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Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, England. Educated at Oxford High School and St. Anne's College, Oxford, she worked in the Oxford City Library from 1950 to 1958 and then as a reader for the publisher Chatto & Windus. Since 1961 she has been a freelance writer. She lived in Oxford but often afficher plus visited Italy, where many of her poems are set. After a difficult period, which included stays in a mental hospital, Jennings has written strongly religious verse. She has said that "my Roman Catholic religion and my poems are the most important things in my life." Jennings is one of the major figures associated with the Movement, one of the most important "movements" in postwar British poetry. Movement poetry is meticulously crafted, controlled and common-sensical, sardonic, lucid, and self-consciously ironic. Jennings writes a restrained, sometimes lapidary, poetry of lucid diction and traditional meters. The Italian setting and profound religious conviction distinguish her work from that of the other Movement writers, as does her more personal and confessional stance. She has done numerous translations, including an interesting version of Michelangelo's sonnets. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

Œuvres de Elizabeth Jennings

Pursuit (2008) 87 exemplaires
Dying for Siena (2006) 12 exemplaires
Homecoming (2005) 11 exemplaires
Bernadette's Bluff (1998) 4 exemplaires
Joy Forever (2000) 3 exemplaires
Pursued (1999) 3 exemplaires
Taming Nick (2000) 3 exemplaires
Heart to Heart (2000) 1 exemplaire

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Pursuit
4 Stars

Charlotte Court goes on the run after being set up for her father’s murder. While in hiding in a picturesque town in Mexico, Charlotte meets former Navy SEAL, Matt Sanders who is recuperating from his own trauma. The two grow closer as the threats from Charlotte’s past loom nearer and nearer.

Charlotte is an intelligent and resourceful heroine and Matt is a scarred and sexy SEAL. Their chemistry is excellent, and the development of their relationship is intense and often breathtaking. That said, Matt can be quite overbearing, and the actual consummation of his and Charlotte’s sexual relationship is rather tepid.

Both the hero and the villain are built up as intense warriors and brilliant strategists, but the final confrontation between them is lackluster. Nevertheless, the bad guy’s demise is quite satisfactory, particularly due to the fact that it is Charlotte who gets the better of Barrett and blows him away.

The writing style is straightforward and minimalistic at times, but the pacing flows smoothly and keeps the reader engaged. There are two gruesome scenes that some readers might find disturbing. The first is completely unnecessary as it adds nothing to the developing storyline or to the main villain’s characterization while the second is central to the plot and doesn’t actually come close to similarly gritty scenes in books by Karen Rose or Karin Slaughter.

All in all, an entertaining read with a solid suspense tale and a truly touching romance.
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Lauren2013 | 1 autre critique | May 24, 2018 |
Darkness at Dawn
4 Stars

Synopsis:
Following the revelation of an existential threat to the United States, Lucy Merrit, the daughter of famed CIA agents, is recruited to return to the country of their death to retrieve vital information. Lucy, together with Army Captain Mike Shafer, infiltrates the Kingdom of Nhala where a megalomaniac dictator is on the verge of annihilating humanity. Can Lucy and Mike save the world and their new found love?

Review:
An impressive and gripping plot with well-developed and appealing characters.

Lucy is quick witted, adapts well to extreme situations and has amazing inner strength. Mike is strong, sexy and resourceful. He provides Lucy with the love and care that has always been missing in her life. The only problem is that even though they have great chemistry, it never really fulfills itself and their relationship is left hanging.

The writing is fast paced and the action scenes are exhilarating. There are a number of gruesome moments, however, and the book might not be for those with weaker stomachs. Moreover, some aspects of the story require readers to take significant steps in suspending their disbelief, such as accepting the fact that the CIA would ask a document restorer to retrieve military intelligence. Finally, the ending is wrapped up very quickly and a little too neatly.

The author is obviously making some political points with her writing so be forewarned. Nevertheless, this is an entertaining read and I look forward to reading additional books by this author.
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Lauren2013 | May 24, 2018 |
I really, really liked this book, but it’s not quite a five star read.

Somehow Elizabeth Jennings manages to create an obsessed hero without making him the slightest bit creepy. I know that writing under this name, and also as Lisa Marie Rice ...more I really, really liked this book, but it’s not quite a five star read.

Somehow Elizabeth Jennings manages to create an obsessed hero without making him the slightest bit creepy. I know that writing under this name, and also as Lisa Marie Rice, she is known for her heroes more than anything else. They’re dynamic and protective and absolutely, completely in love with the heroine from the outset. Dan was such a perfect, incredible guy even I was madly in love with him. However I’m still undecided whether or not he was too perfect.

May I point out the cover? Beautiful – you can imply it’s romantic suspense and still have more on the front than a close-up of some waxed guy’s pecs. Good stuff.

Dan first saw Claire at an embassy function in Indonesia. He was a Marine on guard, and upon seeing her for the first time he knew she was ‘his’. She left the function without him noticing, and so he tracked her down to her new posting at a US embassy in Africa, and got himself transferred there. She didn’t even know he existed until the day rebels stormed the city and they became trapped together. They shared a kiss before everything went wrong. One year later Claire is still suffering greatly from the injuries she sustained in the explosion, and Dan – believing Claire is dead – has left the Marines and is running a private security firm. Claire discovers Dan, though her head injuries mean she does not remember him. They end up in a whole lot of trouble together, all of it connected to what happened before the drama at the embassy.

