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Smoothie
Nothing much ever happens to Heather, until the day she’s innocently minding her own business when a bomb goes off – and she’s precipitated into the kind of adventure which in her world only happens to people on TV! Thankfully she’s about as prepared and resourceful as a girl can be, because all of a sudden she’s in the middle of a road movie along with an extraordinary woman named Natalie – the two of them running for their lives into and out of a mess of complicated situations in which nobody is ever quite what he or she might appear to be …
56000 words/204 pages
56000 words/204 pages
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First published August 1, 2015
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Jane Elliot
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August 11, 2015
Jane Elliot’s Heather George is a heroine I can relate to, at least on some levels. I’m not the only one, it seems, who has spent idle minutes (or hours) wondering how I’d cobble together weapons from household goods during the zombie apocalypse or, marginally more likely, how I would hide/arm myself/survive an assault from a disgruntled customer or employee while working at the bank or the public service. (Shut up.)
Heather is clever, funny and imaginative, though riven with social anxiety and plagued with doubt about her attractiveness. She is inexperienced in both love and sex, but she knows a hot gal when she sees one: and she sees one in Natalie, the woman who has kind-of car-napped her after a car bomb in Miami nearly kills them both.
Once caught in Natalie’s orbit, Heather is forced along for the ride, given that the people trying to kill Natalie are happy to take pot shots at both of them. Natalie does her best to protect the innocent-ish bystander, but Heather’s resourcefulness saves them just as often as Natalie’s street sense.
Elliot manages the sometimes difficult task of giving us Heather’s first person narrative, full of self doubt, while also making it clear that Natalie thinks Heather is pretty hot stuff – even if Heather mostly misses those signals.
Perhaps it’s inevitable that narrator Heather ends up a more fully realised personality than Natalie. Later characters are also colourful without really having Heather’s depth and the villains are lacking much detail at all – but these are issues mostly noticed after you’ve finished reading, because Smoothie keeps you tumbling along the fast-paced story too quickly to notice the lack.
It’s not a huge lack, though. Heather is great, the supporting cast are mostly huge fun, and Smoothie is a rollicking good adventure of a love story.
Heather is clever, funny and imaginative, though riven with social anxiety and plagued with doubt about her attractiveness. She is inexperienced in both love and sex, but she knows a hot gal when she sees one: and she sees one in Natalie, the woman who has kind-of car-napped her after a car bomb in Miami nearly kills them both.
Once caught in Natalie’s orbit, Heather is forced along for the ride, given that the people trying to kill Natalie are happy to take pot shots at both of them. Natalie does her best to protect the innocent-ish bystander, but Heather’s resourcefulness saves them just as often as Natalie’s street sense.
Elliot manages the sometimes difficult task of giving us Heather’s first person narrative, full of self doubt, while also making it clear that Natalie thinks Heather is pretty hot stuff – even if Heather mostly misses those signals.
Perhaps it’s inevitable that narrator Heather ends up a more fully realised personality than Natalie. Later characters are also colourful without really having Heather’s depth and the villains are lacking much detail at all – but these are issues mostly noticed after you’ve finished reading, because Smoothie keeps you tumbling along the fast-paced story too quickly to notice the lack.
It’s not a huge lack, though. Heather is great, the supporting cast are mostly huge fun, and Smoothie is a rollicking good adventure of a love story.
December 15, 2015
Smoothie by Jane Elliot: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwid... 2015 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)
September 17, 2015
I always enjoy a good girl-on-girl book, but SMOOTHIE surprised me first by not being the typical lesbian romance book I expected and second by how much I loved it.
Heather George is minding her own business, simply wanting a smoothie, when a car bomb goes off and changes the course of her life forever. Thrown into the trunk of her own car by a tall, lithe woman, this is one scenario that Heather didn't have a contingency plan for. When she finally meets her kidnapper Natalie, Heather is a little stunned at how attracted she is to the beautiful thief. Despite Heather's inept social skills, she manages to form a few coherent thoughts, enough to earn the respect of the badass chick who's now her constant companion. Between dudes who want them dead and friends who want the bounty on Nat's pretty head, the two women will have to make their way out of the Florida Keys with just their wits and determination.
I'll tell you right now, the cover and synopsis of SMOOTHIE does NOT do this story justice. It's shockingly good, with the MC's both being females, and lesbians at that. There is very little romance in this book whatsoever, in fact, other than a few sweet kisses, this book is primarily a suspenseful race to get out of the Keys alive. Told from chunky social hermit Heather's POV, SMOOTHIE details a complete and utter departure from her comfort zone. For a woman whose idea of rebelling is to refuse weed from her pothead parents, it was fun to watch her struggle with this situation, yet step up and use whatever advantage she could find to turn the roles around.
Natalie was a very interesting character herself, one seriously bad ass chick with an insanely wild and dangerous job as an "information broker." Her relationship with Jocelyn was intriguing to say the least, and I actually found Jocelyn to be my favorite character in SMOOTHIE! I wouldn't mind reading a follow up featuring Jocelyn and her exploits, quite honestly. Overall, this book was one action-packed adventure after another, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed every page of this book.
Bottom Line: Female driven suspense novel with great action and dialogue and terrific character development. Highly recommended! - See more at: http://erotic.theromancereviews.com/v...
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Heather George is minding her own business, simply wanting a smoothie, when a car bomb goes off and changes the course of her life forever. Thrown into the trunk of her own car by a tall, lithe woman, this is one scenario that Heather didn't have a contingency plan for. When she finally meets her kidnapper Natalie, Heather is a little stunned at how attracted she is to the beautiful thief. Despite Heather's inept social skills, she manages to form a few coherent thoughts, enough to earn the respect of the badass chick who's now her constant companion. Between dudes who want them dead and friends who want the bounty on Nat's pretty head, the two women will have to make their way out of the Florida Keys with just their wits and determination.
I'll tell you right now, the cover and synopsis of SMOOTHIE does NOT do this story justice. It's shockingly good, with the MC's both being females, and lesbians at that. There is very little romance in this book whatsoever, in fact, other than a few sweet kisses, this book is primarily a suspenseful race to get out of the Keys alive. Told from chunky social hermit Heather's POV, SMOOTHIE details a complete and utter departure from her comfort zone. For a woman whose idea of rebelling is to refuse weed from her pothead parents, it was fun to watch her struggle with this situation, yet step up and use whatever advantage she could find to turn the roles around.
Natalie was a very interesting character herself, one seriously bad ass chick with an insanely wild and dangerous job as an "information broker." Her relationship with Jocelyn was intriguing to say the least, and I actually found Jocelyn to be my favorite character in SMOOTHIE! I wouldn't mind reading a follow up featuring Jocelyn and her exploits, quite honestly. Overall, this book was one action-packed adventure after another, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed every page of this book.
Bottom Line: Female driven suspense novel with great action and dialogue and terrific character development. Highly recommended! - See more at: http://erotic.theromancereviews.com/v...
- See more at: http://erotic.theromancereviews.com/v...
September 12, 2015
Fun action adventure. No sex. A couple of kisses.
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