Review: moderately good story, annoying plot devices
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2012
Review Update: the cover art has been modified since this review (and others commenting on it) were written.First of all, the cover art was clearly done by someone who had not even read a plot summary. It has nothing to do with the story at all. Beth and Sam meet on a plane. He behaves like a playboy jerk but she agrees to go out with him anyway except she doesn't tell him her real name. He almost breaks it off when he finds out (on their first date). That seems like a pretty minor transgression, after all, she just met him. This leads to one of the things that really annoyed me about the book. She refers to herself as Beth as does everyone else except Sam. He calls her Anne, even when he finds out that is really her middle name, because it's how she introduced herself. It's really annoying to have to keep shifting names and it kept pulling me out of the story.The next big crisis in their relationship is because he doesn't call her when he says he will. This is hardly crisis worthy material. It's another minor transgression that almost causes an end to their romance. Sooo silly.Beth runs a corporate espionage detective agency. Someone she previously caught, is after her. She and Sam fall in love very quickly and he spends the rest of the book trying to protect her. The stuff the bad guy does is over the top. One of the events would be sufficient, but all three left me thinking, really, again??SPOILER ALERT: finally, the chances of her getting pregnant because she forgot to take the last pill in her cycle and then starting to throw up 48 hours later are pretty slim. It's just a bit too farfetched and incredibly predictable. You knew the first time she got sick that she was pregnant.