Customer Rating: 
Summary: where's the $9.99 KINDLE price?
Comment: I was really disappointed that the publisher of this book did not price this book accordingly for the KINDLE. I'm a HUGE fan of Ms. Garwood's books, but with the high cost of this book I'm going to have to wait until it is released at a lesser price. I bought my KINDLE knowing that I wouldn't have to spend such a high price for my books as I use to wait and get them at the library for free. With my KINDLE I can still buy books so that the authors get some royalties. But anything over the $9.99 price is not something I am willing to pay for. Please get these books back in price with other KINDLE offerings.
Customer Rating: Summary: Enjoyable Read
Comment: Julie Garwood is one of my must have authors and I really enjoyed this one. It is not one of her great reads but rather a very nice read. She can take so much unrelated information and bring it to a cohesive and interesting conclusion. I liked both characters, as always both are beautiful and honorable. The chemistry is nice and the story is a sequel to MURDER LIST.
Sophie is one of the three best friends from that novel. Her father is a lawyer with the ability to sniff out the money hidden by unscrupulous people and disappear it. The FBI finds him a man of interest. She is a writer for a minor newspaper in Chicago and gets the less than sterling assignments. The biggie in her life at the moment is that the pension fund for a brewery has been cyberscamed and the president of the company is pointing a finger at her father.
Jack MacAlister is the partner of Alex Buchanan who married Regan in MURDER LIST. He likes what he sees of Sophie but knowing who her father is puts a crimp in his desire to get close to the beautiful reporter. Later when her assignment begins to worry her friends Jack is tricked into agreeing to go with her to Alaska.
I found some of the details abit far fetched, but overall a good read with enough heat to make up for the lack. It was worth the money to me but you have to be the judge on whether you will pay full price or wait for the paperback.
Customer Rating: Summary: Romance 4, Mystery 2
Comment: Garwood can write a great romance, the relationship between Jack and Sophie is very good. Some funny dialogue, attraction and pull between these two was entertaining and it's always good to see old "friends" from previous books show up in a novel.
The mystery portion of this book is where it all falls apart, I kept asking myself "Why" There was no reason for Jack and Sophie to have gotten involved in the mystery, the link was to weak. Using "Journal entries" to explain the mystery portion is an attempt to build a story involving readers, and it just doesn't work in this book.
This book would have been outstanding if the mystery portion blended better with the love story, as is they are oil and water.
Customer Rating: Summary: Rip Off
Comment: I love Julie Garwood and normally race out to buy each of her books. I am so disappointed not only by the lack of romance and intrigue of this book, but also that it was priced so high for an e-book. I don't know who Garwood or her publisher thinks they are, but why should we pay 40% more than kindle books were promised to be priced at. This is a rip off! Hold off getting this until the price comes down to a reasonable level.
Customer Rating: Summary: Join me in the que at the library
Comment: Ms. Garwood's books since Killjoy haven't lived up to the promise of her previous books, and this latest is no improvement - the characters are just not nearly as appealing as the ones she used to write. I feel like she's been aiming at greater realism in her contemporary line but, honestly, who's looking for realism in romantic suspense? I've gotten the last few Garwoods from the library, and am glad I didn't waste my money on this one.
Even worse, this less than steller kindle book is priced at a 40% markup over other kindle bestsellers - do publishers actually think we don't know it costs them less to distribute an e-book? Does Amazon think customers will shell out another $400 for their next generation Kindle if they don't stand behind their $9.99 bestseller policy?
Meanwhile, I know Ms. Garwood is capable of writing more appealing characters than this. I will continue to get her very expensive books from the library, however, until she returns to her roots.
