Mirror Image – Sandra Brown

(4 / 5)

Ok you are going to have to stay with me here. Hear me out…

This story is about Avery Daniels. Avery is a reporter who is in a plane crash and mistakenly identified as Carole Rutledge, the wife of aspiring senatorial candidate, Tate Rutledge. The real Carole Rutledge was also mistaken for Avery, and died in the plane crash. Hence the confusion. Avery and Carole looked so alike that they were often mistaken for each other normally. But Avery’s face was totally smashed up in the crash, so nobody could tell. Unfortunately and terrifyingly she is unable to communicate with the doctors and Tate, and her face is completely transformed by plastic surgery to resemble Carole.

Just as Avery is about to reveal the truth to Carole’s husband Tate in the hospital after she is well enough to speak, she discovers that there is a plan in action to assassinate him. She quite likes Tate at this point, even though she discovers his marriage to Carole was extremely turbulent . Anyway she doesn’t want him to die, and being the reporter that she is, she smells a story in all of this, so she says as Carole to try and figure out who the mastermind behind the assassination plot is.

Meanwhile she isn’t Carole. And how long can she pretend to be a woman she would have hated, before people start figuring it out??

Well..

I know I know! You read this synopsis and think “How the hell am I going to enjoy something that is SO UNBELIEVABLE?!”. But this is Sandra Brown we are talking about… This is the Queen of romantic suspense! I admit its not exactly “believable” obviously. But if anyone is going to come close, its Sandra Brown! She makes the believability of the story totally irrelevant because its so darn entertaining!! Its like a cool soap opera tale mixed with a good action book!

The characters in Mirror Image were totally loveable, except for the real Carole, what a piece of work! But Avery was so sweet and Tate was so much more awesome than he could have been. Tate and Carole’s daughter Mandy was such a sweetie. His family were fascinating and his tramp-of-a-niece Fancy was a great character too! There really wasn’t a character I didn’t enjoy reading about.

The romance is really sweet. Yes, yes its corny because he doesn’t know that she isn’t his wife – and how could you NOT KNOW… But damn it – It just works! The sexy scenes are sizzling, the tension is palpable, and the suspense is great! And in typical Sandra Brown style there is an awesome twist at the end that I didn’t see coming. It will absolutely be something I will read again, and that is saying something because I don’t often waste my reading time re-reading something I have already read!

The only criticism I have of this book were of some of the medical scenes. Overall she did a good job, but if you have a breathing tube down your throat connected to the ventilator, you cannot SMELL anything… The tube is bypassing your nose completely. But the medical stuff didn’t annoy me enough to change my rating. Which is a lot more than I can say compared to some other books and authors that shall remain nameless.

Thank you Sandra Brown, your books are a constant source of enjoyment for me, thankfully there are so many more for me to get through!!

4 Stars because I enjoyed it so damn much!!

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