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Books : Death Angel: A NovelIn association with Amazon.comRating:  - Riveting novel of suspense and redemptionThis book wowed me! Take one striking beauty with a taste for diamonds and dangerous men, Drea Rousseau is more than content to be arm candy for Rafael Salinas, a notorious crime lord. Until he hands her over for 5 hours to a cold-blooded assassin to do anything he desires as long as he doesn't harm her. For Drea this is the last straw. She makes a fateful decision and a desperate move, stealing a mountain of cash and running. Salinas knows she can't hide and he dispatches the assassin to kill her. Which results in a set of tragic events, that not only turns Drea's life upside down, but the assassins. This book has several surprising twists and turns. It also has a very different hero and heroine. I think you will be as surprised and pleased as I was with this different and unusual book. Rating:  - Intelligent Female and Gamma Male!I have never read a book like this and it was wonderful. I won't give anything away. I'll simply say that the chemistry between the unlikely lovers is hot. Not only that. While in most books with a gamma male character, the female is simpering and annoying. Not so with this book. She was enticingly feminine and vulnerable, while still being strong and posessing a razor sharp mind. It was such an unlikely plot, and still remarkably believable. Rating:  - more death and confusion than anything angelicSometimes I just don't get Linda Howard, this book is too weird and yet also too boring for me. Full of very mundane details and thought processes (not engaging!) and then full of just plain strange stuff. This didn't work for me. It's Linda Howard, so not a wall banger, but definitely not a keeper. Simon is an assassin who gets Drea for 4 hours after he bargains with her mafioso lover for her. I never quite got Drea/Andie, just didn't understand her, why she made the initial choices she had, why we are meant to care for her. Simon was standard LH cipher lover, all alpha and inexplicable. Hmmm.... there are better LH's out here. Rating: - Good Romantic SuspenseFor me, Linda Howard has been a hit or miss author. Her latest romantic suspense novel Death Angel, really held my interest. Drea Rousseau, young, beautiful and sexy is a kept woman by Rafael Salinas, a notorious crime lord. One day Salinas hires an" Assassin" who wants to have sex with Drea as payment for the job. Salinas agrees to this, and when Drea learns about this she is outraged. She takes the jewelry that Salinas gave her, accesses his bank account, and transfers two million dollars to her account before fleeing. Infuriated by this betrayal, Salinas hires the Assassin to kill Drea. While being pursued Drea has a car accident, and is left for dead, but after being dead for an hour she returns to life. She becomes a changed woman in the process. To say any more would mean "spoilers". Although some of this book (after Drea comes back to life) is a bit corny, this book was still a fun read. Recommended for romantic suspense fans. Rating: - Another Linda Howard trimuphThis was actually a fun read and with a unique perspective. Its not often than the main hero/heroine are not on the up and up character wise. If you enjoy Linda Howard's writing style and don't have an aversion to morally ambiguous main characters, this is the book for you. I rate this Book a 4.5/5. |
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