Watch Over Me (Rocky Mountain Rescue)

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Summary: Doesn¿t come close to her other books
Review: Several times while reading "Watch Over Me," I had to check the cover to make sure who the author was. I don't know what Ms. Bishop was doing while she was writing this was, but it was pretty close to terrible. Becky DiFalco has been lured to Rampart, CO by a notorious serial bomber who has remained underground for years. She knows that he has brought her there for a purpose, but she knows that she is just as determined to catch him as he is to trap her. But when her sting begins to go terribly wrong and a blizzard threatens to let the man escape, Becky is forced to turn to Jack Slade, a former FBI agent and long-lost love, who is anything but happy to see her.

There were so many problems with the writing it's almost hard to remember them. First, it takes forever for the two main characters to meet-it's well after page 50, and their romance isn't exactly going to have anyone reaching for their kleenex. It's about as romantic as you would expect a book about two people climbing a mountain in a blizzard to be. (I don't know about you, but page after page of struggling in the snow, almost frozen to death, isn't the stuff to start me swooning. Worse, it's not even exciting.) Some much-needed tension is introduced at the very end (too late), but a final plot twist was too ludicrous for words. And just when you think the lackluster writing and rhythmless plotting couldn't get worse, the book simply stops. One minute, it's terribly downbeat; one paragraph later, there's a happy ending and the book's over. There's no resolution to Becky's relationships with the two men in her life: Jack and her father. Instead, Bishop spends time trying to justify the killer's actions. Yeah right. The huge margins and wide spaces make it clear this book is shorter than your average Intrigue. Overall, a lazy effort--and it shows.