Whenever Secret Service Agent Alex Warner feels unsure, all she has to do is remember the time she rescued those children from the burning building. Or the time she won the gold for the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team. Or the time she saved the Dalai Lama and he declared her a bodhisattva. Okay, that last one's not true, but the former make up our introduction to Alex, who is about to assume responsibility for the titular candidate, Jane Kincaid. But don't worry, it's Alex's friends who relate these acts of bravery and excellence, so it's not like she's bragging! Of course, an alternate strategy for establishing Alex's character would be giving her an opportunity to display competence and even heroism within the timeline of the story, but I much prefer this exposition, don't you?
(No, you do not.)
Jane Kincaid, a two-time senator running for the Democratic nomination for president, is much easier to like—right up until she (spoiler alert!) falls in love with Alex, and then it's all darling's and insta-marrying. Still, this book pulled me in much more than the last one I read (The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin by Colette Moody), so I'm rating it 2.5 out of 5 children rescued from a house fire.
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