Review: Solid debut!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
This is a pretty solid debut novel, I couldn’t give it 5 stars as I had some minor issues with some of the plot but I will go into that a bit later.In Ahead of Darkness we first meet Mia (Amelia) on her way to a new life, one of many that she has had to create over the years. Right away we aware that she is running from someone, that someone being her Papa.Mia creates a new life for herself and does the best she can to avoid any lasting connections or relationships with people until that is she meets Drew. The sexy, well-to-do Scotsman who owns the club Cascades. Soon Mia finds herself captivated by Drew and spending all of her time with him. Their relationship begins to develop into something more and we see Mia begin to struggle with allowing herself to feel what she wants for Drew and protecting herself from losing someone she cares deeply for.Throughout the story we get snippets of Mia’s past and boy are they frightening, her memories were both terrifying and disturbing, stuff that nightmares are totally made of. Drew becomes her ever steady rock as she comes to reveal some of her past to him and you can’t help but fall head over heels, tumbling down a cliff, into a pool of love and lust for him. He is the complete package, caring, vigilant, protective and bloody hell he is sexy with his Scottish brogue and all. There are some steamy scenes between him and Mia but they are balanced with some truly tender and vulnerable moments and I loved that. There is also a lot of comedic banter between Drew and Mia that will have you literally laughing out loud. Both characters play on each other so well. The story was definitely suspenseful and kept me entertained but….Now here is where I complain and again some of these are minor and could possibly be something that is planned for the second book so here goes. Questions, questions, questions, I have so many questions about both Mia’s past and Drew’s. They are a lot of holes that were left unfilled in this first book. Granted again maybe the plan is to reveal more in the second book but I think it would have been better to approach the first book with intent to build a strong back story for both Mia and Drew. There were inklings I got suggesting there was a lot more to Drew then was revealed and it kept bugging me like an itch I couldn’t scratch. Next I wasn’t so happy with how (and I will avoid spoilers) the events unfolded at the end, it felt too rushed everything happened like a whirlwind and then we were left with this cliffhanger that almost made me scream. Considering this is a series I didn’t understand why more time wasn’t spent on this particular aspect of the story, why the rush?Overall I enjoyed Ahead of Darkness and I feel the series is off to a good start, I am hoping a lot of the questions I have will be answered in the second book and I definitely intend to read it.*received gifted copy