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Tempe
Walsh, interpreter extraordinaire, was hired to accompany an art
collector to India.
It
should have been an easy job. All she had to do was talk her employer
through
the purchase of Shiva’s Diva, while simultaneously avoiding his
persistent
attempt to fondle her merchandise. That part of the job was
exceptionally
tedious but she could handle it. As soon as the statue was taken care
of, she’d
have almost a week to explore Bollywood. Heaven!
Briggan
O’Brien, self proclaimed “smartest, handsomest, and most talented of
the
O’Brien clan”, found himself enchanted the moment he laid eyes on
attractive
Tempe Walsh. Even after escaping a shoot out and then following her
right back
into it, Brig is completely enamored of his fearless little American.
All he
has to do is keep both her and the statue in one piece. Simple? No…
Tempe is understandably wary
of the
smooth talking, good-looking Irishman she meets in the back room of an
Indian
pub under less than ideal circumstances. It takes her quite a while to
decide
that he really does want her as much as he wants the priceless statue
he’s
fighting to keep. Her biggest problem, besides dodging bullets and
knives, is
that Louie’s Lingo Linguistics Software doesn’t teach the language of
love in a
day.
This book
was a great example of a madcap adventure. I laughed all the way
through it. In
general, I avoid books written in the first-person, but reading this
from Tempe
Walsh’s point of view in Hot Stuff
however, was a lot like sitting down with a witty friend and hearing
about her
crazy week in India.
This book starts busy and you’ll be exhausted by the end of it, but you
should
have a smile on your face when you put it down.
Reviewed by Joyce Wolters
for The
Road to Romance
March 1, 2005
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