IRREVERSIBLE

Author: Liz Maverick ISBN: 9780505527783 10/2008 ACTION Publisher: SHOMI

Katherine Gibbs is engaged. Engaged, popular, gorgeous, and living a life of sheer perfection. This is her best week ever. The trouble is, it’s manufactured. She’s lived this week over and over and doesn’t know it. L. Roxanne Zaborovsky, Katherine’s best friend, is outside looking in. Once again, Kitty’s life is being stolen away by a man as twisted as he is brilliant. This time, there’s something Roxy can do. The barriers of time are like the walls of an apartment—or the bars of a prison—and they can be demolished. She just has to start the jailbreak. Walter “Q” Sheffield is hot, smart, and just the man to free Kitty. A time-anomaly specialist, he can split seconds, erase hours and make the most of a minute. The one thing he can’t do? Relationships. But hate and revenge have Kitty trapped in the vagaries of time, and only love will get her out. And that love must be…IRREVERSIBLE

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

First, you need to know that this book is the sequel to Liz Maverick's earlier Shomi title, WIRED. Events and relationships are mentioned from the first book that are glossed over only briefly in this new book, so occasionally the reader might get lost while reading. On the plus side, for anyone who had read WIRED and needed to know more, here you go! IRREVERSIBLE does not disappoint or let down.

The story is sometimes more complex then I am used to in a romance. With Katherine 'Kitty' Gibbs 'perfect week' constantly reset back to the first day (Monday), and only Kitty none the wiser, the other people in the farce are hard put to keep things as they should be. The lengths needed to keep the world perfect are sometimes hilariously ludicrous, but Kitty doesn't question these things.

Leo was eerily creepy and his manner of revenge and 'love' were psychotic. Several times throughout the book I found myself hoping that Q or Kitty would find a conveniently placed rifle to end his mad scheme, but fortunately he gets as he deserves.

Overall the mild case of déjà vu that repeated events and reactions caused was well worth enduring to finish the book.

Alexandra Cenni