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Flight Risk
For Blayne Keller, being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to her - once she stops running for her life.
290 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2007
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Kim Baldwin
32 books240 followersKim has made her living as a writer for more than three decades, working as an Emmy-winning journalist in network news for twenty years before she began penning fiction. She resides in a national forest in Michigan, with few neighbors and a long drive to get to the nearest airport, movie theater, or ethnic restaurant. She never imagined herself a novelist, her first book, Hunter’s Pursuit, was written as a way to fight off cabin fever during a long winter and was sent off to a publisher at the encouragement of friends. The positive feedback she received from readers hooked her to continue writing more romantic lesbian adventures.
Travel is a major obsession. Kim first went to Europe at age fourteen, traveling with her parents on a five week excursion through a dozen countries. Four years later, she returned as part of a singing and dancing troupe, performing in town squares and castles and staying with local families.
The decades since have been filled with many more far-flung excursions... riding a camel at the Pyramids of Giza, crossing the U.N. green line at Cyprus, dogsledding above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, watching Paris awaken from atop Notre Dame Cathedral, motorcycling the Blue Ridge parkway, watching shuttles launch from a kayak near Cape Canaveral, skiing Whistler/Blackcomb, British Columbia, climbing Diamondhead in Hawaii. Her travels and journalism background provide great fodder for her novels. And her younger years in community theater have paid off in her new passion--narrating audiobooks.
Kim is a member of PAN (Published Author’s Network), Romance Writers of America, and the Rainbow Romance Writers, Chapter #217 of the RWA. She's also a 2008 Recipient of an Alice B. Readers Appreciation Award The Alice B. Medal: This award is given annually to living writers who have careers distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians. The award is given once, only, in appreciation of career achievement. (from the author's website)
Travel is a major obsession. Kim first went to Europe at age fourteen, traveling with her parents on a five week excursion through a dozen countries. Four years later, she returned as part of a singing and dancing troupe, performing in town squares and castles and staying with local families.
The decades since have been filled with many more far-flung excursions... riding a camel at the Pyramids of Giza, crossing the U.N. green line at Cyprus, dogsledding above the Arctic Circle in Alaska, watching Paris awaken from atop Notre Dame Cathedral, motorcycling the Blue Ridge parkway, watching shuttles launch from a kayak near Cape Canaveral, skiing Whistler/Blackcomb, British Columbia, climbing Diamondhead in Hawaii. Her travels and journalism background provide great fodder for her novels. And her younger years in community theater have paid off in her new passion--narrating audiobooks.
Kim is a member of PAN (Published Author’s Network), Romance Writers of America, and the Rainbow Romance Writers, Chapter #217 of the RWA. She's also a 2008 Recipient of an Alice B. Readers Appreciation Award The Alice B. Medal: This award is given annually to living writers who have careers distinguished by consistently well-written stories about lesbians. The award is given once, only, in appreciation of career achievement. (from the author's website)
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March 1, 2017
This book for me was annoying. It went on and on with nothing really happening between the main characters until the end and truly I never really felt any real chemistry between them.
Maybe it is a better book in paperback then as an audiobook because the narrator was weak for me really weak.
Rating 2.5 dumped up to 3 for effort
Maybe it is a better book in paperback then as an audiobook because the narrator was weak for me really weak.
Rating 2.5 dumped up to 3 for effort
March 4, 2017
I really wanted to like this book. Perhaps because I enjoyed Radclyffe’s “Honor Series” so much, the idea of a hot federal agent protecting a hot witness from constant danger sounded familiar and exciting, and I wanted to re-experience the discovery of Cameron and Blair through new characters and new adventures.
Alas, while the book started out well, my enjoyment was short lived. Two-thirds into the book I was getting annoyed, and by the long-awaited HEA in the final chapter I simply couldn’t wait for the book to end.
I’m a reader (well, a listener, really) not an author, and I respect the talent that goes into creating a world that can draw people in for a few hundred pages, or 6+ hours, and make us care about fictional people and their “lives”. That said, I will still offer two pieces of unsolicited advice that might help an author or two, and might be helpful to anyone considering spending ten hours listening to this book:
1) The real world has lots of eighty year old lonely cat ladies lamenting that they did not act on opportunities for companionship and love earlier in their lives. Please don’t keep creating 20something and 30something women who are going to spend most of the book heading into this direction. The “I don’t know how to do relationships” trope is okay to introduce a character, but I don’t enjoy a book that repeats it ad nauseum until you run out of ink and decide to suddenly write an ending where everything surprisingly works out just wonderfully.
2) Please look at reviews on Audible.com of books that your intended narrator has already worked on. I know I am going to get better at not buying books with terrible narrators regardless of how well the book itself has been reviewed. Hilarie Mukavitz is as annoying as many reviewers have said. I thought maybe her nasally voice was likeable to others, but looking through reviews I see I am far from alone at finding she distracts from wanting to get to know the characters.
“Flight Risk” started out as 4*, moved fairly quickly into my meh 3* category, and by the time it ended I think it’s a 2* book. Maybe 2.5, because some of the mob action is interesting, but I’ll round down to 2* because I still can’t get the narrator’s irritating voice out of my head.
Alas, while the book started out well, my enjoyment was short lived. Two-thirds into the book I was getting annoyed, and by the long-awaited HEA in the final chapter I simply couldn’t wait for the book to end.
