Review: Potential, yes. Execution/realisation, well...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
Why, oh why do romance/erotic novels (of any kind) always have to start in the same unrealistic fashion? All it takes is one look, one eye to eye contact and suddenly..BOOM!!Lust, desire, unbearable attraction to one another, cocks filling and twitching at the littlest mention of the name of the new object of one's every wet dream, electricity crackling during the slightest touch... All that, from 1 to 100 in 0.001 seconds. Truly amazing.Gah.If all these novels were to believe it'd be hart not to come across guys with raging bone*s bulging their trousers every few minutes in RL. It really must be so hard to be a member of the male species...It's really sad that that many books get spoiled because of this kind of utter, unbelievable insta-everything, which is overdone to such a degree that I can't possibly find anything remotely believable in the whole setup of said romance.I need build-up, god damnit. A more realistic setting. And in this particular book: a little bit more brain and common sense. Because, really? Tossing your whole set of principles over board, risking your career and your life (because prison becomes a very likely option here) in favour of a quick shag, because lust is clouding your brain? Not a thing any halfway decent cop or detective would go for if his object of desire was not only a criminal, a gang leader with dozens of murders under his belt, but also the person who shot said cop just a few weeks ago. I believe that men are a little bit more in control of themselves than that. Or am I that wrong, that delusional?I was about to give the book and its author  brownie points for, at least, settling for overdone insta-attraction instead of the whole insta-love thing (which is even worse), but I was wrong about that, too. Insta-love, hello, how are you?I can't even decide what's most ridiculous here: that they're agreeing on some rules regarding their relationship according to which they have to leave all gang and cop business out of their love affair, thinking that that will actually work out, that they call it a relationship pretty much after their first shared kiss, that they trust each other immediately (hello? Gang leader? Cop?), or that the great Detective Gabe constantly tries to comfort Angelo regarding the hard and difficult gang-related decisions that he has to make, like making an example of one of his gang members whose loyalty wasn't a 100% with the gang by torturing and killing him. Gabe constantly tells Angelo that he's there for him and that he can talk to him about anything... which, what? Rules. Have they really already forgotten about them after like 10 seconds?That being said, this book's setting/premise had potential. If done well, in a more realistic and believable way, I find myself enjoying the bad boy - cop liaison (even if rather unrealistic in RL). The action part didn't hurt either. Long time since I read suspense and, yeah, it was time to go there again.But this book was definitly the wrong choice.