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Kiss Me While I Sleep

Kiss Me While I Sleep

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A spy with a sense of humor!
Review: For that alone I could kiss Lucas Swain, never mind that he is a secondhand version of John Sandford's fabulous cop Lucas Davenport. Because of the rather ripped-off version of Davenport (one of my all-time favorite fictional characters)and because the intrigue isn't terribly intriguing, I gave this only 3 stars. That isn't to say I hated the book or that I didn't enjoy it: The banter between hero and heroine is pretty funny - but just a little too much like Davenport and one of his ladies to feel original. If I hadn't read 'Cry No More' right before this one I might have liked this book better, but CNM was a top-notch and very moving story. My expectations may have been a little too high coming off that book. I think I'll go re-read one of Sandford's books now!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Exciting to the very end~~
Review: I am a huge HOWARD fan and have been for a long time. I think all of her stories are just terrific.

If you are a reader who enjoys escaping reaality for a few short hours each night then this is one book you won't want to miss. KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP is exciting to the very end~~~ Give it a try.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I loved this story from Linda Howard
Review: I don't know why the other reviewers have been complaining about this book. I too am a Linda Howard fan and have read everything she has ever published. Liliane is one of her most complex heroines, and I thought Swain was a wonderful, sexy mate to pair her with. She was intelligent (very!!) and resourceful and I admit the assasin job did raise my eyebrows,(not usual heroine occupation) but its a testament to Howard's writing skills that I empathized and cared about her so much by the time I closed the book. I loved Swain, he also being the opposite of what you would expect: an easy,laughing and casual CIA field operative instead of a hard and cool g-man (of course a Howard hero is extremely competent and the best of the best-so this casualness is really just one facet of his character). Their chemistry was really good to me, and I really loved the plot with the Nervi's. I don't want to spoil the story, but the plot with the Nervi's was highly believable and scary, and that, along with the way she developed the characters of the Nervi's, Blanc and the doctor along with the protagonists made this story exciting to me. Maybe I am the strange fish in this tank, but I loved this story.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Kiss Me While I Sleep
Review: I had great anticipation for this novel but unfortunately, it was a disappointment. This is what didn't work for me: 1)charcterization was lacking here. Lilly was a challenge to begin with since she was an assassin and Lucas was a fast car, fast life, fast women kinda guy who is divorced with two grown children who enjoys the adrenalin rush of the job. I didn't much like Lilly or Swain. 2)The unprofessional attitudes of the characters - each are described as professional but are not. Lucas Swain - coming from another assignment in South America, is ordered to bring Lilly in and does so but decides to have a fling with her first. This is a romance novel after all but I didn't care for it. 3) Repeated introspection - I was tired of reading repeatedly about Lilly's love for Zia. It was rather annoying. 4) The writing style of "telling" more than "showing."

Good points about the book were the 1)Paris setting and the 2)Prologue which was quite suspenseful and well done. A book fails entertain me when it doesn't have the most important elements of a first-rate novel: characterization and good plot and good dialogue. The dialogue here was fine but not great.

My favorite Linda Howard novels in no order: Now You See Her, Open Season, Kill and Tell, Son of the Morning, Cry No More, After the Night and McKenzie's Mountain just to name a few. I am a Linda Howard fan but unfortunately, I didn't care for this book. Not recommended. My grade, C-/D+

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointed
Review: I own every book Howard has ever written. Most I really like, even her bad ones are better than what most writers can do. This unfortunately, is one of her bad ones. The only truly interesting part is the end. I had no interest in any of the characters, and didn't care what about what happened to them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More like 4 1/2 stars, but wonderful none-the-less
Review: I'm a big fan of Linda Howard. She's about the only author I read that I shell out for a hardcover. I wasn't disappointed when I bought Cry No More, but this was a different story, different mood, different characters. Personally, I liked Cry No More much better, but this one had its moments. For instance, I got a pleasant surprise to find out how Medina was doing (although indirectly). The love scenes were much different than her usual and now I know how they got the cover art. I also liked the originality of this one, but at first, I wasn't sure how I would like a 37 year old female assassin as the main character. I have to say that she grew on me; I thought she suffered enough and needed a way out. It was also easy to follow her train of thoughts and helped me relate to her as a person. Swain was another story. He was a little too easy going and light hearted. Not what I expected of a CIA man sent to "terminate" her. But they worked well together and it helped lighten the mood of the book. The more I think about it, the more I realize that he was the only type of guy matched for Lily.

Reasons why I thought it fell slightly short of 5 stars...one, the way she was too trusting of Swain - not a characteristic that I would attribute to a 19 year veteran in the game. Two, I didn't think there was enough heart stopping action. For a CIA contract assassin and a CIA field agent, I sort of hoped for more cliffhanger type action. Three, the ending felt rushed. Personally, I like the end wrapped up nice and neat. Not to say this didn't end the way I wanted, but that I'm not into such an abrupt ending. Or maybe I wasn't ready for the book to end.

Overall, I liked the book because I'm a fan of Howard's writing style and I like the characters she develops. She tells a great story in a way that I like to read it. Can't wait for her next one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: As a die-hard fan, so incredibly disappointed . . .
Review: in the plot, which was sadly lacking and unimaginative, by the action, which was mediocre at best, and most importantly, by the characters. I literally didn't care if they lived or died in the generic espionage plot. I have never read such cold, emotionless, one-dimensional characters, and that's really saying something, given that this book is by one of my all time favorite authors who has written some of the sexiest heros ever in the romantic genre.

Either Linda Howard's lost her touch or she needs to move from less suspense to more romance because her earlier Cry No More was a similar disappointment.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kept Me Glued to the Pages
Review: Lily Mansfield had been recruited by the CIA as a contract assassin when she was only eighteen. Now she's in her thirties and living in France, where she does the unforgivable, a revenge killing of an Italian godfather type named Salvatore, a bad guy who had three people she cared deeply about killed for destroying his lab, a place where he was hatching a vaccine scam. Now not only is Salvatore's malicious son after her, but the CIA is as well, because wouldn't you know it, Salvatore was one of their prized assets.

The folks at Langly hire send another contract shooter named Lucas Swain to do away with Lily, but as things go, they tumbles into each others arms and take up arms against the bad guys, finishing the job that Lily's friends had died for. Yes the story seems a little bit out there, and there is more, but you know what, the book held me enthralled, refusing to let me off the sofa, till I finished and isn't that what a good book is supposed to do?

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: 3.5 Rating
Review: Ms. Howard deserves a hand for a fabulous effort in putting together such a difficult and complicated story. You'll either like the characters or dislike them. There really is no in between. If you're looking for a different read that offers a compelling, riveting and fast-pace, read, LUST OF THE FLESH by Beverly Rolyat. It's a sizzler novel about a district attorney who gets caught up in a web of deceit, lies, betrayal, lust, murder, mystery, suspence, romance and sex galore! Is he really the biological father of his ex-wife's promiscuous teenage dauther's infant son? Or has he been set up? An elightening novel through and through. Happy reading!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I'm converted
Review: Mysteries set in foreign countries aren't my usual read, but this book held my attention to the end. Before I knew it, I was sucked in by the action. Excellent writing. Memorable characters.


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