Ace Is Wild (Berkley Sensation)
by Penny McCall
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Author: Penny McCallEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-05
ISBN: 0425222985
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Berkley
Book Reviews of Ace Is Wild (Berkley Sensation)
Book Review: Ace is not-so-wild
Summary: 2 Stars
I enjoyed the basic idea of a cop-shy psychic forced to save the life of an attorney. I loved some of the humor, and Vivi is a fun character---in particular I love her truck, Maxine, which seems to have a life of its own. Also, toward the end of the book the romance aspect of the plot starts growing in a much more organic manner, and becomes something enjoyable. That said, the sexual sparks that fly between the leads at the beginning of the book read like forced plot glue needed to hold the characters together.
The male lead is almost entirely unlikable until the end of the book. He's rude, obnoxious, and irritating. Only toward the end of the book does he start feeling like more than a two-dimensional twit, and by then it's really too late to start liking him enough as a lead in a romance.
The author is constantly telling the readers, albeit through the eyes of the leads, how everyone and their dog salivates over the main characters because they're Just. That. Hot. It's eye-roll-inducing.
There just isn't that much suspense in this book, even though this is supposedly a romantic suspense novel. It isn't too hard to figure out who the bad guy is, and the pacing is just all wrong. The moments that should be particularly adrenalizing---whether they're fight scenes or sex scenes---usually get swept through so fast, with so little build-up, that they're kind of 'meh' instead.
Then there's the matter of Vivi's psychic abilities. Although some justification is attempted for when they work and when they don't, really it boils down to plot convenience.
It isn't a bad book, but all in all I'd find something else to read instead.
Summary of Ace Is Wild (Berkley Sensation)
When beautiful clairvoyant Vivienne Foster starts having visions of the murder of hotshot U.S. Attorney Daniel 'Ace' Pierce, she can't just sit back and do nothing. Which is how she winds up at a charity bachelor auction where he's the top attraction, hoping a loaded .38 will make him see the light.Pierce assumes that the woman holding him at gunpoint is crazy. But when she later saves his life, even a skeptic like Daniel has to take notice-not that he could ever ignore a beauty like her.
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