Book Club Choice for April - Reluctant Smuggler
We are back on track. This derailment lasted too long in my book. (No pun intended.) The Book Club choice for April is “Reluctant Smuggler” by Jill Elizabeth Nelson. Okay, we are a backwards book club by having Jill’s third book in the “To Catch a Thief Series” as our first one but I believe this one will inspire us to get the first two. If you’re anything like me, I hate jumping in the middle of a story or movie. Things are talked about in this book that are a continuation from the first two books hence the word “series”. Not to mention this is my first time for reading anything Jill Elizabeth Nelson has written. All in all it was a great experience.
Jill kept me going on a roller coaster ride through all emotions a person has which I like. The roller coaster ride means I was entertained. Just like on a regular roller coaster you never know what’s around the corner or at the bottom of the next hill. This book is exciting. Back in the good old days when Disneyland was first created there was a ticket system to get on the rides. If you had an “E” ticket, it meant you were on the biggest, baddest roller coaster ride Disney had to offer. “Reluctant Smuggler” in my opinion is an “E” ticket ride. Now you have to remember I’m over 46 years old so what I consider an “E” ticket might be someone else’s “D” or “C”. The book got me going nonetheless. If this isn’t the kind of book that trips your trigger remember with our book club our readers decide which books we read. I picked the first two since we were just getting Bookworms United Book Club off the ground. All future choices are being submitted by book club members and then voted on.
Here’s a little excerpt from the back cover of “Reluctant Smuggler”:
“They say keep your friends close and your enemies closer… but what if you can’t tell the difference?
For security consultant Desiree Jacobs, the assignment was simple: make off with an ancient Mayan artifact and hand it over to the good guys in time to plan her wedding to ultra-fine FBI agent Tony Lucano.
Yet, in a world where no one is as he seems, Desi must decipher who the good guys are-before she ends up in the hands of a ruthless enemy.
Suddenly, artifact recovery turns into archaeological espionage, and the woman who finds all the answers must now ask questions: Who’s looting priceless antiquities underneath the nose of the baffled Mexican government? And what does a violent gang of drug and human traffickers have to do with missing artifacts?
Even with Tony on her side, Desi will need way more than luck to survive against the odds. She’ll need the truth-not just to set her free, but to liberate many innocents caught in the snare of calculating evil.”
How’s that for tempting? If you haven’t purchased your book yet, go to Christian Book Distributors here and join us next week. You have plenty of time to join the discussion and if we are lucky, Jill Elizabeth Nelson will join us one night.
In the meantime, talk to you tonight for the last discussion on “Pump Up The Power”.
Reading Rocks,
Michelle
