Review: Complex Plot and Lovely Sentiment But Uneven Writing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
Disclosure: Book provided by author or publisher for review purposes on my blog from which this is adapted. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.I tore through KISS OF LIES; I had to know what would happen next in this complicated and suspenseful plot. But, even with a compelling story, I felt the writing in this book was uneven and a little too expository and I found my self laughing through several of the love scenes.What I did like is the way the heroine, Sarah, falls for the hero, Christian  because of his character, and the beauty he still possesses despite his tragic burns. She isn’t ignoring them, but she doesn’t think he’s less because of them. That’s a lovely sentiment.At the beginning she says that beauty is fleeting and intelligence is more important, but the character goes on to walk the walk as she falls in love with the hero.Christian has some very good friends who stick by each other and are all in a pickle — that’s what ties the series together. And they will need to stick together to overcome the threat in the rest of the series.This gets a “cautious recommend” for nobility of sentiment and complex plotting.