Review: Nothing Private Here - Read Without Worry
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
I was first introduced to Tamara Ward and her fabulous character Jade O'Reilly in the bookTales From The Mist: An Anthology of Horror and Paranormal Storiesand was immediately captivated by the character and the writer's talent. When Tamara mentioned to me that there were full length novels and shorts to be enjoyed, I was on board faster than a pirate following a barrel of rum.Jade is a very enigmatic character that Ward has worked very well on crafting in a way that she is both likable and yet spunky enough to be approachable from a male perspective. So men, do not blanch away from reading these books. There are some fine male characters that are highly integral to the web that is Jade's life. She is a private investigator in a company highly testosterone filled. She is the only daughter in a family of four, and her brothers are all older, and in their opinion, wiser. She is also being pursued by a very male police force in the small town of Sweetwater. One would imagine if the girl could get a break. Thankfully she is very resourceful and very independent, sometimes too much so for her own good.Private Deception, the first full length story in the series presents a series of events that would typically send most females running to the nearest man for help. Instead Jade spends most of the excellently written story fighting off the numerous males trying to dictate what she does, when she does it, and with whom she does something. Sorry fellows that doesn't fly when you're dealing with Jade. A top-notch mystery filled with plenty of twists and turns that come to an interesting though semi open-ended conclusion, this is clearly a 5 Star read. Yes, I am handing those things out like candy all of a sudden. What has gotten into me?