Saturday, August 11, 2007

All Jacked Up by Penny McCall


All Jacked up by Penny McCall

Berkley Sensation, April 2007

Aubrey Sullivan thought she was pretty content in her world of books. As a librarian for the Library of Congress she was doing what she loved to do and, partly due to her photographic memory, she got invited to all the in and hip parties with the higher ups in D.C. Unfortunately, due to that same memory apparently, someone wants her dead.


Jack Mitchell is the FBI agent/possible mole who says he’s only kidnapping Aubrey to protect her. It doesn’t matter that he’s trying to save his own hide, and job, in the process. With one of the largest mob bosses in the U.S. after them, Jack isn’t taking any chances with something happening to either one of them.

In close quarters and on the run, Jack and Aubrey drive each other crazy, sometimes even in a good way.

This is a fairly fast-paced story by debut author, Penny McCall. It starts out pretty intense and stays that way, pretty much throughout. Unfortunately, the head hopping kept disconnecting me since I had to keep reading back to figure out who was saying what. Sometimes I still wasn’t sure. It was there, constantly through the entire story, and not just between the hero and heroine. That was the main thing that really bothered me, but it bothered me a lot. That, and the fact that Jack kept referring to Aubrey’s size. Yeah, we get it already, she’s skinny and not built.

On the other hand, the author has a great voice and I love the comedic edge she applied to both Jack and Aubrey, which helped to lighten up some of the more intense moments. The supporting characters were hilarious and I could see all of them very clearly, which I loved. All in all, it was a good story with some kickass moments.

It looks like Ms. McCall has another book coming out in July and I will give it a read. If she’s managed to lessen the head-hopping the book could be phenomenal.

I give this 3.5 Kisses, Review for Romance Divas

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