So this book is about Laney and Reed. Reed is a detective who is almost 40 years old and Laney is a white hacker that works for the Dephi Center and she is in her early 20s. Why does this matter? Because Reed keeps bringing it up in the book. Thinks he is too old for Laney but Laney doesn't stop age from going after what she wants. So a college student is found dead in her apartment but there is no physical evidence to help Reed and the others to find her killer. That is until Laney sends some much needed information to him that could be important. Laney was once attacked similarly to how the student was killed so she has in interest in this case. Reed askes for Laney's trust but she isn't too sure she can give it to him even though they have a great connection.
So, the frustrating part for me in the book was Laney and her lack of trust in Reed. Literally she won't trust him with almost anything about herself. And she gets upset when he goes digging for information himself. That being said, Reed does kind of act like a jerk himself when he thinks Laney puts herself in danger. He doesn't do a great job on conveying his need to keep her safe and all that. He just kind of gives her orders to stay away from the case and that leads to some disagreement. SO both of them are flawed and get a little annoying sometimes. Now, the relationship was a little forced at times for me. Reed thinks he is too old for Laney but, when she makes the move, he doesn't stop himself from getting into a relationship with her. When they fight, it doesn't seem like either side is really communicating what they are really trying to say and then it ends up getting resolved and they are back to being physical. The twist of who the killer was seemed to come out of left field and I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be shocked because there wasn't anything really indicating that this was the killer, for me at least. I guess that is what happens when we don't get to see anything from the killer's point of view. All in all, it wasn't a bad book but it wasn't my favorite for the series. But that doesn't discourage me from reading more of the series. I like this group of people we get to meet in these book so I am happy to continue. That is it for this book. See you next read!
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Okay, so I decided to skip around in the Tracers Novels by Laura Griffin since they can be read as stand alone book, even though they all connect. Touch of read is book 12, so it is one of of the newer book and I LOVED IT. I really did. Now the last book I had reviewed for Laura Griffin was the first in the series and it seemed like there was some abrupt switches between scenes and there wasn't a lot there to describe why some of the characters were doing or saying what they were doing or saying. I am used to getting a lot more insight in the minds of the characters so it was a little jarring. Needless to say, this isn't something that continues with Laura's writing. There is a vast improvement and I just loved this book so much.
So this book is about Brooke and Sean. Brooke works at the Dephi Center doing evidence while Sean is a detective for the San Marcos Police (I think, it could be Austin but I do believe it is San Marcos). Sean has had a thing for Brooke for months but he just hasn't had the chance to really ask her out. They are thrown together again when a woman is stabbed right outside her front door and Sean is one of the primary leads on the case. Brooke finds evidence there was a child witness. Now its a race as to find the witness. All the while, Sean tries to put a foot forward in getting Brooke to date him, even though she says she is on a break from guys. So, there is one thing with this book that I was a little confused on. Brooke was super protective of the child witness when they found him. She goes as far as to do something that, not only puts her in harms way, but could potentially derail Sean's case. Brooke thinks that the child is traumatized and doesn't want the police questioning the kid and so on. She gets mad a Sean for doing so. It is never really explained WHY she is this protective. If there was a back story of her witnessing something as a kid so she knows or if she has seen a child witness not treated well by the police before that led to something tragic, I could understand why should would jepordize her relationship with the police as well as Sean. That was the only confusing thing about this book. Now, the relationship was belivable for me and I loved the chemistry between the leads. Brooke and Sean are so good together as characters. Sean has come back from a near death experience and he has come to grips that he wants to stop playing around with his life. Brooke had come to see him in the hospital and they had a connection before. It is really sweet to see how he tries to ease Brooke into a relationship with him when she is so set on not having one. Brooke is months out a relationship that was emotional abusive, hence why she wants a break from guys, and her ex is still bothering her. Now, I thought that this was going to lead to something where Sean has to tell the guy to back off and there is a fight or something but it doesn't end that dramatically. Sean does confront the ex and the ex just shrugs and lets it go. A little anticlimatic. But the ex wasn't the bad guy so I can understand why the author doesn't do much with him. The suspence wasn't as big in this book as with other books but it added to the drama and the relationship. All in all, it was a good suspense book and I am super happy that I read it. It actually got me to read more of her books, as I was debating on if I had wanted to continue the series after the first book didn't blow me away. I will probably do what I did with the Karen Rose books and just binge this series. I might check out some of her other books. That is all for this book. See you next read! This is my first Mary Burton book and it is definately a change of pace from what I have been previously reading. This book is about Leah and Alex. It is also book 3 in a series but I didn't know that when I started this book.
