Review: Ordinary.  OK.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
LOVER UNDERCOVER by Samanthe Beck.I enjoyed Private Practice by this author, so I was hoping for more of the same.  But this wasn't as good.  It didn't stand out.  It had the ingredients for romance, but it wasn't special or different.  A bad guy is doing things.  In the end we learn who he is and why he did things.  But we were never in his head which would have made him more alive, real, or frightening.  He is an object that we are told about.The heroine does something stupid which distracts the hero causing injury to him.  It wasn't bad stupidity, but the word stupid came to mind as I read it.The main conflict between the two is Kylie thinking she can never have a man because he will cause her to be a failure in her career.  She didn't want to be like her mother whose goal in life was always the next man.  That could be an ok source of conflict, but I wasn't feeling it.  It felt like a description.  I would have preferred more things done with that motive.I liked the story idea.  Stacy is promiscuous, wild, and a stripper-dancer.  She breaks her leg and talks Kylie into taking her place - because they need the money to pay the rent.  So Kylie the nice good girl virgin pretends to be Stacy.  Trevor meets her and is attracted to Kylie but is hesitant because she has a wild reputation.  That was fun.  It reminded me of the movie Desperately Seeking Susan.  Good girl Rosanna Arquette has amnesia and thinks she is wild girl Madonna/Susan.  The guy thinks she is wild, doesn't want to fall for her, but he does.The first "full" sex scene was neat and hot.DATA:Narrative mode: 3rd person.  Kindle count length: 3,405 (301 KB).  Swearing language: moderate/strong, including religious swear words.  Sexual language: strong.  Number of sex scenes: 8.  Setting: current day Los Angeles, California.  Copyright: 2013.  Genre: romantic suspense.