Review: It Was Okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2014
This book was a quick and pleasant read with tons of humor and scintillating sex. The main character - Tinder Munro - who happens to be a photojournalist, is sent on assignment by her new boss to uncover the truth behind Black Town in Australia. It was rumored that there were mysterious creatures there and Tinder is being paid to find cold-hard evidence of what's really in that town so that her employer could take some serious legal action against the town, for some reasons of his own. Along the way, she falls in love with Hawk Black, Panther shifter and beta of Black Town and decides to forfeit her role (her job and $3,000) in the deceit against her new beau and friends. That unfortunately, inadvertently, leads her ex-husband and ex-boss to her new home.While I love Angela Castle's books, especially her Warrior of Kelon series, I found this book pleasant but slightly lacking. When Tinder and her new friends found her ex-husband and ex-boss in Black Town, looking to manhandle her and kidnap her, they failed to take precautions and the obvious threat seriously. They failed to neutralize the danger which led to a few main characters ending up in a life-or-death situation. With Nick, Tinder's ex-husband, and Felix Roads, her ex-boss, successfully taking advantage of their inattention a second time, I almost stopped reading the book altogether. It's like walking  around without a care in the world in broad daylight, knowing that a dangerous prisoner just broke out of a local jail and is armed to the teeth, dangerous and is on the loose. That lack of common sense really got to me in the book.Overall, the book was o.k., if you're into quick, easy, non-complicated and pleasant reads. To me, it was not up to par with Angela Castle's usually high caliber of books, in terms of characters that were more interesting and had some decent common sense. I will definitely continue to read Angela Castle's other books in the near future, but I do hope that there will not be any more books like this with seemingly mindless heroines. Overall, three stars.