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Ended up being disappointed with this one. Found it hard to get into. Then, it got a bit more interesting. Then it all sort of finished. I didn't really care for either character. Thought the sort of "insta-love" was a bit OTT. Plot should have meant that it was a better read but, honestly, not sure if I will read the next one. This was hovering between a 2 and a 3!
My Karen Robards fest is not going well. This book had an interesting idea of a plot, the murder of the (fictional, TG) First Lady of the USA (and two other victims), but failed to deliver. The weakest link, the heroine. In the beginning you warm to her, she's not a leggy amazon with blonde/red hair who has no idea how gorgeous she is but everybody falls in love with her, this one is rather geeky and petite and supposedly intelligent. Why can't women writers write intelligence into their women?
Mark Ryan, marry me!I loved this book! I didn't think it was going to have a romantic twist at all, I was expecting more John Grisham-style legal writing, so I was plesantly surprised at the mixture of crazy action and suspsense and romance. I felt the beginning was a little slow, and when I say beginning I mean absolute beginning, like the first chapter or so. After that it picks up and burns white hot. I couldn't put it down; first thing when I got up this morning I couldn't wait to start it a...
Rating: 3.5 / 5This was a pretty good book. Much better than her last release, Guilty, but in my opinion, still no where near as good as her older romantic suspense books. Jessica Ford is a young lawyer for a big D.C. law firm. One night, she gets a call from her boss; he orders her to go to a hotel bar, where the First Lady of the U.S. is waiting, and accompany her to an as yet unknown location. Accustomed to doing what needs to be done for her job, Jess goes. At the hotel, she finds a distraug...
Instant Love within 24 hours. It was interesting but the ending was a little abrupt. It was like the number of words was reached so the end was quickly summarized.
I don't recall the novel being anything like the blurb. That being the case, I didn't find it memorable either. It started out being a murder conspiracy, then ended up being a chase story, with the protagonists running from the murderers. I do remember an attraction between Jess and Mark, but nothing to set your bloomers on fire. Overall, it was a decent enough novel.
Jessica is a new lawyer, her boss calls her drunk and because she is still a flunky she gets up in the middle of the night to track down the first lady. After she finds her and gets her in the car, somebody chases them and everyone but Jessica ends up dead in the car accident. While in the hospital someone tries to kill Jessica, a secret service agent Mark believes her and tries to keep her safe. When Marks car blows up when both of them were supposed to be in it, they find out that it is the Se...
fun book, know exactly what I'm getting when I read a Robards
I really liked this book. I picked it up randomly and had no idea what it was about or who it was written by. I have never read a thriller like this, I guess you could call it a political drama. I really liked the flow of the story and the character developments. Jess is put into a situation that is hard to identify with but I was still able to feel like I was in her shoes through the course of my reading. The romance between Mark and Jess felt a bit forced but honestly, if I was in that situati...
Karen Robards stories are usually pretty average, but I found this one to be below what I expect from her. It was not written well at all ("they were stuck together like peanut butter and jelly"), give me a break. The story did have promise as the plot wasn't bad, but it was too unbelievable and the characters were unforgetable. I read it earlier this week and I can't even recall their names. There wasn't must trust between the characters so it was kind of unbelievable that they would even want
I have to say right off the bat - I listened to this book - or the first 3 CDs of it, at any rate - and I didn't finish it. The book itself was good, but the narrator drove me bananas. She sounded as if she were trying to avoid detection, reading with a whisper, almost - and her s's were soooooooooo sibilant, it got to the point where I was irritated. Her male characters all sounded alike - a crackly, aged voice with nary a variation in pitch or timbre, and were an odd mix of southern and Boston...
Story: This book started out really well - I was totally engaged in the action and mystery surrounding the First Lady and Jessica. It was shaping up to be a great read. But once Jess teamed up for real with Mark Ryan it lost some momentum: overlong descriptions on insignificant items crept in, lots of repetitive feelings iterated ad naseum by Jessica, some basic mystery plot holes were unconvincingly papered-over, eight ppl karked it by just over half-way and no uncorrupt fed/cop thought it was
I loved the suspenseful aspect of this, however, the romance throughout was unnecessary and cringe worthy *rolls eyes*, I mean (view spoiler)[ there are bombs and people getting shot but all everyone is worrying about is making love, um? (hide spoiler)]
Well if you like conspiracies you would like this one. After the First Lady is killed in a tragic car accident there is a massive cover up and more lives lost.
Ugh! So much potential and all i got was cliched crap! First of all, I listened to the audio book and the narrator was AWFUL! Raspy, monotone, grandma voice... At times she would drop her voice so low that I couldn’t hear what she is saying! But overall her impression of the characters was bad - she tried to give them different voices but they sounded annoying and fake.... Secondly- the story! Great potential, but the book failed on both counts- both as a thriller and as a romance! The thriller
Lawyer Jessica Ford is sent by her boss, the First Lady's personal attorney, to retrieve her and return her to the White House. On the way back there is an accident and everyone is killed except Jessica. After an attempt is made on her life in the hospital and she remembers the events of the crash, she knows it was murder and she is an unwanted witness. Mark Ryan is the Secret Service Agent in charge of the First Lady's detail and sees red flags everywhere. When Jessica is targeted again and the...
I really liked this book. I wasn't too sure to begin with if I would complete it but kept going. It's what I refer to as a 'slow burner', it takes a while to get going.This is the first time I have read anything by this author and I really enjoyed it. She (the author) managed to mix a murder mystery with a love story quite successfully. It's definitely worth a read.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Good mix of romance and suspense.
I picked up Pursuit in the paperback section of the library, being a sucker for romantic liaisons, Feds, politics, and good characters. It was a great read on vacation - light, harmless, a little smutty, and I liked the characters. I then went on to read more of Robards' books and that's where the issues cropped up. Karen Robards is fond of using the same phrases, similar descriptions, and similar characters in her books. Most of the guys are "smokin' hot" or some similar cheesy description, wit...
Jessica Ford, as instructed by her boss, meets the First Lady at a bar and attempts to escort her to an unknown destination. Their limo crashes and, when Jessica awakens, Mark Ryan, a Secret Service agent, is hovering over her. She is terrified and cannot remember exactly what has happened, only that it was not an accident. Mark begins to believe when Jessica is attacked in her hospital room. They begin a desperate search for answers while trying to escape the people who are trying to silence he...