Mean Streak

So. This book starts out very interestingly but turns out anything but. First of all, the dialogue is ridiculous. These are educated but normal people. The say things like \”we had a quarrel\” over and over. And other weird things that people don\’t use in everyday conversation. And every character does it. Eye roll. The next is the story line continuation. Let\’s just say it gets ridiculous very, very quickly. I don\’t know of many women who, one and a half days after being taken captive, that would be sexually aroused by her captor. Yeah, no. Then there are the sex scenes. I would literally say out loud \”Oh my God, are you kidding me?\” I\’m not a fan of cheesy. If you like things like \”I\’m going to kiss you until I can\’t breathe\”, then by all means, you\’ll like this part. The twist was decent but it was hard to care after the ridiculous dialogue and sex scenes. I just wanted to be out out of my misery. The narrator was mostly good although in parts he lost a character\’s voice and just spoke in his own. Skip this one.

There are some elements that I find unforgivable in a mystery. This one had just about all of them. I have a policy — I don\’t care how far along I am in a book, if the villain ends up getting a long, drawn out scene during which they haughtily explain their entire crime, motives and methods whilst giving the captured hero/heroine time to stall for an escape, I will immediately stop reading. That\’s one of the most cliche\’, cheesy, overused devices a mystery writer can use. I\’m no prude. But I hate when my mysteries are interrupted by 20 minute long, horribly described sex scenes, of which there were at least 3. Waste of my time. If I wanted to hear about her huskily whispering his name while he thrusts, I\’d go get a Romance novel or watch a porno. Poorly written overkill, most of which is irrelevant to the plot. Just the reader know where it\’s headed and let them imagine the rest. I don\’t need to know that it sent him over the edge to **** inside her, thanks. The overt misdirection in order to force uninspired twists is another tactic that irks me. The author beats you over the head with transparent attempts to throw you off the scent, only to later get to the big reveal that is so lackluster that it\’s laughable. And she does it over and over. She uses totally unbelievable dialogue in order to set these twists up, so it\’s pretty obvious what she\’s trying to do. Lazy, sloppy and flat out cringeworthy. Those are just the 3 worst things about the book. I will not be reading another of hers. Too formulaic.

I love a good mystery but sprinkle in some romance and I\’m hooked! This was a great mystery/suspense novel with an ending I didn\’t see coming. I thought I had it all figured out in the very beginning but I was completely wrong. I love it when a book surprises me, especially when it\’s a great story with a fantastic narrator.

This is my first Sandra Brown read/listen. I was thoroughly entertained! The story had a good bit of mystery. A man helps and injured woman who is at first unconscious but when she comes awake you don\’t know if the man is being kind and helpful to the injured woman out of the goodness of his heart or does he have ulterior motives. He won\’t tell her anything about himself, not even his name and the fog has the roads socked-in so he can\’t drive her to the hospital. Is he glad about the fog? is he wanted by the police? It is difficult to write a review without giving away too much… I understand that this writer previously wrote romance novels. I liked how she was able to weave in some romantic scenes which was hot and sexy but kept the scenes brief. I thought the ending was great for the story… there was mystery right up to the very end. Jonathan Davis is on my short list of favorite narrators….. he did an wonderful job with the \”hill-billy\” characters.

Thoroughly enjoyed it! Suspenseful, The main character thought about her decisions Surprise twist that I never caught until it happened. Narrator can make a book, JD did a great job also. I will look for other books where he narrates.

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