Scent of Danger [Hardcover]

Andrea Kane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2003

Scent of Danger

Product Details

• Hardcover: 481 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books (2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0739432389
• ISBN-13: 978-0739432389
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,127,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring and flat., March 24, 2003

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Romance Lover "vt2949" (Sacramento, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scent of Danger (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was so boring I couldn't get through it. The plot moved far too slowly, and we were given lots of detailed prose about aspects of the story that weren't very interesting. Normally romantic thrillers are lacking in either the romance department or the thriller department. This book was lacking in both. The main characters were two-dimensional. Instead of letting us get inside the characters and learn who they really were, we were just given the cut-and-dried facts about their pasts. The author apparently expected us to assume things about the characters from their backgrounds. As a result, I didn't care about either of the main characters, or about what was going to happen to them. Sabrina and Dylan had absolutely no chemistry!! If you hadn't known this was a romance, you wouldn't have known that they were supposed to be attracted to each other. So even though their first kiss came very late in the book, it still seemed premature, because up to that point neither character had had a single romantic thought about the other. As far as the "thriller," it was boring. I couldn't have cared less who shot Carson Brooks. Again, without any insight into his character, I had no feelings about him one way or the other. Also, the author used this irritating technique of giving information about the characters through lengthy stretches of dialogue. The dialogue ended up seeming contrived and unrealistic as a result. Sorry that I spent ${munnies}on this poorly written book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Read, February 12, 2003

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"naddine" (spring, texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scent of Danger (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the kind of book you think you have all the characters figured out (who done it) and then you find later on they are eliminated. The story between the main characters, Sabrina and Dylan, ... keeps your interest throughout the book. The overall story line of a child from a sperm bank finding out who her father is and without any hesitation accepts this father, is alittle hard to accept. However, the overall suspense is worth the read. This is a great book to think you have all the answers, who did what to whom, and then you are pleasantly surprised. The only thing I would change would be to go into more detail about why the villian does what they did, i.e. attempted murder, murder, arson, etc. I can't wait for the next Andrea Kane mystery.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks suspense..., February 1, 2007

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Tracy Vest (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scent of Danger (Mass Market Paperback)

Businessman and perfume mogul Carson Brooks is lying near death and asks his protege, Dylan Newport to find the child he fathered as a result of a sperm donation decades earlier. Carson has been shot and the only thing that will save his life is a kidney transplant, and what better match than a biological child.

Dylan finds management consultant Sabrina Radcliffe, who reluctantly agrees to meet Carson but they immediately bond. When she takes over the reins to run the company in Carson's absence, she and Dylan discover that she is in danger of becoming the next victim of a killer who will do anything to get their hands on a secret perfume formula.

The story has a great premise - Kane keeps the romance light and the suspense lighter (unfortunately). The culprit is easy to guess, and the romance between the main characters is a bit abrupt. But overall, Kane's writing keeps this one interesting.