Don't Look Down by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
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Book Reviews of Don't Look Down
Book Review: Waste of Time
Summary: 1 Stars
The one thing that will turn me off from a book in a hurry is the fast introduction of too many characters in the first few pages. I like to have characters brought in a few at the time, and have a little development before others come in. But in this book so many people were brought in on the first few pages I found myself turning back to see who was who. I was only able to get thru about a dozen pages when I thought "do I want to spend anymore of my day reading this?" Nope. I was very surprised to find that Jennifer Cruise would write a book this bad. Book Review: I Really Liked It
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was laugh out loud funny. I enjoyed the banter and chemistry between J.T and Lucy. I thought the action was dead on, and I really liked the personalities of all the people in the book. Even the bad guys were described spot on. I will agree that the action at the end was a little more difficult to follow, but not so much to take away a full star. I look forward to reading their next book.Book Review: Cruisie all but disappears
Summary: 2 Stars
It may have been a sweet idea for Jennifer Cruisie and Bob Mayer to write a book together, but this bombs. Bob Mayer may have a successful career writing tough-guy adventure fiction, but readers of Jennifer Crusie's hilarious romps are in for a big disappointment. Cruisie's wit and unique female outlook get almost no face time in the book. The plot is 95% predictable Special Forces/macho male fantasy, featuring a wooden Indian hero so boring even the heroine has a hard time getting any conversation out of him. It's implied he's hot--but what about him makes him hot? We don't know what this guy looks like, period. Neither does he have any discernible personality. We just know he's the stock aggrieved, disenchanted, been-through-it-all action guy with two failed marriages behind him and nothing about him that would recommend him to any of the female characters in any of Crusie's other books. And, not incidentally, to any of her readers either. Cruisie lost her way here, her fans have to hope she will return to her own voice and the previous delights of her other books.Book Review: I'm jumping ship
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm listening to the audiobook and am just about to jump to the end in order to cut my boredom short. If you want military men/women/romance stories, read Suzanne Brockmann. If you want cleverly written, engaging romance stories, read Crusie when she's writing alone. If you want a pastiche of cliches (not another cluster f***, please!!) covered in slowly moving fog, this is the book for you. Not for me. (Many thanks to the reviewers who wrote before me. Mea culpa for not having checked first before I downloaded the book.)Book Review: totally confused by the first chapter?
Summary: 2 Stars
When this book first came out, I jumped at the chance to buy it. I love Jennifer Crusie. By the end of the first chapter, I was so confused, I put it down for over a year. I decided to try one more time and I did get through the first chapter of who said what to whom,but the second wasn't much better. The characters still remained, so confusing to me. So far I haven't finished it but I am going to struggle through and try to get to the end. So having said that, I am going to buy their next book anyway and see if that one is better. To finish I have to agree with most of the other reviews, what were they thinking? I hate putting any book down and especially Ms. Crusie's books but I honestly just didn't get it. Maybe it was the team thing and they have to get it all together first. I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt and try them again. But I have loved your other books Ms. Crusie! Thanks you!!