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Freefall: A High Risk Novel (High Risk) | 
 enlarge | Author: Joann Ross
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 105496
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0451223209
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451223203
ASIN: 0451223209
Publication Date: February 5, 2008
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Product Description
Emotionally and physically wounded ex-SEAL_Zachariah Tremayne has returned to his South C arolina home determined to shut out the world. Then he meets Sabrina Swann, who has also made a private journey home to put the tattered pieces of her own life back together. But as the two of them learn to love and trust again, a killer is lurking in the shadows, threatening to destroy everything they have fought so hard to rebuild.
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 2.5 stars. Ok, but I wouldn't recommend it unless a reader is craving more romantic suspense novels. October 9, 2008
Jane Stewart (Illinois USA)
It was ordinary and predictable. Nothing surprised or delighted me. I didn't feel enough emotion or anticipation for the couple. At times I wished it would be over. But, it was still an ok read.
This is high intensity suspense with a perverted serial killer ("sicko") who keeps women in a cage, tortures them sometimes for weeks, and then kills them. Caution for sensitive readers: repulsive and stomach-turning torture scenes.
Story Brief:
Zach suffers post traumatic stress and left the military. He is working for his father's home construction business on Swan Island. Sabrina was managing a hotel in Italy when a terrorist bomb blew up the hotel, burying her under rubble. She survived and returned to her home on Swan Island for awhile. Sabrina and Zach start to fall in love as they soothe and help each other to heal. Dead bodies start turning up on the island, the work of a serial killer.
CAUTION SPOILERS:
I was angry at the cliffhanger technique used in the beginning of the book. The author switched back and forth among three scenes, a military operation going badly in Afghanistan, a hotel bombing in Florence Italy and a serial killer torturing a woman. I don't mind switching among stories, but I hated the cliffhanger style, for example: on page 7, a helicopter is hit with a rocket-propelled grenade. The next sentence is "Then all hell broke loose." Then the author switches to a scene at a hotel in Italy. At the end of that scene on page 14 there is an explosion, screams filled the air, "Sabrina felt herself falling. Then everything went black." The next sentence switches back to the military scene. There were six of these cliffhanger endings in the first 25 pages.
There was a touching and enjoyable scene at the end in which Sabrina has a conversation with Richard Cunningham.
Story length: 375 pages. Sexual language: strong/erotic. Number of sex scenes: 9. Length of sex scenes: 2 short scenes (less than 1 page) 6 medium scenes (1 to 3 pages) 1 long scene (9 pages). Setting: current day Swan Island off the coast of South Carolina plus two short scenes in Afghanistan and Italy. Copyright: 2008. Genre: erotic romantic suspense with torture.
 confusing much????? October 4, 2008
J. Parr (Zanesville, OH United States)
This book had at least 8-10 POVs not including the main love story. Most of the other POVs had no point other than they were going to be victims of the serial killer, and with two seperate villians both of which were resolved very easily with little suspense was disappointing. That said i will still read the next in the series because I really liked Cait and Quinn in this book and want to see what happens with them.
 From J. Kaye's Book Blog September 12, 2008
J. Kaye Oldner (http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I made it to page 256 and decided to call it quits. I should have done so earlier, but so many people I know loved this author. For me, an ADD reader, I can't take the long drawn out details the book provided. Many of the scenes weren't needed and what was could have been woven in. Instead, there were long blocks of background information. I skimmed through the first quarter of the book, hoping it would get better. For me, it didn't and I had to give up.
I'll pass it on to another viewer. Hopefully one who will appreciate it more than me. This book is the first of the High Risk trilogy, so you'll be getting in on the ground floor.
Overpopulated 3.5 star romantic suspense April 22, 2008
Tracy Vest (Northern California)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Terrorism has a profound and lasting effect on Sabrina Swann and Zach Tremayne who return to the small southern island they call home. Sabrina fled Italy after surviving a terrorist bombing at the hotel she managed; Zach is a SEAL involved in a disastrous and deadly mission that left many of his teammates dead. Working construction for his father, Zach and Sabrina run into each other when he is working on her family's tea plantation that she recently inherited. Sabrina has always had a crush on Zach and hopes he doesn't remember the night she threw herself at him before he went of to join the service. Also on their tiny island community lurks a serial killer who is upping his body count, and Sabrina is suddenly on his radar.
I love pretty much everything Ross writes, but this one was just not the knock out I was hoping for. It is so overpopulated. There are so many characters introduced in the first couple chapters that I kept backtracking trying to tell them apart. The chemistry between the lead characters is off the charts - no surprise there - but the ending was so anti-climatic. It was as if Ross was charged with writing a 382 page novel and got to 375 and decided she needed to end it already. What should have been a spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat ending was instead a haiku, Scooby Doo ending where the killer would have gotten away had it not been for that meddlesome SEAL. Just way too abrupt. I also could not understand why Zach was the responsible one in the mission gone awry - it was never really explained. But that won't stop me from checking out her next novel, because even a mediocre Ross novel is pretty well written!
 Freefall April 7, 2008
M. Nix
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sabrina Swann has always been a driven woman, but after surviving a terrorist attack, she decides to go back to the only place she has considered home to re-group and decide what she wants to do with her life. However, as soon as Sabrina gets to Swann Island, she comes across her teenage crush, Zach Tremayne, who is one of the last people she wanted to see. After all, who wants to relive their most embarrassing moment - which for Sabrina was throwing herself at Zach and being turned down. But, as it comes to light that Sabrina is not as "recovered" from her awful experience, she finds that she has more in common with Zach than teenage memories.
Zach Tremayne is home after his tour with the Navy SEALs ended after a disastrous mission that ended many lives and forever changed Zach's. So after spending some time living inside a bottle, Zach is working for his father and trying to pull his life together and into normalcy. When he finds Sabrina back in town, there is no reason not to pursue his attraction to her - now that she is legal, that is. But what starts as a fling evolves into friendship and then to something much more intense as Zach and Sabrina face a serial killer that is prowling Swann Island.
Freefall is a romantic suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat waiting to see who will win the race against time - the killer or Sabrina and Zach. JoAnn Ross wrote another spellbinding novel that takes disturbing glimpses into the mind of a killer while delivering a lava hot romance between Zach and Sabrina and is sure to leave readers eagerly waiting for the next installment in this new series. Zach is as much an Alpha male as you could wish for - as he is a man tempered by his terrible experiences in the battlefield which have made him realize how fleeting life is and how precious love can be. Sabrina is a strong woman with a steely core who never forgets to be smart in the face of patronizing males. When Zach and Sabrina come together, they set the pages on fire and leave you envying Sabrina her luck! One of the most appealing things about Freefall is the strong elements of admiration and appreciation for the service and sacrifice of the men and women in uniform woven into the plot. Get yourself Freefall for a truly entrancing read that will keep you turning the pages well into the night!
Sabella
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
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