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Lie with Me (Shadow Force Series, Book 1)

por Stephanie Tyler

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Fiction. Romance. Suspense. HTML:Forced together by fate, bound together by desire
 
Framed for a double murder, Delta Force operative Cameron Moore is given a new lease on life by the CIAâ??provided he pays them back by doing their black ops dirty work. But now Cam is ready to renegotiate the deal, and he thinks heâ??s found the perfect bargaining chip: Skylar Slavin, bestselling author of espionage thrillers and the daughter of the CIA man who saved Cam from a prison sentence.

Skylar has been living in anonymity, never suspecting that someone so dangerousâ??and so desirableâ??would plunge her into a world as treacherous as one of her spy novels. But how can Cam go through with his plan to kidnap Skylar when just the sight of her sets off an explosive attraction heâ??s never experienced before? And when Skylar falls prey to an even more perilous threat, this special ops soldier must call upon all his combat skills to protect the one person who can help
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The hero is one angry dude in first chapter of this book. Made you a little worried for the heroine when he decides to use her for revenge.. But once he meets her and finds out she is nothing like her father (who everyone seems to hate) he changes his mind and ends up having to protect her.. I guess since this was the first book in the series there had to be alot of backstories for all the characters. I agree with other reviewers that it was a little confusing the first couple chapters the way it kept changing from Cam to Skylar then to Dylan and Riley (who are the secondary romance in this book) Overall a good book. ( )
  CindySnS | Oct 26, 2016 |
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  jendoyle2000 | May 19, 2014 |
Good book. I liked both Skylar and Cam. Both of them are strong people, but also have issues that make them feel more realistic. Cam is ready to be done with dancing to Gabriel's tune with the black ops work and has finally found a way to do it. He's going to kidnap the man's daughter and use her to force Gabriel to set him free. But when he shows up to take her, he discovers that he's not the only one with that idea and ends up protecting her rather than using her. Skylar is an author of spy novels but never expected to end up in a situation even more dangerous than in one of her books. She's not sure if she can trust Cam, but she can't deny the attraction she feels for him.

After her agent mother's death, Skylar was hidden away by her CIA father, coached and trained to keep her true identity hidden. She has taken a working vacation, trying to get her writing back on track after kidney transplant surgery. She hasn't been able to reach her father for several weeks, so when Cam shows up and tells her that her father sent him, she wants to believe him. Others show up claiming the same thing, leading her to wonder who's telling the truth, but she ends up trusting Cam. As they try to evade capture by those who want to use Skylar against her father, she grows closer to Cam. I liked the way that she accepted him for who he was, even knowing some of the things he's had to do in his work. She also shares things with him that she's never told anyone else. I really liked the emotional connection that they had early on. It was also nice to see that it didn't make things all rainbows and flowers for the rest of the book. Sky had to deal with some of the things she learned about him, including what really brought him to her to start with. She also had to deal with the things she learned about her father. I also liked the way that, even though she's not physically at full strength because of her transplant surgery, she still is able to hold her own during the book. Though she occasionally has her doubts about Cam, she is a full participant in her own rescue and the search for her father.

Cam has not had it easy in his life. His father was an undercover ATF agent who got a little too deep into his last op. He ended up getting killed and Cam got framed for the murder of two FBI agents. After spending two years in prison, he was given the chance to clear his record by becoming an operative for Gabriel's black ops group. So when Cam isn't doing his Delta Force gig, he's doing things that he isn't always proud of. After ten years, he's had enough but needs something to use against Gabriel to force him to release Cam. Thanks to his friend Dylan, Cam discovers Gabriel has a daughter and is determined to kidnap her and use her for leverage against him. His first sight of Sky knocks him for a loop, and finding out that someone else is after her too changes his plans for her. Suddenly he's more interested in protecting her than using her. He also finds that they have much more in common than he thought they would. I really loved seeing Cam's heart get involved. Sky's acceptance of him in spite of what he sees as blood on his hands makes a huge difference to his outlook on life. For such a tough guy it's fun to see that there is a tender side also, which comes out as he takes care of Sky. He is faced with a terrible dilemma as he must decide whether to pursue his plan to use her against her father, or give up on those plans and try to save the father of the woman he he loves.

There's also a secondary romance with Cam's best friend Dylan and another operative named Riley. As the book goes on we see how their story is interwoven with the events that lead up to Gabriel's capture, and their involvement in Cam's mission.

The suspense part of the story is very well done. There is the homegrown terrorist organization with the appropriately evil boss. There is just enough from his point of view for us to see just how bad he is without him taking over the story. While part of the mystery is solved by the end of the book, part continues on to the next one. ( )
  scoutmomskf | Feb 15, 2014 |

Two days after reading this and I'm still not sure how I feel about this book.

Usually the focus of any romantic entanglement between characters in a romantic suspense novel is on one couple. In this story we got a double dose from two separate couples, which meant double (almost triple) the amount of sex scenes. I found myself flipping through most of them, especially those between Dylan and Ri because their type of relationship was very Mr & Mrs Smith - volatile and somewhat sexy, but I felt like those scenes were forced on the reader, me. I garnered enough information from the few conversations between them to know that they had a lust/hate relationship. I could have done without their flashbacks. There was also a lot of flip-flopping between the couples that confused me a few times. At least they all shared the same link - Gabriel.

