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asked by success06 on November 26, 2006 10:14 PM
Setting: Contemporary Arizona
Sensuality Rating: 8

Y2K complicates Boston PR whiz Tess O'Mara's life when an extra million dollars appears in her bank account. Only after she's spent a chunk of it does Tess discover that it's not the bonus she expected from her fabulously wealthy boss for a job well done. And whoever the money does belong to wants it back--bad. Forced into hiding, Tess heads for Almost, Arizona, to find her brother's old friend and Mel Gibson look-alike, Sheriff Jake McCall. Not your average small-town sheriff, Jake is just the man to keep Tess safe. Or is he? Tess finds her heart is in dire danger of being left behind in Almost with its quirky cast of characters, mysteriously compelling Mogollon cave dwellings, and one very sexy lawman. --Alison Trinkle

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Tell me something. Why even bother to make a heroine an intelligent, competent, capeable woman, repected by her peers and very good at her job when no more than fifty pages into the book you are going to turn her into a flake? Honestly, it was like an alien abduction. A practical, professional ad-exec buys a powder blue Mercedes and proceedes to not have a single thought for the rest of the book. Tess goes west, and mutates somehow into a mindless, helpless, sniveling being, whose only purpose for the next 250 pages is to be repeatedly rescued by the domineering, though sexy, hero, and show up in time for the sex scenes.

And as if that weren't bad enough to make the book worthy of being sat on by an elephant, the plot is jumbled and convoluted, with several extremely flimsey mysteries that hold water like a whiffle ball and quickly disolve into thin air. Where exactly was this money supposed to have come from? And at this point, does ANYONE really care, since the money thing has been dropped, too. The only good thing about the book was Tess's past life regression to an Anasazi cliff dweller, but that also disappeared about half-way through, leaving the reader with out a single excuse for having wasted about three hours of my valuable time.

reviewed by fabio on November 29, 2006 7:20 PM

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The title of the book put me off, but the story was better than anticipated. This isn't the be-all and end-all of romance novels, but it's good for a quick read. The plot could have been tightened up more - as others have mentioned, the ancient Native American flashback sequences seemed to be just dropped into the storyline without any explanation as to why Tess, an apparent Boston native, would be subject to them. Also, the "bad guys" were a little too faceless. But Tess and TJ had the requisite romantic appeal, the town was interesting, and the story flowed easily.
reviewed by crafty1 on November 29, 2006 7:34 PM

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This book is slightly more intellectual than your typical trashy novel. Its characters are shallow, the plot is poorly developed and filled with holes, the dialogue is trite, and the sex scenes are tacky. At best, this book serves as mindless entertainment while on the beach--readers in search of thought-provoking depth should turn elsewhere!
reviewed by bigdv on November 29, 2006 7:36 PM

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THIS IS A WONDERFUL ROMANCE. TESS AND TJ ARE THE PERFECT MATCH WITH THEIR STRONG WILLED PERSONALITIES. THERE IS JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF DANGER IS THIS BOOK. TJ IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A MAN'S MAN. THIS RUGGED COWBOY THAT COULD BE MEL GIBSON'S TWIN CAN MELT YOUR HEART. IF I HAD TO CHANGE ONE THING IT WOULD BE TO TAKE OUT THE VISIONS THAT TESS HAS ABOUT BEING AN INDIAN MAIDEN MEETING HER LOVER.
reviewed by samoan on November 29, 2006 7:37 PM

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