However, Ice Blue does get an award: the shock-and-awe award. I may have passed out at one point from laughing so hard. In fact, scenes that were supposed to be sensual or erotic were rendered purely comedic fodder because of some really, really painful dialogue.

But I could do without the “sexy talk” (it was not sexy). Well, I’m sure on a scale of hot to…hotter, they fell somewhere in there. There was a bald, fat, crazy albino man trying to destroy the earth, and a potentially murderous hero, but that just doesn’t scream thriller to me. I was told, several times, that Summer was in love with Takashi (God knows why…), and it was implied that he loved her as well, but that supposed love wasn’t really demonstrated.Īs well, though this was being sold as a romance-thriller, it seriously lacked the thriller edge for me. I wasn’t persuaded that they were really great together. As well, I just didn’t believe them as a couple. We’re supposed to be wooed that he felt compelled not to kill her, but the very fact that he started to several times kind of negated that wooed feeling for me. He put his hands around her neck to strangle her multiple times, and held her underwater in her hot tub. I mean, besides the obvious reason, which was that Takashi was ready to kill Summer at the drop of the hat.

The bad: the whole point of a romance novel is to convince the audience that the two main characters are meant to be together. It wasn’t difficult to get through, that’s for sure. No one can say she’s not a talented writer. So this was another loaner, and while it wasn’t exactly a horrible book, it was really quite…laughable. Everybody. Especially the woman who is getting dangerously under his skin as the lethal game crosses the Pacific to the remote and beautiful mountains of Japan, where the truth can be as seductive as it is deadly. It’s a desperate situation, and international operative Takashi O’Brien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value - until somebody tried to kill her for it. The Truth About Delilah Blue - Tish Cohen

Ice blue by anne stuart