Review: Always in My Dreams by Jo Goodman

Posted July 29, 2008 by Casee in Reviews | 0 Comments

The sins of a father

The youngest daughter of a New York financier, Skye Dennehy didn’t run from danger, instead, she embraced it. And now her powerful father had asked her to spy on a reclusive inventor whose latest creation could change the world.

The passions of a daughter

Skye didn’t count on an obstacle that was large, unmoveable. . .and irresistible. His name was Walker Caine – and he was a man who instinctively knew what Skye wanted out of life: no two tomorrows that were the same.

The love of a man

What Walker kept from Skye was his past – but not his passion. And as a shadowy enemy stalked them both – thrusting Skye between two dangerous men – she knew she must risk everything for a love that could prove the most perilous adventure of all. . .

Unfortunately I don’t have any 90’s cover goodness today. This one seems rather blah compared to the two previous books.

Mary Schyler Dennehy is my least favorite Dennehy sister. She was amusing, though. I seem to recall a spinach episode in one of the books that made me laugh out loud. Other than that, I really wasn’t looking forward to reading her book b/c she just didn’t interest me as a heroine. By the time I finished reading the book, I didn’t really like her any more than I did at the beginning.

Skye is the last Dennehy sister living at home. With three of her sisters married and living with their husbands and the other sister living in a convent, which leaves only Skye. Skye just knows that her father wants to marry her off just as he thinks he married off three of her sisters. Skye never wants to get married though; she wants to be an adventuress. So when Jay Mac asks her to spy on a reclusive inventor, Skye is torn. On one hand, she’s sure that Jay Mac is just playing his hand at matchmaking. On the other hand, she can’t pass up an adventure and soon finds herself off to the inventor’s country home.

When the inventor hires Skye as his housekeeper, she has no idea that they’ve met before. It’s not the inventor that Skye is attracted to, but his bodyguard. Walker Caine doesn’t hide the fact that he doesn’t want her at Granville Manor. Walker has his own reasons for being Jonathan Parnell’s bodyguard and Skye with her incessant snooping is not helping his cause. He can’t stay away from Skye, even though his employer orders him to do just that.

The “mystery” here really isn’t a mystery. It’s more like why than who. What does remain a mystery is what Walker is doing there and why he stays. He obviously doesn’t like his employer. His motives become clear toward the end of the book. He never counted on someone like Skye and he’s determined to keep her in his life no matter what the cost.

I have no idea what Walker saw in Skye. She was selfish. She was self-absorbed. She did everything without thinking. She was like a strong willed child. When Walker proposed to her, her reaction was just absurd. I understood her need to remain independent, but the way she kept carrying on, good Lord, it was annoying. I was glad to see the book end. I think I enjoyed the family interactions more than Skye and Walker. And it’s not that I didn’t like Walker. He was a great hero and probably the only person that could put up with someone like Skye.

3.5 out of 5.

This OOP book was published by Zebra Books. You can buy it used here.


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