Review: Sappy ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
Olivia Carver is a tough and successful Coast Guard helicopter pilot. Her twin brother was killed during a deep undercover mission for the DEA and Olivia has made it a priority in her life to find who is responsible for his death. She therefore agrees to meet somebody at a notorious bar who could give her a tip that might lead to her brother's killer.Rico Cortes is an undercover special agent with the DEA who has made it his professional target to find out who betrays and is responsible for the death of several undercover agents. However, his mission is endangered by the sister of one of the victims who keeps involving in his investigation and endangering it. Rico is determined to meet the woman and scare her away. He expected a woman who could be intimidated but he met Olivia, a woman who intimidates. One thing leads to another and soon Rico and Olivia team up to chase the snitch.There's really no need to try to describe the main characters' profiles. Don't forget that this is a piece of fiction and everything in it is greatly exaggerated. Suffice to say that both of them came from a troubled childhood but managed to make the best of it. Whereas Rico is a classical alpha male, Olivia isn't a damsel in distress but a worthy counterpart.The book started with a bang - but then gradually faltered. The ending of the book was according to my opinion close to inacceptable. To be more specific, I'm not criticizing the "open ending" of the story as such, which is the author's choice but I'm criticizing that the author chose to include new elements that clearly deserved more elaboration and that she did so literally before the book ended. I believe that the adding of threads should be dealt with in the middle section of the book and everything should come to a closure in the ending.Of course I know that when reading fiction of this genre one should be very lenient when reviewing but this plot was just too trivial and simplistic and the ending wasn't concluding enough and by far to rushed. What a pity because this book started out really promising!