Review: Loved Jack but ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2011
Collateral Damage was okay to me, and that's just me. It wasn't a bad book at all; it just didn't do a lot for me personally. I made myself finish it, if that tells you anything. I picked it because of all the 5 stars, but obviously I'm not feeling what everyone else is feeling. If you read it, you might feel differently about it. You may really like it.I didn't see that the baddie puts the V in Villain. I've read better and scarier bad guys, and the two nut jobs in this book did not give me any second thoughts at all. So I wouldn't say this was a romantic 'thriller.'There is also a lot of action, jumping from one action interval to the next, one storyline to another. Yes, I can keep up with it all, but does that mean I like it? Not really. Felt too much like first-book-itis. I would have saved the partial development of Mari's story for its own book. I prefer the secondary characters to be more secondary and not so up-front with the main story.I found myself skimming a lot, not really invested in the story, although I did love Jack as a man and as a hero, but that wasn't enough to make me love the book. As I said, it is heavy on the action, and some readers may like that it is more action than love/sex/romance. I'm the opposite. This is more like 80% action and 20% stuff I like. I need it more balanced. I'm not dying to read book 2. Just my opinion.