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High Tide (Montgomery #17)
Jude Deveraux's sizzling New York Times bestseller is a page-turning mix of thrilling sensuality, warmhearted wit, and hot-blooded suspense. A rising corporate star, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through. When her boss sends her to the Florida Everglades to accompany a wealthy new client on a rustic fishing expedition, it may as well be another planet to c...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
September 1st 2000
by Pocket Books
(first published January 1st 1999)
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I like Jude Deveraux, and all of her books I've read (except this one of course) are wonderful little fantastical ghost stories, or time traveling, or something to do with knights with a sweet little love story thrown in to keep it interesting, and the end.
First of all, I don't like how it took 2/3 of the book for me to figure out (or be told) who or what Kimberly is. I wasn't really even sure what Fiona did, but it was obviously something very important to her. She seemed like she was big-city...more
First of all, I don't like how it took 2/3 of the book for me to figure out (or be told) who or what Kimberly is. I wasn't really even sure what Fiona did, but it was obviously something very important to her. She seemed like she was big-city...more
Not one of my favorite Montgomery books. Fiona is a doll designer who has been assigned to go down to Florida. When she gets there, she mistakenly thinks that a glass animatronic crocodile is attacking people and "kills" it. The very expensive animal belongs to Ace Montgomery who is understandably upset. It's hate at first sight. However, they are both invited to a meeting where the third member is murdered. All of a sudden they are on the run together. They finally figure out that their shared...more
I disliked the heroine who whinged most of the time and seemed to think the hero was required to fall in love with her despite being engaged to another woman.
I was put off by the unrealistic situation of the opening scene where the hero opens up a huge crate of air freight in the middle of a passenger terminal.
I found it annoying how the author tried to make a mystery of the identity of Kimberly, when it was obvious it was a doll.
Towards the middle of the book, I got completely lost and couldn't...more
I was put off by the unrealistic situation of the opening scene where the hero opens up a huge crate of air freight in the middle of a passenger terminal.
I found it annoying how the author tried to make a mystery of the identity of Kimberly, when it was obvious it was a doll.
Towards the middle of the book, I got completely lost and couldn't...more
Normally I like Jude Deveraux books, they're entertaining and are generally fun stories. Having said that I have to say I pretty much hated this book. Fiona is annoying, Ace is a jerk, and the story is so convoluted with supportive characters it's almost impossible to tell what is really going on. The scene in the airport with the bowling ball and the alligator was just plain stupid and I hated that it kept coming up in the "playful banter" and the ending was anticlimactic and just plain irritat...more
This book was okay up until the end, when it just kind of stopped. The epilogue attempted to sum up what had happened after the stop, but it didn't really work. Even before the end, I was having a little trouble connecting with the characters in this one, especially to Ace, who struck me as fairly flat. The romance was awkward, because both of them were involved in relationships and because the chemistry wasn't spot on. It wasn't completely off, but it wasn't great. All in all, I'm going to just...more
This book is pretty much the dividing line between Jude Deveraux books that I enjoyed, and when her characterization really began to grate on me and the books became tedious to get through. In part, I think this is due to me changing as a reader. After all, what's entertaining to a girl of 16 does not necessarily satisfy her when she's 30. I can look back at some of the earlier Montgomery books and still be entertained, though, so High Tide really stands out as the first Jude Deveraux book I did...more
High Tide - Ok
Deveraux, Jude
A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through, with a New Yorker's disdain for anywhere but the city's bustling streets. When her boss inexplicably sends her to handle a new account in the Florida Everglades, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fiona. But this is no ordinary business meeting: Fiona is to join her client on a rustic fishing expedition, accompanied by a guide with the larger-than-life name...more
Deveraux, Jude
A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through, with a New Yorker's disdain for anywhere but the city's bustling streets. When her boss inexplicably sends her to handle a new account in the Florida Everglades, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fiona. But this is no ordinary business meeting: Fiona is to join her client on a rustic fishing expedition, accompanied by a guide with the larger-than-life name...more
Fiona is a doll maker and creator of Kimberly, a popular Barbie like doll who is sent to meet a client in Everglade Florida to negotiate a deal for the New York City company. Fiona fights her opposites attract local, a river guide Ace Montgomery. While in Florida Fiona becomes accused of murder and has to work with the handsome bird watcher who through humor wins her heart. Some suspense and adventure- also unintentionally fantasy because it was not a very believable story.
