Review: 'Until Nico', in a sense, brings us back to Until November
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
Full disclosure: I love this series. Reynolds writes my kind of books - ridiculously alpha heroes, insta-love, some suspense - please, sir, may I have some more? All the books in this series follow a similar pattern - girl meets guy, guy falls in love and chases girl (doesn't need to chase that hard, to be honest), lots of smoochy love, the end. As I said, my perfect blueprint.Sophie is a school librarian and is dealing with some heavy family issues when she loses her phone. Said phone is, of course, found by tattooed bounty hunter (in the romance world 'bounty hunter' is essentially 'accountant' when it comes to saturation in the jobs market), Nico. Nico then falls in love with Sophie (Mayson curse, remember?) and strongarms her into, well, everything. While Nico is seducing/pressganging Sophie, she's dealing with a shadowy lurker. The same shadowy lurker that's been seen hanging around her house at night...'Until Nico', in a sense, brings us back to Until November. We get another suspense subplot and Reynolds knits that suspense in really well. As I said, I love some suspense in my romance (a stalker works well for me!). If you don't have some tautness elsewhere in the novel, the reader might get the sense that there's too much free-flowing, basking-in-love self-indulgence. 'Until Nico' manages to avoid that (mostly) while still concentrating on Nico's and Sophie's relationship.There is a slight sense of an ending about this book. All of the Mayson boys have been matched up, and the next book - Kenton's - is the first part of a new series (Kings). But the best (BEST - I have to use caps because I'm so excited) gift we're given is in the last line of the (very, very sweet) epilogue. Read it and you'll see what I'm talking about. But for now, Reynolds has done the Maysons justice.