Review: Great Romance With A Suspenseful Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
--  “Since I was three, there’s never been a day when I wasn’t in love with you.”The first books I read by Kristen Ashley (KA) were her Fantasyland Series and I was worried that her uber alpha males would not translate well into her contemporary fiction. I WAS WRONG!!! At least in this book, perhaps it was because she toned it down a little but I absolutely ADORED Colt. Sure there is a psycho out there killing anyone from February’s past that he feels did her wrong and that was in intriguing part to the story but the other part about Colt and February reuniting after being separated for twenty years was what really hooked me from the beginning.--  “There’s no words to explain how big it was, what Colt and I had, or how much it hurts when something that big in your life is swept away, or how empty that place is that he once filled, or how impossible it is to find something to fill it.”Living in their small town everyone seems to know everything about anything. So when the split between Colt and Feb happened no one understood it, they were meant to be, everyone knew that. Feb couldn’t handle the whole town knowing all of her business so she left. Both of them have tried to fill their lives apart but it is just a shadow of what it could have been and they both know it, and the whole town seems to know it too.--  “Romeo and Juliet, say they didn’t die but Juliet got pissed and took off. Everyone would know it was Romeo and Juliet, would always be Romeo and Juliet, even if later Romeo hooked up with Nancy. No one ever heard of Nancy, doesn’t even sound right, Romeo and Nancy. Everyone knows Romeo’s meant to be with Juliet. Even if Romeo loved Nancy, Nancy would always know she was never Juliet”Now, thrown into each other’s lives again they have a second chance to see if things could be different. That is if they can keep each other alive and figure out who is chopping up people from Feb’s past. But that means they have to revisit their own past and figure out what really happened to them so long ago.I enjoyed so many things about this story. The small town feel, the way that the relationship between Feb and Colt progressed, Feb’s family and how they all came around her to protect her. I even liked the backstory to the crackpot who is focused on Feb and the connection they had. My one and only complaint is that sometimes KA over explains the people of the town. Almost every character you meet in the book you get a semi-description of and a little snippet from their lives. While I appreciate this sometimes it did seem a little overboard now and again. That said it did lend to the small town feel of the book and I get what she was trying to do but did I really need the police station receptionist’s backstory?Highly recommended to anyone who loves Romance and Suspense.