So, I kept reading, and reading, and reading and I fell in love with the book. Again. Like always.

And then to come and think of that THIS WAS APRIL'S STORY! She is Gus's sister from "Killing Bliss", and "Over Her Dead Body." I didn't know that at first. I read Gus's story so long ago, and I remember he had a sister he had been trying to find for a long time, and her name was April. I just never put two and two together until I read April say something about her brother she hadn't seen in so long. Wow! I was shocked, happy, and thrilled by the end of the book they finally get to meet each other!

Joe Worth, I fell in love with from the beginning. He was this man who was thrust into the family life by his pretend to be sister, and finds his actual real half-sister, Cornie, along the way.

But my heart really went out to Phyllis Worth, and her long-lost romance. It was so great to read she finally went back to him, and they fell in love all over again. I would say that was my favorite part of the book. Their old romance.

Bottom line, this book gets better and better as you read it.

Go "read" for yourself!!

Plot summary:

Ex-Vegas showgirl, Philly, with a shady past, flees a hit man. Her adopted daughter April and estranged son Joe look for her. Meanwhile, villains Mercy, Charity, Castor and Quinlan trip over each other to blackmail, kill, and outsmart the others in their quest for money -- all while tracking Philly and April to cover up evidence of a 30-year-old child trafficking ring.

Pros:

I enjoyed the complexity of the plot a lot, and the unexpected twists. I like Sheedy's writing style a great deal. Her characters are well defined and she uses some funny turns of phrase. (This is my second read by Sheedy. I got clued to her from a short story "After the Lovin'" in the anthology "Baddest Bad Boys". It had a hilarious villain/hit man phone conversation worth the price of the book.)

This book really excels in its villains and their interactions. They're each well-developed and unique. For me the villains outshined the romantic leads by far. The romance was ok, and I disagree with the reviewer complaining about too much sex. Perhaps she got that impression because there were two scenes back-to-back, but the sex scenes each served a purpose and were not gratuitous, or even plentiful. I thought they were well done.

Cons:

Someone pry the "1/!" key off Sheedy's keyboard!!! The overuse of exclamation points -- sometimes five per page -- was very distracting. Poor editing by Kensington to leave these in.

The reason Philly abandoned Joe remained unanswered.

Without giving too much away, I was perplexed at how Philly, without a disability, didn't learn a basic thing - even while raising a school aged daughter -- and was able to cover it. I found it odd that a team as smart as Charity and Mercy, would choose the harder path to money, when Charity was in such a unique position to extract it. It didn't make sense that she didn't exploit it the legitimate, old-fashioned way.

Over two decades ago Phyllis Worth rescued nine years old April from the dark eyed man who hid her in an unlighted basement. Phyllis raised the frightened April as her own. Now Phyllis is missing fleeing for her life without a moment's notice. She left behind a quickly scratched note warning April to hide as the dark eyed man seeks her.

April still fears her bogeyman, but needs to insure Phyllis is safe. She turns to Joe Worth to find Phyllis and keep both females safe. Joe wants to say no to sad eyes as Phyllis is his biological mother, who deserted him years ago. However, he cannot leave April at the mercy of a deranged serial killer who wants to use Phyllis to get to his intended target; besides which he has instant heat that she reciprocally makes hotter.

The dark eyed killer who in many ways remains in the shadows of a nightmarish memory steals the show of a superb erotic romantic suspense thriller. E.C. Sheedy uses the family link to bring the lead couple together, but plays down the soap opera in order to provide a strong complex mystery. The lead couple is a fascinating likable pairing as he needs prove to himself that he is worthy of her trust by keeping her safe more so than completing her request to save his mother. Readers will kiss the day away reading this exciting tense one sitting romantic mystery.

Harriet Klausner

I was really looking forward to reading this book by an author I usually enjoy, but Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye fell below the grade. Usually, I would have stopped reading this book after just the first few chapters did nothing for me, but continued reading only because I had spent full price for the book. Here is what bothered me the most about it:

The book is about 85 percent SEX and only 15 percent story. If it was a movie, it would be considered porn. The author writes a full chapter of sex with two characters and then starts a new chapter that is full of sex with two other characters. There might be a small glim of plot and then it is directed back to the sex. BORING.

There were numerous typos and grammatical errors that just showed a lack of concern by the author and the publisher for putting together a quality publication.

There is no mystery to the plot. All suspects are clearly revealed. No climactic ending. Not a lot to keep the reader guessing or wanting to turn the pages.

Is it worth buying?

NO!!! Do not spend money on this high cost paperback book. It's a short book of only 317 pages with large type and wide margins. Even that short a book dragged on too long with the endless pages of sex. I like a little romance in my mystery/suspense novels, but this was a little overkill. I guess if you enjoy that kind of stuff, you might enjoy it, but I would rather have more plot and substance to the books I read. Do not waste your money on this book.

After reading Sheedy's prior books, I knew this would also be good & it was. It was hard to put down.

April Worth has seen the dark-eyed man. She knows what evil is. April was nine when she was rescued from hell on earth by an angel, an angel who taught April that families are made not born. To get her angel back she will do anything; remember what hell on earth was, and even break a promise she swore she would never break.

Joe Worth protects people for a living. With his morning coffee he reads his horoscope, and it forecasts trouble. When he sees the scared woman with the legs that just didn't stop, he knows he has a client. She hits him with a job that hits him in the gut. April is making it personal; she wants him to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. It pulls him in and could cost him all because he has to stop a killer, a killer out for vengeance. A killer who has a dark, sick past that he wants to keep in the past.

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye grabbed me from the first page and kept me reading till the end. The characters are engaging and well developed. The action is fast-paced and enjoyable. E.C.Sheedy adds some excellent twists and turns in the plot. I recommend this book, I could not put it down once I picked it up.

Barb

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