Review: Great set up for the series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2014
One Wild Night sets up the premise for This Wicked Rush. It chronicles the night Gabe and Caitlin meet and Gabe convinces her to help him on a pawn shop robbery. There is an immediate connection between Gabe and Caitlin that he intends to explore further, but he has to figure out a way to make her look beyond their shared past.This was a quick introduction to the characters and situations that will be explored further in This Wicked Rush. Caitlin’s dire situation is established and it was hard not to sympathize with her plight. Raising 4 children as a 20 year old dropout on 2 dead end jobs isn’t easy on it’s own. Add in an alcoholic father who doesn’t work and spends money faster than Caitlin can earn it on her own, and a no win situation is born. Gabe offers Caitlin a way out, if she’s willing to take the risk.As a stand alone, I would say this was just ok. As an introduction to the series, it was a great quick foundation to add insight and weight to this one scene. If it was bundled into a larger novel, it would get lost in the other overarching events of the story, where as a separate novella there is room to explore the back and forth feelings Caitlin experiences about her family situation and the possibility of a solution.Thanks to Jessie Evans for providing me with a complimentary copy in return for an honest review.