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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780778325369
ISBN number: 0778325369
Label: Mira
Manufacturer: Mira
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: May 01, 2008
Publishing house: Mira
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In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she's snatched away on the back of a motorcycle, narrowly avoiding a grisly execution endeavor meant for her sister and brother-in-law.
Her rescuer is Reno, the Committee's most unpredictable agent. They'd met once before and the attraction was odd— tattooed Yakuza punk meets leggy California egghead—but electric. Now Reno and Jilly are pawns in a deadly tangle of assassination attempts, kidnappings and prisoner swaps that could put their steamy partnership on ice.
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I loved the whole series, I couldn't wait until the subsequent was written. I am very disappointed that Anne will not be writing another one until sometime later. Anne, hurry up I am waiting.
I love all Anne's books. Great writer!!
Sandy D, New York
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I am totally hooked on these books. They are outside of my normal reading (I'm a Kenyon, Showalter, JR Ward, and Feehan reader), but I LOVE Anne Stuart. I bought Black Ice on a whim (I had never read anything by her) and I loved it. They are really heavy with action and character development--not a lot of meaningly violence and sex. Her plots are engrossing and there is just enough darkness to balance the romantic elements. I cannot say enough about these books--I don't even know which is my favorite...although Ice Blue is pretty darn close.
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I enjoyed this series because the heroes are so deliciously dark. This was not my favorite installment, however, because (unlike some of the others) I couldn't really see the hero and heroine falling in love. Reno is just SO evil to Jilly throughout the story. For most of the book I failed to see how love would ever be possible between them. But at the end it all came together luckily. By the end, I believed it.
Kudos to the author for writing a Japanese hero. Not only that, but a punk Japanese hero. That was awesome to find in a mainstream romance, which always seems to feature the same Caucasian males. It was very refreshing.
Some have commented on the character of Jilly. It's true she's referred to as a "brainiac" and exceptionally intelligent. She was on the fast track through school and that messed with her socialization. I think the author did a good job showing the latter (socialization problems) and a bad job showing the former (being incredibly intelligent). At no time in the story did Jilly trot out her schooling or her superior intellect. She did however act the way I would expect any other young woman in a life threatening situation to act. The character is flawed, yes, but that only makes me believe it more.
All in all, I did enjoy this installment and am sorry to see an end to the series. I'm only rating the book four stars because I couldn't believe the romance until the end. I wish I could better pinpoint why that was the case for me.
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I have read through a lot of the reviews, and it seems that people either loved this book or found it disappointing. My husband and I both enjoyed it a lot. BUT, we both are willing to be entertained by a book, and willing to suspend some belief in order to enjoy just a good story without picking at it. We had read the previous books in the series and were looking forward to this one. It's the odd series, especially written by a woman, that my husband and I both enjoy, but this author is such a good story teller and literate writer that he gets as much enjoyment as I do from them.
I do feel I need to make this remark-the author herself makes the statement in the book that the story about the Yakuza is not accurate, and was changed to fit the story she wanted to tell. Someone's comment makes me believe they must have missed that.
As to Jilly being immature. Wasn't that the point? Her sister went to long lengths to keep it that way. She wanted to keep her innocent from the evils in the world as much as she could and as long as she could. That was why she wasn't to come to Japan....but, from the beginning to the end she starts to grow as a character and see the world as it really is around her-with all the harsh realities. At very first she sees it all as rather a lark with her shinning knight. By the end, even she has realized how terribly immature she has been. At least, that was our take, and we enjoyed it.
AS far as the windows being sealed-it was out in the desert-who was going to check them out-money buys anything you want....sealed windows would keep all the sand and heat from entering the pristine house. SOOOO much more important than safety, don't you know! (G).
I gave it 4 stars only because I couldn't give it 4.5 and I reserve 5 stars for really, really exceptional books, like the Rogue series by Jo Beverley.
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I have read a few books in this series and while I am always interested in the male leads, who are all fairly well crafted, intriguing characters. However, I almost always wonder what in the hell they see in the women, at least to some degree. Maybe being international spy/hit man/sex god just gets old and you want to settle down with a nice, normal, undersexed girl who for some reason is in the wrong place at the wrong time. This one however, was the worst pairing I have read in a long time. Loved the hero, he was truly fascinating and I think Stuart did a pretty good job with capturing Japanese culture. The heroine was supposed to be some genius, but I did not see one action of her's that lead me to believe that she was even functioning with half a brain. Being petulant is not a substitute for personality or romantic tension. But the sex was hot and the hero was able to carry my attention to the end so that saved it to some degree.
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