Leah, four years ago, was almost killed by her ex husband. He stalked her for months and then broke into her home and stabbed her twenty three times. She barely survived. Now, present day, Leah goes on her first date since that fateful day. Alex Morgan, her date, is a cop who investigates other cops and he has his sights on her new friend. He had asked Leah out to learn a little about her friend and because he is attracted to her as well. It is the first time in his career that he mixed work and pleasure. When Leah's friend is found dead, stabbed as many times as she was when her ex husband tried to kill her, Alex starts to look at Leah's past to see if her ex husband had not died like everyone thought. So, when I say this book is a change of pace, there isn't really a lot of sexual scenes and such. In fact, it isn't until the second half of the book before the two kiss. The "sex" is almost non exsistant. The books I was reading before had a lot more in them and focused a lot on the romance and not so much the actual plot. THAT BEING SAID, I never felt that the book was going too slow. I was waiting for Leah or Alex to make a move but both characters have a hard time showing emotion. Alex because he is an investigator and Leah because of what happened to her. It kind of makes the romance a little slow going. It is also harder to see the attraction between the two but it felt okay in that department. Now, what really got me was the twist in the book. The killer is not who you think it is. I swear I was a little shook when it was revealed. I honestly thought it was who the book made you believe it was but it wasn't and I didn't see that coming so now I want to read more of her books to see how her other suspense novels shall be. I also want to see if the romance is a little stronger in the other books than in this book. I mean the characters were guarded so it makes sense they would be slow to open or show emotion to each other. Made the characters a little more real. ALSO, they never say "I love you" in this book which I kind of like. The epilogue is just a couple of months after the climax of the story and it shows them being a couple but no a wedding or anything, so it seems realistic. It was nice. All in all, I like Burton's writing style and am going to check out more of her books. I got kindle unlimited because of lot of her books are on there (and I need to save some money lol) so I will be exploring more of her stories. I have so many books to read! I'll see you in the next book! Okay, Feehan, there needs to be tension in the relationship to make it steamy. You started out well enough but then all problems just went away and came back for a brief minute (only once) and then no tension. Let me explain.
This book is about Sasha and Giovanni. Giovanni was injured in the previous book so he can't carry out any jobs or ride the shadows so he has to be the one out partying so that his brothers aren't suspected (there is a whole thing they do, read the book to understand how they do that). He is out at his family club when he sees Sasha for the first time and he knows that she is his perfect partner but he has to convince her that he isn't this complete playboy. Also, she gets a stalker. So, what do I mean about the story starting strong. Sasha hears Giovanni explaining a really bad game his brothers and his cousins do on getting girls. Its a point system on getting girls to initiate some sexual things. Sasha is disgusted and it shows. Giovanni doesn't like that she judges him and he makes a pass at her. This leads to her feeling even more disgust, even though she is attracted to Giovanni. Then she is attacked at the club, where someone pulls her shirt and rips it. Giovanni steps in to defend her and starts to change her mind a little about Giovanni. Giovanni asks Sasha to give him a chance to show her that he isn't some playboy and that his interest is real and she agrees. This sets up for a good tension BUT then Sasha gives Giovanni a blow job in the car on the way to a place....Ummmmm I thought she didn't want to be just some conquest and that she thought he was just a playboy and then she does that. THEN there is no tension for all of the middle of the novel, no her second guessing Giovanni, they get engaged and then the whole playboy things comes back because a previous girl, who he had a one night stand with, dances with Giovanni at the club and kisses him. He pushes her away IN FRONT OF EVERYONE but Sasha gets all mad and wants to be alone to think things through. And then she is attacked by her stalker and Giovanni and her are better. She even says she wasn't even mad and knew that Giovanni didn't have a thing for this girl, she was just overwelmed with everything. The reason I loved the first book so much was because Stefano had to prove to Francesca that he really felt the way that he did. It wasn't an instant "they are together" kind of book that book two and this book. I mean Sasha and Giovanni are enganged before the middle part of the book. SERIOUSLY! Build the relationship! So, again, I was not happy with this book. I am going to take a break from this book before I start Vittorio's book. I am not looking completely forward to Taviano's book because his woman he has already met and he is waiting until she will be willing to take him on so there is already development of their relationship in the other books. (those are some of the other siblings). I really hope that Feehan builds the relationship in the next book, and have the guy have to prove himself to the girl because Feehan constantly says how these brothers have made themselves into playboys in the media and it would come back to haunt them when they find their women. Stefano is the only one to really have to prove to Francesca. Everyone else just said they weren't like that and the girls just kind of gives in. Pshh. Anyways, see you in the next read! So there are two reasons I didn't like this book. One, I think the two fell "in love" without any development and two, the "thing" in this book is the rope art of Shibari, something I have no idea about and doesn't appeal to me at all.
