Review: Unbearable hero(?)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
TWO AND A HALF STARS! I hate to lead with a negative, but the author ends the book saying she loves and hates Kane Archer. If I were writing a pro's and con's boyfriend list his pro's would be physical attributes, sexual prowess(maybe when he can complete the sexual act and doesn't degrade and humiliate the women even the one he loves when he can't finish having sex due to his PTSD) tattoos, head of a secret investigative agency that never gets explained(wait they painfully struggle to solve a case that you connect the dots to early on that has me wanting to bang my head against a harder surface than Kane Archers head-but I digress) he rides a Harley, he loves peanut M&M;'s and keeps them by the jar(you would think that makes him an automatic keeper since he always smells and tastes like chocolate Damn him!) he has great employees/friends(who I think could have better books than him with better editing!!!) Con's he's just so mean. How much abuse can Whitney or you and I, the readers take? It's rough going being one of Kane's girls. He doesn't or won't explain himself which is difficult for the the plot and the heart.As to my comments about editing, I'm very disappointed. The story started amazingly well! I was so happy with this book. I still find Whitney amazing. Maybe TOO amazing, no woman could be that forgiving. Seriously, all that forgiveness almost seems out of character for how tough she is, it almost relegated her to door mat status. Whitney stood up for herself and even fought off an attacker, and tried to help another stranger fight off a rapist, all the while knowing she stood no chance on her own....I felt she owed archer a punch in his junk at some point(sorry.) Also, the story started to lose its tempo, it began to lag about halfway through and I fought to get to the end(just because) maybe I didn't wanna give up on Whitney. Maybe, just maybe some of the support characters like Basil and Zane were more compelling than the main character...hmmmm. However, what I found to be most annoying, is if you are going to write a book about a romantic crime mystery, the clues should not be so obvious as to smack us and the uber investigator in the face, and yet take so long to figure out(an overheard conversation between a brother and sister with all the clues and resources at his disposal really? We're going there? Why not have Archer follow a trail of m&m; 's to a hidden passageway and have the ghost of Amiee his dead fiancee reveal who the evil villains are? Ok, now I'm just getting snarky. I probably just need some m&m; 's. This book was just ok, and I really did have to force myself to finish. Kane and Whitney share the pain of having lost the people they love most in car accidents, they will happily spend the rest of their lives consoling each other. Who will console me for the time lost reading the second half of this book? Yesssss, you guessed it....(ok in keeping with the book I will point out what you already know from copious clues....m&m;/mars.)