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Suburban Task Force (2000)

by Addison Towne(Favorite Author)

2.88 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: Addison Towne is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Suburban Task Force. This book really took me out of my real life and deposited me right in with the characters. The MC is Jade Lydell, a thirty-year old suburban wife living in an identical house as her friends and enjoying game nights with other couples. A home invasion scare makes Jade want to feel better protected, so she signs up herself and two girlfriends for gun safety and all around self-defense courses. The ladies leave the weekend feeling pretty good should they ever enter a situation where they can put their knowledge to good use...but has no idea how soon – and how extreme – that situation will be. While at a VIP party on Catalina Island filled with celebrities and politicians, the women find themselves ... morein a surreal situation – taken hostage by a rogue terrorist group. The men and women get separated, all outside communication is cut off, and there are already homicide victims. Jade and friends band together to try to do the unthinkable – make it out alive and help free the hostages. I was holding my breath multiple times while reading all the hostage chapters. Even though if I really think about it the plot can seem a bit unbelievable, I was still highly entertained throughout. The ending was particularly my favorite, and I was speeding through the chapters to see how the situation would end. I think action-packed is a great way to describe this book, and I enjoyed it and look forward to more from Addison Towne!
review 2: Interesting premise, liked the plot line and liked the characters although I had to suspend belief pretty thoroughly.Fairly predictable storyline and once I got past the 'suburban housewife' introduction, the pace picked up and carried well. My only criticism was that it couldn't quite seem to make up it's mind whether it wanted to be a tough-chick/ kick ass hardline book or wind along lighter entertainment lines and the characters tended to wander a bit between those two extremes as well.Overall, entertaining read for a hot summer afternoon. less

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