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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lynsay rocks in her first contemporary!!!!!, 23 Nov 2002
Lynsay Sands is a super historical romance writer with a light touch that can lead to side-splitting giggles. She is one of the best writers that leaves you feeling good all over when you read her works. Well, this is her first contemporary and it is a fun romp! In the ladies from B*L*I*S*S* series (a series of spoofs by Dorchester with vrarious writers on the James Bond Books), Lynsay gives you a down to earth spy vs spy. In her warm and funny style, she offers one delicious romp! WARNING: if you have a chest cold or broke ribs do not read. If you are in a public place and do not want people looking at you - do no read there!! You will just laugh so hard you might hurt or embarrass yourself!!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
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny Bond take-off, 18 Aug 2003
While definitely being in the Romance genre, this series is a take-off of the Bond books, and here we have the absent minded professor type, who designs and tests a variety of gadgets, including the tampon trackers, shrink-wrap condoms (ow!) and vibrator missiles. Seems clear what Jane Spyrus’ (Spies R Us?) mind has been on.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.
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2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as I thought it would be., 27 Oct 2004
I read a couple of Lynsay's books before I picked this one up, (The Deed and Always), both of which were historical romances. I thouroughly enjoyed them and this is what led to me buying this book. I did enjoy this one too but I found it a little too difficult to take on the extreme unreality, as fun as it was intended to be.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!
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by Lynsay Sands
by Lynsay Sands
by Lynsay Sands
