Crazy Sweet (Steele Street)

by Tara Janzen

Book Overview

"Exciting, adventurous suspense with nonstop action that will keep readers riveted. I highly recommend it, and can't wait to read more." --Romance Reviews Today MERCENARY. ASSASSIN. HIRED GUN. SHE'S... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440242797
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Dell
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.8" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

From Sweet to Deadly

I picked this book up at my favorite used book store and had no idea that it was part of a series. Well, with the constant mention of Superman, Dylan, Skeeter (yeah,that's her real name) and even Royce, I realized quickly that I was missing vital history. Without that history, I found Travis to be intense, deep and sexy; yet achingly vulnerable to Red Dog's damaged, dark and dangerous need for revenge at all costs. With Royce totally deserving of all that Red Dog planned to deliver to him! C. Smith's and Honey's side story was funny, sweet and sexy. It wasn't until I'd gone back to the beginning and read all that came before, that I began to truly appreciate Ms. Janzen's slow, sly and seamless development of Travis' character from pretty boy, academic "slacker dude" pacifist, and self proclaimed "nice guy" to a hard core, unflappable killer for his country! Pairing him with newly introduced fellow academic geek, Gillian "Red Dog" Pentycote, whose transformation is horrifically instantaneous. These two seem oddly paired but mesh in a weird kind of "I chose to become who I am while you were forced to become who you are...yet here we are...let's use our power for good and kick evil in the teeth together"...kinda way. This book had a different feel from all the others and it remains one of my favorites in the series because we see Travis "The glowing wonder stud" complete his transformation. Next to Superman, Creed and Kid Chaos...he's my favorite. Now I wonder if he and Creed will turn out to be related, since so much mention was made of their resemblance!

A flawed diamond - still beautiful

Ok. Gillian was tortured by being injected with a painful experimental drug. But. As the evil bad guy, Tony Royce, so fondly remembers, Dylan suffered worse when he was captured by Hamzah Negara. And did Dylan come back to Steele Street thirsting for vengeance. No. He came back ready for love. For Skeeter. Unlike Red Dog. I do remember Gillian Shore. Seeing how she did her best to miserify Dylan and Skeeter's Crazy Love with her blame-filled memories of publishing, marriage and divorce in academia. She read as a somewhat bitter woman working a going nowhere administrative gofer job for a supposed passed over General. Personally. I consider that Red Dog is actually leading a much more interesting life since her torture. Living with nice guys, great job, physically healthier, inspiring love-life. So really. The only reason for her to be angry with Royce is that he let the amoral part of her psyche out into the open. You know. The part of her that lets her cheat on her man and then try to justify it in the name of vengeance. The part of her that wouldn't hesitate to flush the Steele Street guys, wives and cute babies down the crapper, all in the name of righteous retribution. Gillian Shore had absolutely no self-esteem. Now Red Dog's got attitude in spades. What's she got to belly-ache about? Dylan should have taken her to one side and they could have talked both their experiences through in a supportive manner. I don't blame other readers for disliking Gillian. I think they are right. There is still one reason for liking Red Dog. In the man's world of sniperdom, the author allows her to get seriously wounded. Despite her supposed near-legendary hunting and shooting abilities. How typical. But I suppose that's what had to happen for her to redeem herself. Didn't work for me though. She just became a huge liability for the SDF in the middle of a mission. Still. Skeeter better realise she's got a snowball in hells chance of being assigned to an operation. Crazy Sweet is brilliantly put together though. At the end of chapter 2 I was gob-smacked when the author shut the reader out of Gillian and Travis's intimate encounter. Fortunately we rejoined them later. And missed nothing. Unusually there are some steaming hot scenes near the beginning of the story. Makes a nice change for the series. In the meantime we got to meet Royce. What a great invention he was. The subsequent bad-guys in this series are pale shadows on a cave wall compared to Royce. What a shame he didn't get to place Skeeter in danger. Seeing how he hated her so much more than Red Dog. I would love to have seen Dylan in stone-killer mode. I'm totally used to the style of this genre now. So I had no problems with the Honey and Smith interludes. Poor Travis. He's a lap-dog for Gillian. I suppose I'm witnessing an attempt at a bdsm relationship for a couple of the Steele Street crew. Like many readers. I find it just plain weird and totally non aspirational. Basically. The psychopharmace

Different Style

I have liked this whole series. I think the reason for a lot of the below average reviews is because Ms. Janzen changed her style in this book. In past books, she's had two lead characters that are involved in the action and the romance. However in this book, she doesn't do that. There are actually four lead characters. She uses Angel and Red Dog as the action and Honey and Smith as the romance. If you look at it that way then I think you'll enjoy the book a lot more. Many were just upset that Angel and Red Dog didn't get a whole book to themselves and some time has passed since Red Dog became Red Dog. However if you remember Red Dog and Angel were major characters in the book before this one, so I'm guessing that Smith and Honey will be the very next book. I would recommend this book but you need to start at the beginning of the series to get a true feel for it. I haven't read the first couple books in it and I'm planning on going back and reading them. I think I'll get a better understanding of how everything works.

great series

This whole series has been fun and enjoyable to read. In each book you get to enjoy the romance between the main characters along with a good romance between secondary characters. In this book I liked the romance between the secondary characters of Honey & C Smith the most & they are the reason for the 5 stars instead of 4 stars.

Great Series

This is the last book in the series and was just as good as the others. I read all of them and really looked forward to the next book. Tara is a great writer.