Wired by Liz Maverick

[meganbmoore]

Wired is the second book in  dorchester's Shomi line, which is a line of romance novels that I've read(though, IMO, neither or the 2 I've read  are romance so much as scifi with a romantic subplot.)  To be honest, I'm considerably less thrilled with it than I expected to be.  I've only read one other book by Maverick, The Shadow Runners, and loved it, so I went into Wired with expectations.

Wired is about Roxy Zaborovsky, a computer programmer who gets "mugged" on he way to the 7-11 at 2 a.m.  Except she wasn't getting mugged.  Two agents for opposing forces were trying to get ahold of her for a code she hasn't written yet.  One of the Mason Merrick, was her college rommate's boyfriend, while the other, Leo Kaysar a supposedly dangerously seductibe englishman(he seemed rather blah to me, really) she's never met before.  Roxy soon learns that she's caught up in a game where Mason and Leo(and apparently other we don't meet) are able to reset and rewrite reality to suit their needs.  The book is ok, and it has an interesting plot, but it just couldn't hold me...I read it quickly because I had 4 hours and the only other entertainment option at the time was looking out the 3rd floor window while people looed for a parking spot(which isn't to say I would have dropped it otherwise-I wouldn't, but it would have taken me longer to read.)  

Part of the problem, I think is that while Roxy and Mason were ok, leo was just...there.  He was supposed to be dark and appealing and dangerous, and seeing him that way is rather important to enjoying the book.  The other problem is that reality was rest so much tat I just couldn't keep up with it.

Still, it was a good enough read, and interesting, it just didn't work as well for me as I expected it to.

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I really liked the concept for this book but the execution drove me nuts. I dunno. And the idea of being caught between two guys never really... happened. Because Leo came off as a psycho, even when he was being "nice".

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It sometimesd felt like she was coming at the book from several directions. And yeah, Leo was just a good looking psycho, but not in the interesting way. The scenes where she was supposed to be enthralled by/drawn to him, I wondered if he had mind control powers or something, because it was all I could think of to account for why there wasn't laughing or well-placed knees.