So this book is about Ricco. He is a rope master and is in need of finding his partner that he should have. In his family, it is said that when the first of these partners arrives, the other will follow shortly and he really wants to finds her. The only thing that helps to center him is his rope art of Shibari, making art by tying up people. Though this is not a sexual thing, there is an close relationship between rope master and model. Ricco has decided to put an ad out for a rope model so that he can work on art to balance out everything and his perfect half answers the ad. Unfortunately, there is another reason for her arrival. She is a shadow rider as well and she has been hired to kill Ricco but she wants to make sure that Ricco is a bad guy. She didn't realize she would be so connected with this man. Soooo....I swear it was like one minute Mariko, Ricco's girl, and Ricco were trying to dance around that she was there to kill him to being in a relationship. There was no chase and no tension to make things kind of steamy. It was a little meh. A good half of the book was dealing with a mass attack on Ricco's family and people getting attacked and injured and such. Though the action was interesting, it just didn't give time for a relationship to develop. Plus, the relationship had to be in place before the attack because Ricco had to trust Mariko in the attack. I just didn't buy it. The way the shadow riders are described makes it seem like it would take a little while longer for Mariko to let her guard down with Ricco. Also, I was bored for all the scenes that had the rope tying in it. Honestly, not my thing and I didn't care. I really didn't. I get that it was supposed to be this sensual thing for the two of them but I was bored and skimmed those parts. It did usually end up leading to sex but....wasn't my thing. Maybe that is one of the reasons I didn't think the relationship was well developed because there was this development during these rope tying session that were non verbal. Don't know. Just didn't care for it. That is my personal opinion and feelings. Since there wasn't much development in the relationship, I didn't really feel like I got to know Mariko's character really well. All in all, not my favorite for a second book in the series. I had high hopes because of how much I LOVED the first book. It is still my favorite so far but I shall see what I think about the other books. That is all for this book. See you next read! I LOVE THIS BOOK! I was grinning from the very beginning and it never left my face while I read this book. This book is about Stefano and Francesca. Stefano's family are special. They are shadow riders, meaning they can travel through shadows without being seen. Because of this, Stefano has to find someone else who has the ability to connect with the shadows so that he can continue the family and he is about to give up hope. Then, before he has to leave for a job, he sees Francesca and something just connects him. Now, he has to convince her that she is the only one for him, despite the image he has built of being a playboy. Francesca doesn't want to be with a rich and powerful person because she wants to keep a low profile as she hides from her past.
The reason I love this book so much is I love books where the guy goes for the girl. So Francesca is running from a influencal person who had killed her sister and threatened her. She has no money and is down to her last couple of dollar when she sees Stefano for the first time. He immediately claims her in the neighborhood that his family protects and she has no idea what to do. She knows that Stefano is trying to protect her but she doesn't want anything to do with him because she doesn't need another person to be killed while she is trying to hide. Stefano is powerful in his own right and will do anything to protect Francesca. Francesca, drawn to Stefano, tries so hard to deal with this new relationship, accept that he loves her and wants her, and that he can keep her safe. There are some really good and funny scenes in this book. Francesca is working at a deli, because she refuses to let Stefano keep her a kept woman while they are starting this relationship, when someone shows up and makes a gesture at her that lets her know the person she is running from has found her. She goes to the backroom and tries to come up with a plan to run but she needs money. She shallows her pride and askes Stefano for money and he knows immediately that she is going to run and he gets her body guards to stall her until he got there to calm her down. When Stefano finds out that Francesca is staying at a shitty and bad apartment building, he wakes her up in the middle of the night and told her that she could walk out of the apartment or he would carry her out in her sleeping bag but she was leaving that place (there was a really bad risk to her if she stayed. He found proof that her landlord was planning on raping her). She, being prideful, told Stefano to leave so he picked her up, sleeping bag and all, and walked her out of her building, into his car and into the lobby of one of the most expensive hotels. The whole scene was written to be funny and I laughed. So, with all of this, I am definately reading the other books for this series. I like this idea of shadow riders and how they work and it seems interesting. I wonder what the other books in the series will deal with but I love books where the guy goes after the girl and it seems that this series will have that a lot. I can't wait to see how Feehan does Stefano's sibling's books. That is all for this book. See you next read! So this is the first book in the Sister of Heart series that follows the Drake Sisters series by Christine Feehan. This book is about Rikki, someone who has a connection to water, and Lev, a bodyguard that was specially trained in Russia (this will be a thing in all of the Sisters of Heart series. This series leads into the Torpedo Ink series that I read earlier this year).