The plot was good and suspenseful until the end, but I just didn't feel invested in the characters. I liked it, but not enough to want to grab the next book in the series right away.

3 stars ... 3.5ish.
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  MsRomanticReads | Apr 12, 2013 |
This book morphs from bad at the beginning to excellent at the end, and I went from wanting to rate it two stars to wanting to rate it a lot higher. Stephanie Tyler drives me crazy with her writing, but I have to say, she’s matured so much as a writer with this one. I went from reading her books even though I didn’t really enjoy them to devouring them because I really like them.

You see! Everyone was giving up on Stephanie Tyler and I knew it was crazy to keep on reading, but I just knew she’d get better. I just knew it!

Skylar’s father’s some major CIA guy, and Cameron needs to kidnap – and possibly harm – Skylar in order to blackmail the father into freeing him from his obligations. Skylar is recovering from a serious illness, which doesn’t help with Cameron’s conscience when he turns up at her door.

I have a sick, sadistic penchant for books where the hero sets out to harm the heroine in some way; realises he can’t; she finds out and backs off; and then he has to make it up to her. I knew from the outset this was going to be the kind of thing I enjoyed.

I’ve had some issues with Stephanie Tyler’s romantic suspense in the past. It’s been all tell and no show, and it was a little over the top, taking liberties with military things (like the hero who joined the Navy at fifteen – might have happened a hundred years ago, but not now!), and making all of the characters Super-Cool Super-Spies who could save the world with their bare hands. I liked this book more than those in the earlier, very loosely-linked ‘Hard to Hold’ trilogy, but the first hundred pages or so were filled with the same problems as the others.

In the past Tyler has had a tendency to tell us what happened –after the event, and in a very passive voice. A scene will begin when the character has already got out of the dangerous situation, and then we’ll proceed to be told what happened in a series of flashbacks. It happened here at the beginning, and I was worried it was going to continue for the whole book – it didn’t. The first third told us everyone’s life stories – we were even given the life stories of a few characters (relatives of people in the book) who didn’t even make an appearance! A new chapter would start with the promise of action, but then the entire thing was just more backstory. There was even a sex scene told in flashbacks; completely unnecessary!

However after that the book improved. Tyler’s writing has matured since her earlier trilogy, and I actually felt a connection to the characters and their emotions. I liked that Cameron and Skylar behaved sensibly. Skylar was in a dangerous situation, but behaved like an intelligent person – accepting help when she knew she needed it, and questioning things that needed to be questioned. Cameron kept some major secrets from her, but he revealed things as early as he safely could, and trusted Skylar to make intelligent decisions for herself. It’s not always that characters behave like they’re capable and smart.

If you consider the time this story took place in, the relationship was rushed. I can buy it in a crazy suspense series – like Tara Janzen’s books – but I often struggle more with in something that takes itself more seriously. It would have been nice if the story had a slightly longer timeframe. That said, by the end of the book I’d completely forgotten about it because the idea of Skylar and Cameron together was understandable, and I honestly believed they were going to last the distance.

As with every Stephanie Tyler book I’ve read, this one focuses on more than one relationship. It often drives me crazy, as you buy a book for what’s in the blurb, but then end up reading a book that’s only half dedicated to that story. I quite liked Dylan and Riley’s story too, but it took a few chapters to warm to them. I suppose the thing that annoyed me about them was that they, too, were superheroes who were so cool and so experienced and so good at their jobs and so involved in some secret super-spy military world of mega-sexiness and wonder. Everyone was too connected for their own good, and every so often I started to feel like they were in a world where I couldn’t find anything to identify with.

The book finishes with a very definite ‘To Be Continued’. Usually that drives me insane. I can’t say why I was okay with it here.

But you know what? It’s so much better for a book to start off just okay and then become great, than to go the other way. I came into Lie With Me with no expectations whatsoever – I’d given very mixed reviews to the author’s other books. So when it turned out this one was a great read, I was very pleasantly surprised. I’m really looking forward to the next book.

I also must say that the man on the cover is creepy. He’s a cross between Tom Cruise and that pointy man in the Twilight movies with the pinched face and the blonde wig. I did my best to pretend Cameron looked like the complete opposite of him while I was reading this book. ( )
  ZosiaCanberra | Nov 5, 2010 |
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Fiction. Romance. Suspense. HTML:Forced together by fate, bound together by desire
 
Framed for a double murder, Delta Force operative Cameron Moore is given a new lease on life by the CIAâ??provided he pays them back by doing their black ops dirty work. But now Cam is ready to renegotiate the deal, and he thinks heâ??s found the perfect bargaining chip: Skylar Slavin, bestselling author of espionage thrillers and the daughter of the CIA man who saved Cam from a prison sentence.

Skylar has been living in anonymity, never suspecting that someone so dangerousâ??and so desirableâ??would plunge her into a world as treacherous as one of her spy novels. But how can Cam go through with his plan to kidnap Skylar when just the sight of her sets off an explosive attraction heâ??s never experienced before? And when Skylar falls prey to an even more perilous threat, this special ops soldier must call upon all his combat skills to protect the one person who can help

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