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Liar's Game #2
Chain Reaction
Artist Mia Kearney has the perfect life: a successful career, a home she loves, amazing friends...until the hot August morning her world explodes. Lone survivor of a nuclear accident, Mia awakens in a government facility, faced with Homeland Security agent Nicholas Price, a man who wants answers she knows she doesn't have. When Mia escapes, Nick has a choice to make. The CIA wants him off the case, but instinct tells him not to let Mia out of his sight.
Now the web of deceit that's woven tightly around them is about to unravel, and someone out there won't be satisfied until Cedar Branch's last surviving resident is dead....
Now the web of deceit that's woven tightly around them is about to unravel, and someone out there won't be satisfied until Cedar Branch's last surviving resident is dead....
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 26, 2007
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About the author
Dee Davis
76 books357 followersAward winning author Dee Davis worked in association management before turning her had to writing. Her highly acclaimed first novel, Everything In Its Time, was published in July 2000. Since then, among others, she’s won the Booksellers Best, Golden Leaf, Texas Gold and Prism awards, and been nominated for the National Readers Choice Award, the Holt and two RT Reviewers Choice Awards. To date, she is the author of over thirty novels and novellas, including her current A-Tac series and Cottage in the Mist. When not sitting at the computer, Dee spends time exploring Connecticut with her husband, daughter, and Cardigan Welsh Corgis.
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June 17, 2009
A nuclear blast took out the entire population of small town Cedar Branch in Idaho. Only one survived, artist Mia Kearney. Is she a victim who miraculously survived or did she have something to do with the blast? That's what Nick Price of Homeland Security wants to find out.
But when she escapes and Nick is called home, all kinds of red flags are raised and he has no choice but go after her. Then, when it becomes evident someone wants to silence Mia forever, Nick realizes not everything is as it seems and the two embark together on a journey to discover the truth. The truth the powers that be would do anything to keep buried.
This would've been an excellent romantic suspense / thriller story if it wasn't for its length. Because instead of filling all those pages with gripping, intriguing stuff, the author stuffed it with page-filling minutiae, only sparsely intersected by suspenseful elements, action scenes, and the hero-heroine conflict. Said conflict would've been much more interested if she kept it constant (but the ping-pong effects of now-he-believes-her-now-he-doesn't-now-he-does got old pretty quickly).
I loved the slow buildup toward the discovery of the truth (what could be seen through the insignificant details), but unfortunately Ms. Davis showed her hand too soon and I figured out what it was all about somewhere in the middle. Of course it took the characters, a former Special Forces operative and an artist turned computer genius (major suspension of disbelief needed here!), later on helped by Nick's Homeland Security buddy and computer wiz almost to the end to connect the dots.
Kudos for the excellent portrayal of the hypocrisy, greed, and blood-lust among those who are sworn to protect us, but are willing to sell their mothers to make a decent buck.
But when she escapes and Nick is called home, all kinds of red flags are raised and he has no choice but go after her. Then, when it becomes evident someone wants to silence Mia forever, Nick realizes not everything is as it seems and the two embark together on a journey to discover the truth. The truth the powers that be would do anything to keep buried.
This would've been an excellent romantic suspense / thriller story if it wasn't for its length. Because instead of filling all those pages with gripping, intriguing stuff, the author stuffed it with page-filling minutiae, only sparsely intersected by suspenseful elements, action scenes, and the hero-heroine conflict. Said conflict would've been much more interested if she kept it constant (but the ping-pong effects of now-he-believes-her-now-he-doesn't-now-he-does got old pretty quickly).
I loved the slow buildup toward the discovery of the truth (what could be seen through the insignificant details), but unfortunately Ms. Davis showed her hand too soon and I figured out what it was all about somewhere in the middle. Of course it took the characters, a former Special Forces operative and an artist turned computer genius (major suspension of disbelief needed here!), later on helped by Nick's Homeland Security buddy and computer wiz almost to the end to connect the dots.
Kudos for the excellent portrayal of the hypocrisy, greed, and blood-lust among those who are sworn to protect us, but are willing to sell their mothers to make a decent buck.
December 6, 2015
Rated down from 5 stars to 4 because I was trying to convince the characters that it was a biological weapon with a nuclear cover up long long before they ever considered it. Pretty obvious. I'm used to Dee Davis being a lot more subtle.
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March 29, 2020
While the story line was good enough; it did not keep my attention.
To be fair; Covid19 has changed many of my plans during this past month. Including packing up; unexpected travel and isolation. A different time in my life; a different mindset; and in all honesty a different review.
Timing is everything.
To be fair; Covid19 has changed many of my plans during this past month. Including packing up; unexpected travel and isolation. A different time in my life; a different mindset; and in all honesty a different review.
