jasondesigns

The one where Lucy is brought in at the last minute to direct the end of a movie (though her specialty is ads for dog food) and J.T. is brought in as the "military consultant" for the star, and Pepper, Lucy's 5-year-old niece, is kidnapped. Enjoyable, in a light-snack sort of way, but not something I'd go out of my way to read again. Thrillers aren't much my style; a lot of the mystery stuff involving the Russian mafia and the stolen art implements and the IRA and the money laundering just *bored* me. Oddly, Crusie's romantic relationships never work as well for me as her family relationships do, and her sex is (in my slash-saturated mind) not especially sexy. The family stuff was nice, and Lucy's arc (from "I'll take care of everything" to "we'll figure it out together") was nice. J.T.'s arc was pastede on yay! and you could *see* where someone said, "He has to change emotionally" and Mayer went, "OK, let's have him spend a couple sentences in the last chapter being shocked how much he likes the little girl." On the other hand, his voice was nicely dry and sarcastic. Tyler was deeply creepy but in the end what on earth was he doing there? Pepper was terrific, a very plausible five-year-old, and I liked the way you could spot the good guys from the bad guys based on who lied to her and who didn't. And it was *so nice* to read a romance where all the conflict didn't revolve around the heroine's assertiveness problem!

2022-11-14 18:20