Daniel Thacker
S524 Review for Romantic Suspense
Citation:
Author: Linda Howard
Title: Open Season
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Publication Date: 2002
Number of Pages: 337
Geographical Setting:
It was a town in Alabama of 9,000 people. They had to go to Huntsville for any real
shopping or to a professional hairdresser.
Time Period: Present
Series (If applicable):
Wikipedia has it as a single novel but one of the bad guys, Skyes, does a
deal with the police and gets probation and at the end he is back in town and
talking to a another character from the book. This is how the book ends but it
appears to have stopped there. This was
also commented on in reviews and everybody thinks it is strange.
Plot Summary: Daisy Minor has just turned 34. She is a librarian, never had a real kiss and
is being bugged by Jack Russo, a badass cop from New York SWAT who has become
the police chief of her small town.
Daisy decided to take control of her life and live a little crazy. She
unknowingly witnesses a murder and finds herself knee deep in a prostitution
and human trafficking ring. Together
Jack and Daisy bring down the bad guys and Daisy explores new ways to enjoy her
life.
Subject Headings:
Murder--Investigation--Fiction. Women librarians--Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction.
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: Funny, suspenseful and saucy (in a few
places)
Similar Authors and Works (why are they similar?):
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors:
Sandra Hill Down and
Dirty – because Eastofoz from Goodreads really liked Open Season for all the
reasons why I liked it and she suggested Sandra Hill. Also in this story you have this Navy SEAL
who is put in strange situation; he has to train SEAL-like programs to
females. Together they get down and
dirty while saving the world from bad guys.
It sounds just like Open Season but this one looks to have a lot more
sex. The cover has a shirtless man on a
beach with a gun.
One Summer by Karen Robards
It is another funny romance that puts a woman and man together against all
odds while a new relationship unfolds between them.
Thread of Fear by Laura Griffin – Same old same old. A successful murder profiler is getting out
of the business because she is too good and can’t take the pressure. However (another) Jack needs her powers to
stop a ruthless killer. Sounds pretty
good!
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
The Psychology Of A Broken Heart: An Essay On Romantic Love
by Streit, Gary. Isn’t this relative to
just about everybody?
What Love Asks of Us: Solutions To the Challenge of Making
Love Work by Nathaniel Branden and Devers Branden
Isn’t this what we all want?
World's Greatest Lovers, Margaret Nicholas. Margaret Nicholas does a series on world’s greatest-you-fill-in-the-blank. Here she marks the world’s greatest lovers
like playboys, royal romances, courtesans and stage and screen lovers. Sounds pretty good as well!
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