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Summary: exhilarating romantic suspense
Review: On Labor Day in a New York City office building containing international leader Ruisseau Fragrance Corporation, an unknown assailant shoots CEO Carson Brooks. The only other person in the complex on this holiday is the company's corporate attorney Dylan Newport. Luckily, he was coming to see Carson so he is able to call 911 and save the life of the man who has been more of a father to him than he is his employer.As he lies near death, Carson asks Dylan to learn whether he ever became a father when he donated his seed in an article insemination case almost three decades ago. Dylan carries out his mentor's request because he knows Carson needs a kidney transplant to live as his wound has caused renal failure. He learns that Carson sired a daughter, Sabrina Radcliffe, CEO of the center for Creative Thinking and Leadership. NYPD suspect Dylan as the most likely felon. Meanwhile, he persuades Sabrina to meet Carson. As Sabrina and Dylan fall in love, he knows a killer remains on the loose, but cannot fathom the motive unless it is the product C'est Moi that owns the perfume world. SCENT OF DANGER is an exhilarating romantic suspense combines a love story, a relationship drama, and a police procedural into a delightful tale. The prime focus is more on the impact of Carson's shooting on people in his sphere of influence including his "newly" found family than on the romance. Though the police especially the "bad" cop seem stereotyped, readers will relish this fast-paced tale starring delightful lead characters. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Too good to be true...
Review: Romance stories are in some way like fairy tales, readers want perfect characters and practically DEMAND happy endings. That's probably why we read them, to escape from the harsh and none-too-perfect realities. Having said that, I think this book is a little too neat, a little to perfect from even my starry-eyed point of view. Everyone is beautiful, smart and next-to-perfect and there was not one single person I could relate to. Sabrina and Carson immediately bond with each other and the father/daughter relationship is unrealistic. Superior genes and heredity pop up so often that you wonder if people with less perfect genes should give up reproducing altogether. The love story between Dylan and Sabrina is so abrupt that it's more like an affair. Also, people with that big a workload cannot spend that much time all over each other. Even in fiction...:)
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Summary: Mediocre
Review: This book is not really bad, but neither is it very good. Once the plot was established, the story seemed to drag through the rest of the book. Go ahead and read it if you are an Andrea Kane fan, but don't expect too much.
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Summary: Hoping it was better...
Review: This book was so boring I couldn't get through it. The plot moved far too slowly, and we were given lots of detailed prose about aspects of the story that weren't very interesting. Normally romantic thrillers are lacking in either the romance department or the thriller department. This book was lacking in both. The main characters were two-dimensional. Instead of letting us get inside the characters and learn who they really were, we were just given the cut-and-dried facts about their pasts. The author apparently expected us to assume things about the characters from their backgrounds. As a result, I didn't care about either of the main characters, or about what was going to happen to them. Sabrina and Dylan had absolutely no chemistry!! If you hadn't known this was a romance, you wouldn't have known that they were supposed to be attracted to each other. So even though their first kiss came very late in the book, it still seemed premature, because up to that point neither character had had a single romantic thought about the other. As far as the "thriller," it was boring. I couldn't have cared less who shot Carson Brooks. Again, without any insight into his character, I had no feelings about him one way or the other. Also, the author used this irritating technique of giving information about the characters through lengthy stretches of dialogue. The dialogue ended up seeming contrived and unrealistic as a result. Sorry that I spent ${munnies}on this poorly written book.
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Summary: Boring and flat.
Review: This book was so boring I couldn't get through it. The plot moved far too slowly, and we were given lots of detailed prose about aspects of the story that weren't very interesting. Normally romantic thrillers are lacking in either the romance department or the thriller department. This book was lacking in both. The main characters were two-dimensional. Instead of letting us get inside the characters and learn who they really were, we were just given the cut-and-dried facts about their pasts. The author apparently expected us to assume things about the characters from their backgrounds. As a result, I didn't care about either of the main characters, or about what was going to happen to them. Sabrina and Dylan had absolutely no chemistry!! If you hadn't known this was a romance, you wouldn't have known that they were supposed to be attracted to each other. So even though their first kiss came very late in the book, it still seemed premature, because up to that point neither character had had a single romantic thought about the other. As far as the "thriller," it was boring. I couldn't have cared less who shot Carson Brooks. Again, without any insight into his character, I had no feelings about him one way or the other. Also, the author used this irritating technique of giving information about the characters through lengthy stretches of dialogue. The dialogue ended up seeming contrived and unrealistic as a result. Sorry that I spent on this poorly written book.
