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Summary: WILL THERE BE MORE THAN JUST TWO?
Review: Actually in my own personal rating I gave it a 4 plus -- because of the humor involved with Wolf, a dog?Loved the cover, the man representing Daniel Eagle seemed more realistic than most cover guys. Most of these books seem to dwell more on falling in love [and not very convincingly] instead of the dangereous element that should be the driving force of Intrigue. Daniel Eagle worked as an operative for the Gray Wolf Pack, apparently a very selective investigative agency. I am still intrigued with "Handler" and Burke Silentman and I hope the mystery deepens in further issues. Can't say that I particularly like women like Hannah Jones who insist on helping and inadvertantly generally cause more problems. [I guess that is what is used to make a story work]. I thoroughly enjoy reading these stories but would not be tempted to keep them [not enough action]and PMS is for the emotionally starved. Has Nelson Benally or his family been in any other books? There can't be that many Rez's in M. Thurlo area and many of her characters should show up in other books. It would be nice to keep bumping into known characters Keep up the good work but make the villians a little more nasty and the main characters more positive about falling in love or lust with more self discipline. Premarital sex is just too common. Recommended --M for a good read and animal lovers will love Wolf.
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Summary: When Lightning Strikes
Review: Aimee Thurlo returns after a two-year absence with her 20th Intrigue (not the 19th as the list on the author page states) to reveal what happens "When Lightning Strikes." Daniel "Lightning" Eagle is an investigator for the top secret Gray Wolf Pack agency. Hired by the uncle of a missing woman to find her, he has no trouble locating the frightened woman. But nothing he was told prepares him for Hannah Jones. It doesn't take him long to figure out there's more to the case than he was led to believe, and Hannah is in real danger. "When Lightning Strikes" is an okay book. It gets off to a wonderful beginning, and for the first few chapters I was so glad to have Thurlo back writing for Intrigue, positive I had a five-star read in my hands. The opening is gritty and interesting, and the first chapter immediately pulled me in with its presentation of Daniel and the secret agency. The story gets off to a fast start, with events happening at a good clip. After a while, though, I started to lose interest. I began to realize that both a lot and very little was happening in this book. I like stories where one event leads to another to keep the story momentum going, or at least where every scene seems vital to the plot. Here, it felt like Daniel and Hannah were going around and around in circles, doing a great deal but accomplishing very little. I think the problem is that while "When Lightning Strikes" is a longer book than most Intrigues today, the plot isn't that complicated. There aren't very many characters and it's easy to see how the story will end and what they'll figure out. The big revelations in the end are no surprise. It didn't need to take the characters nearly as long as it did to put everything together. For most of the book it felt like they were treading water, and some of the incidents in the middle of the story could have been cut without anything being lost. It probably would have tightened the story and made it better. Instead this is a book where the destination is visible and we're left wondering what's taking them so long to get there. There also isn't much of a romance. It's one of those books where the couple falls into bed early on, then decides they can't have a relationship until the mystery is solved, and spends the rest of the book focusing on that. There's no real sense that they're falling in love over the course of the story. Despite a great beginning, "When Lightning Strikes" is a too simple storyline stretched out longer than it needed to be. I like Aimee Thurlo's writing style and am glad that she's writing for Intrigue again. I didn't really care for this story. I'm hopeful the next Gray Wolf Pack book, "Navajo Justice," will be better.
