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ritasreadingcorner's review against another edition
5.0
In this book, Sophie, Regan and Cordie are back. Oh, how much I love those three! We already know them form Murder List and it was pretty obvious then that Shopie was too crazy for her own good and in Fire and Ice we can see how irresponsible she is with her life.
William Harrington was SO boring and nasty, ugh. Poor Sophie. She had to bear him and when the guy died she was the one in trouble. I was susprised to find out that alleged cop, who was actually nice, wasn't a cop after all. I didn't see that one coming.
While Shopie has to handle all that problems because of a guy she didn't even know, she also has to face death threats because her father is a person of interest in an investigation again. And so both problems got all mixed up. One thing was certain: people wanted her dead.
Thank God for Jack. His and Shopie's first meeting was funny. He was amazed with her and she didn't seem to find him anything special, which wasn't normal. Of course that wasn't true. She was also very impressed with him. And then he was told she was Bobby Rose's daughter. He went with Alec - Alec's back!! - to talk to her because of the death threats to make sure his first impression was right and yes, it was. Shopie was so stubborn and outspoken. And that amused him.
I loved how Alec managed to sent Jack with Sophie on that crazy trip! If only Jack knew Alec called Aiden just to help doing what he did... Ah ah, that was awesome, really. And that bet actually made Jack and Shopie fall in love. But it was just when they returned and the bad guys took Shopie that Jack realized he couldn't live without her and how much he loved her. And when that happened we also got to see Bobby Rose from a different perspective. Thanks to Jack she ended up safe.
AND THEN THEY GOT MARRIED!! I loved them together.
About the other characters: it's pretty obvious in this book that Cordie is in love with Aiden. Alec had already mentioned that in Murder List but it wasn't so obvious. I love the three girls friendship and the fact that they've been friends for a long a time and how they can stay in touch. We also get to see a different side of Aiden. We're told what he did for Sophie when she was a kid and that was really sweet. I liked Bobby Rose despite what he did for living. I know he took money from people, but that money wasn't theirs to have and he returned it to the rightful owners.
I loved this book.
William Harrington was SO boring and nasty, ugh. Poor Sophie. She had to bear him and when the guy died she was the one in trouble. I was susprised to find out that alleged cop, who was actually nice, wasn't a cop after all. I didn't see that one coming.
While Shopie has to handle all that problems because of a guy she didn't even know, she also has to face death threats because her father is a person of interest in an investigation again. And so both problems got all mixed up. One thing was certain: people wanted her dead.
Thank God for Jack. His and Shopie's first meeting was funny. He was amazed with her and she didn't seem to find him anything special, which wasn't normal. Of course that wasn't true. She was also very impressed with him. And then he was told she was Bobby Rose's daughter. He went with Alec - Alec's back!! - to talk to her because of the death threats to make sure his first impression was right and yes, it was. Shopie was so stubborn and outspoken. And that amused him.
I loved how Alec managed to sent Jack with Sophie on that crazy trip! If only Jack knew Alec called Aiden just to help doing what he did... Ah ah, that was awesome, really. And that bet actually made Jack and Shopie fall in love. But it was just when they returned and the bad guys took Shopie that Jack realized he couldn't live without her and how much he loved her. And when that happened we also got to see Bobby Rose from a different perspective. Thanks to Jack she ended up safe.
AND THEN THEY GOT MARRIED!! I loved them together.
About the other characters: it's pretty obvious in this book that Cordie is in love with Aiden. Alec had already mentioned that in Murder List but it wasn't so obvious. I love the three girls friendship and the fact that they've been friends for a long a time and how they can stay in touch. We also get to see a different side of Aiden. We're told what he did for Sophie when she was a kid and that was really sweet. I liked Bobby Rose despite what he did for living. I know he took money from people, but that money wasn't theirs to have and he returned it to the rightful owners.
