Open Season

Version: Abridged
Author: Linda Howard
Narrator: Kate Forbes
Genres: Romance, Fiction, Suspense
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published In: February 2004
# of Units: 4 CDs
Length: 4 hours
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Overview

She's hunting for a mate...
and there's no more playing it safe.

Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have all gotten married and started families, she decides it's time to get a life -- and a sex life. And as far as she can tell, good girls don't attract nearly as many men as bad ones.

Can a lifelong good girl turn bad? No, not exactly.

But they can pretend, right?

One makeover later, Daisy has transformed herself into a party girl extraordinaire. She's letting her hair down, dancing the night away at clubs, and laughing and ?irting with men for the first time in, well, forever. With a new lease on her own place, she's found a new lease on life -- and it's open season for man hunting.

But on her way home late one night, Daisy sees something she's not supposed to see. Suddenly the target of a killer, she's forced to put her manhunt on hold. But the very moment she stops looking might be the moment she finds what she's wanted all along. Trouble is, before he can share her life, he might just have to save it.

Seamlessly blending heart-pounding romance and breathless intrigue, Linda Howard has once more proved herself a masterful storyteller, writing this stylish and provocative novel that absolutely defies readers to put it down.

Selected Reviews

pass on this one

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Open Season

by Saundra
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Reviews (12)

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Written by Anonymous from Cincinnati, OH on June 25th, 2009

  • Book Rating: 1/5

The abridgement missed something. Not up to this author's standard even for an older title.

Open Season

Written by Saundra from Missouri City, TX on April 7th, 2008

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Good book. Great humor. The only problem is the abridged version is WAY TOO SHORT!! It takes away some of the joy of reading the book.

Open Season

Written by Anonymous on July 31st, 2007

  • Book Rating: 3/5

As usual, Linda Howard wrote a very enjoyable story. The plot was at times a bit contrived, but the characters were entertaining and the narrator did a great job.

Open Season

Written by Anonymous on March 7th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

I just loved this title. How could you not adore a main character so incredibly naive and old fashioned, a man way too good to be true or real and a great cast of characters? Well worth the listen.

Open Season

Written by Josefina Dauval on January 17th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Great book! It kept me smiling. I wholeheartedly recommend as a light suspense novel.

Open Season

Written by Leslie Speck on October 31st, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Good mystery, but the heroine is too naive to suit my taste. Fun to read/listen!!

Open Season

Written by Anonymous on February 17th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I enjoy listen to Linda Howard. I'd like to see an unabridged version of this title out there.

Open Season

Written by Van from Hampton, VA on October 12th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I wish there was an unabridged version out there. Along with the narrator, who does a great job by the way, the writing style of this one reminded me a lot of Karen Robards. "All the Queen's Men" was how I got turned on to Linda Howard, but these are very different books. It's great to see an author with such a dynamic writing style. Some authors stick with one style so much that their books become predictable. "Open Season" is very entertaining...you'll get drawn into the suspense of it...but you'll laugh too. Chuck it up to Great Aunt Bessie!

Open Season

Written by Linda from Houston, TX on July 28th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Cute, but certainly not one of Linda Howards best. Everything happens just a little too fast..

Open Season

Written by Beth Paquette on March 29th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 4/5

Linda Howard never stops amazing me with the way she tells a tale. I fall in love with each one of her characters and love to follow them through their adventures. Keep them coming.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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pass on this one

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

Open Season

by Saundra
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Author Details

Author Details

Howard, Linda

Linda S. Howington was born on August 3, 1950 in Alabama, United States. She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own enjoyment. She worked at a trucking company where she met her husband, and then decided to try to get her work published in 1980. [1] Her first work was published by Silhouette in 1982. She is a charter member of Romance Writers of America, joining in 1981 shortly after it was formed. She currently serves as Region 3 Director (until 31 October 2008).[2]

Her husband is a professional bass tournament fisherman, and she travels with him to some very unglamorous locations where she works on her laptop. Linda and her husband live in a big house on a farm in Alabama, where they raise cattle and have two dogs. [3]