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A review by sarahanne8382
The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell
4.0
I guess it's fortunate the I seem to have hit the jackpot for good fiction once school started. While getting stressed out about classes starting up again, I've been able to escape in the pages of a relaxing book on my nightstand at home & realize my problems aren't anything compared to those of Grace Silva while listening to this romantic thriller by Elizabeth Lowell during my daily commute.
The Wrong Hostage delivers suspense with a kidnapping built around a drug smuggler's money laundering problems, and a romance involving passionate lovers kept apart for years only to discover than neither had given up on what they once had.
Of course my rational brain wants to call suspenseful romance a cheap trick - getting scared makes you want to find comfort in the arms of someone you love - but that doesn't mean I wasn't drawn in hook, line, and sinker by Lowell's riveting prose.
As I finished it earlier today on my way to class I wondered if I really should have been listening to The Wrong Hostage while driving. After getting so involved in the characters, I couldn't help but freak out during the story's climax (not a good thing to do while driving on I-80 in Iowa City in the middle of the day).
After releasing that much adrenaline I'm a little too incoherent to describe why this book was so good (or maybe it's just lack of sleep from staying up late reading my other book).
Several times I thought of The Wrong Hostage as 24 in book form. This time the Jack Bauer type has 48 hours, so it's really the longest two days of his life, but that doesn't mean he manages to get much sleep. He's supported by the staff at St. Kilda's Consulting, which seems an awful lot like CTU. True, Joe does manage to share the spotlight with Grace, but he's still the one who basically saves the day with all his seemingly superhuman badass abilities.
The Wrong Hostage delivers suspense with a kidnapping built around a drug smuggler's money laundering problems, and a romance involving passionate lovers kept apart for years only to discover than neither had given up on what they once had.
Of course my rational brain wants to call suspenseful romance a cheap trick - getting scared makes you want to find comfort in the arms of someone you love - but that doesn't mean I wasn't drawn in hook, line, and sinker by Lowell's riveting prose.
As I finished it earlier today on my way to class I wondered if I really should have been listening to The Wrong Hostage while driving. After getting so involved in the characters, I couldn't help but freak out during the story's climax (not a good thing to do while driving on I-80 in Iowa City in the middle of the day).
After releasing that much adrenaline I'm a little too incoherent to describe why this book was so good (or maybe it's just lack of sleep from staying up late reading my other book).
Several times I thought of The Wrong Hostage as 24 in book form. This time the Jack Bauer type has 48 hours, so it's really the longest two days of his life, but that doesn't mean he manages to get much sleep. He's supported by the staff at St. Kilda's Consulting, which seems an awful lot like CTU. True, Joe does manage to share the spotlight with Grace, but he's still the one who basically saves the day with all his seemingly superhuman badass abilities.