Review: Glad this one didn't stay in Vegas.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2013
Seriously. I dug this read from page 1. My absolute favorite thing about it was the palpable tension jumping off the page. Laura and David's romance was so much intense fire. Holy wow. It was epic. And I love that Laura didn't fall into the trope of timid teacher. Yeah, perhaps she's guilty of babying her little sister too much (I do this, too), but she was NOT timid in telling David what she thought. Which was so refreshing.One quip I had with this read was that Laura kept rushing headfirst into situations with flimsy reasoning. It happened time and time again. Sometimes I think it's okay for the leading lady to say, "Hey. There's this scary situation and I'm wayyy unqualified to handle it, but I'm diving in headfirst anyway." And that's it. Instead she kept saying, "What's the worst that could happen?" And my head would supply, "Well many many bad things could happen because THIS IS THE MOB." It's kind of like when a small child doesn't understand that he shouldn't touch a hot stove because he could get burned.All-in-all, I loved some of Laura's one-liners and her antics. Another thing I totally loved about this all was that the "villains" (the mobsters) weren't villains for no reason. They were humanized, especially when Laura asks one of them about his married life and he talks about his kids with such adoration. Sometimes, making the bad guys as evil and downright dirty as possible isn't believable.The love read real. The problems read real. And ya, I'm thrilled that Myers let us see that sometimes, what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. And it can be a very, very good thing.