I’m a reader (well, a listener, really) not an author, and I respect the talent that goes into creating a world that can draw people in for a few hundred pages, or 6+ hours, and make us care about fictional people and their “lives”. That said, I will still offer two pieces of unsolicited advice that might help an author or two, and might be helpful to anyone considering spending ten hours listening to this book:
1) The real world has lots of eighty year old lonely cat ladies lamenting that they did not act on opportunities for companionship and love earlier in their lives. Please don’t keep creating 20something and 30something women who are going to spend most of the book heading into this direction. The “I don’t know how to do relationships” trope is okay to introduce a character, but I don’t enjoy a book that repeats it ad nauseum until you run out of ink and decide to suddenly write an ending where everything surprisingly works out just wonderfully.
2) Please look at reviews on Audible.com of books that your intended narrator has already worked on. I know I am going to get better at not buying books with terrible narrators regardless of how well the book itself has been reviewed. Hilarie Mukavitz is as annoying as many reviewers have said. I thought maybe her nasally voice was likeable to others, but looking through reviews I see I am far from alone at finding she distracts from wanting to get to know the characters.
“Flight Risk” started out as 4*, moved fairly quickly into my meh 3* category, and by the time it ended I think it’s a 2* book. Maybe 2.5, because some of the mob action is interesting, but I’ll round down to 2* because I still can’t get the narrator’s irritating voice out of my head.
March 19, 2022
Flight Risk is an interesting book (I listened to Audible) of mystery and romance. Blayne and Alexi are thrown together in a life or death situation. They have a mutual attraction and it is evident. The two are in close quarters all the time and the back and forth changed the book for me. At first, the hard to get was cute. As it continued and continued it became unreal and at one point Alexi went totally out of character IMO. I turned off Audible and read two other books deciding if I would finish or cut my losses. I did finish. The book was well written. I was not drawn in by the narration which magnified my issues.
January 26, 2020
If there is an airplane on the cover of the book and it's called Flight Risk, I'm expecting an airplane to feature heavily into the story, not just being used for setup.
I like Kim Baldwins' books when they are about nature and nature loving people, but the trained assassin/secret service officer etc plotlines feel flat and badly researched. This is no exception. The witness security officer in this book behaves so unprofessionally and frankly unlikely that I wish for her to stand trial. Early on, when the main character tries to strike out on her own, I think she has the right idea. If this book had been about police brutality, I'd have bought it, but it's supposed to be sexy and romantic (I think?).
I like Kim Baldwins' books when they are about nature and nature loving people, but the trained assassin/secret service officer etc plotlines feel flat and badly researched. This is no exception. The witness security officer in this book behaves so unprofessionally and frankly unlikely that I wish for her to stand trial. Early on, when the main character tries to strike out on her own, I think she has the right idea. If this book had been about police brutality, I'd have bought it, but it's supposed to be sexy and romantic (I think?).
August 31, 2019
If you don't mind being patient to be teased by the sexual pressure from this book then this is definitely a good read however if you don't have that patience then this book will be annoying.
Overall, nice character potrayal and plot.
Overall, nice character potrayal and plot.
August 19, 2015
The story setup (woman witnesses Mafia hit and must go into witness protection) was okay, unfortunately the characters executing this story were absolutely awful. First, like most lesbian romance novels, each is exceedingly beautiful and one must also be mind numbingly beautiful, able to bed whomever she pleases, not "good at" relationships, and yet also incredibly rich and with no qualms about spending it loosely. So we have Blayne and Alexi, the witness and protector respectively. Apparently Alexi has a history of sleeping with her charges and feels she must never do it again, and Blayne, well, she spends most of the book alternating between being a flashing beacon for the mob and repeatedly sexually assaulting Alexi. The reader is "treated" to more than one scene of Blayne--in full lesbian Pepe Le Pew mode--grabbing/biting/kissing/etc Alexi, Alexi literally saying "No, please stop", and then Blayne responding "I don't care what you say, you want this." I really don't care that it's a romance novel, it's just weird and uncomfortable.
August 13, 2021
Blayne witnesses a murder and is put in WITSEC waiting to testify at the trial of a crime boss. But there is a leak on the federal level that ends Blayne and her Federal Marshal Alexi on the run. This is a thriller that kind of runs out of steam for me. The main story was fine but Blayne was more than annoying and Alexi wasn't much better. By the time the two got together I didn't care if there was a romance. Meh. (2007)
February 20, 2017
fantastic
wow this is a wonderfully written fast paced story i thoroughly enjoyed reading i could not put it down until the end
wow this is a wonderfully written fast paced story i thoroughly enjoyed reading i could not put it down until the end
June 15, 2017
I really enjoyed this novel by Kim Baldwin. I loved the action-packed sequences, that litterly had my heart racing. The chemistry between the two main characters was undeniable. Each time I thought something was going to happen between them it ended suddenly and I found myself letting out a frustrated sigh. It was definatley a book which I will re-read time and time again.
July 6, 2008
Weak characterizations, storyline way over the top, it all seemed very fabricated.
January 25, 2012
For some reason it won't let me rate the book...So: 3 stars, liked it.
October 1, 2014
Good adventure story. Not sure about the placement of the ending, though. Enjoyable read. Will read more by this author.
October 7, 2014
A lot of action and tension!
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