Review: Please No More Silly Females
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
Secrets Exposed is my first exposure to Lisa Renee Jones. The writing is good enough that I will try another of her books.  The disappointment factor comes from the fact that we have the potential for a great female character who is so unevenly developed that you want to shake her.This is a top female criminal attorney, who for good reasons, leaves her career as a lawyer and becomes involved with the FBI.  As an agent, she has worked with horrific crime scenes and then moved on to an anti-terrorism unit where she was involved with such high level activity that she has met the President.  The reader`s expectation is that we will learn about this strong female who is described as a major risk-taker when she is on a case.  What do we get instead?  A woman who wimpers and lets out a cry when there is turbulence on a plane (GAK!) and even worse, turns over her weapon to her boyfriend in a time of danger.  "Don`t ask me how I know how to use a gun," says Mark, "just give it to me."  UNBELIEVABLE!!!Less time good have been spent on why our heroine keeps distancing herself from an obviously perfect guy and more on character development.  The idea that females have to be silly and weak to make great romance should have died out with the "bodice-rippers" of old.