Review: Most pretty good, One stinker
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
These were light mystery & romance, and mostly pretty good for beach-read type books.  One, however was so bad I didn't finish it.  I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, but this was was ridiculous!  In The Chase by Adrienne Giordano, the heroine (who is supposed to be feisty) just comes across as self centered and stupid.  It begins when she is so anxious to see a crime scene a few minutes earlier than when she would have seen it anyway that she sneaks in before it is secured, and is injured by a loose bad guy who takes a hammer to her hand (which is on a counter) and breaks several of the metacarpal knuckles on one hand.  Her love-interest cop then takes her to a doctor friend who neither hospitalizes her, operates on her nor casts her hand.  Instead she is sent home and told to see someone else to be casted the next day.  Apparently she is also so feisty she doesn't need sleep or painkillers as that evening she jumps the love interest, seduces him, and then spends the next few nights "doing the nasty" with him and getting no sleep.  By this time she has a bright red cast on the hand, and so she decides to "go undercover" even though the bad guys already know who she is and and she has sworn to the love interest she won't.  This is where I bailed, as she is too dumb to live, or at least too dumb for me to care about.This is a shame for the other stories packaged in, as they are better edited than a lot of Kindle books and would have earned a 4 or 5 star for enjoyable chick lit stories.  (Hey, I like chick lit, that's not a slam.)