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Over the Edge
Over The Edge by Jeanie London released on Oct 24, 2003 is available now for purchase.
- GenresHarlequin Blaze
256 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
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Jeanie London
76 books12 followersJeanie London has had a head filled with characters for as long as she can remember. She completed her very first novel when she was just eleven--200 handwritten pages spanning several composition notebooks. School years were spent sneaking romances into school when she should have been learning algebra and biology. College years were spent taking all sorts of electives, like journalism and fiction writing classes, when she should have been taking algebra and biology. Nowadays, Jeanie is still reading and writing romances because she believes in happily-ever-afters. Not the "love conquers all" kind, but the "two people love each other, so they can conquer anything" kind.
Visit Jeanie at http://www.jeanielondon.com. She's very social and loves to meet others who believe in happily ever afters, too.
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December 21, 2018
DNF
This book had an interesting premise, it just didn't hold up. I don't understand the heroine's actions in regards to her first "meeting" with Jake. Got about 100 pages in before calling it quits.
This book had an interesting premise, it just didn't hold up. I don't understand the heroine's actions in regards to her first "meeting" with Jake. Got about 100 pages in before calling it quits.
November 9, 2024
Ten years ago, 16-year-old Mallory Hunt was like the lookout for her father's gang of safecrackers. When Jake Trinity showed up unexpectedly at the place they were robbing, she tried to stall him with a mind-blowing kiss. However, an alarm was tripped and her father went to jail for four years.
In the present time, neither Jake or Mallory has been able to get the other out of their mind. (Kind of a bit creepy on Jake's part since Mallory was underage at the time.) He hires her to test the security system he has developed for weaknesses (that's her line of work now). He blames her involvement in that theft for him losing his job at the company. (Why? He's gone on to become a millionaire developer anyway.) Mallory takes on the job to get revenge (I'm really not sure what she had in mind) on Jake, believing he's the one who set off the alarm that got her father caught. They're smoking hot together. Jake wants an "us", but Mallory is a confounding, unreasonable hot mess, which makes it difficult.
This was alternately stupid, icky and boring. It was strange.
The stupid: As pointed out above. Mallory's "plan" is utterly bizarre. Something about making Jake fall for her and then dumping him. I think? Their first meeting over Mallory taking Jake's job offer involves Mallory taking Jake into her bathroom, stripping naked in front of him and taking a shower. (Then they have sex.)
What. The. Fuck.
Mallory's motives are all over the shop and don't make any sense. Then there is her constant carry-on about Jake committing the "crime" of tripping that alarm. YOU AND YOUR FATHER WERE RIPPING OF THE JOINT, MALLORY. YOU WERE COMMITTING A CRIME, NOT JAKE. She really harps on about it to the point that the reader just wants to shake her. Yes, it sucks your dad went to jail, Mallory, but that's the risk that comes with breaking into businesses to rob them. This experience apparently justifies Mallory not letting anybody close to her. I just thought she was an obstinate nutcase.
The icky: Ugh, so much ick. Jake has spent ten years dreaming over his kiss with an underage girl. Mallory's father calls her "babe". He sticks his nose into her love life to the point where he feels like an obsessed suitor, not a father concerned about his daughter's complete lack of reasoning skills. Mallory's father and Jake's parents keep telling them that they want them to give them grandchildren.
The boring: I couldn't get a handle on the romance because Mallory's conflict was basically that she was an idiot. Jake was too perfect to be realistic. I didn't get his conflict other than, I suppose, "Mallory is nuts, but she's hot." I simply wasn't invested in what developed between them. The details about breaking into places and testing security systems were a snore. They were alternately vague and too descriptive, which was an odd combination.
I like the now long defunct Blaze line because they are more realistic sexy romances, replacing Mediterranean billionaires with your more standard every-day guy. Well, they're usually a bit rich, but I don't want to read about a hero who's a meth-head, do I? Despite hot sex scenes, this one didn't hit the spot.
In the present time, neither Jake or Mallory has been able to get the other out of their mind. (Kind of a bit creepy on Jake's part since Mallory was underage at the time.) He hires her to test the security system he has developed for weaknesses (that's her line of work now). He blames her involvement in that theft for him losing his job at the company. (Why? He's gone on to become a millionaire developer anyway.) Mallory takes on the job to get revenge (I'm really not sure what she had in mind) on Jake, believing he's the one who set off the alarm that got her father caught. They're smoking hot together. Jake wants an "us", but Mallory is a confounding, unreasonable hot mess, which makes it difficult.
This was alternately stupid, icky and boring. It was strange.
The stupid: As pointed out above. Mallory's "plan" is utterly bizarre. Something about making Jake fall for her and then dumping him. I think? Their first meeting over Mallory taking Jake's job offer involves Mallory taking Jake into her bathroom, stripping naked in front of him and taking a shower. (Then they have sex.)
What. The. Fuck.
Mallory's motives are all over the shop and don't make any sense. Then there is her constant carry-on about Jake committing the "crime" of tripping that alarm. YOU AND YOUR FATHER WERE RIPPING OF THE JOINT, MALLORY. YOU WERE COMMITTING A CRIME, NOT JAKE. She really harps on about it to the point that the reader just wants to shake her. Yes, it sucks your dad went to jail, Mallory, but that's the risk that comes with breaking into businesses to rob them. This experience apparently justifies Mallory not letting anybody close to her. I just thought she was an obstinate nutcase.
The icky: Ugh, so much ick. Jake has spent ten years dreaming over his kiss with an underage girl. Mallory's father calls her "babe". He sticks his nose into her love life to the point where he feels like an obsessed suitor, not a father concerned about his daughter's complete lack of reasoning skills. Mallory's father and Jake's parents keep telling them that they want them to give them grandchildren.
The boring: I couldn't get a handle on the romance because Mallory's conflict was basically that she was an idiot. Jake was too perfect to be realistic. I didn't get his conflict other than, I suppose, "Mallory is nuts, but she's hot." I simply wasn't invested in what developed between them. The details about breaking into places and testing security systems were a snore. They were alternately vague and too descriptive, which was an odd combination.
I like the now long defunct Blaze line because they are more realistic sexy romances, replacing Mediterranean billionaires with your more standard every-day guy. Well, they're usually a bit rich, but I don't want to read about a hero who's a meth-head, do I? Despite hot sex scenes, this one didn't hit the spot.
July 20, 2011
Over The Edge
by Jeanie London
I dont know if i got words for this one.
It was nothing like i thought it was going to be.But in a good way
You know sometimes you just know whats going to happen.Well in this story is thosed all that to the side.
This is a very hot Sexy story
It's a hot mistry.They go in thinking they know what happend years ago.Then find out something else all together. They make everything into a challenge,And as a reader i just love it!!
This book is HOT!!
Happy Reading
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