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A review by paulabrandon
Holiday Amnesia by Lynette Eason
2.0
This is another book from the Love Inspired Suspense line that Mills & Boon has packaged into the Intrigue line. It came in a duo with Witness In The Woods, otherwise I likely wouldn't have read it, as I am not the intended audience for the Love Inspired Suspense line. (Mills & Boon have stopped doing this now, and are publishing Love Inspired Suspense books as part of the Romantic Suspense line, but clearly marking them as Love Inspired. As they should, because it's a sneaky trick, otherwise.)
This has heroine Robin Hardy witnessing an exchange between a colleague and another person about a virus that her colleague was creating. Then she sees them both shot and killed! After an explosion in the lab knocks her unconscious, Robin wakes up with amnesia. She can't remember the last six months of her life.
Coming to her aid is colleague Toby Potter. He is former CIA and originally got close to Robin as a favour to his friend, Ben, who is now in the FBI and suspected something was going on in the lab. A mysterious email sent to Robin exposed his ruse and she was furious at him. Of course, with the current amnesia, Robin can't remember this, and Toby tries to keep it that way so he can keep her safe while going on the run with her from those who want to kill her.
Toby winds up in Wrangler's Corner, where his sister and lots of other family live. And they remain there, even though Robin's pursuers know they're there and attack her! I suppose that's because, if they took off again, Lynette Eason wouldn't have been able to have all the characters from previous books in the Wrangler's Corner series show up for a cameo. There were so many extraneous characters running around, I had trouble keeping them apart.
There are a couple of okay action and suspense bits, but the story and characters were flat. Robin spends the whole book resting because of her concussion, biting her lip and having tears come to her eyes, along with the usual martyr-ish exclamations of, "I'm putting people in danger and that makes me the worst person ever!" The identity of the big bad is entirely obvious and, to be honest, a bit nonsensical.
The religious aspect is quite minor. For the most part, it would actually be easy to mistake this as a lower-rent entry in the Intrigue line. Romance aspect is very, very chaste (of course.)
This has heroine Robin Hardy witnessing an exchange between a colleague and another person about a virus that her colleague was creating. Then she sees them both shot and killed! After an explosion in the lab knocks her unconscious, Robin wakes up with amnesia. She can't remember the last six months of her life.
Coming to her aid is colleague Toby Potter. He is former CIA and originally got close to Robin as a favour to his friend, Ben, who is now in the FBI and suspected something was going on in the lab. A mysterious email sent to Robin exposed his ruse and she was furious at him. Of course, with the current amnesia, Robin can't remember this, and Toby tries to keep it that way so he can keep her safe while going on the run with her from those who want to kill her.
Toby winds up in Wrangler's Corner, where his sister and lots of other family live. And they remain there, even though Robin's pursuers know they're there and attack her! I suppose that's because, if they took off again, Lynette Eason wouldn't have been able to have all the characters from previous books in the Wrangler's Corner series show up for a cameo. There were so many extraneous characters running around, I had trouble keeping them apart.
There are a couple of okay action and suspense bits, but the story and characters were flat. Robin spends the whole book resting because of her concussion, biting her lip and having tears come to her eyes, along with the usual martyr-ish exclamations of, "I'm putting people in danger and that makes me the worst person ever!" The identity of the big bad is entirely obvious and, to be honest, a bit nonsensical.
Spoiler
Hanging around someone who witnessed you shooting two people is ridiculously risky, even if they do have amnesia!The religious aspect is quite minor. For the most part, it would actually be easy to mistake this as a lower-rent entry in the Intrigue line. Romance aspect is very, very chaste (of course.)