The Price of Fame
By Editor Alexandra Wolfe
Title: THE PRICE OF FAME
Author: Lyne Ames
Publisher: Intaglio Publications
ISBN: 1-933113-04-9
Rated: 3 Stars
Genre: Romance
When local television news anchor Katherine Kyle is thrust into the national spotlight, it sets in motion a chain of events that will change her life forever. Jamison ‘Jay’ Parker is an intensely career-driven Time magazine reporter; she has experienced love once, from afar, and given up on finding it again…that is, until circumstance and an assignment bring her into contact with her past.
Kate and Jay’s lives intertwine, leading them on a journey to love and happiness, until fate and fame threaten to tear them apart. What is the price of fame? For Kate the cost just might be everything. For Jay, the price could be the other half of her soul.
I really wanted to give this book the four-star treatment as, for the most part, it is really well written…But, for one uber sticking point, it would have received that higher rating.
This book could have been so much more and, to start with, it was. Tantalizingly so. The first third had me engrossed and hooked with the hinted-at political-covert plotline, leaving me wanting more but, as I got futher in, I started to see where the author was actually heading as the plot suddenly vapourized and descended into just another uber romance. One featuring two very familiar characters…characters who spend the remaining two-thirds of the book gazing into one another’s colbalt blue/emerald green eyes.
That said, however, if you are simply looking for a well-written romance then go ahead, grab a copy, settle down on the couch and enjoy Kate and Jay’s journey of discovery.
REVIEWED BY ALEXANDRA WOLFE
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