So Rikki lives with 5 other women on a farm in Sea Haven. She is a sea urchin diver who has issues. She is running from a past where every home she has ever known has been torched, killing her parents and her fiance. Rikki is autistic and prefers to be away from people and out on the sea on her boat. While out one day, she meets Lev. He has no memory of how he got in the sea but he knows that he is a dangerous person. Rikki can see that he isn't who he thinks he is on the inside and want to help him so she brings him home to help heal him. So this book is SUPER interesting from the aspect of Rikki being autistic. Now I haven't personally been around a lot of students who are autistic (as I am a teacher) but a friend of mine specializes in helping special needs students so when I told her about this book, she asked me how Rikki's behavior was described. She says that a lot of things that peculiar about Rikki are accurate for those that are high functioning autistic. I thought it was super cool that this author had decided to explore this a heroine for a romance novel. Lev is a brother to Ilya from Josie's book from the Drake sister's series. He was undercover acting as a body guard to a very bad person when something happened and the ship he was on sunk. He knows that he had done a lot of bad things but Rikki brings happiness and laughter into his life and so he makes a decision to change his identity and stay with her. He is willing to deal with all the things Rikki thinks are her faults because of the light she brings to him but there is danger afoot. The suspense part of the book kind of lacks when it comes to the motive for why someone has been following Rikki since she was a kid and torching all the houses she has lived in. I feel like the author could have done better when it came to that. There is some danger of someone coming to see if Lev had survived the ship but that is resolved pretty quickly so I don't really count on that. You do get to see Hannah and Jonas from the Drake sister's series. The other sisters are alluded to but they don't every show up in this book. I wouldn't be surprised if they do show up in the other books. They are all living in the same little town as the Drake sisters (Which isn't as small as it seems in the Drake sister's series since you have the Drake sisters, now these girls, and then Torpedo Ink Motorcylce Club coming in. How do people get away with anything in a small town with all these psychics and magical people around?! Mrs. Feehan, I need an explanation). The book dragged a little for me in the second half, I feel like there could have been more scenes to create more suspense and danger to Rikki or create more suspense of Lev getting figured out. It was just a lot of Rikki and Lev making eyes at each other and having sex.... So that is all for this book. I will see you in the next read! First, before I start this review, I read this book and then like 4 other books after it, one right after the other, so sorry for the late update and review.
This is my first ever Kat Martin book. Martin was recommended to me by Goodreads because I have been reading the Laura Griffin books so, when I was in the bookstore the other day, I decided to get this book and see how I like the author. This book is about Victoria and Josh. Victoria is on the run from her ex fiance who had put her in the hosital just 3 months ago. She has to keep her little 4 year old safe so she runs to a place she thinks her ex will never look for her, the middle of nowhere Texas. Josh Cain as put an ad in the paper for a ranch hand and it includes a small trailer to stay in on the property. This is perfect for Tory so she can hide but Josh, an ex Marine, doesn't like the idea of Tory doing hard labor. He knows that she is hiding from something or someone and he has this urge to protect her and her daughter. He decided to create a job clean and cooking at his house so that Tory can still earn her keep and he can keep her safe. So, the biggest issue I had with this book is there seems to be too much danger from too many places. The ex fiance is in the forefront for the first half of the book. He goes as far as to kidnap and rape Tory's best friend to try to find her. This makes Tory come back to Phoenix, where she ran from, to see her friend, but Josh comes with her. Josh and his brother have money and connections so they keep an eye on Tory's ex. While this is happening, someone starts killing some of Josh's old Marine buddies and they are coming for Josh next because he was part of something overseas and these people want revenge. So both Tory and Josh have people after them. It makes the plot a little complicated to follow along. The romance is good and believable. Josh is attracted to Tory and the two of them try not to give in to their urges because of the whole employer/employee relationship already. Josh doesn't want Tory to think that he is trying to take advantage. But Tory finally gives and makes the first move. Now, Josh and Tory both go into this thinking that it will just be an affair for sometime because Josh doesn't think he is ready for a ready made family and Tory knows that he is still trying to find his way since he hasn't been out of the Marines for too long. Tory starts to fall in love, and so does Josh though he won't admit it, but she doesn't make any more demands on him that he isn't willing to give himself. There is this whole subplot of him dealing with nightmares from PTSD, so he doesn't sleep over because he doesn't want to hurt Tory. It's really nice. I loved the story. All in all, I will definately read some more of Kat Martin's books. I hope her other books are just as good as this one. That is all I have for this book. See you next read! |
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