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Summary: A fantastic action-packed read!
Review: A FOREVER KIND OF HERO is a fast-paced read that will have on your toes and ready to jump into a shower to cool off. It is great read worthy of your time and money.
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Summary: He might be the forever kind but she certainly isn't.
Review: This book, like just about every Marie Ferrarella book I've read (and the Childfinder's Inc. series in particular), has one major weakness, a heroine who thinks she is always right, flaunts or downright breaks laws (in this case), disregards her own and everyone else's around her safety, and just creates the urge to either slap or shake her with almost every new idiocy.I do enjoy most of Ms. Ferrarella's book and while the greater majority of her heroines do have the same holier-than-thou, smarter-than-everyone-else trait to some degree as displayed by the heroine in this book, this book's heroine has it far worse that most. This book is the only Childfinder's Inc. book that I will NOT be keeping as I just can't gut reading it again. This book committed two major sins in my eyes for a romance. First, there was absolutely no chemistry whatsoever between the characters that I could discern, hence no romance, actually a surprise in a Ferrarella book; and second, there was no real insight into either character, but most especially the hero. What little there was was very woodenly presented and either went nowhere or fell flat. Our heroine, Megan Andreini, is a former FBI agent and current investigator with Childfinder's, Inc. How this woman ever supposedly made it through 4 years with the FBI with her attitude and lack of common sense is just one of many major suspensions of belief you have to maintain to get through this book unless you just decide she must have been the footstool to a typist in some steno pool buried deep in the dead files area. Anyways, her current case is searching for a missing 14-year old girl which brings her into contact with our hero, Garrett Wichita, a DEA agent who is pursuing a drug dealer. While viewing surveillance tapes of the drug dealer during a stakeout, he notices a young girl with the dealer, who he finds, after some research, is a missing 14-year old by the name of Kathy Teasdale; the same girl Megan is looking for. Garrett shows up, conveniently, on the same day and at the same time Megan just happens to be interviewing the Teasdales about their missing daughter. While Garrett is questioning the Teasdales, Megan displays an amazing amount of information about the drug dealer that she blurts to the Teasdales while at the same time trying to downplay any danger whatsoever to the missing girl that being in the company of the drug dealer might bring. Of course, our irritating little terrier of an investigator decides to follow our intrepid hero deciding that he should help her find the missing girl while basically ignoring the DEA's case against the drug dealer and the need to apprehend him. Planting a tracking device, withholding information, contacting the parents of the child with positive, cheerful information that she has no way of backing up or business discussing with them in the first place, and displaying a very unappetizing smugness and uncalled for air of superiority during the story, our heroine dogs Garrett's trail and then eventually winds up "teaming up" with him. Of course, they have sex (obviously just so they can since there is no chemistry), they eventually find the girl and the drug dealer, rescue her, take him down and live happily ever after. What really just continues to annoy me is that (a) the hero didn't have her arrested for hindering prosecution; (b) the other DEA agents didn't arrest her either and accepted her with no questions; (c) a civilian was allowed to threaten a doctor in a public hospital with a gun AND was thought well of by our hero's partner (and the hero after he found out); and (d) the hero fell in love with this annoying twit. I just cannot recommend this book as it is a very low point in an otherwise good series.
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