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I finished Linda Howard's Up Close and Dangerous this weekend. Many of those who read it said that the plot reminded them of Midnight Rainbow, especially the heroine's bag of "stuff." For me, I saw echos of her novella, White Out, in which the heroine warmed the hero, who was close to hypothermia. Remember? ;-) Of course, the novella being a short format, the hero got into another kind of body heat remarkably quickly! LOL.
Up Close and Dangerous was enjoyable, more a survival adventure than "suspense." I figured out the bad guy way early because it was that obvious, so no suspense there. Although the romance was definitely a return to the old Howard that I love so much, I still feel the distancing of emotion so prevalent in her latter novels.
Do you know what I mean? Something is missing--La Linda used to love to strip emotional needs to the bare essentials, right to the point where need, desire, possession, love all come together in some kind of urgent primitive ritual. The male recognizing his mate, that sorta thing. For me, I notice La Linda no longer delve into that. The closest she came to doing it was in Kiss Me While I Sleep, but even then she held back by not giving too many scenes with the hero's Point-of-View (POV).
I so miss her male POVs. Simply the best in the romance department.
Talking about stripping down to the bare essentials and showing emotional need, ahem....
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Now how come I never get models like that at art class in college, dammit?
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