Sleeping with Strangers (ISBN 1596000139)

eric has done it again:
great book!!when so many authors let me down. YOU came with da buziness. first page til the last. don't ever put that pen down. thanks eric

What a Mess:
My first and definitely last time to read this author. Tedious beyond belief. A random and confusing story line that constantly moves back and forth to disguise the fact that the "story" is so banal. Even the sex got tiresome very quickly. The only reason to finish the book is to find out how it unravels- but then one finds it is "to be continued"- a cheap trick. Maybe if the characters were fully developed or you cared about them it would almost be bearable- but it wasn't. Good geographical touches for London areas can't save a story that has nothing to say....

Sleeping with Strangers:
this book was so awesome! i couldn't wait to read the sequel. I just started reading it and it's a page turner!!!!!

Sleeping With Strangers:
I so wanted to not like this book. As I read page after page, I kept saying to myself, "I don't like this story." Guess what I said when I got to the end? "OK, Dickey, you won me over." This is not your usual Dickey relationship drama. Central character, Gideon, is a hit-man whose latest caper takes him overseas in search of his next target. Dickey cleverly brings back a character from the past - Arizona - who I vaguely remembered from Thieve's Paradise (Dickey says she was in Drive Me Crazy, too, but I don't remember her from that one) and creates a story that is full of non-stop action and a few suspenseful moments. I have to admit, as much as I didn't want to like this story, I have to give Dickey props for this creation. It did remind me of Thieve's Paradise in that it wasn't so much about relationships as it was about action and adventure. Have no fear, there are some "adult moments" intertwined - what's a Dickey story without them? I sure hope my library has Waking With Enemies because I have to read how this plays out.

Pleasant Surprise!!:
I was told by a friend that this was a good book and I was not disappointed at all. I think that EJD has transitioned to the action-thriller genre flawlessly. I was very impressed by the character development and how he was able to tell multiple stories from the past and present at one time in a very smooth manner. This book had something for everybody and with the majority of the story being based in Europe there was always an exotic backdrop to the story. I was very impressed and I'm looking forward to the 3rd book in the series because the first 2 were page turners!! I did not give the book 5 stars for 2 reasons: 1) I was somewhat disappointed when SWS ended and it was "to be continued". If I wasn't able to immediately able to download the next book and read from there I would have felt like I was really left hanging. 2) The second book (Waking With Enemies) was excellent as well (except for the excessive sex-filled chapters), but these two books would have made a great 600-page single book as opposed to 2 very good books with a "to be continued" book followed by a book that has to recap much of what was learned from the first book. If they were two separate stories, then its always fun to follow a good character. Considering it was one story, it could have been sewn up in one book. Anyway - great job EJD - very impressive. Gideon is the man!!