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Summary: When Lightning Strikes
Review: Aimee Thurlo returns after a two-year absence with her 20th Intrigue (not the 19th as the list on the author page states) to reveal what happens "When Lightning Strikes." Daniel "Lightning" Eagle is an investigator for the top secret Gray Wolf Pack agency. Hired by the uncle of a missing woman to find her, he has no trouble locating the frightened woman. But nothing he was told prepares him for Hannah Jones. It doesn't take him long to figure out there's more to the case than he was led to believe, and Hannah is in real danger. "When Lightning Strikes" is an okay book. It gets off to a wonderful beginning, and for the first few chapters I was so glad to have Thurlo back writing for Intrigue, positive I had a five-star read in my hands. The opening is gritty and interesting, and the first chapter immediately pulled me in with its presentation of Daniel and the secret agency. The story gets off to a fast start, with events happening at a good clip. After a while, though, I started to lose interest. I began to realize that both a lot and very little was happening in this book. I like stories where one event leads to another to keep the story momentum going, or at least where every scene seems vital to the plot. Here, it felt like Daniel and Hannah were going around and around in circles, doing a great deal but accomplishing very little. I think the problem is that while "When Lightning Strikes" is a longer book than most Intrigues today, the plot isn't that complicated. There aren't very many characters and it's easy to see how the story will end and what they'll figure out. The big revelations in the end are no surprise. It didn't need to take the characters nearly as long as it did to put everything together. For most of the book it felt like they were treading water, and some of the incidents in the middle of the story could have been cut without anything being lost. It probably would have tightened the story and made it better. Instead this is a book where the destination is visible and we're left wondering what's taking them so long to get there. There also isn't much of a romance. It's one of those books where the couple falls into bed early on, then decides they can't have a relationship until the mystery is solved, and spends the rest of the book focusing on that. There's no real sense that they're falling in love over the course of the story. Despite a great beginning, "When Lightning Strikes" is a too simple storyline stretched out longer than it needed to be. I like Aimee Thurlo's writing style and am glad that she's writing for Intrigue again. I didn't really care for this story. I'm hopeful the next Gray Wolf Pack book, "Navajo Justice," will be better.
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Summary: exciting romantic thriller
Review: Daniel Gray Wolf, code name Lightning, is an operative for Gray Wolf Investigations, a top-notch private detective agency. His latest assignment is to find Hannah Jones and return her to her Uncle Deacon Roberts Jones. He claims that Hannah hit him over the head before absconding with church funds. When Lightning finally finds Hannah two thugs try to abduct her but Gray Wolf halts their attempt. Hannah is grateful to the Navaho warrior for protecting her. She explains to him that she is suffering from amnesia and the last thing she remembers is being handcuffed in a car with a man outside who was going to shoot her. Daniel is not totally sure who is telling him the truth but he knows he's not turning over Hannah to anyone until he knows what is going on. The pair work together to uncover the truth and in the process, they fall in love. Though amnesia has been used as a device for a zillion novels and movies, Aimee Thurlo has written an exciting romantic thriller that makes the ploy seem fresh. Most women will adore the hero and want he or his clone at their side; the audience will admire the fortitude of the heroine determined to find out the truth no matter what it costs her personally. The fast paced story line will keep readers turning the pages until all the facts of the who-done-it is revealed. WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES is romantic intrigue at its best. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: exciting romantic thriller
Review: Daniel Gray Wolf, code name Lightning, is an operative for Gray Wolf Investigations, a top-notch private detective agency. His latest assignment is to find Hannah Jones and return her to her Uncle Deacon Roberts Jones. He claims that Hannah hit him over the head before absconding with church funds. When Lightning finally finds Hannah two thugs try to abduct her but Gray Wolf halts their attempt. Hannah is grateful to the Navaho warrior for protecting her. She explains to him that she is suffering from amnesia and the last thing she remembers is being handcuffed in a car with a man outside who was going to shoot her. Daniel is not totally sure who is telling him the truth but he knows he's not turning over Hannah to anyone until he knows what is going on. The pair work together to uncover the truth and in the process, they fall in love. Though amnesia has been used as a device for a zillion novels and movies, Aimee Thurlo has written an exciting romantic thriller that makes the ploy seem fresh. Most women will adore the hero and want he or his clone at their side; the audience will admire the fortitude of the heroine determined to find out the truth no matter what it costs her personally. The fast paced story line will keep readers turning the pages until all the facts of the who-done-it is revealed. WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES is romantic intrigue at its best. Harriet Klausner
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