Scent of Danger

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Summary: Another Great Andrea Kane Book!
Review: I have been a fan of this incredible author from her very beginning as a historical romance author. She has now moved to the suspense/romance genre and her talent here is first rate!

Sabrina Radcliffe is the daughter of two very talented people. Her mother and grandparents are Beacon Hill Boston, and Sabrina has become a sucess in her own right. She is approached by Dylan Newport the lawyer of Ruisseau a very successful company which just so happens to be owned by Sabrina's father Carson Brooks.

Carson has reached the age of 50 and he is sorry that he never got married and settled down. He remembers that he was a sperm donor that was pre-selected by Sabrina's mother. He now wants to find out if a child resulted from that donation. After he is shot in the back he askes his friend and lawyer Dylan to find out and to bring the child back.

Dylan thinks highly of Carson and will do anything for him. He goes out on this search and finds himself face to face with Sabrina. He passes on the request for the meeting which now must take place in an ICU unit in New York. Sabrina accepts and together they go back to New York to introduce Sabrina to her new dad.

Of course there is intrigue, who shot Carson, why, and the suspect list is long and keeps getting longer. Then an attempt is made on Sabrina's life. Could these attempts be due to the creation of C'est Moi the newest fragrance to take the States and Europe by storm or is it due to something more personal?

Although the story lags at times it is still saved by the colorful characters. Dylan and Sabrina have great chemistry between the two of them and Carson and Sabrina's mom also are fun together. If you are an Andrea Kane fan you will not want to miss adding this one to your personal library.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I totally enjoyed this book. I have just found this author and I have enjoyed all of her contempory books to date. The characters and the story come alive on the pages. Great job!!

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Summary: Not Kane's best work but still a good read
Review: If you enjoy Andrea Kane's romantic suspense novels, and I do, you'll enjoy reading this one, but its not her best effort. The premise strains the level of credibility for even the most die hard romantic. What are the odds that a dying entrepreneur (Carson Brooks) would ask his protege (Dylan Newport) to find his daughter (Sabrina Radcliffe) who is the product of a sperm donation 32 years ago and that said daughter would be a successful management consultant who happily offers her new found dad one of her kidneys in order to save his life. In addition she takes over as president of his corporation and falls in love with his protege. This is just the beginning of this very tall tale, but if you can accept the premise the story is fun. Its worth reading when you have some extra time on your hands.

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Summary: Danger's scent stalks as murder beckons
Review: In this terrific drama and thriller, Carson Brooks, millionaire owner of a perfume company is almost shot to death and must decide if a youthful business deal that got him the funds to start his company -- namely, being a sperm donor for a socialite -- led to fatherhood. He discovers to his pleasure, Sabrina Radcliffe, a management consultant of clout, is his daughter. However, Sabrina is not as pleased to learn her father's identity and finds no reason to have a relationship with someone whose only part in her life up to that point is to donate DNA that created her. A series of close calls of murder and a handsome lawyer who tries to get Sabrina to see her "father" and then falls in love with her bring spice to the plot. A joyful read.

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Summary: Hoping it was better...
Review: This book was so boring I couldn't get through it. The plot moved far too slowly, and we were given lots of detailed prose about aspects of the story that weren't very interesting. Normally romantic thrillers are lacking in either the romance department or the thriller department. This book was lacking in both. The main characters were two-dimensional. Instead of letting us get inside the characters and learn who they really were, we were just given the cut-and-dried facts about their pasts. The author apparently expected us to assume things about the characters from their backgrounds. As a result, I didn't care about either of the main characters, or about what was going to happen to them. Sabrina and Dylan had absolutely no chemistry!! If you hadn't known this was a romance, you wouldn't have known that they were supposed to be attracted to each other. So even though their first kiss came very late in the book, it still seemed premature, because up to that point neither character had had a single romantic thought about the other. As far as the "thriller," it was boring. I couldn't have cared less who shot Carson Brooks. Again, without any insight into his character, I had no feelings about him one way or the other. Also, the author used this irritating technique of giving information about the characters through lengthy stretches of dialogue. The dialogue ended up seeming contrived and unrealistic as a result. Sorry that I spent ${munnies}on this poorly written book.

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Summary: Boring and flat.
Review: This book was so boring I couldn't get through it. The plot moved far too slowly, and we were given lots of detailed prose about aspects of the story that weren't very interesting. Normally romantic thrillers are lacking in either the romance department or the thriller department. This book was lacking in both. The main characters were two-dimensional. Instead of letting us get inside the characters and learn who they really were, we were just given the cut-and-dried facts about their pasts. The author apparently expected us to assume things about the characters from their backgrounds. As a result, I didn't care about either of the main characters, or about what was going to happen to them. Sabrina and Dylan had absolutely no chemistry!! If you hadn't known this was a romance, you wouldn't have known that they were supposed to be attracted to each other. So even though their first kiss came very late in the book, it still seemed premature, because up to that point neither character had had a single romantic thought about the other. As far as the "thriller," it was boring. I couldn't have cared less who shot Carson Brooks. Again, without any insight into his character, I had no feelings about him one way or the other. Also, the author used this irritating technique of giving information about the characters through lengthy stretches of dialogue. The dialogue ended up seeming contrived and unrealistic as a result. Sorry that I spent ${munnies}on this poorly written book.

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Summary: Not as good as other
Review: This hefty tome of a romantic suspense veers into territories of unbelievable denouements and twists. When revolutionary perfume manufacturer Carson Brooks is shot, Detective Whitman and Barton immediately suspects his protege sans attorney Dylan Newport but his unwavering loyalty proves otherwise. He helps to locate his secret daughter Sabrina Radcliffe, conceived out of an insemination initiated by her mother. An organ donation to Brooks is impending to save his life. Within days, Sabrina acknowledges her father and is bestowed the secret to Brook's fragrance. She is ushered in as the president of Ruisseau Corporations. While things heat up between Dylan and her, danger lurks when a murderer slays off a co-worker and makes attempts on her life. It is fortunate that Andrea Kane's romantic thriller sculpts her character with definition and dimension but the disappointment sets in with her lack of exploration and continual throwing of red herrings to distract readers. Scent of Danger ends up being unsatisfying on both elements although the romance fared slightly better. It tantalizes but lacks the power to sustain and rouse.

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Summary: A good romance.
Review: This romantic suspense novel is sufficiently shallow to be a best selling novel. That said, the author does a good job of engaging interest in the characters and the actions that bring them all together.

The head of a perfume company, Carson Brooks, was contracted 28 years ago to provide sperm to a rich feminist who wanted a child with no strings attached. Brooks used the payoff to start his highly successful perfume company. The rich feminist had her child, a daughter, who grew up to run a management consulting company. Now, as the result of an attempted murder, Brooks is in need of a kidney transplant and his birth daughter offers the best hope of a match. This is where things begin to be just too good to be true: the birth daughter, Sabrina Radcliffe, immediately embraces her birth father's need for a transplant and offers her kidney. There's a reason WHY many 'reunions' fail on first attempt; shock, the need to come to terms with the idea of a new individual who is intimately connected to your existing life.... Etc. But this story has the heroine immediately bouncing into a new relationship with her birth father with no reflective repercussions. She also immediately falls in love with her father's attorney, Dylan Newport. Story concludes with all the loose threads nicely tidied up. An absorbing romantic read with all the stock characteristics!

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Summary: I love her writing but
Review: While this story was quite good, I got so sick of Carson's character that I fast forwarded through his tirades.