Review: Just Okay for Me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
I am a huge fan of Roxie Rivera. Particularly her Russian Protectors. While I loved her world building/character building in those books, I'm kinda not feeling it with the Fighting Connollys. This is the 2nd one I wasn't too thrilled with.There is a lot of lay over - you know, it's all the same world, Russian Protectors and Connollys - they all know each other and have the same problems and run-ins with others around them.I felt like it was too much going on. So much that it distracted me from the relationship building of Jack and Abby. I felt like that got put on the back burner because things were so good with them, it was more about what was going on around them.Rivera was setting up for the future books/problems that the characters will run into next and poor Jack and Abby just got ignored (or that's how I felt).I found myself skimming just to get it over with.I hated that I did that, but there was only so much back and forth and details of the going-ons with the mafia/gang/mc club/who ever else wanted to fight, that I could take.At one point *snorts* I actually pictured the scene from Anchorman (1 or 2, take your pick), the one where EVERYONE shows up to the fight and no one, even the reader/viewer, knew exactly what was going on, but just that they wanted to be a part of it. LOL, I cracked myself up at that.But see - that's all I could get from it. Just the occasional love scene but with all this other stuff mixed in.I dunno and maybe in reading this, you don't know what the heck I'm talking about either.In the end, all I can say is I would recommend this book and this series, but definitely not as much as I would Her Russian Protector. That series is so much better. This makes me really sad too, because the idea of these guys is TOTALLY HOT. It just doesn't have the same electric-ness as her other series.