Dani Sinclair

Okay, so I was going to give this book a four out of five until I hit the last quarter of the book and there was a part where I went "WTF!" And this WTF moment just about ruined the book for me. Now I didn't have the highest expectations for this book but I always have hope and this book had been living up to it. Oh and it was WTF as in "normal falling in love story when they find a psychotic doctors is doing test on dead people he IMPORTED". That's right.... he imported them.

First there is show more some action and intrigue going on but not to much to overwhelm the "love" story between Drew and Brie (if you want to call it love, they spend more time wondering what the other wants out of the relationship to even think about love). Then there is a history between the two that makes the story have a little more depth. And finally, enough randomness to make this story crash and burn.

The good thing is that this was an easy read that kept me interested enough to finish it. And it had randomly showed up one day at my house in a care package from my mother, which means I'm not the one who bought it :) show less

Not bad. Pretty fluffy, of course - it doesn't really rise above a standard romance - but nicely presented of its type. Very good characterization, with action appropriate to the characters every time. One striking thing was the way it took the standard romance trope of wild attraction=true love and, without subverting it, made it just one aspect of their relationship. They were attracted, each knew the other was attracted, but they neither fell into bed nor ran screaming but integrated that show more fact into the total picture and considered the relationship as a whole. Nicely done. It was odd reading this, since I read the series backward - now I understand a bit better why the revelation at the end was such a big deal (lacking Marcus as an active character it seemed an overreaction). And I also knew, as Hayley didn't, what Marcus was spazzing about when she cut her hair. I need to read the other two again, in the right order this time. I've read The Third Twin at least twice and I think three times, but seeing Hayley's reaction to the Crossleys made some of the assumptions there make much more sense - and so on. Good romance, good romance series. Sinclair still isn't on my 'get everything' list, but she's back to being interesting. show less

Mmmm. Not wonderful. Actually, the mystery/adventure is fine - that works, it's not quite _reasonable_ but I can manage the suspension of disbelief. The romance is much less good. Actually, there's just one line that drove me nuts - they've got wild attraction, she's keeping away from him because he's Faye's (ex) husband - suddenly she stops and says to herself 'You are _not_ falling in love with him!'. First mention of 'love' - lots of attraction, but there was not even a previous mention show more that she doesn't sleep around or anything like that. An egregious reference to the standard romance trope of great sex/strong attraction (especially to the wrong person) = true love. After that comment, the romance proceeded as normal - attraction, attraction, attraction, sex, crisis, love admitted. But that one comment had destroyed it for me - made it too clearly a genre trope. Pity, it's a reasonably good mystery, but as a romance...no. I had Dani Sinclair on my 'good authors' list - I'm afraid I'm going to have to take her off. The last several of hers I've read have varied from poor to good, rather than from good to very good as I'd expected. Sigh. show less

I love it. I'm reading this series totally backward - I've had The Third Twin for years and read it several times. Now I've read this one and I understand a lot more (though I have to read Third Twin again to remember what it is I understand!). Now I really want the first book - The Firstborn. Excellent characters, staying true to their characterization throughout the book. A good story - two stories really, how Gavin and Leigh first encountered each other and then the present-day story. The show more villain is very nasty, and clearly out of his depth - which is a good thing, he's bad enough while flailing around, I'd hate to meet him when he was sure of his ground. It takes Gavin and Leigh a long time to get past their first meeting and deal with now - actually, it's really funny how they sort of overrun themselves. A kiss (or two, or three), then a proposal, then a discussion of how they're attracted, and finally admitting it's more than attraction - or at least more than wanting a fling. And the mysteries of Heartskeep add a nice fillip to the story as well. There are a lot of threads, each of which is interesting and all of which intertwine reasonably well. Good story, a lot of fun to read and one I'm going to reread. But not until I get Firstborn.
Reread, after reading Firstborn - yes, that definitely added. I understand a lot of (minor) points that I missed the first time through. It's really one story in three volumes - none of the three books is really complete without the other two (good, but not complete). Now I need to find The Third Twin. show less