Review: Female Lead IQ Dropped 50 pts when Alpha Male Entered the Picture
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2012
I think I may be in the minority here but I was really frustrated by this book. At first I really liked the beginning...it really set up the storyline, it was action packed and I was hooked.  Angela's father is mysteriously killed trying to protect a scientist.  Not only does she have to figure out why her father was killed but find the person he was trying to protect.  This is a great plot idea...but it's the characters and the dialogue that fell short for me.When we began to know Angela I thought that here we have an FBI analyst with some guts.  However as soon as Chase, our alpha male, entered the scene...Angela turned into this ditzy, inept, immature woman who relied entirely too much on Chase.  I found her clingy and annoying.  What a disappointment!  The dialogue between the two definitely left something to desire. What I found the most annoying was the use of Babe. I am all for pet names...I use Babe sometimes when talking with my husband but not 50 times in a week (might be a slight exaggeration...but not by much).  Babe! Babe? ...Babe.Also I agree with another reviewer that the author kept rehashing obvious plot elements...for me this made the characters look stupid when they were interacting...and made me feel like she thought I too was not smart enough to get it.  Randomly too  when they were talking,  the characters all of a sudden knew things that were not explained ( Very bizarre). I could not overlook these flaws and began to skim towards the end.  Sorry! I really did want to like this book...I think if the author made stronger characters she would have made a mediocre book great.