When Claire turns up in Dan’s office she can barely function. She gets terrible headaches, can’t eat, can’t do much at all anymore. From what I’ve heard, all of this author’s books tend to take place within a short timeframe, so some suspension of disbelief needs to happen. But I thought Claire’s recovery – once she meets up with Dan – was a little too miraculous. She couldn’t stand too suddenly without getting a shocking headache, and there were days where she literally couldn’t eat. But then she meets Dan, and suddenly she’s using weapons and having lots of sex, and wolfing down hamburgers while working away at her computer.

However I really did believe in Dan and Claire’s relationship. I thought they were both great people. Dan was protective and strong and everything you’d expect from a military hero, and yet he was also such a regular guy I believed he was someone I might come across in real life and really enjoy spending time with.

My favourite quote:

His mouth turned up as he watched her flounder. Was that – was that a dimple? Maybe dimple was too strong a word for what appeared on that rough face. A dent. It was definitely a dent. A smile-induced dent.

I am very confused why Dan thought Claire was dead in the first place. He had bad injuries of his own from the explosion, but why – after he’d recovered – did he assume she was dead? When he didn’t even know who she was he went so far out of his way to track her down and move across the world to be near her. But then they know each other and he doesn’t even bother to find out what happened to her? I was waiting for an explanation about that, but it never came. That said, it made for a great plot twist!

One thing I didn’t expect from this book was the humour. Though the story is dark and dangerous, there was a lot of funny stuff in there too. It was a good balance for such a serious story.

If I have one criticism of the writing it’s that sometimes there’s too much introspection. Sometimes the story slowed down a little too much as we spent a few pages in someone’s head. I also could have done without the last few pages of unbelievably happy ‘romance novel’ ending.

I’d also liked to have seen a conversation about what had happened to the two of them in the past year. Dan – at least on the page – never found out how Claire got through the months, nor that her father had died, leaving her on her own.

This was a very good book. I’ve read some really forgettable romantic suspense recently, and this was exactly what I needed. Though it wasn’t quite good enough for five stars, it is definitely a book I’d recommend.
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ZosiaCanberra | 1 autre critique | Sep 13, 2010 |
Shadows at Midnight was a real page turner, or rather a real hit the little right side button as the case may be since I got this one as an eBook. I think this is the fastest I've clicked since I got my Kobo. I was late for work; I was late getting back from break; I was late getting back from lunch and the minute I left at the end of the day, I had to sit outside on the bench reading since I couldn't wait long enough to get home to read it.

First off, it has the kind of hero I adore, the heroes that are totally gone for the heroine. And this was certainly the case with Daniel Weston. He caught a glimpse of Claire Day when she was working in the embassy in Makongo, a fictional West African country where she worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency and wheeled and dealed until he got himself assigned to the same location. He had yet to talk to her until one Thanksgiving when they were the only two people left at the embassy when it came under attack by rebel forces. Daniel is seriously injured and Claire is killed in a bombing - or so he believes until she shows up over a year later, not the same person at all that he remembered.

Daniel is so gone for Claire that he deeply mourned the whole time he thought she was dead, mourned to the point where he lost all interest in sex with anyone else. You just gotta love a hero like that! Due to his injuries, he's forced to resign from the army and has started his own successful private detective agency in Washington DC, but he still feels responsible for Claire's death.

Things haven't gone so well for Claire either. She was in a coma after the explosion and is unable to remember anything of what happened. On top of that she is suffering from PTSD and has become a real recluse without any kind of life to look forward to. When she watches a news story where Daniel has risked his own life to save a mother and her children and thinks she recognizes him, on the spur of the moment, she takes a big risk to go see him, hoping he might be able to fill in the blanks of missing memories.

As you can imagine, Daniel is delighted to see the Claire didn't die in the explosion and he is determined not to let her out of his sight. It soon becomes apparent that someone is after Claire and as they try and figure out who wants her dead and why, they grow closer and closer.

Daniel makes for a great hero. He feels unworthy of her for all kinds of reasons. He came from a nasty childhood, he figures she could never feel anything for a guy who is 'just a soldier' when she could get someone much better and he feels such regret that she was injured so badly on his watch. But this doesn't keep him from being so adorable protective. He truly respects her and at no time does he think he knows better than her. While he disagrees with some of the things she wants to do, he thinks things through and allows her to do things her way.

And Claire also makes for a great heroine. She starts out a real mess, she can't eat, she can't sleep, she's cut off from any real connection with anyone, but as time goes on and she and Daniel begin to figure things out, she grows and gains strength and slowly becomes the intelligent and determined person she used to be.

Together Claire and Daniel make a great team. They each have their own talents and each respect the others gifts. It would have been so easy for the author to make Daniel out as this big macho marine who knew better, but she didn't do that. As I said, I found myself racing through this book, wanting to find out what would happen next.

The only small, small thing that kept this from being a 5 out of 5 book was the slightly over the top villain.

I love her writing as Lisa Marie Rice and now I love her writing as Elizabeth Jennings. Good thing I have her new LMR book on the TBR pile.
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dkthain | 1 autre critique | Aug 26, 2010 |

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Œuvres
10
Membres
215
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