

This is only my second Sandra Brown novel after Chill Factor and I can say that it is definitely better. MY REVIEW: 4 of 5 stars to Mean Streak by Sandra Brown ★★★★ At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can’t turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law.Īs the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer.

Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. She’s determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive. While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won’t even tell her his name. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. “But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.”ĭr. Genre: Romantic Suspense Published: August 19th 2014 by Grand Central Publishing Rating: 4/5 stars ★★★★ This Analysis of Mean Streak fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.Title: Mean Streak Author: Sandra Brown Series: N/A Which is covered in this summary & analysis.Īlthough it is not likely to be taken up as one of the great works, Sandra Brown’s Mean Streak is an entertaining read and one that does more than simply repeat the many tropes common to novels in its genre. The reader is led through multiple layers of misdirection to the end of the novel, which offers resolution for many of the characters and an ultimately uplifting message. An investigation of the attack and her disappearance follows, during which time Emory encounters and comes to know Bannock, Jeff is revealed as an adulterous potential murderer, Bannock is revealed as a police hero on the lam as he works punishment on those the legal system will allow to go free, and all converge on the person who actually attacks Emory in the first place. Replete with convoluted intrigue, tense action, steamy lust, old-fashioned righteousness and multi-layered betrayal, the novel follows several characters as they come to grips with their pasts, untangle themselves and move ahead into futures that are more promising.Įmory, a pediatrician and a marathon runner, is in the back country training for a run when she is attacked. A Summary of All Chapters Interspersed With Analysisīestselling author Sandra Brown offers a gripping tale in her 2014 novel Mean Streak.This is a Book*Sense Summary & Analysis of Mean Streak by Sandra Brown.
