Or that someone leaves a fake bomb on her porch (which is a felony) but THEN the culprit UPS the ante by calling into her live radio show saying Eve had an affair with a married man. Or her description of the sun being "the golden orb". Or that basically every paragraph uses a cliché. Have you rolled your eyes yet? Maybe the million references to her spinning classes will do it for you. Worse yet, he'd insist she join him in the high-carb, high-fat splurge he could afford, given the physical nature of his construction job."
And Bob Evans wasn't the place to follow a diet. Knew she was working hard to lose weight after her late-term miscarriage.
Eve tells her sister while sitting in the sun at 7 pm "Didn't anyone ever tell you that ultraviolet radiation is harmful to your skin?" Brent thinks that he's not interested in romance until "a gorgeous redhead with a passion for commendable principles entered his orbit five days ago." Another character with a controlling husband who suggests they eat breakfast at Bob Evans is "dismayed" by this and thinks "He knew she didn't like heavy, calorie-laden breakfasts. Other times she missed the mark: Eve says immediately after a kiss- "Epic, as the younger crowd would say." Eve tells her sister, " I'll put on up-tempo music and groove to the beat while I paint." Eve was voted "Most Likely to Beat the Odds" in high school (is that a real superlative schools do?) Eve thinks that listening to her sisters banter "was always a hoot." Eve tells Brent that she's going to read that night and starts describing the book she's reading "I'm immersed in a heartwarming series set in a charming seaside community". I have a big vocabulary and I know a lot of people with bigger vocabularies than my own and no one uses the words "retrieve" (we don't retrieve our purse, we just go get it!), "garb", "courtship", "entered my orbit" in their regular day-to-day exchanges. This is going to seem nit-picky but if I'm going to claim unrealistic dialogue, I'm going to back it up. If you regularly like Irene Hannon's books then I don't think what bothered me would really bother you. Point of Danger was not the exception.ĭisclaimer: this review is a little harsh in a (mostly) sarcastic way. But I just feel like a lot of authors are seemingly out of touch with realistic dialogue and characters. I tend to be harder on Christian fiction authors than I probably should because I do appreciate that they write clean books.
To her credit, she did throw in some red herrings and presented a lot of possibilities for who the primary antagonist was so the ENTIRE book wasn't predictable. I'm not a huge fan of romance novels so that downgraded my experience. Seeing as though Hannon used to write mainly romance, it should come as no surprise that the romance vs suspense in this novel is a little lopsided to the former.
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