Review: Suspenseful, and Sexy; but needed a little more.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
Thank you to Linda and the PR company for providing me a complimentary copy in exchange for a honest review.Damned if you Don’t is the first book by Linda that I’ve had a chance to read. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has enough suspense that it will keep you waiting for the character’s next moves and hot enough to burn down a dang forest.Andrew Jackson “Jack” Kent is a Private Investigator hell bent on getting the criminals he is paid to track down and bring in, no he is not a bounty hunter, he’s a tracer. He’s an ex-Ranger and the best in his field. His latest job is tracking down a so called “thief”. But, this job may cost him more than it is worth.Dr. Morgan Mackenzie is a cellular kineticist and running from her employer. In her possession is a formula she created that is priceless, but also has deadly consequences. She needs to unwind and agrees to one night of passion with a sinfully delicious stranger. That one night of passion leads her in a whirlwind of survival. But soon everything she thought was real, begins to falter and fall apart.When everything breaks apart and hearts are shattered. Sometimes life has unusual ways of mending pieces back together, testing limits and sometimes….you are Damned if you Don’t go for it.As soon as I got an email about this book, I began reading the synopsis of it and completely fell in love with it. I could not wait to start it, let me say this as an overall whole, the book was fantastic. It has an amazingly suspenseful plot line that will have you guessing, as well as characters with enough chemistry that will make your panties melt. But, I can’t always love a book completely.This is why rather than rating it a 5-star like I had planned, I dropped it to a four.In the very beginning of the book I felt as if something were missing. I actually emailed the PR company to double check to make sure it was the first book rather than a sequel, just for the fact that it….left me dangling looking for something to grip on to. The part in question is where the two main characters first meet. I found this paramount to the entire story, and starting off the way it did really threw me for a loop. The author drops readers right into the thick of things, which I don’t mind at all. But, I want the full story. It’s basically a whole day/night that is missing, I thought perhaps she may reference back to it later in the book, which she does occasionally but does not give us any full detail. It’s for that reason alone, and because I found the story needed that scene, that I rated it four stars. If you ignore the way it began, the rest of the book is phenomenal. I love that the author, having a scientific background herself, brought that aspect of her life into the story through her heroine. I actually found myself looking up a few things because I had no clue what the hell it was. I love when I have to do that, not very often do I have the joy of being stumped by an author.Other than the setback in the beginning, Damned if you Don’t is still a great Romantic Suspense. It has character chemistry that will leave you needy, action that is so descriptive it will play out right in front of you and don’t even get me going on the sex scenes *fans self*. If you are a fan of any, or all of these, plus some man candy, I would give Damned if you Don’t a try.