Not that bad. Come on guys it's not that bad! Right before reading this I read a historical romance that Catherine Coulter had written and that was a WHOLE lot worse. I found Mac, the hero, interesting and the first person writting was not to bad. It was definetely not one of my favorites and I might have liked it even less if the reviews hadn't led me to believe it was one of the worst books ever written. All in all it was OK though. (I am glad however that I got it from the public library and not the book store :)
It worked - mostly I listened to the audiocassette version of this story (abridged) on a recent road trip. I must say that the plot kept my attention, although it wasn't particularly original (a drug scandal and a DEA agent? go figure). There were definitely some holes in the details. Where did the second toilet seat come from, for example? The dialogue was really weak, to the point of being hilarious in and of itself. After knowing the woman for just a few days, the hero professes his love, and his surprise at finding this woman he's been looking for all his life. She responds matter-of-factly with "I wasn't expecting this either." Charming. The point of this book was to provide some drive time diversion, and it certainly did do that, even if the diversion was along the lines of laughing at the quality. Since it did at least provide that much diversion, I offer two stars.Unbelievably bad! What a dreadful book. This is not the first book I have read by Catherine Coulter but it will probably be the last. I only read to the end because I have never been able to put a book down once started. From the beginning I was confused, first by who was actually telling the story then by the way the hero (?) Mac was able to justify the way he acted with Cal and then moved on to the supposed love of his life. Very shallow. There were so many other characters who seemed superfluous, I kept waiting for something to happen with them. And don't get me started on the whole being knocked out in Oregon and waking up in some drug lords compound in South America only to find their way to a resort! There are so many other things I found hard to take with this book that I'll leave it there.
