Review: It's like reading two different books...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
This latest installment in the Rescue Me series had me scratching my head.  I loved the previous books in this series and have been not so patiently waiting for this latest installment since the last one was published more than a year ago.  I find myself a tad bit disappointed by the end result of all that waiting.This book deals with resolution of the more significant problems faced by the couple from the book Nobody's Angel, Marc and Angelina. Masters admitted that this book existed because she found that trying to write the continuation of theire story as a subplot to "Nobody's Perfect" didn't work.  This is the reason that the first half of this book is an overlap of the events of that book.  And it's the first half of the book where I take my issues.It's almost like there are two different books here in one.  The first half of the book isn't at all as well written as what you would expect from Masters.  There is a lot of repetition, particularly of the thought processes and dialogue of the main characters.  This became annoying, and I couldn't understand how Master's army of beta readers and editors could have allowed something like that to get by.  That and the bad plotting of the way events seemed to unfold. Now granted your dealing with someone uncovering repressed memories so some things aren't going to make a whole lot of sense to the character but at the same time the reader needs to be able to follow the action enough to stay engaged and interested. I suspected that she had trouble taking the subplot she'd been writing into a more front burning narrative.  By the time I got to the middle of the book I was beginning to wonder if I wanted to continue reading.That was when things picked up.  In fact, they picked up so much that I had trouble putting the book down.  The story begins to move into what I have come to expect from Masters, a gripping emotional tale about real people with real problems.  While some of the things that happen in the story may have been somewhat unrealistic it was still emotionally appealing and made for great storytelling.I actually would like to give this book 3.5 stars.  Amazon doesn't allow that so I went with 4 because I thought 3 wasn't quite enough.  It's my hope that with the next of Master's books that there is a little more scrutiny of the story structure as there was in previous versions.