The Loving Daylights [Mass Market Paperback]

But the tampon tracker is being tested in a most immediate manner when Jane’s neighbour and almost-friend Edie (if Jane had time for friends) goes missing. Cue for one gorgeous brother to show up, and Jane, her retired spy gran and Abel to climb into Jane’s specialised van and zoom off to save the girl.

Realisim flies out the window here, this book is strictly fun. But romance with a comic touch is a Lynsay Sands speciality, and this is a great example. There are plenty of laughs – I particularly enjoyed the prototype demonstration - and some great gadgets. The evil kidnappers are a good threat for Jane, Abel and Gran to go up against. I didn’t always agree with the handling of the romance between Jane and Abel – particularly the sojourn to a B&B which was a bit clumsy as a ‘time out for sex’ moment – but overall I found this book to be a wonderfully wacky comic story.

Jane Spyrus is into making gizmos for BLISS spy - and wow what gadgets!! Won't spoil the surprise and tell you about them, but lets say you will be howling from page one!! Jane's neighbour borrows something accidentally - a tracker - thinking it is something she needs on a hot date. Jane figures she will get it back from her later, but it comes in very handy when the neighbour's brother turns up looking for his missing sister. Jane, her wheelchair bound ex-spy grandmother and the brother are suddenly in hot pursuit of his sister who stumbled onto a super spy ring ala THRUSH.

Suddenly, Jane is forced into be a spy instead of an inventor and it is once more one of Lynsay's delightfully warm and laugh out loud tales.

I know Lynsay is a little nervous, this being her first contemporary, and afraid her historical fans might not want to read her first contemporary. To me Lynsay Sands on the cover is a guarantee you will have a wonderfully, funny time!!

WISE Writers and Readers Book of the MONTH for February 2003

Although the story line is very funny, I think it was just a little too far fetched for my liking. The characters were great and some of the scenes were truly hilarious, but I just couldn't dissolve into it as easily as I could the others.

I have only given this book 4 stars as much as I would love to give it the full 5. I have to give my honest opinion and say that I much prefer Lynsay's historical works better.

If however, you have read her other stories and enjoyed them as I have, do give this one a try. If you enjoy it, good on you and you can just write me off as not knowing what I'm talking about!