Review: 4.5 beautiful stars!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
A book set in my most favourite country New Zealand? Hell, yeah, I’m in!!Add well developed characters with one of them carrying a burden of the past, and a story about forgiveness and second chances to the mix and you have the wonderful book that is In Too Deep.Oh, and, yes, there's a beautiful and hot love story in it as well!Piper is a strong and tough character and I admire her for choosing a career in police diving after everthing she went through with her father.Although she had left Stewart Island for good after West dumping her and her father dying shortly after, she put up the strength to return after nine years when her brother Ben needed her the most - to help him saving their family business when he got his leg broken.I don’t know what it is, but the fact alone that Ryan Westlake was called 'West' by almost everyone instead of his first name - even by his own father! - made him sexy as hell for me! I can't explain... I think it's just HOT :)What I didn’t understand was why he was fuming at Piper about her leaving 9 years ago, when he was the one who pushed her away in the first place. He had his reasons anyway, but he could've had some more faith in Piper - they would have found their way together.But besides my lack of understanding for this action of his West turned out to be a sweet caring and loveable man.For me it’s quite rare that I love a second character almost as much as I love the main ones, but with Piper’s older brother Ben I did.Yes, first I wanted to scream at him about the way he treated his sister who had gone through so much, but he developed pretty well and I cannot wait for him to get his own HEA :)Speaking of HEA - I looooved the ending of this book, the way West proved to Piper how much he had loved her already all these years ago... it just had me in awe.Thank you, Tracey Alvarez, for this delightful book (and my increased yearning to visit New Zealand once again ;) )!I’ll be on the look-out for book #2!