Review: Best Heroes Ever!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
I'm not sure how to feel about this book. On one hand I liked that it had a little bit less intrigue in it than In Jack's Arms, but on the other, what intrigue and mafia/cartel drama it did have was slightly confusing to me. I'm still not sure what the heck happened there at the end with Hector and Kostya--I may need to re read it and try to dope it out. Or maybe that's all just part of what's supposed to keep us all coming back for more.I'll tell you what keeps me coming back for more--These heroes! Man, Roxie Rivera knows how to write a hero. Whether her heroes are mobsters, bodyguards, moguls or middle-class wounded war vets, they are all sexy, smart, protective and have hearts made of mush when it comes to their ladies. I can't get enough. Plus, we got to peek at a new male character named Conn. I'm praying this guy gets a book, too.As for the romance between Hadley and Finn, I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, so I'm not going to go too far in-depth to the issue that Hadley has. I will say that I'm not quite sure that it was played out in the best way. I could have handled a little more angst or crazy self-blame stuff from Finn, but it didn't really go there and it was mostly a smooth-sailing sort of love affair for them. The danger wasn't so dangerous (intrigue-wise) and the conflict on the relationship side wasn't really conflicting. Am I making any sense? Let me just say that I didn't worry for these two. At no point in the story did I think, "oh, no, this is going to drive them apart!" But there were ample things the author had set up that could have done the job--Hadley's "issue", Finn's alcoholism, her father's protectiveness, the wealth disparity, the potential danger of Finn's forced association with Kalasnikov and Guzman--Not one of those things gave either of them a second thought to the relationship.But it was sweet, sexy and gave us all more of the Houston underworld drama, peeks at new characters, references to past characters and a few scenes with Kostya, who I am DYING to read about. If you've never read a Roxie Rivera book, my advice would be not to start with this one. Start with Ivan, read through the Her Russian protector series, then move onto the Fighting Connolly's--each book features a different couple, but the side story is an on-going saga that can get confusing.