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Summary: Not as good as other
Review: This books is not as good as I thought it would be. It lacks both romance and suspense. First of all, the relationship between Sabrina and Dylan is too abrupt. They went through half of the book without so much as a kiss or a romantic thought about each other, yet all of a sudden, they can't keep their hands off each other and fell madly in love. Doesn't seem real. In addition, there was really not much suspense in it. Too much focus on the characters' dialogues instead of action. I also felt that Dylan's character was overshadow by Carson Brook's in every way, from looks to power. Is it suppose to be like that? Either way, I didn't like that. After all, Dylan is suppose to be the leading male character and should be better. Also, the characters are too Two-dimensional. All in all, this book was a little disappointing. Though usually I really like Andrea Kane's books. If you haven't read No Way Out, try that. That one is a lot better.
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Summary: Scent of Danger tantalizes but fails to rouse
Review: This hefty tome of a romantic suspense veers into territories of unbelievable denouements and twists. When revolutionary perfume manufacturer Carson Brooks is shot, Detective Whitman and Barton immediately suspects his protege sans attorney Dylan Newport but his unwavering loyalty proves otherwise. He helps to locate his secret daughter Sabrina Radcliffe, conceived out of an insemination initiated by her mother. An organ donation to Brooks is impending to save his life. Within days, Sabrina acknowledges her father and is bestowed the secret to Brook's fragrance. She is ushered in as the president of Ruisseau Corporations. While things heat up between Dylan and her, danger lurks when a murderer slays off a co-worker and makes attempts on her life. It is fortunate that Andrea Kane's romantic thriller sculpts her character with definition and dimension but the disappointment sets in with her lack of exploration and continual throwing of red herrings to distract readers. Scent of Danger ends up being unsatisfying on both elements although the romance fared slightly better. It tantalizes but lacks the power to sustain and rouse.
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Summary: Very Good Read
Review: This is the kind of book you think you have all the characters figured out (who done it) and then you find later on they are eliminated. The story between the main characters, Sabrina and Dylan, ... keeps your interest throughout the book. The overall story line of a child from a sperm bank finding out who her father is and without any hesitation accepts this father, is alittle hard to accept. However, the overall suspense is worth the read. This is a great book to think you have all the answers, who did what to whom, and then you are pleasantly surprised. The only thing I would change would be to go into more detail about why the villian does what they did, i.e. attempted murder, murder, arson, etc. I can't wait for the next Andrea Kane mystery.
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Summary: A good romance.
Review: This romantic suspense novel is sufficiently shallow to be a best selling novel. That said, the author does a good job of engaging interest in the characters and the actions that bring them all together. The head of a perfume company, Carson Brooks, was contracted 28 years ago to provide sperm to a rich feminist who wanted a child with no strings attached. Brooks used the payoff to start his highly successful perfume company. The rich feminist had her child, a daughter, who grew up to run a management consulting company. Now, as the result of an attempted murder, Brooks is in need of a kidney transplant and his birth daughter offers the best hope of a match. This is where things begin to be just too good to be true: the birth daughter, Sabrina Radcliffe, immediately embraces her birth father's need for a transplant and offers her kidney. There's a reason WHY many 'reunions' fail on first attempt; shock, the need to come to terms with the idea of a new individual who is intimately connected to your existing life.... Etc. But this story has the heroine immediately bouncing into a new relationship with her birth father with no reflective repercussions. She also immediately falls in love with her father's attorney, Dylan Newport. Story concludes with all the loose threads nicely tidied up. An absorbing romantic read with all the stock characteristics!
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Summary: A good romance.
Review: This romantic suspense novel is sufficiently shallow to be a best selling novel. That said, the author does a good job of engaging interest in the characters and the actions that bring them all together. The head of a perfume company, Carson Brooks, was contracted 28 years ago to provide sperm to a rich feminist who wanted a child with no strings attached. Brooks used the payoff to start his highly successful perfume company. The rich feminist had her child, a daughter, who grew up to run a management consulting company. Now, as the result of an attempted murder, Brooks is in need of a kidney transplant and his birth daughter offers the best hope of a match. This is where things begin to be just too good to be true: the birth daughter, Sabrina Radcliffe, immediately embraces her birth father's need for a transplant and offers her kidney. There's a reason WHY many 'reunions' fail on first attempt; shock, the need to come to terms with the idea of a new individual who is intimately connected to your existing life.... Etc. But this story has the heroine immediately bouncing into a new relationship with her birth father with no reflective repercussions. She also immediately falls in love with her father's attorney, Dylan Newport. Story concludes with all the loose threads nicely tidied up. An absorbing romantic read with all the stock characteristics!
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