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I love this author. I eagerly pounce on every new book she writes. I've given 5 stars to many of her books, but this book gave me problems. Put an outline on the blackboard showing all the conflicts and how and why they occurred, and you get the following. Bad decisions by good people. People being told the truth and not believing it. Good guys knowing they are in danger but going off alone. Bad guys repeatedly lucky. Bad guys' lies repeatedly believed by everyone. Edie's truths repeatedly not believed by almost everyone, and their responses to Edie were abusive. I've read other books which used some of these conflict devices, and I was fine with it. Limited use is ok. My problem here is this particular "mix" and the "quantity" - way too much of it.

There are multiple conflicts where the bad guys get the good guys, the good guys get away, and then the bad guys get them again later. Getting out of conflicts was done well. But WHY the characters were put in danger was my problem.

A couple of times, the author used a "temporary cliffhanger" which I didn't like. For example, Kev enters a room, sees bad guys coming in, Kev takes the first shot, and then the author switches to another scene with other characters for several pages before returning to Kev. I prefer logical endings to scenes. There is plenty of suspense due to content. I don't need this "artificial suspense." I'll accept occasional use if it's helpful to show other things going on, but that was not the case here.

Kev and Edie have some arguments along the way which I didn't care for. They were based on each one thinking they were not good enough for the other.

Something important was missing. I needed a scene or two with all the brothers finally being together and having a heart to heart about the missing 18 years.

On the positive side, McKenna is great at pulling me in emotionally to the characters. In the first part of the book I hurt for Kev, and I was scared to death of Ava. When I read another book "Ecstasy Unveiled," I did NOT hurt for the tortured hero, and I was NOT afraid of the bad guy. In my review of that book, I used "Fade to Midnight" as an example of how to pull readers in emotionally (to the characters). McKenna is great at doing that. She also writes excellent action scenes and events. She shows not tells.

As with several other McKenna books, this was a scary roller coaster ride. It was hard to put down. I wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen. The suspense kept me awake at night. I enjoyed it a lot, even though I had the problems mentioned above.

DATA:
Story length: 490 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong, including rape. Number of sex scenes: 12. Approximate number of sex scene pages: 22. Setting: current day Oregon and Washington state. Copyright: 2010. Genre: romantic suspense thriller.

OTHER BOOKS:
Of her full length novels, I gave 5 stars to: Behind Closed Doors, Standing in the Shadows, Return to Me, Out of Control, Hot Night, Edge of Midnight, Extreme Danger, and Ultimate Weapon. I gave 4 stars to Tasting Fear and 3 stars to Fade to Midnight. She's done some short stories in anthologies which I rated 3 stars and 5 stars. The 5 star short stories are in the following anthologies: All Through the Night and Bad Boys Next Exit.


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Fade to Midnight Mccloud Brothers Shannon McKenna 9780758228659 Books Reviews

Just plain WOW! I literally gobbled up every one of this series, one after the other. Sharon McKenna and her thrill-a- minute-books are highly addictive and worth the price of admission. Her heroes are Studly Do -Rights, men who are brainy, brawny, protective, slightly flawed, and drop-dead handsome. The women are also brave, smart, loyal, loving and attractive. The plots are ingenious, tied together adeptly from book to book ( but can stand alone), and filled with properly menacing villains with diabolical, futuristically imagined plots and danger everywhere.

This book, and oh how I hope the McCloud and Friends series continues, is Kev's, the presumed dead long lost youngest brother, a twin. He's the most brilliant of four extraordinarily intelligent, honed to perfection sons of a survivalist, and the one who has suffered enormously, physically and mentally. It is here, in this story, where the others and their women realize that perhaps Kev is still alive, and it is here that Kev, while battling the bad guys, finds his memory, and finds his own woman, the courageous , lovely Edie. To get to the HEA though, you must tread through plot twists and turns, realistic fight scenes, show-downs, maniacal killers, mad scientists, and steamy love scenes. My kind of book, for sure.
So Kev McCloud finally got his book. What a ride this one was. In many ways a fitting end to the series and in some ways this story showcased how long in the tooth the series was becoming. This was totally Kev's book, thankfuly, the author did not clog it up with too many cut aways to the grieving brothers, but I felt she used Sean and his long suffering stance of "I know he's alive, I feel it in me bones" well and heck Liv was a total hoot. I was a bit sorry to not have seen more of the wives of the other brothers but trust me that when Liv (Sean's wife) make her appearance she holds it up for the rest of the estrogen troop.

