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Avg. Rating: 3
Personally, I loved it.
Lucy Armstrong is very happy shooting animal commercials. She HATES shooting full-length movies. But when Lucy's little niece, Pepper, actually begs her, Lucy agrees to be the director for the last four days of shooting an action movie.
The stunt coordinator is Connor Nash, Lucy's ex-husband from twelve years prior. Connor makes it clear that he wants Lucy back; Lucy makes it clear that she does not want Connor back. However, Lucy is very interested, against her better judgement, in Captain J.T. Wilder. The Green Beret has just been hired by the male star as a military consultant and stunt double.
J.T. is off duty from the military. Yet instead of using the time to rest, J.T. agrees to the temporary job offered to him. After all, it is a huge amount of money for less than a week's worth of work. But even before he steps off the helicopter, J.T. knows something is dangerously wrong. The previous director died, seemingly of natural causes, several members of the crew have quit, and Pepper keeps talking about the ghost she keeps watching in the swamp. J.T.'s instincts tell him that Pepper's "ghost" is very real, even though he can find no evidence that anyone is in the swamp watching all the action. When the CIA contacts him for a quiet meeting, J.T. knows R&R is no longer in his near future.
***** Jennifer Crusie is well known for her humorous romantic suspense novels. Bob Mayer is well known for his thriller novels. Even though they write different genres, the two authors blend their talents seamlessly for an outstanding tale that kept me up late at night and my eyes glued to the pages. I can only hope to see more books from this duo shortly. These two authors have simply GOT to collaborate on more novels or their fans may mutiny. Fantastic! *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch.
Disappointing
I have to agree with other reviewers. This book was disappointing. I didn't like the characters, they had potential that never developed. I thought the plot was disjointed and confusing. By the end I really didn't care about any of them. I was so sick of the 'alpha' male thinking 'get out of the kill zone' I was ready to kill him myself. I normally LOVE Jennifer Crusie's books, but I had to rate this one a one star read.
Not what I was expecting
I personally think both Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer are excellent writers. You could easily tell when Jenny was writing a scene and when Bob wrote one. I liked the differences in their individual writing styles.
It wasn't the writing, but the plot and story line that I just couldn't get into and I could really have cared less about the characters. The only one I really liked was Pepper. Everything happens within four days and it just seemed so rushed to me it was hard to follow.
I didn't get into the Lucy and J.T. relationship either. The fact that he sleeps with one woman one day and turns around and sleeps with Lucy two days later made me think J.T. was a creep. I'm not sure this was supposed to be a romance, though. If not, it succeeded.
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