Review: Love Kristen Ashley!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Great beginning lines in this book:Until that day, I'd made an art out of avoiding Alexander Colton.All my work would be for nothing, all because of Angie.Poor, sweet, stupid, dead Angie.I am a huge fan of KA, having read all her books. She is perhaps my all time favorite author out of the magnitude I have read. This is for 3 reasons.One, I have been compelled to read most of her stories multiple times which is astonishingly rare for me given how much I read. Two, as a writer KA pushes the boundaries of her writings. I picture her at her desk, with a latte saying, 'A Horde?! I could do a horde' or 'A Genie?! I could do a genie' or 'Grey Shmay?! I could do up a hot mess, crazy ass  control-freak without all the silly kink props and grade school marbles. There is a versatility to her large collection of books (mostly self published so if you find a few errors, be gracious and move along) in some ways unmatched by most other romance authors.Three, there is remarkable layering to her characters which can only be unearthed in subsequent readings, because her stories and characters carry you in fantastical, crazy directions, and it isn't until you catch your breath on a second read you can fully reason out the jumble of character motivation as it pertains to how the story played out. Most times I have a love/hate relationship with  her main characters in the first sojourn.This book was no exception. Feb and Colt have a back story. They had something going on when they were young and it went sideways in a mysterious bad way. The opening murder becomes the catalyst forcing them to work through what went very wrong. The crux of the story non-communication, where the readers are yelling in their heads, "Tell him!" and the main culprit, the heroine; outlined here very early in the book,"Feb could be like that, hold things to herself forever" This makes for a wild ride in the special way only KA can accomplish. Enjoy!