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Review: Cost of Love by Drue Allen

January 5th, 2010 | 5 Stars, A-C, ARC, Contemporary, Crime and Protection, Guest Reviews, Revenge, Science, Soldier, Survival, Suspense/Thriller, United States of America 

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by Karin of Savvy Thinker, guest reviewer.

No spoiler.

The Cost of Love, Drue Allen’s first book, is terrific!  I hope she has more up her sleeve.

Genre: romantic suspense
Format: hardback
Length: 311 pages
ISBN 13: 9781594148675
ISBN 10: 1594148678
Publisher: Five Star
Author name:  Drue Allen
Pub Date: March, 2010

In the interests of transparency: I was given a pdf to read by LRP who received it from Drue.  I put it on my Kindle, and unfortunately it didn’t format perfectly, which was super annoying, but the book was so good, I could overlook all that.

National security comes with a price.

My take:

It has been a long time since I read a book that held my interest to such a level.  I didn’t want to put it down.  Besides that, it is very well written.  If you like romantic suspense, you will love this one.

I rate it 8* out of 5, that’s how good it is.  Seriously.

And it is contemporary, in that what it posits is something that is truly fearful.

The characters:

The characters are very well drawn.  They are interesting, from the youngest to the oldest.

Dean Dreiser is a hard bitten operative, sent undercover to flush out terrorists who are bent on using biological weapons in an escalating situation.  Its capabilities are gruesome.  He is given a new partner, one too young for him, one hardly out of school, Dr. Lucinda Brown.  She has no field expertise, but she is the leading expert in molecular biology.  It’s up to her to find out what the weapon is and how it works.  It’s up to both of them to stop it, if they can.

Undercover

Together they are working undercover in a bar.  Dean is the bartender.  She is one of the waitresses.  It is thought that something is going down in the bar.  And, as you’d expect, the bar offers many opportunities for odd characters, any of which could be one of the baddies.

Dean expected her cover to be that she is interested in UFO’s.  The cover that she felt was believable is: he is interesting enough to spend her summer vacation getting to know him.  That doesn’t thrill the bar owner who is a character herself – quick to pick up her shotgun to stop a fight; chain smoking, though supposedly stopping; questionable enough to be a suspect.

The place

Roswell, home of the extraterrestrial sightings.  So you have UFO groupies that forward the story.

Suspense:

Yes, every page.  I completely missed who the baddie is.

Trust no one

Someone on base is feeding the terrorists the news as to what is happening.  Dean is smart enough to have figured out how to meet with his superior, but even his superior is suspect.

Only Aiden (who has a back story with Dean – and hopefully this story will be written in book form too!) is free and clear.  Good thing Dean has him to rely on!

Murder and gore

Yes. And yes. Gruesome, made all the more so because it is so believable.  Murders upon murders.  Shoot to kill to protect oneself.   Be prepared for anything.  Trust no one. Hope to make it out alive.

Romance

Yes, and believable.

Peripheral characters:

I’d read stories about them too.   I can’t tell you which one(s) because then you would know they weren’t a baddie, but trust me, they are interesting enough to become part of the next main stories or for back stories, and each has enough info that they would easily become part of a new team.

Buy: The Cost of Love

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