Review: Good book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2011
This is the second book I've read by this author. I liked 'Terms of Surrender' very much, better than 'Dangerous', but 'Dangerous' was still a good read. And comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges. The settings and plots are so very different.Anyhow... The author paints good descriptions of setting and characters, and the plot moves at a good pace and is plausible. The only thing I didn't like was that the villains, and there are several, sort of went out with a whimper--not a bang like most books.**plot spoiler alert**When the gang of bad boys is supposedly killed, there is a possible forensic loophole and I kept thinking, 'Nope. I bet they're not dead. I bet at least one of them comes back later for a final showdown.' But they didn't.In retrospect, I can sort of see why the author told about their deaths by way of past tense narrative instead of writing it as a scene and giving the reader the feel/satisfaction of it, and maybe she was trying to keep us guessing about who would threaten the heroine at the end, but it sort of fell flat. The bad guys (including the mayor) got their just deserts, but the way it happened, esp. the way it was written, took most of the satisfaction out of it.Still it was enjoyable to read and I would recommend it.