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Summary: Who were the main characters of this book again?
Review: With a confusing mystery and a hero and heroine who get shoved to the sidelines, "Secret Lover" really fails to satisfy on any level. While preparing to write a book, Andi Sinclair meets a mysterious man with a dangerous secret. Once we find out Jim's secret, we get to see all of the suspects and minor players doing mysterious things, with no clue which will turn out to be sinister and which are red herrings. In the end, it's just too much. Even when we find out who the bad guys are, I was unable to backtrack and figure out what all of those red herrings must have meant. But the biggest problem is that all the attention that's given to the secondary characters leaves our hero and heroine out of the picture. Jim and Andrea really don't do anything. Their love is established early on, and they basically stand around while all the minor players work themselves into a frenzy for the rest of the book. They never act--they just react--and that means they're not really dynamic characters in any way. When a "secondary" character like Steve gets more action and story time than our hero and heroine, while all Jim gets to do is threaten to go on the run over and over and over again, it's kind of hard to stay involved in the story. It's not romantic and it's too confusing to be suspenseful...how does this qualify as romantic suspense? Add in the fact that the premise and the setup for the finale are both very contrived, and "Secret Lover" really misses the mark.
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