Review: Not as hot and steamy but the story is so great!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2013
This is the first romantic suspense book I've read by Leslie Kelly and I have to say that it was really good. I'm used to reading her regular romance novels with all the love, sex, and HEA so I was curious to see how she would do with this new suspense genre and let me tell you it was like reading an episode of Criminal Minds which I love to watch. This story was a lot darker than the other stories I've read from her but it totally kept me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who the bad guy was. It was a face paced story with lots of twists and turns. One minute I was so sure I knew who did it but then someone else would enter the picture and make me second guess myself. Which was great! I loved how everyone was a possible suspect because they were guilty of something but not the main big scary crime. Although the story was dark it wasn't too graphic with all the gory blood stuff and there was also a love story intertwined into the mix. And the love part was actually pretty realistic. I started the book thinking that because it's a romantic suspense the lead characters would be just doing it all the time even when there was a murderer to find, which is totally unrealistic because if you're supposed to  be catching a criminal how are you supposed to have time to have sex? But this story wasn't like that. No need for me to suspend reality while reading this. Ms. Kelly was able to add a couple of love scenes into the story that fit with the timeline of the story and it really worked. Plus I was able to see the emotional connection building between the two leads and it was great. There were a few touching scenes that brought a tear to my eye which I always love. So overall I would highly recommend this book. I can't wait to begin the rest of the series. I'll admit it's not as hot a read as her regular romances but the story was still great.