Review: Intelligent romantic suspense you won't put down
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2012
In `Package Deal' we find Amanda and Marc, two career oriented people leading average lives. They don't rush into love as so many couples in the genre do. Ms. Vale takes her time and spreads the story over a year; allowing the relationships between Amanda, Marc and Amanda's young daughter, Cecelia to build. The timing allows her to show that relationships go through highs and lows when the three of them struggle to find balance in acting on their feelings as friends, family, and lovers. Each individual relationship among the three is unique and takes care in handling appropriately and realistically for our day and age. The timing also allows the author to introduce a slimy antagonist and an array of supporting characters.Throughout the entire book, Ms. Vale's writing is intelligent, romantic, and when appropriate - passionate.There are no extreme heroics, or suspenseful situations that have you thinking, "Could that really happen?" You are dropped into heart-wrenching scenarios that make you care for those you are reading about. You want to fight off these character's demons, some physical and others emotional. All demons which seem all too capable of entering your own world. And, that is what makes it so great. The situations are real; In some ways an unfortunate reality in our society, but mostly real in that they show that love can, and will, ultimately find a way.5 stars if you are a fan of the genre