2: an entertaining read that could've been better
I have been a fan of Ms. Skye since I picked up her "The Black Rose" soon after it came out. I have followed her books ever since, taking a break during the flood of Draycott Abbey books. I enjoy her historicals more, but thought several in this series of contemporaries were well written.My Spy is another of the Navy SEAL partnered with a civilian stories, and although the premise is a bit far fetched we all know that with most romance novels one has to be very good at accepting the unacceptable. There isn't anything in the plot that will stretch your belief to the snapping point, but a few scenes get very close to that edge. It annoyed me that Annie took so long to get over herself at the end and throw caution to the wind in favor of love. She is resistant to the point of detracting from the story. There were also several gaping holes in the story that pricked at me. Even for a superbly fit man like Sam, his recovery is nothing short of miraculous. I think it would have played better for the timeline to be stretched a bit more, rather than have everything happen within 3 weeks. You almost have to throw out Ms. Skye's timeline and imagine your own for the story to make sense. I think Ms. Skye can do much better than this. From another author, this might be a 4 star book, but with her past library to compare against, "My Spy" only rates a 3. But the story is good enough to provide an afternoon's diversion.
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