Review: Just 2 Stars
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2014
I'm pretty disappointed with this book.  I was looking forward to sinking my teeth into a good mystery.  I really didn't get that.  While this book does have a mystery and it could have been really good, it seemed almost an afterthought coming a very far second to the sex scenes which are drove the book.  Now I am not a prude remotely and I understand sex sells, but if you are going to give me a book classed as a mystery, that if my opinion, should be the author's main focus with everything else being used to support that premise not the other way around.Only 2 characters were really developed in any significant way and I found both of them to be almost walking caricatures of the male chauvinist cad and the strong lady who tames him.  Their banter while I guess somewhat playful at times, really came across as wooden and predictable.  Neither was very interesting because of how they were written although both had moments that the author wrote brilliantly.  There just weren't enough of those.  I wish there had been more.The mystery was supposed to be about a young teen girl who goes missing and a task forces efforts to find her.  We NEVER got to know this young girl or her family in any real way so we were not able nor allowed to grow to care about what happened to her.  That should have been the "meat" of the story and the hook for readers.  Instead we were forced to focus on the somewhat twisted relationship between a special agent and his new female boss.I'm sorry to give this 2 stars, but with at least a handful of significant errors which should have been caught and a plot that fell victim to sex, I just cannot go any higher.  I'll probably give Echo of Darkness (North Coast Mystery #2) a try as I'd already picked it up before reading the first, but if I don't see some major improvements, that will be it for me for this series.