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5.0 out of 5 stars
THE GRAND FINALE!, November 21, 2002
This review is from: Each Precious Hour (The McCord Family Countdown, Book 3) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #541) (Mass Market Paperback)
I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the final plot to the shake down of McCord's family.
I can certainly understand a man's questioning and finally putting his fear behind him when he thinks of the lives he saves. Jared Donovan lived through it all.
Now why should a ...pregnant woman be the one to dictate how he lives his life. I can understand Robin's fear of losing Jared. But she doesn't want to even give him a chance make a choice - her ultimatum remains the same. Yet she will still go to bed with him???? What a screwed up wench.
The millenium is definitely a bad time to make any announcement -- who listens? But then Whitt Emory has an agenda of his own. Boy, remember who all got killed because of Hal Edwards - he had to have been crazy.
It was worth reading but not for a second go around. Just wish we would get some better female characters - I can't abide wusses!
Ah well, great to read and pass on -- M [a daughter, a son, a secret] not bad.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed. AUTHOR is GAYLE WILSON not Jim Wilson, August 11, 2004
This review is from: Each Precious Hour (The McCord Family Countdown, Book 3) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #541) (Mass Market Paperback)
Wrong author name on Amazon.com webpage. For this ISBN, title
and Harlequin Intrigue #541 romance, the author of this
book is GAYLE WILSON and not JIM Wilson as shown.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Slow start, Great Finish, December 6, 1999
This review is from: Each Precious Hour (The McCord Family Countdown, Book 3) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #541) (Mass Market Paperback)
Gayle Wilson wraps up the "McCord Family Countdown" trilogy (#533 "Stolen Moments and #537 "Memories at Midnight") with "Each Precious Hour," a solidly told tale that has an unfortunate tendency to drag before finally picking up momentum. Anyone expecting another thrilling, fast-paced tale like those from her "Men of Mystery" trilogy earlier this year should probably put those expectations on hold.
Senator James McCord is preparing to announce his candidacy for president on January 1, 2000, and his niece Robin is fully involved in the preparations. But Robin has other things on her mind: she's three months pregnant, and the campaign has brought her back to New York, where the baby's father lives. Differences kept them apart in the past, and he doesn't know about the child. But when a deadly political plot begins to emerge, with Robin right in the crosshairs, Jared forces himself back in her life, and Robin has no choice but to accept his help.
I could probably overlook the fact that the villain is clear by the midway point or that it's yet another secret baby book. But although there's a high level of sexual tension, the romance is pretty static. Jared and Robin's positions on the difference that kept them apart have been established before the book began, and they don't change until one character finally caves in the end to ensure the happy ending. For the most part, the love story amounts to little more than them coming together, saying nothing's changed and they have nothing to talk about, then parting repeatedly.
A high interest in politics is probably required, too, since the first hundred pages has more political strategizing than actual plot. I don't care about politics that much, so when Wilson actually takes the time to let us know McCord's positions on Russia and Israel, I was thinking this was a little more info than I needed. Plus, certain plot points make little sense. In the beginning, we're told that McCord plans to announce his candidacy from a hotel in Times Square just after the ball drops on New Year's Eve. In the real world, haven't all the candidates declared long before the first of the year? Don't they have to? And the idea that McCord thinks anyone would be paying attention to him in Times Square on the beginning of the year 2000 is either supreme arrogance or sheer stupidity.
As usual, Wilson's use of language in her prose is superb. More than a few scenes will linger in the memory: Jared's discovery of Robin's pregnancy is very well done, and one erotic moment involving taste is enough to make you need to open a window. Too bad the first 100 pages are a bit tedious, buried in political planning and little forward movement, with few threats to make you think there's going to be any suspense (I think there's a grand total of...one). The second hundred slowly but surely begin to pick up steam (threats actually arrive!) and the final fifty is a complete adrenaline rush, with a climax that is nothing short of amazing. Wow--just try to hold back the tears. The book is probably worth it for the final ten pages alone. But whether a great payoff is worth it without much of a buildup is to the reader's discretion.
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