Review: Fantastic suspense/thriller romance!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
This was quite honestly a fantastic romantic suspense story!I have read Alexa Bourne before, and I wasn't totally sold on the book. But the synopsis for this looked so dang intriguing I was going to dive in and give her another shot.I was not disappointed. From beginning to end I was engaged by this story. I literally couldn't put it down to do status updates even though I really wanted to. The flow, rise and fall of action, and the romantic element was eloquently written and executed with such perfection I felt like I was watching a movie not reading a book.Alexa managed to take the elements of crooked cops, build a believable storyline, create drama, and manage to have the lead characters fall for each other in a very reasonable way. What I like the most about this story is that it was ROMANCE. It wasn't erotic, it wasn't detailed, it was closed door, but yet I found myself loving each scene and falling for the love story just as much as I was falling for the suspense plot.I found myself the whole book trying to figure out who was dirty and who wasn't. Well, generally when one cop is dirty, a whole bunch of them are too.I really liked Matt, he was so broken and tormented that slowly opening him up to care for Tessa was a careful process that ended up really working out. Tessa was a fantastic female lead that was strong because she was clever not because she could beat someone up. She evolved throughout the course of the story and she was even stronger by the last page.As a whole, there was nothing I could complain about this book. The characters were written extremely well, the story was ebbed and flowed with ease, and I can't WAIT to read more from Hanover!*I received a copy of this book via Fated Desires Publishing in exchange for an honest review*