How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days

This is much less Sci-Fi-Political-Intrigue-Thriller than the first two books in the series...and I loved it. The REEF, a human fitted with microscopic comupters, is a programmed assassin, but earthlings have removed the main computer and hidden him in suburbia with a single mom from a political dynasty. There's your sci-fi and thriller set up, but this book shines as a complex and complete heroine helps the former REEF adjust to his new life while they try not to fall in love with each other. The sci-fi touches are just right: Reef still has some of his enhanced senses, so he can see things like a logo on the side of a van that has been hidden from normal human eyes by a new coat of paint. Without his super computers, however, he has been learning to read Earth's English the old-fashioned way, so the van drives by too quickly for him to sound the words out. I love the way books by this author always balance details like that so perfectly. Susan Grant is an author I automatically buy, and this book is one of her many greats.

Susan Grant never fails to deliver when she combines the unique cultures of distant worlds with the promise of hot romance, earthling style. Her latest title "How to Lose An Extraterrestrial in 10 Days" is outstanding. The hero REEF, is a wounded soul fighting the inhunmanity done to him and succeeding with the help of Evie, a woman reaches within herself for the strength to heal him. Filled with intrigue, this book is poignant and hot with a captial H. A must read for anyone looking for the ultimate HEA!

In the forward to this book, the author says that she loves to take the bad guy and turn him into a hero. In this book she's certainly succeeded. Reef, the terminator-like souless killing machine out to "off" the hero in "My Favorite Earthling", turns into a great leading man as he ends up falling for the Evie-- the final Jasper sibling to find love that's out of this world. The thing that makes Reef (actually Eriff) such an appeailing hero, is that all of a sudden he has his emotions back for the first time since childhood. The power of these long lost emotions, and the emerging new ones that Evie inspires, ends up giving this sexy tough guy an appealing vulnerablity. Evie also gets her own redemption. Reef brings out the best in Evie and allows her to finally break free of her family's expectations. "How to Lose and Extraterrestrial in 10 Days" stands pretty well on its own, but it will be more fun to read if you've read the others, or at least the first one so that you can appreciate Reef's turnaround.

Imagine the Terminator with his cybernetic super-powers disabled. How can this character possibly become a romantic hero? Grant begins by showing us the boy Reef was before he was captured and made into a super-assassin. So when we see him as a man, stranded on Earth, we already sympathize with him. The "fish out of water" theme combines beautifully with Reef's gradual re-awakening to the emotions that have been completely suppressed within him for so many years. The heroine is a great character, too, struggling for her own identity as the "ordinary" sister in the midst of her politically powerful family. This funny, tender, sensual story should appeal to any fan of SF romance.

How does one go from being innocent at heart, to a killing machine and finally to a near helpless prisoner? Author Susan Grant takes on a tale of this magnitude with skill and grace as she brings her all to this inspiring story of a backwater planet alien turned assassin and the human woman striving to be the perfect image her family demands she be. They come from two different worlds--or do they? Earth may now be aware that aliens exist, but they're about to find out just how much they have in common too. Reef is a mechanically enhanced assassin in need of a hideout. Even though he failed to destroy his mark, once in the hands of these pesky humans, he's hard pressed to escape their good intentions. He's being reassigned, but for the first time, it's not with orders to kill, it's with ones to protect. Evie Jasper Holloway wants nothing to do with the killer that came after her family and ransacked her home. That it's a surprise when she finds out he's to live with her is an understatement. It could jeopardize not only lives, but the state of her family as well. But as the black sheep of her family, she tries her best to fit in where she can and soon she comes to realize there's more to this sexy alien than the next kill. He has a past, one he can't readily remember, but with Evie's help, he's soon on his way to a full memory recovery. Only problem is, Earth sees him as the bad guy and the one that made him into a killer wants him back. Can they manage to deflect the ill will of Earth and an intergalactic plot and still come out ahead? "How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in Ten Days" revolves around the power of love and family and how each can shape a life in different ways. Good or bad, either way can have a devastatingly altering effect. No one experiences this more so than Reef and Evie in this third installment of Grants Otherworldly Men series (see "Your Planet or Mine?" and then "My Favorite Earthling"). When Evie takes on a cause, it's with a whole heart and boundless passion. And when she sets her sights on Reef, it's with no less enthusiasm. Their romance is a fast consuming fire that stakes a firm claim early on in the book and builds with good pacing till the very sweet end. I grew to dearly love Evie thanks to Grant's fine characterization skills. I found Evie to be a woman I could myself very much identify with. She has an inner strength that isn't fully realized till Reef steps in. And in turn, Reef has remained incomplete his entire life till Evie unlocks the door holding him back. Though we get snippets of what happens in the first and second books, this one reads very well on its own and focuses wonderfully on Evie and Reef's love. Once again, author Grant has won my respect and admiration for another beautifully written romance. Can we say, auto buy?