I really liked this book. She developed a full story and the romance was great. This was my 1st Judith McNaught book. I have read 5 more and have not been disappointed once!

This was the first Judith McNaught novel I ever read, and as a result, it will be my last. When I read this book I couldn't believe that this author had been on the "New York Times Bestseller List!" The story was insipid and predictable, and the characters were so flat it was insulting to the reader's intelligence. I'd say about 10 pages or so were worth reading, but other than that, it seemed like 80% was just filler. It took me several tries to finally get it finished. You feel no affinity for Leigh; you can't figure out Michael - is he evil? is he violent? is he tender-hearted?; the minor characters don't get enough "air time" to develop themselves; and the murderer? WOW! Quelle surprise! What a shocker! (not). At the very least, the author should have introduced more characters a la Agatha Christie so the reader could have had an opportunity to figure out "whodunit." Maybe this might have injected a little more excitement into the story - but then again, even this might be doubtful. Garbage in = garbage out. I mean, even a five-year-old could have figured out who the murderer was! I cannot believe the amount of time I wasted reading this!

If Ms. McNaught is earning royalties from this piece of dead tree pulp, then she ought to be commended for robbing us blind while we're innocently purchasing what we think is worthwhile literature. Save your money and plant a tree sapling instead.

I think that I have read all of Judith McNaught's books and have enjoyed each and every one of them. I think many people feel the same way I do is because the author always makes her main characters very lively and passionate people. You enjoy the ups and downs that they go through and cheer when they finally end up happily ever after. This book followed in the same tradition.

Leigh Manning aka Kendall is living a fairy tale life as her career as a broadway star starts to take off. That is until, someone tries to run her off the road while she is on route to spend the weekend with her spouse in a cozy cabin. When she wakes up in a hospital she is stunned to learn that her husband is missing but the nightmare is just beginning. She is then considered the top suspect in her husband's disappearance but WHO WAS LOGAN MANNING? In an effort to find her husband, she enlist the help of the mysterious Michael Valente, who is not a favorite of the NYPD police or FBI. In asking for Mr. Valente's help, she inadvertently throws more suspicion her way. The more she learns about her husband, the more she realizes that she did not really know her husband. The more her husband becomes a stranger, the more she learns about Michael and how he ties into her past and present.

The only reason I gave the book 4 stars was because I was not surprised when the author reveals who the murderer is. I guess I have been reading too many thrillers because lately I can guess whose done what. I love being surprised at the very end. Despite this I still enjoyed this book so much that I was able to finish it in 3 days!!!

It seems to me that most historical romance novelists are jumping into the romantic mystery bandwagon. Judith McNaught is one of the best historical romance writers I have had the pleasure to read. Her novels -- namely A Kingdom of Dreams, Something Wonderful, Once and Always and Whitney, My Love -- are roller coaster rides of emotions with characters that you grow to love as the stories progress. Some of her contemporary novels are also good. Paradise and Perfect are my two favorite JM contemporaries, followed by Double Standards. I am saddened to say that I couldn't wait to finish this one. Someone to Watch Over Me bored me to tears. The plot seemed interesting at first, but then it went downhill fast. Leigh Kendall's life seems perfect. She has a great career as a Broadway star and is married to a wonderful man. But her life changes forever when she has a car accident on her way to her husband's new mountain cabin. When she comes to, she is in the hospital, where she's told that her husband is missing. What she discovers makes her question the life as she had known it, but she has Michael Valente, a handsome billionaire with a questionable reputation, to comfort her in more ways than one.

It took me four tries to finally finish this novel. I kept picking the book up and then putting it down in favor of something else. I couldn't believe it. McNaught novels were impossible to put down, but that wasn't the case with this one. What was the problem with this installment? Well, there is JM's attempt at writing a genre that to me makes her writing seem mediocre at best. She is wonderful at writing historicals and classy contemporaries -- so why jump the shark? Why be mediocre at something when you can be excellent at something else? I respect an author's right to dabble with the unknown, but the expression "write about what you know" springs to mind when I encounter something like this. The other thing is the story itself. The characters are one-dimensional, there is no spark or chemistry between the protagonists, the story is long-winded and concentrates on a secondary romantic couple that in my opinion is far more interesting than the leading one, and the ending is anticlimactic, for I saw what was coming from the beginning of the book. The plot is disjointed and inconsistent. If Leigh loves her husband so much, why does she fall in love with someone else so effortlessly and in such a short amount of time? It could be that she never loved her husband to begin with, but then again that piece of vital information was not made clear to me. As for the characters, Michael Valente is the JM signature alpha male, and while he is nowhere near as compelling as Royce, Jason, Matt, Zach and Clayton, he is refreshing in that he is not as intense as the aforementioned heroes. If only he had been the hero of a different kind of story though. I felt no connection with the heroine, too bland for my taste. All in all, Someone to Watch Over Me is an insipid effort from an otherwise gifted writer. I hope she will go back to writing historicals soon because I miss those wonderful stories and rereading the old ones just isn't enough for me. Well, at least I have recently discovered the wonderful Jude Deveraux, but she too has switched to contemporary/romantic suspense. Ugh!

I found McCord and Littleton a much more interesting couple than Valente and Leigh Manning. Never could get a handle on what Michael Valente looked like, first of all, and quite frankly, I didn't find him very appealing. The deep love he felt for Leigh was sweet, however, and I admired him for it. But Mack McCord now, he was an awesome character, smart, handsome and intriguing, just like Sam Littleton.