Review: Story has changed - so beware!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Wow, this was different.Donna is now out of the closet and everyone knows she is playing bodyguard, along with Jack, to political nominees on the Presidential trail.  Not one of the other housewife characters questions this - so be aware it is obviously a poor plot line.  Despite knowing that Lee C was involved in human "big game" hunting, Donna is just fine with him.  And since Babette taught Trisha about the "quorum", and an entire book happened in the Lion's Lair, it is no surprise that ACME hasn't bugged it, of course.  Donna is blamed for every failure and when she is fired, goes right to the bottle and starts drinking heavily - because she wants her children to see the same alcoholic and distant parent Donna had as a child.  Our heroine wants back into the spy business, not time to raise her children.  Then we have the ultimate in plot idiocies:  an 11 y.o. girl's crush is still so angst-ridden that 25 years later she can't function when the boy and "other woman" reappear?  Of course Donna is protecting Bobby's secrets - that 'relationship' was really important and it doesn't matter about national security, et al.  Here's some advice to our heroine:  forget about whether Bobby was keeping you occupied with that second kiss so CeeCee could steal the recipe, and worry about why Jack accused you of killing his pregnant wife, why Ryan suddenly has no power to keep you from being arrested and interrogated repeatedly, and the fact that you used to go out on solo missions and win the day - but now you need rescued every darn time because along with getting fat / old / ugly - you have apparently lost your skills!And then we have the ending.  Is Jack alarmed at Carl's return?  No, we're on to the Lincoln bedroom for some sex.  Do we warn Ryan that heck is about to rain down?  No.  Do we address how Donna is drawn to Lee - so is Carl dressed up as Lee part of the time?  And would Carl really be the new CIA director - and not the man behind the scenes as usual, plus the whole point of him being an enemy of the state would just disappear?  Really?  REALLY?I noted, as other reviewers have, that recipes were added for word count.  If we had the usual Donna snark included, like how you could use a skillet to kill an intruder, then I would have poopoo'd the thought.  But I have to agree - it was a word count thing.For those who want Jack out as the lead man in Donna's life .... I don't know.  The author seems pretty stuck on him.  He is still doing homework with the children, he does dishes, he encourages the children in all things, we assume he is making the house payments when Donna is fired, and he's still a red hot lover who can now say "I love you" and proposes marriage.  Sure he has his faults (what's making Donna walk home from a meeting and standing her up on a date), and apparently he's been replaced by Dominic in a few ways at ACME, and he and Donna have never discussed the whole "he seduced my wife, so I seduced his" issue, and the whole marriage as a cover isn't touched on, but I think he's here to stay!