Tropical Storm

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Summary: Tropical Storm a disaster in writing
Review: All I can say is it's a good thing I didn't have much else to do. I could hardly put the book down. Great story, it flows and is easy to read. The story line was fun while intriguing and touching...Melissa Good is truly and artist with words. I have already purchased Hurricane Watch and am looking forward to starting it.

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Summary: Tropical Storm
Review: All I can say is it's a good thing I didn't have much else to do. I could hardly put the book down. Great story, it flows and is easy to read. The story line was fun while intriguing and touching...Melissa Good is truly and artist with words. I have already purchased Hurricane Watch and am looking forward to starting it.

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Summary: Missy's first miracle.
Review: An uber with a duo every bit as vibrant as those in her beloved X&G sagas. Whoda thunk the world of corporate computing could be so darn entertaining and compelling. With one of the best rescue scenes ever. Dar and Kerry are alive and living in Miami.

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Summary: It's very cute, but..
Review: But if I hadn't read Missy Good's Xena fanfic, I wouldn't find it nearly so interesting. Dar and Kerry share definite traits with Missy Good's versions of Xena and Gabrielle, and both have these odd flashback dreams to a previous life when they WERE Xena and Gabrielle which just wouldn't make any sense to me if I had gone into this cold. However, they and their relationship are impossibly cute regardless, and Dar's corporate snarkiness is absolutely hilarious. The book is kinda fluff, but it's adorable and pretty well-written fluff, save for one or two events that made me roll my eyes due to the required dramatic suspension of reality on the part of the reader. I'm reading it for the 3rd time currently, so it's not as though I don't enjoy the book.

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Summary: Tropical Storm a disaster in writing
Review: I have just barely finished reading a few chapters of this book, and I must express my disastisfaction with it's overall presentation.

While the storyline of "Tropical Storm" seems to be rather exciting in its premise, the writing itself is atrocious, with embarrassing grammar mistakes and an utter lack of editing that insults the average reader who has graduated from secondary school with proper test scores in English Literature. The extreme lack of respect the author has for her own story, and the readers thereof - or rather, her extreme arrogance that she need not be edited - shines through whatever might have been of the plot and I could not bear to live through any more than three excrutiating chapters.

A book is not driven by plot alone, and this ill-written story is an insult to anyone with an 8th grade education or above. After reading this book, I must wonder whether the author's name should not be changed to Melissa "Mediocre"?

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Summary: Tropical Storm
Review: I read Tropical Storm and Hurricane Watch back to back. Both are thoroughly enjoyable and if you love Xena you'll undoubtedly love this book. Even if you don't, there's still a special something in the presentation of the two characters' feelings for each other.

As another reviewer said, this book could have benefited from some good, basic editing. Her legions of cyber fans may be willing to overlook the little flaws, but all the little things added up for me. I really liked the plot and I think she added some illumination to the characters that sets her apart from the other uber fiction writers.

It's so true of so many writers -- first published works can be a little rough. Fortunately, Hurricane Watch seemed to get all the attention that this book could have used. Tropical Storm is a must read for those who want to follow both the story and Melissa Good's career.

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Summary: Hopelessly addicted to Dar & Kerry!
Review: It's been some time since I have read a book that I absolutely could not put down. Every free second I had was spent engulfed in the pages of Tropical Storm. And I have never been quite so obsessed, borderline unhealthy : ), with two characters as I am with these two women. Their passion and desire for each other is evident with every interaction from the beginning of the book to the end. The energy between them just spoke to me. I so dreaded the ending. Much to my partner's chagrin, I was ecstatic when I found out there was a sequel. And then a third book! Now I read that there is a fourth in the works! I am stoked!
This is an awesome book!

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Summary: Good, but had problems
Review: This was the first "uber" piece I had ever read and I was pleasantly surprised by what a good story it was. I didn't know what to expect in the beginning, and even had a hard time getting past the first chapter. But, I persisted and made it through. Boy was I glad that I did. Ms. Good has written about two very strong characters who are different as night and day. I found myself intrigued by their relationship and couldn't wait to read more. I have now read all of the DaK series and would still say that this one is my favorite. However....
What I didn't like was the large amount of inconsistency in the story. At first Kerry's siter's name is Susan, then it's Angela. Her father's name is Kevin, then Roger. Kerry's personnel file says she's 26, but she tells Dar she's 27 (okay, I can overlook a birthday). There are at least four or five other inconsistencies that I can't think of right now...but it bugged me...a lot. The grammar was fine, in my opinion, but there were some typos which should have been caught during editing. And I don't buy Dar working for ILS for 15 years when she's only 30 (I may be bleeding into some of the other books).
The point of the matter is....honestly I really did like this book. That's why I continued to keep reading the other stories. Yes, I wish the love scenes had just a little more "umph" to them and I wish Kerry wouldn't say things like "oh, poo." I gave this four stars, mainly for the continuity issues....but it is a good read and I would recommend it to my friends.

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Summary: Good, but had problems
Review: This was the first "uber" piece I had ever read and I was pleasantly surprised by what a good story it was. I didn't know what to expect in the beginning, and even had a hard time getting past the first chapter. But, I persisted and made it through. Boy was I glad that I did. Ms. Good has written about two very strong characters who are different as night and day. I found myself intrigued by their relationship and couldn't wait to read more. I have now read all of the DaK series and would still say that this one is my favorite. However....
What I didn't like was the large amount of inconsistency in the story. At first Kerry's siter's name is Susan, then it's Angela. Her father's name is Kevin, then Roger. Kerry's personnel file says she's 26, but she tells Dar she's 27 (okay, I can overlook a birthday). There are at least four or five other inconsistencies that I can't think of right now...but it bugged me...a lot. The grammar was fine, in my opinion, but there were some typos which should have been caught during editing. And I don't buy Dar working for ILS for 15 years when she's only 30 (I may be bleeding into some of the other books).
The point of the matter is....honestly I really did like this book. That's why I continued to keep reading the other stories. Yes, I wish the love scenes had just a little more "umph" to them and I wish Kerry wouldn't say things like "oh, poo." I gave this four stars, mainly for the continuity issues....but it is a good read and I would recommend it to my friends.

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Summary: thoroughly enjoyable lesbian romance!
Review: When I got this one, I couldn't put it down. I had the same reaction to the sequel, HURRICANE WATCH.

Great stories. Wonderful characters.

In fact, I recommend almost every book from Justice House Publishing. I've read about 1/2 dozen of them so far, and have enjoyed each one. (Just wish they were easier to get, and didn't have such a long order lag time!)

Fans of the Xena tv series will especially love this one. The central characters seem to be based on Xena and Gabrielle. Imagine those two women as IT professionals in the current day....

Good reading, folks!