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Summary: Great Finale to a Great Series
Review: A Game of Chance is the long awaited final novel in the best family series published in category romance fiction and it didn't disappoint me. It was fast paced, sexy, and over much too soon. While Joe (MacKenzie's Mission) continues to be my favorite MacKenzie hero (and favorite MacKenzie book), Sunny has moved into first place as my favorite MacKenzie heroine with her strong resiliant personality and sense of humour. A terrific read and a fitting finale to a great series. Bravo Ms. Howard!
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Summary: Another excellent tale of Mackenzies.
Review: Chance Mackenzie was hunting a notorious terrorist when he found a link to the man, his daughter. Chance didn't care if Sunny Miller was working with her father or innocent, he would seduce her for the killer's location. Sunny had been on the run from her father since birth. When she fell in love with Chance, she vowed to keep him safe. Little did she know that she was bait in a very dangerous trap.Chance and Sunny are a great match. Howard's ability to craft believable multi-dimensional characters constantly amazes me. This is a rich, poignant tale of a wounded soul who finds his peace at last. As much as I loved all the MacKenzie men and women, Chance was my favorite, after Wolf, and the one who most needed a happy ending. Simply wonderful! So why didn't I give it a 5 star rating? As noted by another reviewer, Chance needed to grovel after putting Sunny in danger. If he had laid it on the line about what he wanted, she probably would've agreed. He never gave her that choice. Understandable in the context of the type of job done by Chance, but deplorable in a romance where the one putting the other in danger is the hero. Still and all, buy this book. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: A Game Of Chance By Linda Howard
Review: Fans of the Mackenzie series will be pleased to see that Chance is like his father and brothers. He is a strong and capable warrior that knows how to treat a lady. Sunny Miller is a strong woman who finds joy in life despite a difficult life of running. Together they over come adversity and find love. This book nicely concludes the Mackenzie series and ties up some loose ends. This reader couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting.
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Summary: No surprises, but totally enjoyable.
Review: Reading Game of Chance was very much like reading all her other McKenzie books. No surprises, but totally enjoyable. Linda Howard's books are starting to become very formulatic. She is still my favorite author, but I wish she would add a real twist to her plot, or deepen her hero's character or do something to break the predictability of her Intimate Moment stories.
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Summary: What a story!
Review: This book is all I'd been hoping for. I've loved the Mackenzie family books ever since the first line of the first book (He needed a woman --bad) to the last wonderful line of this latest book (no, I won't say what that line was). This book has it all--romance, adventure, more of the extended Mackenzie family. My only sadness is that it may all be over now because who is left to write about, unless she skips a few years and writes about Joe's oldest son. In any case, I'd like to thank Linda Howard for a wonderful series. I loved every minute of it.
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Summary: Another terrific MacKenzie Book!
Review: Chance is very, very HOT. This is a great read...I couldn't put it down. As soon as I read the last word, I thought: I want more, more, more MacKenzie books. Linda Howard wrote a brief letter at the beginning of the book, saying that there wouldn't be any more MacKenzie books. My personal opinion is that she has to write a full length story about Nick (Zane and Barrie's daughter). Please, please, please, write this story even if you wait several years to do it.
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Summary: Great until the last chapter
Review: I read everything Linda Howard writes, McKenzie's Mission I have read more than once... This was a good read, but did not have the power the other books in this series had. I will continue to read Linda Howard books, but she did disapoint me on this one. I hesitate to spend the money for Mr. Perfect until I read what other fans have to say.
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Summary: The last bachelor McKenzie bites the dust
Review: I read this book through in twenty-four hours, that's how completely the story absorbed my attention. Chance is up to his usual shadow-espionage activities, when he stumbles across a useful piece of information: one of his targets has an until-now unidentified daughter nick-named - deceptively - Sunny (he thinks she's sunny in nature, but it's really a veneer for survival). Chance and Zane construct a plan to use her to get to her terrorist father. The plan undergoes only one modification when Chance finds out some important facts about her, but that modification is a ruthless one - to deliberately dangle her in front of her father, in order to draw him out. The plan is also complicated by Chance's growing attachment to her. The denouement is classic Linda Howard! The reader gets to know more about Chance's past in this story, and the parallels between him and Sunny, his target, are well drawn. Both have a history that they'd prefer not to think about, and both are basically pretenders, until they meet each other. Although Chance's set up of Sunny is harsh, it was also completely in character for him, given what we learn about his life. LH also writes Sunny's character well - a street-wise woman who, just for a little while, wants to let down her guard and believe in happy endings..... In her opening message to the reader, LH explains something that had always nibbled at me - the time frame. She mentions that all of the books are set in an unidentified future - thank you for that clarification! She also mentions that this is probably the last McKenzie book. True, there aren't any more first-love stories to tell about the existing cast of characters, but so what? The McKenzies' lives aren't over just because the how-they-met tales are done - please, Ms. Howard, consider a McKenzie series that brings us one of their adventures ever so often, and keeps them alive for us!
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Summary: welcome back to the mackenzies
Review: It is always great to catch up with old friends. This wasn't my favorite of the Mackenzie clan tales; it seemed to move a little too fast. A hero of Chance's caliber should have had a little more angst over what he'd done to the woman he loved. But the last line in the book made me happy. I wondered when that would happen.
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Summary: A wonderful family with great values
Review: I first got hooked on this series a few years ago by mistake when one of my grandmother's friends were going to throw out the McKenzie's Pleasures book. I have loved dreaming up new plots for this story, and nothing of what I dreamed up camed close to what Linda had in Chance's storyline. I thought that it was a great ending to the series. Thank you Linda, if you're reading this, for a lifetime of memories through your books.
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