Harlequin Enterprises/Harlequin Mini #1
Short Romantic Suspense
Short Thriller
eBook
Rating: 3.5
Sarah Greenberg loved being on the SWAT Team, but her particular duties left her cold, longing for a little more action. Well, be careful what you wish for or you might get it. When a typical trip to the bank to deposit a paycheck gets interrupted by a bank robbery, Sarah suddenly has all the action she could hope for over the next 24 Hours when she is held hostage with former love of her life, Ray Maitland at her side. Now these two must overcome past heart breaks to work together to take down the thieves, and maybe discovering their love never really died after all.
24 Hours was a nice introduction to author Kay David’s work. For a few years, I’ve eyed her books in the stores and online, debating buying, some of which I did, though I have never managed to get around to reading them. This short story gave me an opportunity to test the waters so to speak, and decide that I probably want to move David’s works up on my stack of books to read. I’m amazed at how much she managed to squeeze into a short story like this. IN only a few pages we find out so much history about Sarah and Ray, leading them to the people they are today. Considering almost the entire story occurs inside a bank during a hold up, there is a lot of action packed in as well.
I did have a couple issues with 24 Hours however. Every single chapter had Sarah’s name written instead of Ray’s at least once, which got very distracting, especially when I read about “Sarah” (Ray) doing this and that to Sarah or about Sarah. While that is the editor’s job to catch such mistakes and not the author’s, I feel it was significant enough of an error to justify mentioning it here. I had difficulty suspending belief enough to accept a couple parts of the story. I can’t mention them here as they happen towards the end of the story and I don’t want to give anything away, but there were some things Sarah did that I cannot believe a properly trained and responsible SWAT Team member would do during a crisis, even one where she is the victim rather than the rescue. IN spite of these couple problems however, I did enjoy 24 Hours enough that it makes me want to see if I can’t read more of Kay David’s work a little sooner.
© Kelley A. Hartsell, December 2007. All rights reserved.
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Elevators..
Wow, REALLY good review Kelley, you must ask me some day about an elevator ride that Kay and I shared in New Orleans at the Romance Writer's conference.
Jayne
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FF - this is supposed to be
FF - this is supposed to be a blog entry and not a book review since it's just a mini. it's not long enough to count as a book towards the challenge. I need to read seveal before i can count them. but I review them fr my website so I posted them as ablog entry. once I have enough to equal one book I'll post something as a book review including all of them.
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Jayne and elevators
Thanks Jayne for the compliment on the review.
ooohhh! I want to hear the story!!! Tell me tell me please!
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O-o
Sorry then. I thought you made a false maneuver.
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