All I Ever Wanted
Ellen FisherRomantic suspense
Available from New Concepts Publishing
ISBN: 1-58608-375-9
February 2004
| Dr. Drew Cooper works hard at being dull. Her position as a professor of English Literature brings a modicum of respect and she tries to embody the ideal of college professors everywhere. Her sister Tiffani is her polar opposite. Tiffani leaps before she looks and that is the very reason she is a single mother at 22 years old. Since Drew raised her after their mother's death, she feels responsible for her sister and wants to make her happy. So when Tiffani asks Drew to accompany her to a Science-Fiction Convention, Drew agrees to go, albeit begrudgingly. She just does not understand the appeal of the sci-fi story, and the numbers of costumed aliens walking around support her theory that if you read or watch "sci-fi drivel" then you are brain-dead.
When Max Sinclair, reigning king of science fiction writers, overhears Drew's less than stellar critique on his writing, he cannot help but be taken aback by her beauty and yet thoroughly annoyed with her point of view. Just as Max starts to get on a roll about how entertainment is an important part of life, one of the aliens brings out a 21st century gun and tries to kill him. Thinking quickly, he saves not only Drew and her niece but gets wounded himself. And that is just the beginning of a quite humorous and action filled story! Ms. Fisher does an excellent job of creating two "larger-than-life" characters and making them come to life. Max is smart, gorgeous and successful but maintains a fragility of spirit and insecurities of his youth. Drew is the same but more composed and less likely to bend. Together they have absolutely nothing in common, but when they are apart, they are alone and lonely. This was a laugh-out-loud story with a good amount of suspense. Well worth reading!
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Reviewer: Sara Sawyer |
