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Title: Not Gripping
Review: Yet another contemporary romance which stars a private investigator as a bodyguard to the heroine [actually two of the PIs]. What the threat is, in addition primarily to being 20 years in the past, is kept a secret; thus the reader can't worry too much about the heroine and her sister. The romantic conflict is that the hero can't get involved with heroine again after he had a crush on her in high school, while the heroine is just touchy about everything. It just isn't a gripping premise, and nothing as the story progresses makes it more so. I'm sure Bevarly is an accomplished author, but she is obviously turning out ill-conceived projects to meet rapid-fire publisher deadlines, with the result I just put the book aside even though I was trapped on a non-stop cross-country flight with nothing else to read.
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