Timing is everything.
June 3, 2020
Great Book!
Fast Read. Enjoyed this book so much. Lots of twists and turns. Another winner by Dee Davis! On to the next book in this series.
Fast Read. Enjoyed this book so much. Lots of twists and turns. Another winner by Dee Davis! On to the next book in this series.
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April 9, 2010
A nuclear blast took out the entire population of small town Cedar Branch in Idaho. Only one survived, artist Mia Kearney. Is she a victim who miraculously survived or did she have something to do with the blast? That's what Nick Price of Homeland Security wants to find out.
But when she escapes and Nick is called home, all kinds of red flags are raised and he has no choice but go after her. Then, when it becomes evident someone wants to silence Mia forever, Nick realizes not everything is as it seems and the two embark together on a journey to discover the truth. The truth the powers that be would do anything to keep buried.
This would've been an excellent romantic suspense / thriller story if it wasn't for its length. Because instead of filling all those pages with gripping, intriguing stuff, the author stuffed it with page-filling minutiae, only sparsely intersected by suspenseful elements, action scenes, and the hero-heroine conflict. Said conflict would've been much more interested if she kept it constant (but the ping-pong effects of now-he-believes-her-now-he-doesn't-now-he-does got old pretty quickly).
I loved the slow buildup toward the discovery of the truth (what could be seen through the insignificant details), but unfortunately Ms. Davis showed her hand too soon and I figured out what it was all about somewhere in the middle. Of course it took the characters, a former Special Forces operative and an artist turned computer genius (major suspension of disbelief needed here!), later on helped by Nick's Homeland Security buddy and computer wiz almost to the end to connect the dots.
Kudos for the excellent portrayal of the hypocrisy, greed, and blood-lust among those who are sworn to protect us, but are willing to sell their mothers to make a decent buck.
But when she escapes and Nick is called home, all kinds of red flags are raised and he has no choice but go after her. Then, when it becomes evident someone wants to silence Mia forever, Nick realizes not everything is as it seems and the two embark together on a journey to discover the truth. The truth the powers that be would do anything to keep buried.
This would've been an excellent romantic suspense / thriller story if it wasn't for its length. Because instead of filling all those pages with gripping, intriguing stuff, the author stuffed it with page-filling minutiae, only sparsely intersected by suspenseful elements, action scenes, and the hero-heroine conflict. Said conflict would've been much more interested if she kept it constant (but the ping-pong effects of now-he-believes-her-now-he-doesn't-now-he-does got old pretty quickly).
I loved the slow buildup toward the discovery of the truth (what could be seen through the insignificant details), but unfortunately Ms. Davis showed her hand too soon and I figured out what it was all about somewhere in the middle. Of course it took the characters, a former Special Forces operative and an artist turned computer genius (major suspension of disbelief needed here!), later on helped by Nick's Homeland Security buddy and computer wiz almost to the end to connect the dots.
Kudos for the excellent portrayal of the hypocrisy, greed, and blood-lust among those who are sworn to protect us, but are willing to sell their mothers to make a decent buck.
October 6, 2010
On the spine it says, "Romantic Suspense," which I didn't notice, or I wouldn't have bought it at the book sale. Romance category books do not appeal to me. Luckily there was a lot more suspense, than there was romance. It starts with Mia Kearney, an artist, being the only person in a small Western town to escape being killed by an unknown factor. She teams up with a man from Homeland Security named Nick Price, and they set off on an exciting adventure. Hopefully, something like this would never happen.
May 3, 2011
Not bad for a romance. I didn't realize that I had picked up a romance when I started it. Plenty of action/adventure in it to keep me interested. The romance was appropriate. I can't stand books where it doesn't make sense or is so over the top sappy. Keep it real
July 17, 2011
This really moved along. Another one I could not put down. Mia, the lone survivor of a nuclear accident along with Nick the CIA agent works with her to find who, what, when,where etc. Like the cover called it a edge-of-your-seat read and it certainly was.
December 13, 2007
Improbable? Yes. Fun? Yup. Great little mental vacation!
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October 23, 2010
Finally decided to call it quits on this book. It was just too slow going, wasn't keeping me interested and couldn't make myself pick it back up!
October 7, 2010
New author for me. Good book. Don't know if I would read another title by her.
April 8, 2012
I got lost in this book, there was a lot of details to the story. I really skimmed thru the book to see what happened; didn't hold my attention.
June 19, 2012
Liked it, but it seemed to be longer than it needed to be.
April 17, 2016
meh. this book was just ok. it got a bit complicated and i wasnt 100% sure what was going on. but i was also pretty drunk trying to read the ending. nothing amazing.
May 21, 2009
Great suspense.
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