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Fight Fire With Fire (2009)

by Amy J. Fetzer(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0758231377 (ISBN13: 9780758231376)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Brava

series

Dragon One

review 1: I read this one, because I have read the rest in her series and I have to say the last few have been a disappointment and this one was ok, but I think I have figured out what bugs me. The ending are lame. She hurries them. I think she realizes is getting close in terms of word or page count and she cuts it short. When an author does that I feel cheated. I feel like I have followed the author for 3/4 of the book and now they are done and leaving before dessert is served.I recently revisited notes I have for a adventure story and I decided, when I saw this latest Fetzer was out, that I wanted to read it with critical eye, and try to figure out why I was disappointed.I like this genre, for a lite easy ready, but just because it is a liter read, does not mean I want to be chea... moreted in terms of the story ending.This applies to all stories. Authors who cheat us, by setting up a great and compelling story, only to drop us off and shove us thru a fast ending are not holding up their end of the bargain.The story needs to hook the reader at the beginning and leave them satisfied that the story has been told to completion in the end. I read with an eye for details, do not make me pay attention to big details, dropped like breadcrumbs along the way, breadcrumbs, which you have no intention of knotting together in the end.In summary, this was an ok story, which could have been WAY better.
review 2: I swear I will never read another Amy Fetzer again.I only made it to page 63 and threw it away in disgust. I don't know why Ms Fetzer refuses to do any research when her books are often set in foreign locales. She gave a Singapore that was from the last century and I was expecting Tarzan to come swooping down from a jungle vine any minute. Vaghn's bodyguard was carrying right there in a restaurant in Marina Bay. The laws are so strict in this island city-state that mere possession of a bullet gets you ten years jail. No one's allowed to carry guns except the police and the army and firearm offences earns you a mandatory death sentence. It was downright ludicrous for any bodyguard to be carrying. Then again, no one has bodyguards here except the PM and his father, Lee Kwan Yew. Ms Fetzer obviously thought S'pore is like the Philippines or Thailand or Indonesia. Sure, it's an anomaly amongst SE Asian nations but a quick google would have shown the author that instead of Bangkok-style boats plying the S'pore river, or jungles lining the banks, the only boats to be found in our ten-kilometre long river are boats for tourist cruises and the banks are lined with luxury condos (US$500,000 upwards per 2 bedroom unit) trendy music clubs and chic restaurants.She even had Vaghn's Gulfstream landing in Seletar Airport when the airport is not used anymore except for a couple of chartered flights to nearby islands and for training young pilots from the Flying Club.When Ms Fetzer had CROCODILES sliding into the river, I guffawed and gave up. The only crocodiles on this island are at the Crocodile Farm which sells croc skin handbags and trinkets to tourists!Really. In this day and age of Google and Wiki, this neglect towards basic research is inexcusable. This isn't the first time Ms Fetzer has gotten her facts wrong and I'm puzzled as to why she would not bother to just google it if every book of hers includes countries outside of the US.Sigh. That's my rant for the day. I'm off now to finish G A Hauser's Man To Man. less

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