4 stars. I really do love Julie Garwood’s historical romances, but I wasn’t sure that I would enjoy this series. So far, so good. My only complaint was that I could mostly predict the ending from about the mid-point of the book & this BADLY needed an epilogue. Safe; no om/ow drama, both celibate for a while (although heroine was likely celibate much longer), no virgins, no scenes with om/ow, no cheating

I am very late to be reading one of Julie Garwood's romantic suspense, especially since I consider her one of my favorite authors, and I love her historicals. Honestly, I had my pout on because she doesn't write historicals anymore, and I just never got around to reading the contemporaries, although I planned to do so at some juncture. I am glad I finally got that nudge from the Julie Garwood group on Goodreads, because what most of what I love about her historical book is here in Heartbreaker.

Montgomery Clift in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 “I Confess.”★★★★☆ (This is a review of the audiobook.) I’ve heard Tanya Eby read before and thought she delivered nice performances; however, I wasn’t thrilled over her narration in this one. Especially her supposed subtle “French” accent for Laurant Madden, the heroine who grew up in a French convent. It did NOT sound remotely French to me. Ms. Eby’s diction is good, as is her pacing. Her differentiation of characters wasn’t terrible, but I’ve heard h...

Meh... It passed the time, but lacked the charm of her historical romances. Maybe she gets more in the groove in later volumes?Audio was average.

Well, it was interesting, but it didn't made me rave.The romantic part of the story between Nick and Laurant was lukewarm and didn't made me feel the fizz. It developed toward the end with one sex scene and soon after the usual "I'm bad for her, so I'll leave" trope. I didn't feel the love... sorry..The most interesting part was the suspense part. And I'm glad, because this is mainly a suspense/crime novel.Some tedious parts that could have been avioded, but that I didn't hate.So, summing all up...

The first book in Julie Garwood's Buchanan series and, really, all I can say is WOW. When compared to her historical romances, I would probably only give this 4 stars but compare to other romantic suspense, I think it holds up quite well. Well enough to deserve 5 stars from me. Father Thomas Madden waits in the confessional and a man comes in. He proceeds to tell the Father some pretty disturbing stuff. How he has killed and will kill again. In fact he has his next victim picked out. The Father'...

Some spoilers, but no names are revealed.I'm reading this for the 'Romance involving Murder' category of the Unapologetic Romance Readers Halloween Challenge22/10 - This was such a disappointment! Maybe if I hadn't loved Mercy so much this wouldn't have paled in comparison so badly, but Mercy has been one of my favourite classic romances (I call it 'classic' not because of when it was written, but because it was one of the first contemporary romances I ever read, all Mum's previous books were me...

2.5 starsI had a hard time getting into this book. While I usually like mystery/suspense books, this one felt too formulatic and predictable: girl is target of crazy killer, agent acts as bodyguard, girl and agent hook up. I found Laurant, the lead gal, to be an insipid pollyanna of a character. I didn't connect with her and found her annoying. Nick, the agent/bodyguard, was more a bit more believable. I didn't buy into their romantic relationship. It wasn't developed enough and then, boom, she

2.5 StarsI love Julie Garwood, but I have only ever read her HR books. This book just didn't do it for me. It wasn't bad but it was just okay. The 2 main problems I had with this book was Problem 1. There was detail overload. There was just so many details about everything. It really slowed the story down and made the plot drag. I got bored from the start. I kept asking my husband why do I need to know the color and make of a counter top? Why do I need to have a whole chapter for a secondary cha...

3.5-4 stars!This poor book! I actually started it a week ago and had to pause twice and temporarily ditch it to get to other books, but the funny thing about it all is that I actually enjoyed this story more than the other ones I was desperate to get to. Ha! But that doesn’t surprise me much because every book I’ve read from Julie Garwood – both historical and contemporary – I’ve either liked or loved, and this book was no exception. I’ve read a couple of books in this series already, and compar...

Mmmm. It was OK but didn't make the four or five star mark for me. I was on holidays and dipping in now and again to the book. Maybe if I had read it in one or two sittings it would have worked better. It felt a bit dated and old fashioned at times. Sometimes that works for me but not really this time.Sorry for the short review, but I finished this a while back ...

3.5 stars

In this Julie Garwood thriller, a psychopath a/k/a "the Heartbreaker" confesses to the brutal murder of a young woman to a priest. Then he makes his intentions known to kidnap, torture and murder the priest's sister, Laurent, next. The priest contacts his best friend, local FBI super agent, Nick, and a full blown whodunit takes place as Nick fights to protect Laurent.It is fair to say that the first chapter of this book scared the unholy crap out of me. I suspect this was because I listened to t...

4.5 Stars! Another series/author on my must read list!

This is a 3.5 stars read for me I liked the book very much it was engaging. It had suspense. The beginning seemed promising to me. But somehow the flow of the story didn't appeal to me as much as I wanted it to. The criminal part that is the dark part was OK. The book was fun. Mostly I loved Noah( our hero's best friend and fellow FBI)The story environment was perfect. Mystery with close proximity. And the last moment action. The romancce was good. But i enjoyed the all over story more

Oh my! Where do I begin? Its painful giving 3 Stars to my favourite author. Julie Garwood to me is a good writer and never miss her historical romance and always devoured back to back in one sitting. For that I want to try her modern contemporary.....but this book too lengthy, detail description on everything and becoming information overload! I'm bored! Love connection between H/h feel lukewarm. No intensity. Where is the suspense? Maybe next book in this series will be better or not but......d...

"Heartbreaker" is the story of Laurent and Nick.When Laurent and her brother Tommy are targeted by a killer who calls himself "The Heartbreaker", Tommy's best friend, the FBI agent Nick steps in to help.The book is the story of them racing against time to catch the killer, while living in Holy Oaks, the small town where everyone knows each other, discovering each other and rooting out the miscreants.Both the lead characters were average, their love story played a very minor role but their occasi...

A true-blue romantic suspense. Some romantic suspense books are romances with suspenseful storylines, but this is one of those books that is a pure suspense books with a solid romance behind it. And overall it was a pretty good read. I enjoyed it.Good plot...well planned, enough twists, plenty of suspicion cast about. Good characters...likeable, interesting, fairly well developed. And a decent romance...not great, but substantial enough.If you like solid romantic suspenses, then give this one a

I'm a fan of Julie Garwood but I don't think this one is for me. First of all, I know this is a romantic suspense but I think the plot focused more on the suspense side. I didn't feel the romance at all. It's tjere but it's lacking in every way. Though I can't say the suspense is any good. The mystery is staring right at me, it's not a mystery at all. Plus I think the plot dragged. Too slow. Maybe nexause there are a lot of infos included, some are not even related to the plot. Like every detail...

Picked this up after reading Fast Track, I have to say in one sense it's not as good. (Nick just isn't as hot as Aiden!) But, in one sense, it's much better. The mystery/suspense element is excellent. Considering this is Garwood's first foray into the contemporary romantic suspense that is excellent. I was a little disappointed in myself for not picking up on some plot points, though.