Hehehe. I was giggling silly and red-faced as it has all soap-opera superficiality and artificiality, but I just couldn't suppress the good feeling associated with its ending. Sometime I need some cotton candy for my mind to relax and relieve me off from my choice of reading list (which could be tad serious at times) and this provides me with just that.
Now, going back to pluralisma in Tuhan Manusia.
Now, going back to pluralisma in Tuhan Manusia.
Funny situations even if murder is invovled. Another Montgomery, but you've got to love them! Fiona discovers that her father isn't who she thought he was and there was more to his stories than just entertainment. Some of the situations were a little contirved. Such as the gated community of strange retirement people. But on the whole a pleasant weekend read.
More Montgomery Family love... Doesn't have the same feel as the rest of the books about the family, it is easy to not consider Ace a Montgomery (or the book related to the others) until the epilogue. The end was abrupt, but the story was fun-full of murder, fairy tales, and mystery. Didn't see the bad guy coming and I've read this one before.
The main heroine in this book is simply all the heroine should be. She was funny, smart, sassy and razor sharp wit and insight. It's not everyday you see a heroine who can see right through the hero. LoL it kept me interested to see who would win in the end but of course everyone wins, it's a romance novel lol.
I.ve read all the Montgomery series. theres trust and seriesness,but most of all love and how a family,sticks together,I would recamend this series if you like historical romances.if anyone has read any of this sreies I would like to have yopur input.and any other recomendations on books with a series
It was the first book that really satisfied me. I guess, when I was very young, I yearned to read love stories. But not something that's boring and/or Victorian. I wanted something modern. High Tide is definitely not boring, it's modern and it was my first "favorite" book.
.. i just didnt comprehend well with the book, it made no sense in the beginning why they were running from the cops. over all it was good. it just didnt explan anything from beginning to end and made you guess at how things got the way they were
This was my bathroom book because it was easy to pick up and read a chapter here and there. Light and exciting and not hard to dive into multiple times. Great book, probably read it at least 5 times over 2008.
Oh Jude D, I love that all your books are EXACTLY the same formula. If you changed something it would destroy my world. God forbid the man and woman who hate each other at the start aren't madly in love by the end.
This was one of those books that reminded me why I like Jude Deveraux...just the right mix of romance, passion, humor, etc. She has had some great stories, some good stories and some that I thought she couldn't possibly have written. This was a good story. Lots of twists and turns...and action.
I haven't been so excited about a book in a while and especially not a non-supernatural/sci-fi book. High Tide was so good, I'm surprised it took me more than a day to read it.
A New York Executive and Florida Bird park owner are accused of murder and must find a way to prove they are innocent.
This is one of the Montgomery Stories
4.5 on a 5.0 scale
This is one of the Montgomery Stories
4.5 on a 5.0 scale
As long as it's one of the Montgomerys and the Taggerts, I'm fascinated... Now, where can i get one? :-D If only they were real...
It was okay. It kept me entertained but I really am not a fan of books with a suplado man and a suplada lady falling for each other.
I liked the mystery throughout the book as to who was the killer. A bit confusing at times. Kept my interest and cute love story.
What a confusing, abysmal excuse of a book. That is 4 hours of my life i am never going to get back. Damn it.
I like Jude Deveraux's books because they are fast, fun and easy to read romances.
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too predicatable. I lost interest in the story about 3/4 the way through the book.
Ms. Devereaux injects a witty sense of humor into her novels that I thoroughly enjoy.
A really good adventure. Plus, it's a Montgomery story so it's got to be fun.
Just ok. Certainly not my favorite of hers.
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Jude Gilliam was born September 20, 1947 in Fairdale, Kentucky. She has a large extended family, and is the elder sister of four brothers. She attended Murray State University and received a degree in Art. In 1967, Jude married and took her husband's surname of White, but four years later they divorced. For years, she worked as 5th-grade teacher.
She began writing in 1976 and her first book, The En...more
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