DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann -*

I've read Brockmann before and she has a bad habit of throwing a ton of names at you very quickly. To start she has Jimmy fake dead, screwing Tess, who Decker is pretending to screw (due to Jims fake death) but really has wanted to screw Sophia who is now screwing Dave but she always wanted to screw Decker (so Dave thinks). What I'm wondering is if Decker always wanted to screw Sophia and she wanted him- before the pretend death why was he not screwing her? Why is he now pretending to screw Tess? Obviously the writer has more experience playing games in relationships than I do cuz I don't get it.

There's a lot of sex involved amongst people who have supposedly very little experience (one a virgin at 30 bwahahahaa) but now have the ability to find every possible position quite suddenly. This is a large pill to swallow so get a big glass of water.

Her writing is generally easy to follow if you block out the names/nouns, her characters are ok but sort of similar personality-wise. Big hulking muscle men, beautiful blue eyed dainty feminine women. Barbies with legs spread everywhere.

Here are the people you need to get familiar with in 35 pages:
Sophia, Dave, James Nash, Alyssa Locke, Tom Paoletti, Lawrence Decker, Sam Starrett, Kathy/Anise, Maureen Miles, Tess Bailey, Jules Cassidy, Diego Nash NICKNAME for James Nash now called Lloyd Howard (3 names= 1 guy), Paula, Robin, Ashton, Mary Lou, Paul Miles, Cleopatra Farrell or Cynthia, Miles Farrell aka Sophia, Dimitri. I'm not sorting out relationships and good luck reading that before falling asleep.  It would be a lot of names even if each character didn't have 2 or 3 of them.


These are supposedly tough guys yet one weeps in his sleep, another is an emotional pushover that the 'idea of bunnies falling in love in spring make him choke up'. Tough undercover agents who are sweet, cuddly and adorable to their girlfriends (term 'women' does not apply) and keep getting stab wounds and gunshots. Hospitals figure heavily in her book. Very clever dark ops men getting shot and surprised all the time! 


When referring to 'undercover' agents here it has only to do with a bed.


Sex is either mentioned, being done, or thought about on every one of the 418 pages and you know what they say about those who talk about it the most-getting it least. It all gets so tedious so fast. And one slutty bitch waves her dildo around and has a conversation about it for chapters on end. I would be embarrassed to write this shit. 


Too tediously over-sexual. Who reads this? WHO? I quit halfway.
I've read Harlequin Romances 100x better than this inane b.s. 
MINUS a star. Really. It SUCKED.