Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Love in the Fast Lane
Author: Jenna McKnight
Publisher: Avon
ISBN: 00-60843-470
Release Date: December 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Current/Illinois
Overall Rating: 4.8
Sexual Content Rating: Mildly Sexual
Language (Profanity) Content Rating: Mild to Moderate
Violent Content Rating: Very Mild
Jenna's Website:
www.jennamcknight.com
Scott Templeton is a driver on the edge. Speed is exhilarating and being behind the wheel of a high powered race car is an incredible high. To be at one with car and the road. Until, an expected passenger shows up in the seat next to you - - - during the race!! Legendary (and very dead) race car driver Larry "Speed" Cooper is sitting next to him and talking to him. This is all a bit too much for Scott who hits the wall. Waking up hours later, he decides it was all because of the head trauma with the accident and didn’t happen. However, Cooper has other ideas. He wants the engine from Scotty’s car and asks Scott to deliver it to his mother.
Scott is starting to believe he is crazy so he refuses until the ghost absolutely is driving him crazy. When there is no other alternative left, Scott travels to deliver the engine and finish his interaction with this ghost. Cooper, however, has another idea in mind.
Grammy (Cooper’s mother) may be 70 years old and not quite as active but she isn’t at all surprised to see Scott show up with the engine in tow and saying Cooper is with him. In fact, she is thrilled. Maggie, her granddaughter and Cooper’s daughter, is anything but thrilled. They have two barns of "crap" delivered by friends of Cooper’s throughout the years and she is getting tired of it. Grammy is thrilled because this time Cooper came with the "gift." Things definitely are getting interesting.
Love in the Fast Lane is anything but realistic. However, it is truly one of the funniest and sweetest romances that I have read in a very long time. The heat between Maggie and Scott sizzled right off of the pages which I always enjoy. The humor though stole the show. The antics Cooper employs to get his way and the schemes Scott has to invent to avoid him are really ingenious and great fun to follow.
Cooper may not have gotten things right while he was alive but he certainly did as a ghost!! Love in the Fast Lane is real pick-me-up if you are feeling down and just need something to take your mind away. Read away but don’t go too fast!
Lori
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