Review: Suspenseful
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
Rescuing Her Honorby Johnny RayIn Rescuing Her Honor, author Johnny Ray offers a mystery filled with intrigue and suspense among a beautiful young couple.  Noelle is a successful judge. Her fiancee, Vance, is trying to protect her as there are those who seem intent on harming her. Vance who has been successful as a bodyguard is now looking forward to completing his law degree and starting a high end business combining his arts.What this couple wants now is to slip away for a few days to beautiful Switzerland, handle the transactions necessary as part of Vance's inheritance and began making wedding plans. Things start out wonderfully romantic. Vance takes Noelle on special romantic outings he planned just for them. But suddenly they are interupted with life threatening encounters stemming from the quest for the unknown contents of a box in a Swiss bank.The box was part of what Vance was to receive with the inheritance package. The drama enveloping the contents of this box follows the suspicious death of his father a few years before, originally deemed a suicide, laced with rumors of financial ruin due to gambling. Vance has dispelled most of these and suspects his father was murdered. Vance has no idea what is in the box.Ray gives the reader a fast moving, suspense with the line between the good guys and the bad guys often blurred. The mystery is loaded with international players, years of history who many wish to keep hidden and some who are willing to kill to keep their secrets. The story becomes a bit hard to follow at times.As we unwind the story behind the box it is clear our author is talented in creating this type mystery. Certainly not simple, it started with a simple precept but as is the way with greed it grew in complication and magnitude.  It spanned continents and involved generations. Instead of dying out, it seemed to grew more corrupt.The pace of the book while sometimes erratic rarely stalls. Ray's character development is limited with very little time spent on secondary characters. The dialogue between Vance and Noelle as a couple seems stilted and more like a junior high girl would have.Ray is a descriptive author as seen in the vivid descriptions when Vance and Noelle are exploring the city as tourist. It is easy to imagine the scene as he describes it.While I liked the book it never fully engaged me as a reader.Note: I was given this book in exchange for an honest review.