I finished this book and I really liked it, just like I have liked all of Harley Jane Kozak's books. I will be honest, one of the main reasons I started reading her books is because I used to watch her on Guiding Light, and then Santa Barbara, and I was curious to see how she would transfer her acting to writing. I was pleasantly surprised! Curiosity is what got me to read her first book, but good writing and interesting characters kept me reading.

I have often heard her character, Wollie, compared to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, but I really do not see it at all. Don't get me wrong, I love Stephanie Plum, but she is much more over the top and larger than life than the character of Wollie. I feel like Wollie is someone you could definitely meet in life, someone who is always trying to get by and do better, but things just don't seem to work out the way she would like. When she finally finds what she thinks is her true love, things don't work out. So she picks herself up and goes back out there, and then she meets Simon, her current "spy" lover. Things are going good, too good, and then his job gets in the way. And the way people keep dying around her, well that tends to complicate things as well!

Like I said, I really like this series and I look forward to reading more. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is because there were parts of the book where you couldn't put it down, but there were other parts where it got bogged down in details or went off in too many tangents. It always found its way back, though, so don't let that worry you or turn you off reading this book because it is worth the time you put into it!