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Burn: A Novel |  | Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: Ballantine Books
List Price: $26.00
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Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 29752
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0345486560
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345486561
ASIN: 0345486560
Publication Date: July 7, 2009
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Product Description
It’s true what they say: Money changes everything. And in Linda Howard’s red-hot novel Burn, the changes come fast, furious, and filled with the kind of sexy suspense, heart-stopping romance, beautiful people, and risky business guaranteed to give you the most bang for your buck.
Money certainly changes Jenner Redwine’s life when she wins a lottery jackpot. But it also costs her plenty: Her father rips her off and disappears, her fortune-hunting boyfriend soon becomes her ex, and friends-turned-freeloaders give her the cold shoulder when she stops paying for everything.
Flush with new money, Jenner can’t imagine ever finding a place in the world of the wealthy. Seven years later, though, she’s rubbing elbows with the rich, despite the fact she still feels like a party crasher. Luckily she finds an ally–and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege–in shy, kind-hearted heiress Sydney Hazlett, who quickly becomes Jenner’s confidante and surrogate sister.
When Sydney invites Jenner on a charity cruise aboard a luxury liner, Jenner reluctantly agrees. But while she’s expecting–and dreading–two weeks of masquerade balls, art auctions, and preening glitterati, what she gets is more like a Hitchcock movie than a Love Boat episode. Taken hostage by a menacing stranger, Jenner must cooperate in a mysterious cloak-and-dagger scheme–or else. With nowhere to run, and with Sydney’s life as well as her own at risk, Jenner is drawn into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger. But as her panic gives way to exhilaration, and fear of her captor turns to fascination, Jenner rediscovers feelings she hasn’t had in years–and realizes she’s found a life worth living. If she survives.
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Not bad; not great. March 6, 2010
CORTEGA (The Great North)
Jenner wins the lottery ($295 Million) and her world goes from dead-end meat packing job to mingling with the rich and glitzy people of the world. The book starts off describing her dead end life, to winning the lottery, to getting a financial planner so she didn't lose all that newly won money, to losing the few people she was somewhat close with because of the money, to making a new life with the money. That whole part of the story just seemed unnecessary because the bulk of the story had nothing to do with her former life.
Jenner and her friend, Syd, (a rich young woman) plan to go on a glitzy charity cruise, but that never happens because they are both kidnapped: Syd kept off the cruise; Jenner put on the cruise ship where she is the "hostage" of Cael, a black ops leading a small crew onboard into discovering what the ship's owner (who is a bad guy trading weapons to bad countries) is up to. The part with the ship owner has a whole Speed 2/Willem Dafoe feel to it. I was waiting for the the man, Frank, to start with the leeches, but instead he's dying of cancer and intends to blow up the whole ship, thereby killing himself and all the rich people he apparently despises. Like I said, the whole scenario is weird; you don't really understand Frank's distain for the innocent people onboard.
Of course, Jenner and Cael are attracted to each other, even though Jenner says up front she won't be going all Stockholm syndromy on him. But, she does and they wind up sleeping together each night with her handcuffed to him, until she no longer needs to be handcuffed and is there because she wants to be. They have sex finally and have strong feelings for each other.
There are other characters that are filler and you don't wind up interested in them. In the end, it's as you would predict: Jenner and Cael wind up together, and Jenner winds up as part of Cael's team.
Readable, but not like you'd want to read it again, or think about it again for that matter.
 burning sensation February 27, 2010
D (St. Louis, Missouri United States)
After twelve years of reading and buying her novels i don't honestly believe i have been disappointed. This damsel was probably the most severe hard ass she had ever created. Can you imagine going on a cruise to have fun and its ruined before you bored a ship scheduled for Detonation? Held hostage in your own suite, forced to participate in a covert operation with a complete jerk, and threatened daily? REFUND and shoot your travel agent!!!!
Of my top ten favorites this one had wedged a tie with Open Season. Still waiting for one of espionage to take the number one slot from "All The Queen's Men".
 Burn February 17, 2010
Barbie (Greenwood SC USA)
Really a page turner. Read it in 2 days. Linda Howard has been a favorite of mine since she put out the first novel.
 Just doesn't work for me February 1, 2010
C. Baker (Little Rock, AR)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't usually abandon any book, but I finally just put this one down and did not pick it up again. I generally enjoy any book by Linda Howard, but this one is not up to her usual standards. The characters did not seem real or the situation plausible.
HUH????? January 25, 2010
Darian Ray (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
OMG - what the heck was this mess? I read, and re-read the prologue twice trying to figure out what the heck was going on! I never did. What a confusing mess. How on earth did BURN get published? Thank God I got it from the library.
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