Did You Miss Me?
2 Stars

When her son is kidnapped, Assistant District Attorney Daphne Montgomery believes it is connected to her latest high profile case, but she and FBI Agent Joseph Carter soon realize that the key to saving Daphne's son may lie in unlocking the secrets of her traumatic past.

Not one of Rose's better efforts. The writing is overly repetitious with Daphne and Joseph's internal musing repeated ad nauseam. Moreover, there is too much telling and not enough showing.

The suspense is lacking tension as the identity of the villain is revealed early on. Moreover, Rose has a problematic tendency of providing her villains with sympathetic motivations even if their actions are diabolical - this is another case in point.

Finally, the romance feels forced. Daphne and Joseph have zero chemistry and their attraction isn't credible.

Unfortunately, this one is more of a miss than a hit. Stevie and Clay's book is next though and I've been looking forward to their story due to the build up. I really hope it lives up to its potential. ( )

Big fan of Karen Rose. This was another great intense book. The plot was about the most intricate of any of hers or really any rom suspense that I've read. Even though the plot was so intricate it all held together nicely. No holes really. There were several different bad guys whose stories intersected and they were each a different level and type of bad. The romance was nice and felt pretty realistic. It helped that these two already knew each other and were interested in each other so the development of a deeper relationship while dealing with all this trauma didn't feel unrealistic or rushed. There was some nice angst at the first and I loved the hero and his choices. The heroine was nice too and became more sympathetic the more you learned about her story.

Why only 4 stars then? I think that it didn't quite have the intensity of [b:Scream for Me (Romantic Suspense, #8)|2212540|Scream for Me (Romantic Suspense, #8) (Daniel Vartanian, #2)|Karen Rose|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348985553s/2212540.jpg|2218328] that kept me frantically turning pages. I'm judging her against herself and maybe that's not fair but...

Still if you like Romantic Suspense and you're not reading Karen Rose, you're doing yourself a disservice. ( )

De thrillers van Karen Rose zijn bestsellers in Nederland. 'Heb je me gemist' is het verhaal van Hoofdofficier van justitie Daphne Montgomery. Zij heeft na een zware tijd een solide leven voor haarzelf en haar zoon weten op te bouwen. Haar zorgvuldig opgebouwde vertrouwen in de mensheid wordt echter danig op de proef gesteld wanneer haar zoon ontvoerd wordt. In de boeken van Karen Rose worden de harde misdaadaspecten afgewisseld met een flinke dosis romantiek. Dat levert haar in Amerika de naam 'Koningin van de Romantic Suspense'op.

My first Karen Rose book and it was gripping. The audio was not great at all - with bad voice changes and obvious splicing of the tape - but the story and the characters were really good. A crazed killer after Daphne because he erroneously thought his father was having an affair with her. A lot of twists and very good. ( )

Suspenseful but not a lot of surprises in this latest from Karen.

From the start we know the who and the why of the villain. Now the secondary villain was much creepier.

FBI Special Agent Joseph Carter is doing his father a favor looking for one of his students that has gone missing and stumbles up a dead cop which leads to finding out the boy had been kidnapped. The boy in question is ASA Daphne Montgomery son who is currently embroiled in a nasty case with that involves a white supremacist. Two attacks are made on her life once the verdict is read while unknowingly to her – her son has been taken.

I thought the “romance” part between Joseph and Daphne started out kinda funny. He’s been secretly pining for her for 6 months but when he thinks she is dating another man he gives her the cold shoulder at every turn.. Ya that will show her :) When he finds out she isn't dating but just friends with Clay he does a 360 on his feelings again.

There are many plots going on at the same time that in some ways intersect later. The biggest being what happened to Daphne as a child. When that was revealed it’s a doozy and it does end up tying into current events that are going on.

Many of the past characters are secondary in this book which was good to see and we get a little more of a glimpse of the mess that’s Clay and Stevie’s relationship.

This is the 14th book in the series and it’s the first time I’m sad to say this was the weakest book in the series. I’m hoping its just a fluke and the next one will be back to Karen Rose par.
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