I loved this book.
sloreads_ca's review against another edition
3.0
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Sophie and Jack are two super hot people who both have their noses put out of joint when the other doesn't fawn over them the way they're accustomed to. I was bothered by the creepiness of the men who hit on Sophie. Her internal dialogue didn't even get icked out! She might find it flattering, which shows how different the world was then, even though it was only 15 years ago.
Fire and Ice was pretty meh. Nothing made me angry, got me riled up or had my heart racing in anticipation. The mystery would be so far-fetched and random that I didn't try guessing at it. Lacklustre though it may be, it was still a fine, cozy read for a Sunday afternoon in winter.
Sophie and Jack are two super hot people who both have their noses put out of joint when the other doesn't fawn over them the way they're accustomed to. I was bothered by the creepiness of the men who hit on Sophie. Her internal dialogue didn't even get icked out! She might find it flattering, which shows how different the world was then, even though it was only 15 years ago.
Fire and Ice was pretty meh. Nothing made me angry, got me riled up or had my heart racing in anticipation. The mystery would be so far-fetched and random that I didn't try guessing at it. Lacklustre though it may be, it was still a fine, cozy read for a Sunday afternoon in winter.
rellimreads's review against another edition
DNF... the series is losing its momentum. Too formulaic. I’m done.
paulabrandon's review against another edition
2.0
Well, that was a....thing.
While not as bonkers and illogical as something you might expect from Sandra Brown, this is definitely a similar case of a romantic thriller being about 150 pages longer than it needs to be. The story involves Sophie Rose, the journalist daughter of some sort of modern-day Robin Hood, Bobby Rose, who is constantly hunted by the FBI for questioning (not for any actual crimes, or something. Apparently.) So Sophie is not too trusting of FBI agents.
Her latest journalist assignment is to cover the achievements of rich boy William Harrington, who has won twenty-four 5K races and has entered his 25th race. She suffers through an interminable interview with him, as he is completely self-obsessed, yet on the day of the race, he is nowhere to be found. When Sophia searches for him, first she's told he's in England. But then comes the news that his remains have been found in Alaska after being eaten by a polar bear!
Sophie is intrigued, and wants to chase this story up. But with her father now a suspect in the misappropriation of a high profile company's retirement fund, Sophie is in the spotlight again, with the FBI interested in her. This brings her into contact with her best friend's husband's FBI partner Jack MacAlister, who is both interested in Sophie as an attractive woman, and also would like to know the whereabouts of her father. But because of his actions in an unexpected bank robbery that wound up on YouTube (!), his boss wants him to stay out of the spotlight, and he winds up accompanying Sophie to Alaska to follow up on Harrington's death.
Interspersed with all this are diary entries from a member of a team in Alaska studying the family relations of a pack of wolves, involving some sort of serum or drug.
That was actually a lot of plot description for a book that didn't really have much of a plot! I also wonder if some of it could be considered spoilers, since Sophie and Jack don't even get to Alaska some more than 200 pages into this 375 page book. But it's all there on the back cover blurb, I guess!
Most of the book just seems to be her best friends, some of the FBI, her boss and her father worrying about her health and safety and zzzz. Although I'm assuming this is meant to be romantic suspense, it all felt very try-hard screwball romantic comedy (much like something Cassie Miles might write for the Harlequin Intrigue line), with much romantic sparring between Sophie and Jack, who of course annoy each other no end despite being attracted to one another.
And what can I say about the romance? Not much, really. Each thinks the other is hot, they bicker light-naturedly, have sex and eventually decide they're in love. About as convincing as about half the Intrigue books, I guess. At least those books are shorter!
Harmless fluff, really. Easily read, easily disposable. I've got another Julie Garwood book lying around somewhere, though I'm in no hurry to read it based on what I felt about this one. The website Fantastic Fiction seems to suggest her last published book was in 2017.
While not as bonkers and illogical as something you might expect from Sandra Brown, this is definitely a similar case of a romantic thriller being about 150 pages longer than it needs to be. The story involves Sophie Rose, the journalist daughter of some sort of modern-day Robin Hood, Bobby Rose, who is constantly hunted by the FBI for questioning (not for any actual crimes, or something. Apparently.) So Sophie is not too trusting of FBI agents.
