Overnight Male

OPUS #3

by Elizabeth Bevarly

In the world of international espionage, Lila Moreau is as tough as they come. But now she's ready to trade her secret double life for domestic bliss. That is, after she takes care of one last vendetta - to bring in rogue agent Adrian Padgett before he unleashes disaster.

Genres: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Suspense

328 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and earned her BA with honors in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she can’t recall ever wanting to be anything but a novelist-oh, all right, she toyed briefly with becoming an archaeologist, until she realized how awful she looked in khaki and flannel, and there was a brief fling with the interior decorator thing, until she realized she had trouble distinguishing chintz from moiré, and… (Where was I? Oh, yeah. My brilliant career.) Anyway, her career side trips before making the leap to writing included stints working as a bartender, a waitress, a movie theater cashier, a soap-hawker for Crabtree & Evelyn, an apparel-hawker for The Limited, and a bridal registry consultant for a major department store. She also did time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) which, with any luck at all, she will never use again in this life.

She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it “Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!” Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more.

Since sixth grade, Elizabeth has gone on to complete more than 60 works of contemporary romance. Her novels regularly appear on the USA Today and Waldenbooks bestseller lists, and The Thing About Men was a New York Times Extended List bestseller. She’s been nominated for the prestigious RITA Award, has won the coveted National Readers’ Choice Award, and Romantic Times magazine has seen fit to honor her with two-count ‘em TWO-Career Achievement Awards. Her books have been translated into two dozen languages and published in three dozen countries, and there are more than ten million copies in print worldwide. She has claimed as residences Washington, DC, northern Virginia, southern New Jersey and Puerto Rico, but she now resides back in her native Kentucky with her husband and son and two very troubled cats where she fully intends to remain.

Reviews

[jenjn79 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Rating: 2.5 / 5

This will be a shorter review than I normally write because I just can't think of much to say about this book. It didn't grab me and mostly just bored me.

Overnight Male is the long-awaited third and last book in Elizabeth Bevarly's OPUS series. This one features the mysterious Lila Moreau. Lila is a total hardcore loner bad-ass with a reputation as a kick-ass secret agent. For years she, and the rest of OPUS, have been trying to capture Adrian Padgett, a former OPUS agent who turned bad. With her regular partner off preparing for his wedding, Lila teams up with Joel Faraday to finally bring Adrian in. She just wants to get the job done and get on with her solitary life. What she hadn't expected was the attraction and attachment that develops between her and Joel or the strange twist the case takes.

I don't know what it was about this book. It just didn't grab my attention very much. The first 150 pages were rather boring and dull. I didn't feel the chemistry between Joel and Lila and personally didn't really like Lila all that much. She's too stand-offish and too set on being the original bad ass. I never connected with her once during the entire story. Bevarly tries to soften her up near the end, but it didn't work for me. So I just never invested myself in these two. Plus, there's something about Bevarly's writing that's kind of...bland. That didn't help the readability either.

The most interesting part of the book were the parts with Adrian and the relationship that developed between him and Iris. I actually wouldn't have minded if the whole book had been about them. But even so...I thought the way Adrian's situation was resolved was really kinda lame. It didn't fit the way his story was built over three books. And it made the ending rather anti-climatic.

And that's all I can think to say. I was just glad to finish this one. For those of you've who've read the other books in the series, you'll probably still want to read this one to close out the continuing storylines. But if you're just considering this book or series, well, there are a lot more interesting books out there to read.

[Louisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an utter delight to read, I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and seeing how the series wrapped up!

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review will seem familiar because the same review will go for every book in this series, and that's not a bad thing. It was a fun and fast read. I would recommend to anyone who was looking for something that didn't require a lot of thought. It was cute and worth a beach read or a rainy day read to fill your time. I am giving it a two star even thought I would like to give it a two and half star because even though the book wasn't very deep it was still greatly entertaining.

[Kimberly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was just ok... I wasn't to keen on the characters. Lila is a kick butt kinda women rethinking her life.. sure I get that but the one she falls for Joel is a wuss... Yes he is supposed to be the geek part of the partnership but come on he gets kidnapped by 3 geeks who biggest activity is playing video games and in another instance he fights one man while Lila has to save him and get the other two or rescue him from the kidnapping... come on didn't he go thru spy training too???

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Final in the series. Okay ending, but not my favorite series of books. They all took me longer to read than most other books. I just couldn't get into the books so much. Sometimes it seems as though too much time is spent describing the scenery and it doesn't really add to the book.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

The finale book for the OPUS series, this continues the story of Lila Moreau, super agent. Fun story, but you should read the rest of the series before this one.

[Ann (Noumena12) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this fun series!

[Sylvia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Modern

[Santha]

didn't finish it...couldn't really get into it.

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a satisfying if slightly sappy ending for all of the characters in the OPUS series. But in the end it is more romance novel than spy thriller, so that's okay.

[ChampagneL8T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good mystery Hot romance.

[Mary Pat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Far out espionage, at least I hope it is far out