Review: Best one in the series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
4.5*I've had mixed feelings about Marie Force's contemporaries (albeit I haven't yet started on her much-beloved McCarthys of Gansett Island series)... but I absolutely love her entire romantic suspense Fatal series. Featuring the same couple in a series of books can be a risky proposition (unless you're Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb and that couple is Eve & Roarke), since--much as it is on television-- it is easy for the plots to become either repetitive or increasingly far-fetched and the characters staid or overly melodramatic in a desperate bid to keep readers interested when it is clear the series has run its course. Marie Force has managed to avoid these pitfalls through five full-length novels and one novella featuring the power couple of Nick & Sam and their merry band of incredibly realistic and fleshed-out secondary characters. In fact, the sixth instalment--FATAL DECEPTION-- is the best yet! The writing is incredibly crisp, the pacing tight, the suspense plot (my one gripe with the previous offering) gripping & fresh, and the romance and emotional growth of all the primary & secondary characters both realistic and heartwarming. And the love scenes are getting HOT!If you haven't started reading this series, you're definitely missing out!