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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780373772414
ISBN number: 0373772416
Label: HQN Books
Manufacturer: HQN Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: August 01, 2007
Publishing house: HQN Books
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His internal computers are offline, his former employers want him dead and the Men in Black are after him. Without his cyberpowers, Reef is as weak as a lowly Earthling. He's tried to kill every human he's met—so why on Earth would they help him?
Evie Holloway needs a bodyguard! Her fledgling chocolate business is mistaken as a money-laundering scheme for the mob and the bullets have started flying. But does the suburban soccer mom really want to shelter the alien hit man who almost offed her future brother-in-law?
She is desperate, and Reef is incredibly sexy. 'Ten days,' she tells him—but it turns out that ten days just might be long enough to spark a love that's truly out of this world.
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A human boy from another planet was implanted with computers and trained to be an assassin. As an adult, his computers were tampered with in an endeavor to kill him, in connection with his trip to earth, but some earth scientists removed the computers and saved him. He is now mostly human and spends 10 or so days with Evie a divorced suburban mom while he heals and awaits decisions. He and Evie fall in love. He had never had sex before and his very first time with Evie is touching and sweet.
Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: four. Setting: present day Sacramento, California. Copyright: 2007. Genre: science fiction contemporary romance.
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Susan Grant has quickly become a favorite author. I'm so glad to have discovered her books!
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Funny how a story arc's, I was cheering for Cavin against the REEF in Your Planet or Mine. It was puzzling when REEF started to malfunction and we saw bits of the man he once was.
Who wouldn't fall for an alien ex-hitman who had his whole life taken away from him. Ms. Grant brilliantly portrays REEF recovering his humanity.
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Eriff was kidnapped from his home world at a young age. His mind was wiped and his body implanted with bio-engineered enhancements. He was the very first child to become a REEF - Robotically Engineered Enemy Fighter - an assassin.
His last mission failed. He is stranded on Earth. His computer system was trying to terminate him. Whether he had succeeded or failed the last mission did not matter. Clearly, his employers wanted him dead. He is rescued and, ironically, offered a chance at a new life by his former archenemy, Cavin of Far Star. REEF is renamed Eric Sanders and he is sent to the suburbs of California. His cover is to be a Secret Service Agent protecting Evie Holloway and her children in light of her family's elevated role dealing with the Coalition. His internal computers may be offline, but Eric still has his training and instincts.
Evie Jasper Holloway told her senator sister that she did NOT want the Terminator as her bodyguard. How could she trust an unstable REEF with her own life, much less her two kids'? Eric shows up anyhow. When the bullets start flying, Evie becomes grateful for the protection, REEF or not. It is not long before Evie comes to realize that Eric, without the computer system controlling him, is very human indeed ... and very attractive.
***** This is the REEF from book two (My Favorite Earthling). During the second book I cheered the Jasper family to victory and hoped the REEF would die. When I learned that this assassin was to be the hero of book three, I laughed. I was positive that there was no way the author could make me feel anything but disgust for this futuristic terminator. But oh how I ate those words (thoughts?) within only a few pages of the story. Author Susan Grant proves her writing talent as never before! Her poisoned pen did more than make these characters seem real to me; Susan Grant brought these characters to vivid life. Now if only the daughter, Ellen, could get a story. *****
Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Reef was the best assassin the Coalition Government had ever produced, being half computer helps make him perfect and having an excellent sucess rate proved that. After a lifetime of being trained to be the consummate hitman, his body is hard and toned to perfection and the secrets in his eyes chill people to the bone. Now Reef has to deal with failure and finding himself without his powers. His bosses want him dead, and the lowly humans just keep helping him. Don't they know they should fear him? Don't they realize he doesn't belong in `suburbia'?
Every day, Evie Jasper Holloway puts everyone else before herself, and she needs to learn to set limits. Becoming a chocolate entrepreneur should make her fantasy of no longer being the `black sheep' of the successful Jasper family, a reality. Now she just needs to deal with the mob, her interfering ex-husband and the alien assassin her sister dropped on her plate, for the subsequent 10 days, What's a soccer Mom to do?
How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 days is a cute, sexy, well-written romance. Susan Grant weaves a tale with a superb mix of background characters and descriptions that is a joy to read. Evie's personal growth is very appealing to watch develop. Her passionate outrage and attempts to bring attention and help to slavery (most especially children's slavery) from across the world is wonderful to read. Reef's acceptance of his own actions and his dealing with the consequences of those actions improves him as a person and a hero. Both Evie's and Reef's character development helps the reader find themselves rooting for Evie and Reef's relationship to develop. I found myself believing in love at very first sight when reading How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 days,.and I Joyfully Recommend this book for any time a person wants to sit back and relax with an excellent book.
Barb
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