Her latest journalist assignment is to cover the achievements of rich boy William Harrington, who has won twenty-four 5K races and has entered his 25th race. She suffers through an interminable interview with him, as he is completely self-obsessed, yet on the day of the race, he is nowhere to be found. When Sophia searches for him, first she's told he's in England. But then comes the news that his remains have been found in Alaska after being eaten by a polar bear!
Sophie is intrigued, and wants to chase this story up. But with her father now a suspect in the misappropriation of a high profile company's retirement fund, Sophie is in the spotlight again, with the FBI interested in her. This brings her into contact with her best friend's husband's FBI partner Jack MacAlister, who is both interested in Sophie as an attractive woman, and also would like to know the whereabouts of her father. But because of his actions in an unexpected bank robbery that wound up on YouTube (!), his boss wants him to stay out of the spotlight, and he winds up accompanying Sophie to Alaska to follow up on Harrington's death.
Interspersed with all this are diary entries from a member of a team in Alaska studying the family relations of a pack of wolves, involving some sort of serum or drug.
That was actually a lot of plot description for a book that didn't really have much of a plot! I also wonder if some of it could be considered spoilers, since Sophie and Jack don't even get to Alaska some more than 200 pages into this 375 page book. But it's all there on the back cover blurb, I guess!
Most of the book just seems to be her best friends, some of the FBI, her boss and her father worrying about her health and safety and zzzz. Although I'm assuming this is meant to be romantic suspense, it all felt very try-hard screwball romantic comedy (much like something Cassie Miles might write for the Harlequin Intrigue line), with much romantic sparring between Sophie and Jack, who of course annoy each other no end despite being attracted to one another.
And what can I say about the romance? Not much, really. Each thinks the other is hot, they bicker light-naturedly, have sex and eventually decide they're in love. About as convincing as about half the Intrigue books, I guess. At least those books are shorter!
Harmless fluff, really. Easily read, easily disposable. I've got another Julie Garwood book lying around somewhere, though I'm in no hurry to read it based on what I felt about this one. The website Fantastic Fiction seems to suggest her last published book was in 2017.
katyanaish's review against another edition
4.0
I thought this was a great romantic suspense ... I loved Sophie and her dad (poor guy gets a bad rap, but I think he's pretty great), and Jack was wonderful.
It has been a long time since I read the earlier books in this series, and I don't really remember the secondary cast much... which meant they were a little thin in the characterization - I think it would play much better had I read the other books recently, and in that case, I'd be annoyed if a lot of time was wasted filling out their character, because I'd already know them and it would feel like a rehash. So no points deducted for that.
I wish we'd gotten more detail on what those scientists were doing - what that stuff was - and I also would've loved more of a resolution with Sophie's dad. But that all said, really enjoyed the book.
It has been a long time since I read the earlier books in this series, and I don't really remember the secondary cast much... which meant they were a little thin in the characterization - I think it would play much better had I read the other books recently, and in that case, I'd be annoyed if a lot of time was wasted filling out their character, because I'd already know them and it would feel like a rehash. So no points deducted for that.
I wish we'd gotten more detail on what those scientists were doing - what that stuff was - and I also would've loved more of a resolution with Sophie's dad. But that all said, really enjoyed the book.
kdjackson's review against another edition
4.0
Sophie and Jack
This is Book 7 of the Buchanan series. They’re all so fun. Rereading them is reminding me of a lot of details I forgot. This one is back in Chicago with Reagan and Alec and focuses on her best friend Sophie and Alec’s new partner Jack.
This is Book 7 of the Buchanan series. They’re all so fun. Rereading them is reminding me of a lot of details I forgot. This one is back in Chicago with Reagan and Alec and focuses on her best friend Sophie and Alec’s new partner Jack.