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“This, to me, is one of Howard's best books.”
Andy C wrote this review Sunday, September 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Dana W wrote this review Tuesday, August 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Last in the Mackenzie series.
Rashida wrote this review Monday, June 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Chance Mackenzie has no life until he was 14 and Wolf and Mary brought him home and into their family. He has never forgotten where he came from and struggles everyday to come up from his past. He is on a mission to capture on the most wanted terrorist and has planned to use his daughter to get him. He plans to get her to trust him enough to talk about her father's location or and hint that can leads his people to her father. To his surprise and shock he finds out she herself is trying to hide from her father. Now he has to catch Crispin Hauer and keep Sunny safe from him. But will she forgive him for this betrayal and will he be able to overcome his past and keep her.”
“good story - action, romance, deceit and a happy ending.”
californiameaghan wrote this review Thursday, November 6 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Chance MacKenzie, black sheep of the family (so he thinks) is a Naval Intelligence Agent with his own business. He is after the world's worst terrorist (arent they all the worst?) He thinks he can get him through his daughter, Sunny. Little does Chance know that Sunny hs been in hiding from her father since she was 5. The suspense, romance and betrayals all end up in a great story”
Marty H wrote this review Tuesday, June 3 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I wrote this Amazon review in 2003. "A Game of Chance is one of my favorite Howard books and is the last in her MacKenzie series. I have read them all and they are all great fun and all of the heroes are irresistible alpha males. They all tend to some orneriness and certainly believe the notion that love is not around the corner. Some of the MacKenzie men are bigger stinkers than others. I think we have the biggest stinker of them all with Chance MacKenzie from A Game of Chance. Chance MacKenzie is some sort of government agent, highly trained for underground missions. He relishes his job and prefers to act alone despite the level of danger. He is a typical Linda Howard hero - dominant big-time, handsome, smart, and has a big problem hidden from everyone. This shameful problem is key to his lack of desire for a committed love relationship. He doesn't seem to hold women in very high regard and has a ruthless personality. Basically, he doesn't treat women very well and laughs at the thought of being close to one. Sunny Miller is the daughter of a terrorist Chance is working hard to bring down. He decides to use Sunny to bring her father out of hiding. He suspects that Sunny is working for her father and that causes him to see her in even a more negative light than most women. He manipulates Sunny's situation until she is in need of a private plane to reach her destination in time and Chance steps in to provide her with the plane and him, as the pilot. Sunny is a kind, beautiful, and gracious heroine. She has a job as a delivery agent, flying all over the United States and the world delivering highly sensitive material. Sunny doesn't live anywhere really because she is always attempting to hide her whereabouts from her father. She greatly fears her father and has been hiding from him for years by constantly working her delivery service. She is never in one place for very long. When transporting Sunny to her next location, Chance deliberately crashes their plane on a remote island and they must wait for someone to discover their crash site since all forms of communication were destroyed in the crash. Chance plans on getting to know Sunny very well during their wait and find out her father's location. He really pours on the charm and romances Sunny. He wants to make her love him, trust him and share her secrets with him. Now understand, Chance does all of this with no intentions whatsoever to love her in return or even see her beyond their island experience. He is so heartless in his further manipulation of Sunny. Never mind that she is almost mortally wounded in the plane crash. Disregard the fear and worry that encompassed her as she wondered if they would be rescued. Leave it to Chance that he would never disclose to her that he actually had a communication device and was constantly in touch with his contact on this operative. Chance even controlled their rescue. Once he had the information that he needed from Sunny, he would order their rescue. As Chance uses Sunny as bait for her father he risks her life yet again. He quickly pushes a physical relationship between them and he takes her again and again. Of course, Sunny believes that this physical relationship with Chance is more than just physical. She is strongly drawn to him and, after all, he has told her that he loved her. All the while, we as readers know that Chance is only using her and we can't believe what a low life jerk he is. A lot of the pleasure in this books comes from the anticipation of Chance receiving his comeuppance. You can't wait for Sunny to strike back and give Chance some of his own medicine. Chance truly seems a cold-blooded male and does not stoop to being kind to Sunny. His mission is always utmost in his mind even when he begins to suspect that Sunny is not guilty of complicity with her father and discovers that she is running from him as well. So - if I am so aggravated with Chance - why a five star rating? It is because of Sunny. She interacts so well with Chance and we discover that she is no weak character. The dialogue between the leads is great and had me laughing many times. Sunny showed up Chance in more ways than one. She is a survivalist and Chance finds himself impressed with these skills. After all, she has a lot of experience with living on the run. But somehow, Chance's heartlessness, accompanied with Sunny's great heart, made this book a very good and engrossing read. Once again, we are so eager to see Chance brought down. The sensual scenes are frequent and rate a 4.0 out of 5.0 (see More About Me for rating guidelines). This is one of Howard's best writing of such scenes. I don't relish sensual scenes in which there is no commitment but these were much different. Sunny is committed to Chance and she believes he loves her. And although Chance knows he is just pretending to love Sunny, we as the readers see him gradually, little by little, falling for her (hee! hee!) and know he will not be able to resist her in the end. The order of the MacKenzie series is as follows: MacKenzie's Mountain, MacKenzie's Mission, MacKenzie's Pleasure, MacKenzie's Magic, and A Game of Chance. I did not read these in series order and still enjoyed them immensely. It would benefit you to know some of the characters in other books as you read each one, but it is not necessary. These stories are scrumptious - no matter what. I highly recommend A Game of Chance. I really loved this book. It is just down right fun! ”
Lea AAR wrote this review Sunday, May 25 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
0 of 1 members found this review helpful“MacKenzie Family Book 4”
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