BURN
by Linda Howard
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition
(August 31, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345486579
ISBN-13: 978-0345486578
Linda Howard is one of the writers that I enjoy reading. Her book, The Burn, is one of her latest ones that I just finished. I actually bought it several months ago, and started the prologue, only to put it down and walk away. I just wasn’t getting into it then. However, this last week, I had some extra time, so I picked it up again, and started it.
The book starts really differently than
her normal books. I discovered that the prologue is actually a
chapter midway through. The first chapter starts several years
before, and the book works its way to the present. The setting is
about a young lady who wins the lottery. A Very Large Lottery, and
how she not only deals with all that money, but what happens to
friends, family, and her life.
The second part deals with being a
wealthy woman who goes on a charity cruise with her new friend. Only
her friend doesn’t make it, due to a very specific reason, and what
is supposed to have been enjoyable cruise becomes a
nightmare-hostages, international intrigue, and yes, love (with
Linda’s good love scenes) and death!
It was a very solid read. I enjoyed
it-I certainly enjoyed the young lady who is named Jennifer. She has
my sense of woman-ness (if that’s a word), and my sense of outrage
with a mouth to go with it! I would rate this as a #4. I certainly
had to put it down for a while, but I definitely wanted to come back.
TL Cozad
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