Review: Shooter is a great book from a new author!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2014
I really enjoyed reading this book.  Dahlia West is a new author for me, and she really can tell a story.  Hayley (or Slick) rolls into town looking for a temporary stay on the long journey she has taken to shield herself from a trauma in the past and from that trauma catching up with her again. She gets a job at a local bar and meets Shooter (Chris) there as a potential landlord.  He is very suspicious of her (hence the nickname Slick) and doesn't want to get involved.  But he's hooked on her anyway.Shooter is an ex-Army ranger and owns a garage in town that fixes (up) motorcycles and classic cars. Two of his Army buddies from his Army unit work for him (Tex and Hawk), and he's trying to help out another Army buddy who lost part of his leg in the war.  This is one interesting group of hot alpha guys.  And through her interactions with Shooter, Slick gets introduced to and then included in the group.Shooter is protective of Slick, and he needs to be since trouble is following closely behind her.  She is scared of even her shadow, and they have a long way to go if they are going to even have sex.  But once she starts to trust Shooter, watch out!  HOT! HOT! HOT!I highly recommend this book and author.  I immediately went on to read Tex (which shares his story about being a BDSM dominant - and whoa! that one is very detailed in the BDSM lifestyle, so heed the warning and don't read if you're expecting a book that is as sweet and sexy as Shooter is), then read Slick (probably okay to just skip that one since it's so short and doesn't really cover anything that isn't covered in Hawk's book, the next one in the series); then read Hawk (which was more like the type of story Shooter is).Dahlia West writes about lost men and women and how they find each other.  Each book focuses on some kind of real-to-life psychological or physical trauma.Shooter was a five for me for storyline and characters and hotness. Unfortunately, though, there were some serious problems with missing words throughout the entire book.  It seems as though the author types quickly and misses typing smaller words and then doesn't see them during an editing stage or that she didn't use an editor to help her with this.  This occurs through all the books; however, it becomes much less of a problem by Hawk's book.  For Shooter, though, I had to drop the score a bit because this problems sometimes really interfered with my reading of this great story.