Review: Conflicted
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
The subject line is apt. Conflicted. It's how I feel about this book, and it's the perfect description for our heroine, Josie.I didn't like Josie. I didn't like how she just dropped out of life. I didn't like how she jumped into Johnny's bed all the time, even when she claimed not to have any feelings for him. I didn't like how moody and introspective she was. And I didn't like how she made these choices like to go undercover despite not having any formal training. Having worked at the "agency" (FBI? DEA? ATF? We never find out), she should know that what kind of risk she was taking and how unprepared she was.I also didn't like how plodding the beginning felt. I'll be honest -- I'm not quite sure why I kept reading, other than I'd heard good things about this book. But if I hadn't heard the buzz, it would have been a wallbanger early on. Nothing really happened for the first, oh, 40% or so. Nothing. Just Josie moping/floating through life and having lots of sex. It actually didn't really become interesting until about the 75% mark, so the fact that I stayed that long is a testament to the author's writing.But interesting it became at the 75% mark. VERY interesting. And I felt myself saying more than once "this needs to be a movie." I even started casting it in my head, that's how very real it became and how intense.So if you can make it through a plodding, slow, aimless first 3/4 of the book, then you'll be incredibly rewarded in the end.