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Not My Best Idea
He had two weeks to get her back to Maine from Jackson Wyoming. She had other plans.
Nick Mancuso is flat broke after defending his ex-wife from a framed murder charge. To pay off his debts he’s headed to Jackson Wyoming to get rebel party girl Cassandra Rogers back to Maine and her place on the board of directors of the family company. He has two weeks.
But Cassandra has matured into a committed, gorgeous, and relentless protector of endangered species. She’s collected injured wolves from Yellowstone, orphaned bears from Montana, and monkeys stolen from an actor’s home. Also a couple of hired killers that want the compromising picture she has of the actor.
In this humorous, romantic thriller, Nick has Keep Casandra from getting killed, temper her crazy ideas, get her home to Maine by any means, while fighting the mutual attraction that could derail the whole project.
A little bit Carl Hiasson, a little bit Guy Ritche,
Nick Mancuso is flat broke after defending his ex-wife from a framed murder charge. To pay off his debts he’s headed to Jackson Wyoming to get rebel party girl Cassandra Rogers back to Maine and her place on the board of directors of the family company. He has two weeks.
But Cassandra has matured into a committed, gorgeous, and relentless protector of endangered species. She’s collected injured wolves from Yellowstone, orphaned bears from Montana, and monkeys stolen from an actor’s home. Also a couple of hired killers that want the compromising picture she has of the actor.
In this humorous, romantic thriller, Nick has Keep Casandra from getting killed, temper her crazy ideas, get her home to Maine by any means, while fighting the mutual attraction that could derail the whole project.
A little bit Carl Hiasson, a little bit Guy Ritche,
363 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2023
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May 21, 2023
This is an Action Comedy that takes readers from the ridiculous to the more ridiculous without pausing to catch our breaths. It is smoothly written, creatively conceived, and thoroughly enjoyable.
At the beginning the humour takes the stage, with most of it concentrated on the characters. It’s the style of story that starts with several separate groups of people and follows their paths until they intersect. During this part, the action moves slowly due to the necessary (and entertaining) character description.
Once the characters are up and running, the plotline takes over to get them thoroughly enmeshed in each other’s lives. This takes a fair amount of creativity as well, moving into “almost unbelievable” at times. But it’s comedy, so what the heck.
Then the characters all come to a crashing conflict with each other, and the action takes over. Once again, nobody wants the facts to get in the way of a good story (a trebuchet with a 70-foot arm is a star), and things really get going. Off the rails, as it happens.
Coincidence piles on top of a very loose sense of Geography (They fly across the whole of Europe and Asia in “several hours” in a two-engine Flying Boxcar) and characters switch alliances and personalities at the whim of the plot.
A Harrison Ford-Anne Heche-type winter-summer romance anchors the character arcs. These two characters are pretty much the only sane people in the whole story, so we bond closely with them. They’re not super realistic, but they’re great fun.
I haven’t had a better read in a long time.
At the beginning the humour takes the stage, with most of it concentrated on the characters. It’s the style of story that starts with several separate groups of people and follows their paths until they intersect. During this part, the action moves slowly due to the necessary (and entertaining) character description.
Once the characters are up and running, the plotline takes over to get them thoroughly enmeshed in each other’s lives. This takes a fair amount of creativity as well, moving into “almost unbelievable” at times. But it’s comedy, so what the heck.
Then the characters all come to a crashing conflict with each other, and the action takes over. Once again, nobody wants the facts to get in the way of a good story (a trebuchet with a 70-foot arm is a star), and things really get going. Off the rails, as it happens.
Coincidence piles on top of a very loose sense of Geography (They fly across the whole of Europe and Asia in “several hours” in a two-engine Flying Boxcar) and characters switch alliances and personalities at the whim of the plot.
A Harrison Ford-Anne Heche-type winter-summer romance anchors the character arcs. These two characters are pretty much the only sane people in the whole story, so we bond closely with them. They’re not super realistic, but they’re great fun.
I haven’t had a better read in a long time.
December 30, 2023
I was really enjoying this book until the last few chapters. It felt a little like the characters got lucky and then it just ended. Giving it three stars instead of four because of the last quarter of the book.
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