Review: Open Season

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Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday, still living with her widowed mom and spinster aunt, she decides it's time to get a life.

But can a lifelong good girl turn bad? No, not exactly.

But she can pretend, right?

One makeover later, Daisy has transformed herself into a party girl extraordinaire. She's letting her hair down, dancing the night away at clubs, and laughing and flirting with men for the first time in, well, ever. With a new lease on her own place and her life, it's open season for man-hunting.

But on her way home late one night, Daisy sees something she's not supposed to see. Suddenly the target of a killer, she's forced to put her manhunt on hold. But the very moment she stops looking might be the moment she finds what she's wanted all along. Trouble is, before he can share her life, he might just have to save it.

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: August 2011

Mature content: yes

Review: Open Season combines romance and suspense perfectly. The plot is great and flows well, and the characters are fairly well constructed and realistic. I loved Daisy's transformation and I loved Jack's protective streak. 

I did have a few concerns with this book, hence the just 4 stars rating. 

First, while there are several twists and turns, you know who the bad guys are since the beginning. So the suspense is more on the side of Daisy's understanding of what she really saw than on knowing who the culprits are. Second, there are few characters whose real role in the plot was never fully explained (Todd and his sidekick). And finally, the end (after the happily ever after) threw me off a bit, since it seems to be introducing a potential sequel to the story. 

In any case, Open Season is still an entertaining and entertaining read and if you love the genre you'll enjoy it for sure. 

Happy readings!

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