Midnight Run (Midnight, #2) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

Feb 03, 2009 Dina rated it it was amazing

Shelves: erotica-romantica, romantic-suspense

This is only my 2nd book by LMR and it麓s safe to say, it麓s not going to be my last. :)

I really liked Bud, the hero in this book, but I had some problems with Claire, the heroine. I just couldn麓t buy her reason for breaking up with him. Her life was in danger, he did everything he could to protect her life, and she was less than thankfull!?! Okay, he麓d been acting in an overbearing way before, but did she have to choose the only time he was right to put a stop to it? Anyway, she made up for it in ...more

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Feb 25, 2008 Pamela(AllHoney) rated it really liked it

Shelves: cops-fbi-dea-cia-etc, favorites, loc-usa, virgin-heroine, suspense-mystery-thriller, the-habanero-shelf, dreamy-heroes, blonde-hero, inked, beards

This is the second in the Midnight series by Lisa Marie Rice. It actually starts before Midnight Man. Tyler "Bud" Morrison, who we met in book one, is an undercover police officer and while undercover, sees and is attracted to a beautiful woman in a rough night club. Clearly she does not belong and ends up needing rescuing before the night is over. Claire Parks may very well be the "princess" Bud thinks she looks like. Born to a life of plenty but Claire has had a rough life in and out of hospit ...more

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Nov 02, 2008 Holly rated it really liked it

Shelves: lisa-marie-rice

Lieutenant Tyler "Bud" Morrison is scoping out a seedy club when he sets eyes on Claire. She looks like a princess and she's completely out of her element in the wild danceclub. When she's abandoned by her friend and accosted by leering male revelers, he swoops in and plays the gallant knight to her fair damsel and takes her home. Expecting to give her a handshake and a nice-knowing-ya on her doorstep, he's stunned to hear her invite him inside......for coffee.

Claire Parks is free of the leukem Lieutenant Tyler "Bud" Morrison is scoping out a seedy club when he sets eyes on Claire. She looks like a princess and she's completely out of her element in the wild danceclub. When she's abandoned by her friend and accosted by leering male revelers, he swoops in and plays the gallant knight to her fair damsel and takes her home. Expecting to give her a handshake and a nice-knowing-ya on her doorstep, he's stunned to hear her invite him inside......for coffee.

Claire Parks is free of the leukemia that has ravaged her body for nearly a decade. She's finally able to shake off her father's suffocating but well meaning strictures and is going to live a little. In case she hasn't told you, she's fine. The handsome stranger named Bud comes to her rescue and as he drives her home, she works up the courage to ask him inside......for coffee.

They don't have any coffee, but they do spend the weekend together in naked splendor, where they engage in some seriously kinky iambic pentameter sex. After the course of the 48 hours, their idyllic weekend is busted when Claire's father comes to see her and when he sees Bud, instead of being upset and appalled, he's frankly grateful and relieved. Her father reveals to Bud how he has been terrified of leaving his girl alone in the big, bad world and he hopes he can leave her in his capable hands. His fears transfer to Bud and suddenly he's treating Claire with kid gloves. Claire is fine and refuses to live in another suffocating parent/child relationship, especially now that she's a healthy adult. Just when she's got Bud back where she wants him, the danger surrounding her friend, Suzanne, spills over into her life. The brutal torture/murder of a friend spurs Bud into protective mode and without thinking of her feelings, stashes her away, determined to protect her from a desperate man who is out to protect his secrets.

This was a great book. There was hardly any time wasted on stupid ditherings between the hero and the heroine and they right away acknowledged that they loved each other. Whether or not they can live together is a different story however and I thought it was cute. Now that Claire has experienced hard, screaming sex, she wants more of it. (sheesh, who wouldn't) Unfortunately once Bud realizes that she used to be sick as a child, he treats her like porcelain and she's not liking it. When she comes to his office dressed for seduction, Bud's half hearted protestations wane in the face of her aggressive advances and it's really funny. I really liked Claire and her ability to embrace life and I thought Bud's attempts to be a gentleman was a hoot. We get some glimpses into John and Suzanne's HEA and I liked how they are still evolving as a couple.

This was a very amusing, sexy and exciting sequel to Midnight Man. Well, it's not exactly a sequel. Apparently, the events in Midnight Run are coinciding with the events in Midnight Man and Midnight Run also sets up the story for Midnight Angel, so the three stories definitely need to be read in order or you are going to get confused. There isn't as much outside drama in this book as was in the first book, it mostly runs on self inflicted angst. There was a lot more humour in this one though as opposed to John and Suzanne's story but Bud is no less a man than John was. In fact, he's much more forceful in bed than John was. He's a little more commanding and dominant, too. Delicious. I can't wait to read Midnight Angel. Enjoy! ...more

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Jun 05, 2009 Netanella rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance-suspense

Lisa Marie Rice is definitely an author I will watch out for! Her second novel in the Midnight series is even better than the first. Our heroine, Claire, is a poor little rich girl, combining the best pedigree in Portland with a nearly fatal childhood disease. She meets an undercover homicide detective in a seedy bar one night when she is out with a friend for the first time in forever. Her story is poignant and Bud, our aforementioned cop, is struck dumb by the one he calls the Princess. I love ...more

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Jun 11, 2011 Jen rated it liked it

Well this was one hot book. It kind of ran in succession with the first book in the series. Normal LMR alpha hero which of course is always a good thing. Heroine did have a TSTL moment at the end where she wouldn't go with Bud to the safe house. I understand that she didn't like being locked up but breaking up with him was a little much. ...more

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Feb 14, 2015 Pet rated it liked it

I gave this book 3 stars years ago when I first read it, which is unusual because I loved most of the books in this series, but Bud just rubbed me the wrong way. The sex scenes were very one sided, and his attitude with her once he knew her history just rubbed me even further. I like Clare and I liked her response, I would have liked a little more making up and talking/working things out between them as the end was IMO a bit of a cop out, man does something dumb girl dumps him they miss each oth ...more

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