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Summary: Sizzles!
Review: This is the story of small town librairian Daisy Minor and police chief Jack Russo. At the beginning of the story Daisy is a mousy and unassuming person who does little to attract the opposite sex. She lives with her mother and her aunt and has not been on a date in years. She wakes up on her 34th birthday determined to make a change. She decides to move out, get a make over, get a new wardrobe and start going to singles bars and honky tonks. Enter Jack Russo....strong, hunky former Chicago SWAT tough guy with a heart of gold. He is intrigued by Daisy before the make over and pursues her after. They have an amusing courtship which lands them between the sheets quickly. Boy does LH know how to write her sex scenes. The only problem here is that Daisy witnesses a murder and Jack has to protect her from the bad guys. The plot runs a little thin on that end but the love story more than makes up for it. You have to love Daisy and Jack as a couple. A winner with sizzle.
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Summary: CAPTIVATING
Review: This book was excellent, I could not hardly put it down. I recommend this and other books by Linda Howard. She is an excellent writer and this book was no exception. The main character is naive but strong. Smart yet weak and it all comes together nicely
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Summary: A MUST READ
Review: This book was fun while offering a great mystery.
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Summary: An OK Read.
Review: This wasn't the author's best work, but it was a nice read. It made me smile in places, but it lacked the sexual tension and satisfaction of her other books as well as the suspense of catching the bad guy. It felt like several minor issues were left dangling as if there were other books in the works to continue the story on.
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Summary: Is only one Linda Howard in this world?
Review: I just don't believe that I read a two star book from Linda. After I read Mr. Perfect, After the Night and Dream Man, and I saw this book in the book store I almost had a fight with another costumer for the last one (just kidding), and when I started to read it I just couldn't believe what I was reading, if this book were written by other person I just would't finish it, but I said: give it a try and then I was in the middle of the book so I finished it.
The main story of the book is hard enough to remember, this book goes out of story so many times, for example: it has a full chapter when Daisy went to make her hair and make up, so what with that, who cares! Another is when her new pet destroyed her new house so what! And many more.
When I saw this book I thought that I would laugh a lot and have a nice time, so please Linda, make another book to take me this bad flavor of my mouth.
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Summary: Please go to the next one...
Review: This was my first Linda Howard book and unfortunately, it may be my last. Open Season was very shallow in its story line. Characters jump into situations without much thought and the book seems to have been written on a whim.
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Summary: Great read once I got into it!
Review: The prologue to this book was gripping, but then I started the book and I could not place where the prologue fit into the story. I was preoccupied with that, so it took 2 chapters for me to really get into the story. When I did, I couldn't put it down. Then it gets to the part where the plot and the prologue fit together, and the book gets interesting. The characters are endearing and well developed. The plot is good, and the scenario is believable. This was a great weekend read!
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Summary: Did Linda Howard really write this one?
Review: Daisy Minor, a southern small town plain jane librarian, wakes up on her 34th birthday and decides she needs to get a life, get a man, and get laid. She makes herself over and hits the local club scene, unwittingly placing herself in the crosshairs of a date-rape drug using predator. There's a parallel story involving a dirty mayor, a sadistic wealthy local businessman, and innocent foreign women sold into a sex slave ring. Somehow all the ends don't tie together just right. I kept waiting for the suspense in this romantic suspense to kick in. It never did. I never felt Daisy was ever really in peril. I kept waiting for the characteristic Linda Howard heat between Daisy and Chief Jack Russo, but it never materialized. Sure, there are steamy sex scenes, but the build up of attraction and sexual tension just didn't happen. I began to wonder.... did Linda Howard even WRITE this story? Don't get me wrong. I am a DIE-HARD Linda Howard fan (I even loved Kill & Tell which many of her fans hated). But there was definitely something missing in Open Season. One really annoying thing I must mention... the puppy. Why in the world did Howard dedicate so many pages to that puppy??? While most folks seemed to enjoy this story, I keep looking for the Linda Howard who wrote Shades of Twilight, After the Night, Diamond Bay, Midnight Rainbow, and Touch of Fire (historical - my FAVORITE). Look for this one in the library. It isn't worth the [money] I paid for it (pb). Still a Howard fan, but wondering if I should remain so...
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Summary: A Mediocre Read
Review: This was an OK book - the writing is excellent but the storyline is a little weak and ends too neatly and predictably. The character development of Daisy the librarian is great but her romantic (and sexual)relationship with the police chief is not well developed. I liked the book mainly because it was well written despite problems with the story so I'll give Linda Howard another chance with another of her novels.
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Summary: A wonderful book!!
Review: I'm sure you've already gotten the gist of what this book is about. And I just wanted to add my two cents and say that this was a great book. It's sweet, sexy and funny w/some suspense to tie it all together. I would not hesitate to reccomend this book to anyone! :)
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