The thing with this series and this author is that it's all sort of a one trick pony by saying that I mean there is a lot of isolation, on the run and filthy grubbiness (for once why can't we escape from the evil-doers in style for pete's sake) big guns, slapping, drooling and horrible, horrible bad guys. However with this story the 2 bad guys were more Abbott & Costello that bad guys with any real teeth. By 1/2 way through the book their plans for world domination was silly and filled with ineptitudes and the trail of bodies left along the roadsides, forest lanes, driveways, buildings and the freezer was too unrealistic. The poor po-dunk cops are gonna take a big hit in this town when it becomes clear that so much was going on under their noses that good old fashioned police work coulda solved.

But the focal point as ever is the McCloud man and men. Kevin was actually very likeable and I sorta really loved the way he approached Edie for the first time. However he then went from shy, uncertain, scarred semi-amnesiac to a freakin millionaire, Rambo, Dirk Diggler... I couldn't upshift so fast.

Then when it becomes clear that the other McCloud boys have found their lost brother, the fur and bullets fly. At certain points it was soooo yahooo, giddyap, soildier up, ride-or die I just could not stop envisioning those old Dukes of Hazard episodes where they blow up Boss Hog's latest contraption and get away by sliding across the hood of the General Lee hollering loudly in the night and whizzing past bullets with Boss Hog waving his fists in the air and screaming "I'll git them Duke boys"!!

Maybe I have O-D'd on too much x-cog myself but I am really happy this series is ended, I enjoyed the book but I am waiting to see what next adventure Ms. McKenna can create and hope there is a bit more versatility in her bag of tricks.
I love this author. I eagerly pounce on every new book she writes. I've given 5 stars to many of her books, but this book gave me problems. Put an outline on the blackboard showing all the conflicts and how and why they occurred, and you get the following. Bad decisions by good people. People being told the truth and not believing it. Good guys knowing they are in danger but going off alone. Bad guys repeatedly lucky. Bad guys' lies repeatedly believed by everyone. Edie's truths repeatedly not believed by almost everyone, and their responses to Edie were abusive. I've read other books which used some of these conflict devices, and I was fine with it. Limited use is ok. My problem here is this particular "mix" and the "quantity" - way too much of it.

There are multiple conflicts where the bad guys get the good guys, the good guys get away, and then the bad guys get them again later. Getting out of conflicts was done well. But WHY the characters were put in danger was my problem.

A couple of times, the author used a "temporary cliffhanger" which I didn't like. For example, Kev enters a room, sees bad guys coming in, Kev takes the first shot, and then the author switches to another scene with other characters for several pages before returning to Kev. I prefer logical endings to scenes. There is plenty of suspense due to content. I don't need this "artificial suspense." I'll accept occasional use if it's helpful to show other things going on, but that was not the case here.

Kev and Edie have some arguments along the way which I didn't care for. They were based on each one thinking they were not good enough for the other.

Something important was missing. I needed a scene or two with all the brothers finally being together and having a heart to heart about the missing 18 years.

On the positive side, McKenna is great at pulling me in emotionally to the characters. In the first part of the book I hurt for Kev, and I was scared to death of Ava. When I read another book "Ecstasy Unveiled," I did NOT hurt for the tortured hero, and I was NOT afraid of the bad guy. In my review of that book, I used "Fade to Midnight" as an example of how to pull readers in emotionally (to the characters). McKenna is great at doing that. She also writes excellent action scenes and events. She shows not tells.

As with several other McKenna books, this was a scary roller coaster ride. It was hard to put down. I wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen. The suspense kept me awake at night. I enjoyed it a lot, even though I had the problems mentioned above.

DATA
Story length 490 pages. Swearing language strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language strong, including rape. Number of sex scenes 12. Approximate number of sex scene pages 22. Setting current day Oregon and Washington state. Copyright 2010. Genre romantic suspense thriller.

OTHER BOOKS
Of her full length novels, I gave 5 stars to Behind Closed Doors, Standing in the Shadows, Return to Me, Out of Control, Hot Night, Edge of Midnight, Extreme Danger, and Ultimate Weapon. I gave 4 stars to Tasting Fear and 3 stars to Fade to Midnight. She's done some short stories in anthologies which I rated 3 stars and 5 stars. The 5 star short stories are in the following anthologies All Through the Night and Bad Boys Next Exit.