| Slow Burn: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Julie Garwood
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0345453859
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345453853
ASIN: 0345453859
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
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Skillfully blending searing suspense, characters with grit and heart, and a dynamic plot, bestselling author Julie Garwood has written another electrifying novel of romantic suspense.
Kate MacKenna doesn’t have a bad bone in her body–or an enemy in the world. A woman who barely knew her father and has just lost her mother, Kate is a loving sister, a savvy business owner, and an unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes?
The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police detective. The second one sends her into the arms of her best friend’s brother–a Boston cop who’s a little too reckless and way too charming for comfort. But Dylan Buchanan won’t let emotion prevent him from doing his job: Someone is trying to kill Kate, and Dylan is the only one standing between her and the monster who wants her dead. For Kate to understand the danger, she must learn all about desire–desire for pleasure, desire for power, and someone’s desire to kill.
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 Forgettable - Not Garwood's Best August 27, 2008
I bought it in hardback when it first came out, and I can honestly say that it's a forgettable venture on Garwood's part. I love almost every one of her historical romances, and I LOVED her first contemporary, "Heartbreaker", but I'm convinced that her contemporaries are on a "good one"/"bad one" pattern. I like only every other contemporary that she puts out. Half of them are duds.
"Slow Burn" is formulaic and lacking in creativity and passion in the romance department- the characters are not ones that I connected with or can root for with enthusiasm. Garwood seemed enamored with the idea of putting in as much action and explosions as she possibly could, but there wasn't enough downtime to have character development. Not enjoyable.
If you want to read a good JG contemporary, I recommend "Heartbreaker", "Mercy", and "Murder List".
 Slow Burn June 16, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Kate MacKenna can thank her wonder bra for her life being spared when a bomb went off at a party being thrown by Carl Bertolli. She had snuck into the shrubs to dispose of it when the blast went off. She wasn't injured badly, but the hits just kept coming when she was released from the hospital, and found out that her company was in jeopardy due to loans her deceased mother had put in motion. Not only her company was at risk, but also her own name due to the name recognition. The next hit came when her best friend Jordan Buchanan called, and asked her to come because she was having surgery.
Kate dropped everything to be with Jordan, and as it turned out, Jordan was going to be fine. No one in her family knew what was going on, so Kate was surprised when her brother Dylan showed up. He knew about Jordan's condition, and knew Kate needed him, so he gave her his shoulder. What should have been a friendly gesture soon turned to out of control passion. They were agreed that it was just for one night, but he didn't leave her thoughts even when she headed home. Kate hadn't been home more than a few minutes when someone tried to run her down at the airport. When she received a call from a contractor demanding to meet her at the warehouse she was considering renting, she was sitting out front when it exploded.
When Dylan showed up on Kate's doorstep, she was shocked. Dylan was on leave from the Boston police department after being shot, but he was concerned by all the near misses plaguing Kate. He contacted the local PD, and learned these were deemed deliberate attempts. He wouldn't admit to himself why, but he wasn't leaving until he found out who was threatening Kate. They didn't have to wait long to find out what was behind the attempts because Kate found out she had just inherited 80 million from her recently deceased uncle. When Kate is abducted, Dylan is rushing against time to rescue her.
This is my first book by this author, and I really enjoyed it. Dylan and Kate are priceless together, and the years of friendship/torment really added to their dynamics. Well-written characters, and an interesting suspenseful story made this a good read.
a poor showing for such a talented writer May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say I found this book disappointing. The plot was clunky- neither the mystery nor the romance pulled me in at all. The main characters seemed more like caricatures, the mystery wasn't that mysterious, and there were entirely too many subplots cluttering up the landscape whose only purpose seemed to be laying the groundwork for future novels about these two families.
I've always been a huge fan of Garwood's historical novels, and hoped her signature depth and humor would shine through this contemporary story. Unfortunately, all of the elements of a classic Garwood were missing from Slow Burn, and I was left with shallowly drawn characters and a sketchy plot- not enough to carry the book.
Good- not Mercy or Killjoy Good, But Good April 25, 2008
This book was good. I enjoyed it much better than Murder list. There was a lot of interaction between Dylan and Kate, I had a few good laughs. On to Shadow Dance, Noah's story.
 I like Garwood, this book is a little silly though April 20, 2008
I think that Garwood has everything that it takes to be one of the best novelists of our time. In a couple of her books, I have read swaths of 100 or so pages that leave me with my mouth wide open. However she has a need to always hark back to what she feels is her nitch, that of mystery/thriller/romance. Every time that she does this, she creates a mass of barriers and boundries that limit her stories and in the end suffocates them.
From the start of 'Slow Burn, Garwood pens in her character Kate McKenna. She survives a couple of bomings and members of the Buchanan family come to her rescue. After reading half a dozen of these books, the formula that Garwood uses become very very obvious and you see the exact same characters existing here as you do in her other books. The strong woman who needs a law officer of some sort to protect her. In the end she does great, falls in love with the officer type and gets married.
Whoops, I just gave away the whole story.
I would love it if Garwood would just string together 500 pages of observations and very little plot. I feel that her writing is best in this form. Her characters and stories become just so similar, its like she is writing the same book over and over and over again.
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