✩✩
TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears on the radio that Fort Worth millionaire Russell Dendy's daughter has been kidnapped. Calling her editor she finds out that the girl is pregnant, the kidnapper is the girl's boyfriend and that they may be heading, as she is, to a small town in New Mexico.
She puts her holiday plans on hold to chase the story but as she stops for gas she gets caught up in a standoff at a gas station. If she survives she knows this will be the biggest scoop of her life. But as the night-long siege continues she is forced to put aside her reporter's impartiality and become involved . . . or lives will be lost.
Genre: romantic suspense
Publication date: November 2011
Mature content: yes
Review: Once in a while I like to go back and read some of the older books written by my current favorite authors, and that's how I came across Standoff.
And I really wanted to like it, but in the end I found it lacking. There are many gaps in the plot, the hostage situation, which should bring about a lot of tension, ends up with the hostages supporting the aggressors and actually going back inside after being released (who does that in real life?), and the romance part of the story is one night of sex between two characters who met twenty four hours before and exchanged but a few words here and there, and not all of them nice.
So, unfortunately, this is one book I can't bring myself to recommend. If you want to read books by Sandra Brown, look for her more recent ones, which are way, way better.
Happy readings otherwise!
This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Comments
Post a Comment