Trista Ann Michaels

I really liked this one. It had a good mix of suspense and romance so that neither outweighed the other.

Other reviewers have gone through the synopsis a lot better than I could so basically it's a supermodel who was kidnapped, escaped, and is put under the protection of a pair of psychic twins.

These twins work. The premise of their 'power' being they can link with the owner of an item if both of them are touching it at the same time and that they can feel what the other is feeling (pain & pleasure) naturally leads into the consequence that if one of them falls in love the other will as well. The different personalities also works for me as I've come across that idea before (that they're two parts of a whole so one is more forceful than the other) and it also just seems to make sense.

Now, onto the things that bugged me about this. As other reviewers have said with all of their money why didn't they hire private security when they knew the stalker had a lead on their location (when the nurse was found dead). Speaking of which, I'm thinking she let the information out way too easily. Most hospitals I've worked in are very strict with 'need to know' information. If it's known that the FBI are protecting someone why on earth would information be given out! Most nurses I've come across are way too wordly aware to sucumb to flattery of the type given here. And when is a business card sufficient identification when they're freely available through the internet even if you don't take into account that I haven't come across any printing place which has required anything other than you writing down what words you want to appear (and the format these are to appear in). For Heaven's sake.... you could even print them out on your home printer if you want. That really didn't ring true to me.

Kaycee says that she thinks the photos will give a clue about who the stalker is. So they have to wait for FBI proceedure to deliver them by courier. ?is there no scanner in the FBI office so she could see them sooner. (well possibly it's a case of the need for a secure system... but even so we live in an electronic age, why did these need to be delivered by hand) It did mean that Scott was identified at a suitably suspenseful moment but it felt like a bit of a forced delay to me.

So.. 2 FBI agents suspect the stalker is actually on the ranch, they've tried to make him angry to draw him in by necking on the porch and then they let the heroine be alone in a room which is easily accessed from the outside?! What was wrong with the movie room in the basement.

It was a good read and I really did enjoy it though.

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2.5 stars

This book started out okay, but I started losing interest halfway through. The sex scenes were pretty hot at first, but they got old quickly. The writing style is very similar to a Lora Leigh novel, IMO, and I think that took some of the reading pleasure away. I like Lora Leigh, but I have to be in a certain mood to read her stuff.

I thought the idea of the twins falling in love with the same woman a bit ridiculous. If one fell in love, the other one automatically fell in love. That takes away their choice and it seems fate dictates what happens. Apparently, they were sharing one soul or something like that. That aside, I felt there was a lack of character development with all involved. I thought the author was telling us instead of showing us that the Kaycee, Sam and Tyler were in love. The ending was anti-climatic and not in the least suspenseful. I didn’t think this was very good.… (more)