[.ca] Facing Fear (ISBN 0060523395)

WOW!:
Yeah, this book may be a bit "darker" than Gennita Low's first book, "FACING DANGER", but boy-oh-boy is it good! It has plenty of plot twists to keep the reader on the edge of their sofa - - and enough HOT love scenes to require the ceiling fan on HIGH for the whole book. And just when you think you can't find anything hotter than the pearls scene in the last book - - Ms. Low discovers a whole new use for seatbelts. Yeah, it's a keeper. Trust me, read it with someone YOU love! (They'll be sending thank you cards to Ms. Low too!)

Wow, this book blew me away!:
I stayed up far into the night reading this one. Nikki Taylor is held captive and tortured for over a year after being left for dead by her own government. When she is rescued by another agency she is little more than an animal and doesn't remember much of her past. They rehabilitate and retrain her but for ten years she has been searching for her true identity. Nikki is told one last job will provide the answers she seeks. Rick Harden is under suspicion when his CIA boss is arrested for treason. When Nikki shows up he knows she is using her resemblance to his late wife to investigate him. Rick's devotion and deep love for his late wife is total and he's been going through the motions since her death. Leah was his heart and soul. Nikki's trying desperately to deal with the horror of her past while hoping to find a future. The emotional struggle of these two is heartbreaking. Their struggle to come together despite all odds is heartwarming. This is the first book I've read by Ms. Low but I've now ordered the first in the series and pre-ordered the third. What a wonderful new writer!

Not all that good:
With all due respect to the other reviewers on this site, I have to desagree with their assessment of this book. I found it dragging and very repetitious. How many times did I have to read about what the bad guys did to the heroin? She keeps on coming back to that over and over again as though there was a chance that the reader had forgotten her ordeal. The author repeats herself too much and it almost becomes condescending. I'm not an idiot and I do not hava a short-term memory and I do tend to remember what happened 10 to 50 pages earlier in the book, so I would appreciate not being talked down to in this way. The only reason I gave 2 stars is because the first quarter of the book was alright. However, after the hero found out who the heroin really was, it just went down from there and I was skimming the pages more often than not. Frankly, by the end I didn't care who the bad guys were, I just wanted to be done with the whole thing. Not recommended.

Low does not disappoint:
Low's second novel has a less complicated but tighter plot and I thought it much better than Into Danger. The (...) is still beyond steamy but now it is part of the plot and not laminated on because "that's that you do". Nikki has lost years out of her life, reconstructed from data but not from the memories she carries with her. Her capture and degrading torture, her rescue and recovery-- these are classic themes of the genre. Also, Nikki's memories of her grandmother's teachings were central to her recovery and really gave a necessary ethnic flavor. Regaining her husband and re-establishing trust - a great read, and would have been without all the bedroom action. And Low leaves the door open for a sequel with ancillary characters. I'll be watching for the next one.

Another Keeper By Ms. Low!!:
Ms. Low is fast becoming one of my favorite suspense romance authors!!! Her fast paced, steamy romance, and page turning suspense are not your typical suspense type read. Ms. Low combines, spy action, spy suspense, and yummy hero's in such a way you will be hard pressed to put the book down until you've reach the final page! I can only say that I am waiting not so patiently for her next read! In "Facing Fear" Nikki our heroine is working toward finding her past. All she knows was that she was a government agent that was left behind during a mission gone bad. She has very little memory of who she was and as a result, has made a deal to do one more mission with the end result being she finds out who she really is. This seems like an easy task but there are many challenges, and fears that she must face. One is CIA Operations Chief Rick Harden. She has a connection to him but how? Rick is under a microscope yet again. His boss has just been captured selling government secrets, an undercover SEAL agent has been responsible for finding the mole in the TIARA office. Rick is saavy enough to realize that he will also be considered a possible leak. Now not only does he have to decide if he wants to do anything to salvage what's left of his career, he now finds himself drawn to Nikki the one person he knows it out to get him...but how? Nikki strongly reminds him of his dead wife and she has touched him in such a way that he begins to feel protective of her. This could only mean more trouble. This was as I stated earlier a very fast-paced read. There are so many twists and turns that you have no real idea who the traitor is until the end. Rick is beyond your typical tall, dark, and yummy hero and is a real treat for readers as a result. The chemistry between Rick and Nikki is explosive and hot! If you love edge of your seat reading do yourself a favor and pick up Ms. Low!!!