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--Romantic Times
"A sexy, snappy roller coaster ride!"
--SUSAN ANDERSEN
Author of Baby, Don't Go
"[A] thrilling, mysterious, sexy read."
--STELLA CAMERON
Author of Tell Me Why
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Posing as the spoiled girlfriend of an international crimelord, Delanie Eastman braves a remote mountain in South America to find her missing sister. The last person she expects to see is Kyle Wright, the man she had a torrid affair with four years ago. What is he doing so far from home? Though frightened and suspicious of this man who is not what he seems, Delanie cannot resist the dangerous attraction that draws her ever closer to him like a moth to flame.
Kyle is in the middle of his own secret mission and he’s not about to let the gorgeous, unpredictable Delanie ruin his carefully laid plans. He will guide Delanie out of the jungle by any means necessary–including seduction. But just one touch is all it takes to rekindle the intoxicating flame that still burns between them, igniting an arsenal of desire that could cost them their lives. For soon both are on the run, playing a lethal game of . . .
HIDE AND SEEK
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2.0 out of 5 stars
She's no Tom Clancy,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hide and Seek (Mass Market Paperback)
I really enjoyed Cherry Adair's first effort Kiss and Tell, mostly because of the flirty and genuine interplay of Jake and Marnie. I liked that Marnie knew what she wanted and was willing to gently seduce the loner hero with her saucy sense of humor and loyal caring. Even when the cloak-and-dagger stuff stretched credulity, it was the likability of the two main characters that had you rooting for them, and Adair showed a wonderful flair for writing engaging teasing byplay. Unfortunately, this doesn't translate so well into her second effort. Kyle and Delanie, the hero and heroine of Hide and Seek, are so hostile to each other for the first half of the book that you don't see what their attraction is, to each other or to the reader. So what that they had amazing sex 4 years before in what amounted to an anonymous one night stand? They didn't seem to learn anything about each other enough to like, and as the whole first half of the book they both impersonate bad guys, you wonder at their taste. Furthermore, the whole drug kingpin adventure backdrop tends to overwhelm in this one, to the point where I just kept thinking Delanie was too dumb and naive to deserve to live. The extreme contrast between the goodies and the baddies is laughable -- Delanie is a kindergarten teacher, practically virgin, who takes on the burden of caring for her whole entire extended family, willing to risk certain death to save her sister (she woulda made a good nun); Kyle is such a genius that he skipped 8 years of school so that he could attend keggers in med school (he would have been, what? 14); and the villain is so evil, he is the richest drug overlord/terrorist/arms dealer/random murderer in the world with an incest thing for his mom and he's -- gasp! -- gay, as well. I mean, come on! Even Delanie's sister coming out alive at the end seemed a little ridiculous. I'm willing to suspend disbelief, but honestly, it was all too groaningly awful. Now Kiss and Tell had some of these problems too, but because the romance was center stage, and Jake and Marnie so engaging, all the shootin' and fightin' were less of an issue. Here, unfortunately, Kyle and Delanie aren't very likable and there's no sense of them knowing enough about each other to build any sort of long-lasting relationship. It seems like the only attraction is sex, and that gets pretty boring after a while. Despite this criticism, Cherry Adair has talent and when she focuses on the romantic interplay between the two main characters, she shines. So even though this one's a miss, I will still look forward to seeing her coming efforts.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed It All BUT The Ending !!,
By lizbeth star (Saratoga Springs, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hide and Seek (Mass Market Paperback)
I make it a point to read anything Ms. Adair writes as a rule and of course this book is no exception. Buy the book and read it. The story is very good. My only problem with it was the ending (sorry !!) I still love this writer and will forever buy anything she writes. I'm a huge fan !!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Why does Kyle become a manipulative idiot at the end?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hide and Seek (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm a big Cherry Adair fan, loved the first one and couldn't wait for the others. This book was very enjoyable until the last few chapters. Apparently Kyle and Delanie met four years before the action in this book takes place, and he relieved her of her virginity without bothering to use protection (or at least to ascertain that the incident did not have consequences). He had to take off on a long mission, so it seems he had no intention of starting anything with Delanie, who became pregnant as a result of their first encounter, and then miscarried. Not unnaturally, this was pretty traumatic for her. So what does Kyle do at the end of this book? He makes Delanie come after HIM, because she needs to prove to him how much she really cares. Any man who just assumes that it's OK for him to walk away from a one-nighter, but the woman has other obiligations, is a 24-carat jerk. AND he NEVER apologizes to her for having gone through the miscarriage by herself! It's also unclear whether or not he's been with other women since, but I would suspect that he has. Double-standards are standard in romance fiction, but this one is over the top. She gives him her virginity, loses his baby, has slept with no one else in FOUR years, AND she's supposed to come to South America to get him at the end? When the hero proves himself to be such a putz, it kind of throws off the whole happy ending thing.
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