Review: "The Thief' - well-written but with sexual content. Not recommened for YA
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
This is a steady moving mystery/romance book.Ross and Allie had been best friends growing up and High School sweethearts. At graduation, Ross - from the "wrong side of the tracks"-  and Allie - a prominent lawyer's daughter- went separate ways with a promise to keep in close contact through letters. Ross went into the Army and Allie went to college.  They soon both felt betrayed because while both wrote faithfully, they neither one ever receive their letters.  They both felt betrayed and yet still, ell over a decade later, loved each other.  Neither had been able to settle into a relationship with another.After all those years, Ross's new employment threw them together in an undesirable way.  One was the investigator - the other the victim.  Could they have changed that much in all those years?  How can one allow the other to go to prison for many years or worse?One night their lives were thrown together when a shooter tried to kill one while the other was in the house going through the upstairs bedroom.  The one upstairs got there just in time to eliminate the shooter before his/her past love was killed.  Thus began a new, unsettled relationship between the protector and the one being protected. How much could they trust each other?Whew! Are you totally confused.  This is a well-written mystery/romance but was somewhat drawn out and repetitive.[Spoiler]  Beware of some sexual content not advisable for youth.The story would have been totally great without the detailed sexual encounters. I have to give the author credit for not going into more explicitness than was expressed.  This is a perfect example of how a story is not enhanced but ruined by the sexual input. The desire, feelings and thoughts were enough without the descriptive act. It was not detailed in other references.The mystery was fairly predictable but still good.