Review: Didn't like it
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2012
Journalist Eve Newman is following an anonymous tip for a supposedly exiting story when she witnesses a murder. She runs away but is followed. Not knowing where else to turn to but her brother's best friend, she knocks at Macklin Quinn's door hoping that he will help her. Macklin, an ex-marine, does everything he can to help her. Not only is Eve his best friend's younger sister and the three of them nearly grew up together, but he's been secretly in love with her for as long as he has known her.I know this was a novella and therefore limited in space, however this isn't an excuse for the insufficient development of the main characters and the complete lack of atmosphere between the two of them. Instead of letting the reader feel the growing attraction and tension between Eve and Mack, the author described the feelings in such a blunt way that the ambience was completely destroyed and the book was reduced to a report.As far as the plot was concerned, there weren't any twist or turns, the motive behind the crime just ridiculous. What a pity!