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Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance. Show all posts

Monday, April 4, 2011

FINAL EXIT A Suspenseful Tale of Passions Unleashed

by Joan Nelson - available in paperback or as an eBook

Take two self-centered and egotistical people; he’s married, she’s a new widow. He’s a successful surgeon, she’s a poetry babbling master of everything. Both are oversexed, selfish and narcissistic.  Add an overweight, whiny and possessive wife, a nefarious father-in-law, and two toxic grown children and I have just introduced you to the main characters in FINAL EXIT.

Like a Harlequin Romance on steroids, Bob and Jen very graphically hop in and out of bed like bunnies, all the while discussing art, flowers and beauty with such pithy post-coital comments as, “I like the Country French look.”

But FINAL EXIT would have no platform at all for the steamy sex if the wife of thirty years wasn’t a deranged stalker and if her father didn’t have dealings with criminals. When bad things start to happen, do our protagonists call the police like normal people? Of course not! They simply contact his good friend with the CIA who helps them change their identities and fake Bob’s death.

But wait! We’re not done yet. Bob’s CIA friend must really just work in the mail room because a PI is able to quickly locate them, bringing the reader to the kind of ending only found in a really bad “B” movie.

ISBN 978-160844-450-2
270 pages

Sunday, May 30, 2010

MAYBE THIS TIME


by Jennifer Crusie - to be released in September 2010

Andie Miller is currently engaged but shows up at her ex-husband's office to return his alimony checks. One thing leads to another and before you know it, Andie is headed to stay at a haunted house to care for her his two young cousins for a month. From the minute the book opens, you know that Andie and her ex, North Archer, have considerable feelings for each other.

This is so far afield from books I usually read. It's an expanded romance mixed in with ghosts, odd family members and other unusual supporting characters.

Not my taste and very predictable but actually fun to read.