Customer Reviews

Twice Kissed (Zebra Romantic Suspense)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Maggie McCrae retreated to Idaho with her thirteen year old daughter after the death of her husband. With the guilt she felt over his death, Maggie was barely coping, and she also had her daughter, Becca's hostility to deal with. When she gets one of the rare 'messages' from her twin Mary Theresa nee Marquise, she knows something is wrong. For only at times when Mary Theresa is in the most distress is she able to talk to Maggie through her mind. The only thing that sticks is that she blames her ex-husband, and Maggie's one time love.

Thane Walker has his own agenda, and he doesn't care what he has to do to accomplish it. When his vindictive ex-wife dissapears after dropping a bombshell on him, he knows that it's probably nothing more than a stunt for publicity. When the police suspect him of being responsible for her dissaperance, he decides to go to Maggie, the only woman he's ever loved.

Twice Kissed is a very emotional tale which started almost twenty years earlier. With jealousy and betrayal the key, Thane and Maggie race to find out what happened to Marquise while both dealing with trust issues. I really enjoy all of Jackson's books as she puts so much emotion into them, you can't help but be sucked right in.

This is the kind of book that goes in the garbage after the first reading. I LOVE this author, but this book was awful. The back of the book was misleading. It makes you think Maggie might become Marquise to find out what happened, but she just interviews people.

Not much suspense in this novel. When I got to the end, there was no "OH WOW that is so neat!" Instead you could hear me saying "WHAT THE *&^$#% THAT SUCKED!"

Although this has not been a favorite of mine by this author, it was still a good way to spend the weekend. The characters for the most part were nicely developed but situations within the story could have had better clarification or resolution sooner. The relationship between Thane and Maggie had more promise I think. Although there was a good narrative of their relationship from the past, the "Present" relationship could have been better formed. They went from "I love you" to "I can't trust you" to "I love you" again with a lot of mistrust in between. Maggie had been hurt so many times in the past that I found her reluctance to "forgive and forget" understandable. What I did not understand was why the ends were tied up so fast without a whole lot communication between the two main characters. This could have been done and added something extra to the book without letting the reader feel that the end was just cut off with no real "closure".

Still overall a good suspense packed novel with real emotions, and an added bounus of the author touching on a very touchy subject. A good book and worth the read.

This was my first Lisa Jackson book and it definitely left a sour aftertaste. It was a mis-mash of a storyline that fizzled, boring and selfish characters I didn't care to root for.

Story: Maggie's twin sister, Mary Theresa seems to have gone missing and this sets up events reuniting her with Thane Walker... who happens to be her former love, but ended up marrying her twin(now divorced). He still "only" loves Maggie.

Ugh, this book was just plain awful! I just didn't care for the pairing of Maggie and Thane in this book. Mostly, I hated Thane and Mary Theresa I wouldn't have cared if both dropped off the face of the earth.

He slept with Mary Theresa(even if he was drunk and it didn't matter that he thought it was Maggie) but I didn't need him to go into detail about the fact that they slept together many many times during that drunken "mistaken" identity night, and that when he had to marry Mary Theresa-- he tells Maggie he had felt lust for Mary Theresa for a while (even though he supposedly only loved Maggie)... It just seems to downplay the intimacy between the main characters that he can go from sleeping with the heroine to others.

Mary Theresa was selfish as hell... stealing her sister's boyfriend, blaming the "incident" with Mitchell on Maggie, and hidden jealousy issues. And the scene where she screams her apology to Maggie after Maggie discovers that Mary Theresa and Thane slept together-- I just wanted to kick her. It didn't even feel geniunely remorseful. Maggie's such a pushover to let her twin walk all over her all the time.

I can't believe she would fall into bed with Thane again without resolving any of her issues she had with him.

It's outrageous what kind of garbage gets printed these days. Clichèd after clichèd phrases, just really bad and bland writing. Character that don't act in believable ways. Has this writer ever heard of knowing the character? I don't not finish books often, but this one I had to give up on. I was just absolutely disappointed at all the cliches and the characters.

This is the first book I have read by this author. She develops her characters well and the plot was more complex than many romantic thrillers. She certainly understood the teenage mind and some thoughts expressed by the teenage daughter are funny. I can recommend this book and will read others by this author.

When her twin sister Mary Theresa (aka Marquise) vanishes without a trace, widowed Maggie joins ex-lover and former brother-in-law Thane Walker in trying to locate Marquise. Little does Maggie realize, but their road trip and subsequent investigation will make them forcibly revisit their painful shared pasts, as well as discover new things about the flamboyant sister she thought she knew. The police suspect that Thane is behind her disappearance; can she trust the only man she's ever loved?

An early offering from Jackson, she reworked it and beefed up the plot, but in actuality, she could have trimmed 50 pages to streamline the plot and make it less awkward. A secondary plot with Maggie's headstrong daughter and her in-laws quest for custody was just never developed properly. And the whole twin-ESP plot device is so contrived and unnecessary. Jackson has created a pretty charismatic couple in Maggie and Thane - readers will hope for reconciliation between the star-crossed lovers who never had a chance for their young love to develop.

I picked this book up on a whim after reading the back cover and the first few pages. I agree with another review who stated the back cover was misleading in to letting you think that Maggie would "turn into" Marquise. After the first few chapters it became predictable and then just greedy and silly. One other reviewer said she couldn't put this down; well I had a hard time picking it up after I got started.

If you feel the need to read this book then borrow it from someone. It's not terrible but it's not worth it.

I am very disappointed. I bought this book after becoming hooked on Lisa Jackson's story-telling abilities from reading "Shiver." Alas, I was wrong. This book is terrible. I am up to page 316 out of 458 pages and I quit! I don't care one whit about the very flimsy, self-absorbed characters.None of them are worth rooting for.... from Maggie to Marquise (in particular) to Thane to Becca....none of them are worth a rat's behind. I really don't care what happens to the characters, or the "story line" as vague and forgettable as it is. Don't waste your time or your money. I'd rather re-read an old Nora Roberts novel. Thanks for nothing, Lisa. Where can I get a refund?

This book was terrible. First of all one twin married the others boyfriend. How gross is that?? I love to read and rarely do I not finish a book, this one was the exception. I gave up about half way into it. Save your money.