Review: GREAT START TO THE BURG SERIES
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2012
February Owens and Alexander (Colt) Colton have history together. Twenty years before they had been highschool sweethearts. Then something happened and Feb dumped Alec, leaving him devastated. Feb then proceeded to go off the rails. Eventually she left the Burg, and was gone for fifteen years. Two years ago she returned to help Morrie her brother run the family's business, J&J;'s bar.Since her return she has managed to avoid Alec, that is until she discovers a dead body out back behind the bar one morning. Then avoiding Alec becomes impossible, especially with him being a cop, a detective, no less, in charge of investigating the murder.This is the first book in the Burg series. It is a long and complex story, and for the most part very well written. The character development is excellent, and not just the two leads. The reader really gets to know all of the characters in depth. The murder mystery part of the story is extremely well done also, it was well thought out and presented. The relationship between Feb and Alec was well portrayed, except when we are privy to their past relationship twenty years before. I thought that the circumstances that caused Feb to break up with Alec, we're reasonable. But I did not think her reaction of not even confronting him about it, we're unrealistic. Even twenty years on when Alec asks Feb why she dumped him, as he has no clue why. She still doesn't say. As a plot devise it was weak IMO. But KA does rescue that somewhat. As the rest of the story draws the reader in, and as usual her writing is addictive.