The Price of Passion

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Summary: The Best Yet!
Review: A pair of adventurous lovers, glamorous settings and men in kilts, suspense, scintillating dialogue and great sex, what more do you need? I laughed out loud, and fell in love with Angel Evans. I really hope a future book features a grown up version of the heroine's bratty teenage sister.

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Summary: It sizzles your socks (off!!)
Review: I have read a number of Sizemore's previous books and although they were well written they did not grab me from the start and compel me to rush to the finish only to regret that it had to end. This book does!!

A.David (Angel) is a bit of a bad boy. He and Cleo have a 10 year history of battling over antiquities across Egypt and Greece.

Their love story is believable because it is not an instantaneous attraction, it is based on knowing and growing.They are grown-up lovers who finally accept their fate is linked - but don't expect them never to fight again!

The story has a good pace that carries the reader into the story and keeps you there ("Just a few pages more and then I'll turn out the light!")

The entire secondary cast of characters are intriguing and could have had their own stories. Maybe Pia (Olympias) will appear later?? Congratulations Susan on a great tale!

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Summary: Same story all over again!
Review: I have read and loved The Price of Innocence by the same author, have read and enjoyed A Long Ago Night, but this is the same story all over again, but without the emotional intensity of tPoI and its compelling pace. The flashback style is very confusing here, probably because the flashbacks extend to a period of several years.

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Summary: Did Susan Sizemore really write this?
Review: I LOVED Susan Sizemore's vampire novels and decided to give her romance books a try. Boy was I shocked. The writing seemed amateurish, the typeface huge and the prose so incredibly purple I wondered if this was the same author.

The story? Cleo is the devoted daughter of a famous archaeologist and a spinster. She's in love with a man named Angel. (Sigh). We don't find out much about the man for many chapters only that he's decided he wants to marry her. Cleo is your typical doormat heroine. First sacrificing for her father then for her sisters. The entire first chapter she spends 'needing' and 'wanting.' What does that mean? Also the frequent flashbacks in italics drove me nuts.

I cannot recommend this novel. The writing was very banal. I'm sorely disappointed.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: If a woman had written Indiana Jones, this book would be it! The adventure never overshadowed the romance, and at the same time the story clipped right along. The dialogue is witty, too, and when I finished the book I was completely satisfied. A definite buy.

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Summary: This author always tells a fantastic story
Review: In 1868 on an Egyptian excavation led by her obsessed father, teenager Cleopatra Fraser fell in love with A. "Angel" David Evans. However, she had family duties and he wanted to make it in the archeological world, but knew that was impossible working for her zealous and jealous (in terms of his academic standing not loved ones) father. David returns to his home in the states while Cleo goes back to Scotland.

A decade later, a bored Cleo helps open up a museum that showcases the works that she and her father uncovered from the tomb of Alexander the Great. However, Angel has come to Scotland to attain what he felt he was too young for him back in the sixties in Egypt. He wants Cleo by his side, but she wants nothing to do with him even if he makes her heart beat louder and faster. Neither one is prepared for the secret organization whose members will kill to regain the treasures of Alexander the Great that they failed to protect when Cleo and company "raided" their tomb.

Susan Sizemore provides her fans with a heated historical romance that centers on two strong, independent, and talented archeologists. The story line is fast-paced as the two stalwart protagonists guard their hearts as well as they protect the past. Those fans that relish a more torrid nineteenth century romance will feel the fervor of the PRICE OF PASSION.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Wow!
Review: Passion is right! Passion and laughter and wit and romance. I adored this book and can't wait for her next one.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: Passion is right! Passion and laughter and wit and romance. I adored this book and can't wait for her next one.

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Summary: NOT VERY IMPRESSED WITH THIS BOOK
Review: This is about the third book I've read this year where the story would have been much better had it taken place entirely in Egypt. Instead we only visit Egypt in tantalizing flashbacks. The adventures detailed in the flashbacks would surely have been more interesting than the story we're given. And one more gripe - on the front cover of the book Christina Dodd is quoted as saying, "A luscious, sexy, Scottish romp." - which proves to me that she didn't read the book. Yes, the present day action takes place in Scotland but in no way would I describe it as a "Scottish romp." Not a keeper. Buy it used if you just have to have it.

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Summary: More Romantic Adventure than classic romance
Review: This is one of the most fun books I've read all year. It's fast-paced and funny, and doesn't take itself at all seriously. I enjoyed the witty dialogue, and the adventure movie quality of the story. In fact, it reminded me very much of Indiana Jones, or the Mummy movies...only with steamy sex. I liked the fact that the hero and heroine were ambitious rivals that frequently set their differences aside to come to each others rescue. The bond between them was strong, if strained, and created wonderful sexual tension. The quest for hidden treasure, the secret society, the rival archaeologists, the absent-minded professor with the lovely, smarter than he is daughter, the disreputable hero with a heart of gold -- classic, cliched, elements of the romantic adventure genre that Sizemore gives us here with a fond smile and satiric wink. Pass the popcorn -- this is like reading a great old movie!