Spotless

I'll keep this short. I just want to list all the good points this book demonstrated throughout its course:
- Likable heroine — she had her flaws and moments of idiocy, but they were mostly all logical, given her situation and limited experience, and they were eclipsed by her continuous shows of acuity.
- Good chemistry — the sexual tension might kill me and that's ok.
- Plot twists galore — maybe it's just been a while since I've read a spy-ish book, but I couldn't see many of these lil' surprises until they slapped me in the face. Then they slapped me again for good measure.
- Humorous — the homage to 99 cents romance novels will forever warm my cockles and hurt my nonexistent abs from indulging in their sheer hilarity.
- More “real” (as real as a spy-ish novel can get) — the attention to the more graphic areas of the book grabbed my attention and kept me from coasting through

This story was a lot of fun!

Overall, I liked the cast of characters. Island tended to get a tad annoying at times, while March paled a bit in comparison. To be fair, his character isn't one given to grand gestures and theatrics, so that is quite fitting, even if I would have liked it otherwise sometimes.
Dries felt a bit inconsistent to me, I'm not sure I understand why he acted the way he did.

I really loved the little things, like the scene with the robo-mop (:wub:) or rating the quality of private jets by their paint jobs.

While some story-arcs got resolved in this first installment to keep me happy (I HATE complete cliffhangers), there are enough loose ends to keep me wondering how the story will unfold in the second book.