Review: 3.5 Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
Rory Shaw has spent the last four years trying to get over the murder of her fiance. Rory is a tough girl, she can look out for herself. She works in a Hair Salon and has a regular customer who for the last three years has been trying to set Rory up with her Detective son, Liam Tanner.I found the writing in the first part of the book quite stilted, it just didn't flow. Everything was too set up including a side romance between Rory's bestfriend/roomate and her brother. That all resolved too quickly, more could have been made of that. Rory is as most characters in books these days tattooed and peirced. Liam is also tattooed as well, he has a gun tattooed on each hip (lol!).When Rory and Liam meet he falls hard straightaway. Liam is just a bit too good to be true! Rory plays a bit more hard to get but then the story skips a month ahead and they are together. The writing picked up from here but I still had some problems with it. The story is told from both POV's. The author wrote the male POV well.Rory has told Liam about her fiance but is holding more back. She worries this will scare him away. When we find out what it is I couldn't really understand why she tought that would put him off. Rory's brother is a Dr. He also tells her something he had previously withheld from her which I found odd when if he had told her, it may have eased her conscience somewhat. I can't share the other problems I had with the storyline without posting spoilers.This isn't a bad story, I would say the authors writing has potential. I could have done without the 'babe', 'baby' speak. Liam wasn't alpha male enough for me. I'm not sure how I felt about Rory, she was a bit of a contradiction!