Book two-forty-nine: Smart Mouth

Smart Mouth (2004)
Erin McCarthy

Rating: 1/5

The main character annoyed me. A lot.

This is one of those cases where a perfectly nice person falls in “love” with a self-centred and annoying main character. I don’t get it.

It just annoyed me that she was pretty much trying to ruin his whole career, while at the same time jeopardise a CRIMMINAL INVESTIGATION, and he was just like ‘gee, isn’t she cute?’

No!!! Arrest her for interfering with the path of justice, don’t apologise because she isn’t getting what she wanted…. When you were going to give her what she wanted in the end… all she had to do was wait…. Grrr….

Undercover FBI agent Derek Knight has no idea what he's in for. His game plan for having a confidential witness leave an envelope for him in a Ford Taurus falls like a house of cards when the witness turns out to be colour blind, leaving the envelope in the wrong car.

Reporter Reece Hampton really has no idea what she's in for - the red Taurus she's just hopped into is now the focal point of Knight's attention since it mistakenly contains the crucial evidential envelope. Driving like a bat of hell, Reece and Knight play a game of cat and mouse until he's finally able to pull her over at a deli parking lot - but all hell breaks loose when by-standers see the overzealous Knight confront the unsuspecting and clueless reporter.

After the police are called in and finally get to the heart of the matter, Reece ducks out a back door and reads the contents in the envelope which contains information that could, quite possibly, propel her career from reporting local weddings to big stories in the big time. By the time Knight catches up with her, sparks fly, and both, needing each other's help to succeed, make a very sexy team who will not be beaten.

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Finished: Thursday 3/1/08