Crazy Sweet (Steele Street, #6) in Romance Series Lists

Jul 09, 2008 Christa rated it really liked it

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I love this series, and although Crazy Sweet wasn't my favorite of the books, it was engrossing and enjoyable. This book focuses almost equally on two couples - Travis James and "Red Dog" Gillian Pentycote, and C. Smith Rydell and Honoria "Honey" York-Lytton.

Gillian Pentycote was kidnapped and given a mind altering drug which robbed her of her memory in the previous novel. Now, two years later, she is known as "Red Dog," and she works as a mercenary, sometimes for SDF, sometimes for others. Her I love this series, and although Crazy Sweet wasn't my favorite of the books, it was engrossing and enjoyable. This book focuses almost equally on two couples - Travis James and "Red Dog" Gillian Pentycote, and C. Smith Rydell and Honoria "Honey" York-Lytton.

Gillian Pentycote was kidnapped and given a mind altering drug which robbed her of her memory in the previous novel. Now, two years later, she is known as "Red Dog," and she works as a mercenary, sometimes for SDF, sometimes for others. Her sole focus is revenge upon Tony Royce, the ex-CIA agent who captured her and was instrumental in causing her to be given the drug that changed her life. Gillian's plans to use herself to draw Tony Royce to Denver jeopardize the entire SDF organization, so they must try to stop her. Travis James, an SDF agent who met Gillian earlier on the night that Tony Royce kidnapped her, has been her lover for the past two years. Travis truly loves Gillian, but needs to prevent her from using herself and SDF as targets.

Meanwhile, in El Salvador, C. Smith Rydell, SDF's newest agent (he was formerly a DEA agent who worked with Creed Rivera in Columbia in Crazy Wild), is carrying out surveillance on Tony Royce's villa. He inadvertently sees a woman in trouble and steps in to rescue her. Unrest in the streets causes Honoria "Honey" York-Lytton to remain with Smith in his hotel room for the rest of the day and night, where their encounter turns intimate. The next book in the series, On the Loose, is the continuation of their story.

While I liked this book, I did have a few problems with it, unlike the previous ones in the series. I wasn't ever convinced that Gillian was what I want in the heroine of a romantic suspense novel. I felt sympathy for her, and there were things I liked about her, but I didn't feel that she cared for Travis in the way he cared about her. She put her interests above those of Travis and all of the SDF even knowing that her actions could destroy all of their lives. I also questioned why in the world a heroine in a romance novel would be called "Red Dog." That moniker just doesn't do anything for me. At the end of the book, I wasn't satisfied that Travis and Gillian really had a good chance at HEA. I hope that their story will continue in the next books, so that I will be convinced that they will overcome the past and happily stay together. I would have probably rated this book a three if it were only about Travis and Gillian, but I enjoyed the parts about Smith and Honey enough to give it a four.

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May 30, 2012 ♥ Vonda M. Reid ♥ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romantic-suspense

Overall Rating: 5 // Action: 5 / Emotion: 5.5 / Romance: 4.5 / Sensuous: 4 / Suspense: 5 // Laughter: 20 / Tears: 5

Avidly reading "The Steele Street Series," one book right after the other. Each book has been great. But Book Six, Crazy Sweet, was awesome. Once I started reading, I did not want to put it down (for any reason: to feed the dog, to sleep, etc.) This book deserved the big 5.0 rating. It so engaged my emotions that I had to give the emotional aspect of the book a 5.5 out of 5.0.

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Mar 16, 2010 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: personal-library, romantic-suspense, military-heroes

As long as you go into this book NOT expecting the stories of Travis and Gillian, aka. Red Dog then the book is enjoyable.
The story definatly seems to focus on C. Smith Rydell during a trip to El Salvador. Janzen herself seems not at all interested in Travis and Gillian's stories because she constantly drifts off when she's narrarating their stories. Basically, out of the 300 or so pages in this book only 75 are dedicated to Red Dog and the Angle boy.
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Jan 22, 2013 Rachel rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, romance-suspence, favourite-series, funny, steele-street-janzen, contempory, 2015

I have loved this series...and this one was good also. I really like the Honey and Smith story but it felt rushed at the ending.

The main couple, angel boy and reddog, were good but not great or memorable (like all the others) it had action and sex and more action.

still worth a read

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