Review: Some major turn-offs in the story
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
The lesson of the day: never start a series from the book #3, even if it is free. So all the confusion with characters, places, who's with whom, are my mistake, and no fault of the author in any shape or form.Cause there is lots happening in this story, with number of characters from law enforcement, relatives, families, in-laws, spouses, you name it.The book is well written, and the suspense is thrilling with constant twists and turns, that keeps the reader on their toes and guessing what will happen next, where will the story go from here.There is actually several couples in this story, one romance developing here, the rest are married, but play very center stage in the tale. The romances are steamy, spicy, and sensual.But I did have some problems/dislikes with this story.- It is filled with alpha males, that I usually love, but not this kind of alpha that feels superior to women, are so over-protective they want to wrap the women in cotton and lock them away. Also it seem like all the males of the town have an unhealthy protective attitude going towards Darla. You can't claim to respect her in one minute, and not trust her as a woman in the other. Mike also calls Darla several times an 'idiot', a thing that started to bother me from the first time it happen.- The relationship between Javier and Cassie is odd. Javier calls her 'his little girl' and himself 'the daddy'. Ugh, creepy.- Mike and Darla are suppose to be top of the line professional, intelligent people. When they start the intense physical relationship, neither of them mentions or use any contraceptive, neither of them talk about if the other is 'clean'. Hard to believe.- Darla never trusts Mike, or his intentions even though Mike tells her constantly how much he loves her. And she lies to him, a big lie! And even in the last chapter, she suddenly wonders if he has a family/another woman somewhere. I understand Darla was hurt before, but again, suppose to be an intelligent, professional woman.- Who takes a common-law spouse, a dependent, and never tells the other person of this? Who signs papers, any papers anyone hands to you, that are notarized, and you don't read them first? Specially Darla, who don't seem to trust Mike for a second?!I really had high hopes, that I had found another suspense series to read, but I believe #3 book was enough for me with this series.