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sblyon's review
4.0
3.75⭐️ Veil of Night was an unexpectedly fun, intense, and entertaining story. There was good banter, enough suspense and intrigue to keep you entertained, and a sprinkle of spice to keep to add some intrigue.
brandiwyne4018's review
3.0
By far, the best (or worst) Bridezilla ever. Jaclyn Wilde is a Atlanta events planner who has the worst client in history and on top of that, she has an unpaid parking ticket. Her day gets slightly better when she runs into Dective Eric Wilder coming out of an elevator...[insert interesting dialouge, sex, and murder investigation].
So, I liked this book. A lot. The dialouge was awesome and so were the characters, especially those involved in the Hee Haw Hell wedding. But the whole murder investigation? WTH? Did I miss something because I'm not sure how Eric was able to come up witha murder suspect and the murderer never gave a reason why he/she did it. I'm confused.
The book was still quite entertaining but it was like reading a Silhouette Desire novel in hardback form. It just wasn't as well developed as you could excpect fom Linda Howard but it's worth reading. Just knowing that someone silenced that bitchy bride, Carrie was enough to make it all worth it.
So, I liked this book. A lot. The dialouge was awesome and so were the characters, especially those involved in the Hee Haw Hell wedding. But the whole murder investigation? WTH? Did I miss something because I'm not sure how Eric was able to come up witha murder suspect and the murderer never gave a reason why he/she did it. I'm confused.
The book was still quite entertaining but it was like reading a Silhouette Desire novel in hardback form. It just wasn't as well developed as you could excpect fom Linda Howard but it's worth reading. Just knowing that someone silenced that bitchy bride, Carrie was enough to make it all worth it.
ccgwalt's review
3.0
While I enjoyed the book, and liked the two main characters, I felt a decided lack of..something...in this book. Howard has all the elements here for a really decent suspense novel and a satisfying romance but didn't quite pull it out in the end. The best "heat" in the book was in the first part, and while I could believe the chemistry between the main characters, I would have liked to have seen the tension between them explored and developed more thoroughly. There was some classic Howard humor and while some of it worked, some didn't, at least for me. The "Hee Haw" wedding was one such failed attempt. The situation didn't end up being funny, it simply made Jaclyn look like a petty snob, which seemed out of character. (As an aside, the author mentions Brad Paisley several times in conjunction with this wedding "disaster." His music is linked with bad mullets and "backwards, tacky" Nascar-loving hillbillies. It just so happens the night before I read this passage in the book I'd actually seen Brad Paisley live in concert, and I have to tell you, out of about 8,000+ people I didn't see one mullet. By the description of the wedding, the participants would more likely be listening to Hank Williams Jr. or Willie Nelson. Although....the "tick" song is pretty funny.)
BTW- I didn't mind the wedding details, nor did I think they were too plentiful. The heroine is a wedding planner and taking the reader through her day adds to the story for me. To skim those details would have made the book seem really shallow and vague to me.
So, enjoyable and I'm glad I read it...good but not great.
BTW- I didn't mind the wedding details, nor did I think they were too plentiful. The heroine is a wedding planner and taking the reader through her day adds to the story for me. To skim those details would have made the book seem really shallow and vague to me.
So, enjoyable and I'm glad I read it...good but not great.
tam_bam26's review
2.0
I purchased Veil of Night because it was 1.99 and the summary actually sounds pretty decent. Jaclyn is a wedding planner dealing with a bridezilla, bridezilla is murdered and enter Detective Eric Wilder. Jaclyn's last name is Wild-cute right? I like both of the main characters. I actually like the plot but the execution of the plot-the writing- was not my thing at all. I've read one other book by this author and it was pretty good so she may get another chance. Can't recommend this one
setaian's review
5.0
There are so many things to like about this book it's hard to know where to start. Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner, she deals with bridezillas on a daily basis and is always able to keep her head, smooth things over and make their wedding special. That is until she meets the ultimate bridezilla, Carrie Edwards who has managed to offend just about everyone involved in the wedding including the maid of honor, so when Carrie turns up dead, there are plenty of suspects.
Detective Eric Wilder is assigned to the case but things get complicated when he discovers the last person known to have seen Carrie alive is Jaclyn, the woman he slept with the night before. She's not too happy to see him and even less so when he makes it known she is a suspect.
So the things I love about this book:
1. It's laugh out loud funny in parts. Eric's determination to buy a coffee which is constantly thwarted by him stumbling in on robberies is almost keystone cops...but in a good way.
2. It takes place over a single week but the measure on time is really the weddings and rehearsals that take place over that week.
3. All the characters both the protagonists and the antagonists were written well.
4. And perhaps most of all, the book was packed full of strong and determined women. Even the getaway car driver from one of Eric's attempted coffee purchases was quite cleverly written even though she only had a single line of dialogue.
Detective Eric Wilder is assigned to the case but things get complicated when he discovers the last person known to have seen Carrie alive is Jaclyn, the woman he slept with the night before. She's not too happy to see him and even less so when he makes it known she is a suspect.
So the things I love about this book:
1. It's laugh out loud funny in parts. Eric's determination to buy a coffee which is constantly thwarted by him stumbling in on robberies is almost keystone cops...but in a good way.
2. It takes place over a single week but the measure on time is really the weddings and rehearsals that take place over that week.
3. All the characters both the protagonists and the antagonists were written well.
4. And perhaps most of all, the book was packed full of strong and determined women. Even the getaway car driver from one of Eric's attempted coffee purchases was quite cleverly written even though she only had a single line of dialogue.
stitchsds's review against another edition
2.0
Not Linda Howard's best, but a decent read all the same.
The running gag of not being able to get a cup of coffee without stopping a crime in progress seemed a little forced, which surprised me in a Linda Howard novel. She's normally a much better writer than that.
This was a library book, but may be worth owning a used copy when I run across one.
The running gag of not being able to get a cup of coffee without stopping a crime in progress seemed a little forced, which surprised me in a Linda Howard novel. She's normally a much better writer than that.
This was a library book, but may be worth owning a used copy when I run across one.
ymiranda's review
3.0
I've always enjoyed Linda Howard's hero and gave the following 5 stars [bc:Cry No More|187500|Cry No More|Linda Howard|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172540015s/187500.jpg|181224][bc:Death Angel |2067180|Death Angel|Linda Howard|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1266511247s/2067180.jpg|2072408][bc:After the Night|420739|After the Night|Linda Howard|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174589388s/420739.jpg|409872].
So I'm really hoping this one doesn't disappoint!
So I'm really hoping this one doesn't disappoint!
enur's review against another edition
4.0
3,5 | Biri Eric'e kahve versin! Aromasız.
Okuduğum ilk Linda Howard kitabıydı. Kitapla ilgili göz attığım yorumlardan çıkarımım Aşk Tuzağı Linda Howard için ortalama bulunan bir kitap. Eğer gerçekten böyleyse muhtemelen yazarı kitaplarını okudukça daha çok seveceğim.
İkili arasında biraz daha diyalog görebilseydik daha da hoş olurdu ama genel olarak romantizm, polisiye ve komedi güzelce harmanlanmıştı, keyif alarak okudum.
Okuduğum ilk Linda Howard kitabıydı. Kitapla ilgili göz attığım yorumlardan çıkarımım Aşk Tuzağı Linda Howard için ortalama bulunan bir kitap. Eğer gerçekten böyleyse muhtemelen yazarı kitaplarını okudukça daha çok seveceğim.
İkili arasında biraz daha diyalog görebilseydik daha da hoş olurdu ama genel olarak romantizm, polisiye ve komedi güzelce harmanlanmıştı, keyif alarak okudum.