Review: Mean Streak by Sandra Brown

[Chrystal]

Fans of Sandra Brown, both established and newbies, will enjoy Mean Streak, an action-packed provocative, romantic mystery draped in a bit of suspense. It is a relentlessly paced, unpredictable page-turner, with quite an addictive fascination, that lasts all the way through to the end.

The story centers on Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and avid runner who disappears in the high mountains of North Carolina while training for a marathon. Emory later awakens with a concussion from an unexplained head injury only to find herself the captive of an extremely handsome reclusive no-named man with a past he prefers remain secret. Although Emory is determine to escape, she is too weak to make it on her own – it’s either remain and accept the stranger’s Florence-Nightingale care or trudge the steep snowy dangerous mountainous wilderness on foot – and while she’s grateful for his aide, she isn’t too sure if he is not the one who injured her in the first place. Nevertheless, the day he fends off violent intruders and renders aid to a desperate young woman whom Emory has grown fond of – he goes from a no-name stranger to a well-needed protector. Question is, why is there an FBI agent searching for the mystery mountain man, and why is he so adamant about keeping his identity a secret, and why is Emory feeling some-kind of-way about him.

When the story is over and all the secrets have been revealed, there is at least one that readers will still want to know more about…and now I am going to become aggravatingly vague in order not to spoil the novel’s exciting creative twists and turns, which were not easy to anticipate.

Breathtaking plot twists, romance, and a shocking climax are what drive this riveting fast-paced mystery.

[ananya92]

I read the book some time back and it is quite interesting. Though Brown has written better books and this is not one of her best books, this one makes for an interesting read.