Review: NICE TO SEE HOW IT ALL STARTED
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
I’ve read several of the Kinncaid Brothers books by Jaycee Clark and really enjoyed them. Because of that, I was excited to read Deadly Beginnings, which is a prequel in the Kinncaid Borthers series. The story tells how Jock and Kaitlyn met and fell in love. (Jock and Kaitlyn are the parents of the Kinncaid brothers and obviously, started it all!)"As those before me, and my sons after will follow, the woman I'm blessed with and the family we'll share, to life and to death, this I'll defend."At the start of the book, I thought the story was going to be creepy. The villain of the story, Kaitlyn’s ex fiancé, is all kind of crazy and I was totally prepared for a thriller type, romantic suspense story. There’s definitely a creepy factor but the stronger story line was the sweet romance that develops between Jock and Kaitlyn. I’m guessing if the book was longer, more space could have been given to developing the suspense part. With the shorter length, the suspense is used to bring the two main characters together and is secondary to the developing romance. That’s too bad, because the villian’s POV was the best part of the book for me. I can’t help it, I like a good deranged killer!The book was well written and the steam factor was appropriate for the length of the book as well as the setting."He was lost in her sleek, damp heat.So hot.So wet.So _______ right.Her inner muscles squeezed him, again and again.When her legs and arm tightened around him, he lost his hold on his body.He knew he should slow down. He didn’t want to hurt her.She yelled again and kept gripping him.Jock groaned, his back arching as he thrust so deep he didn’t know where she stopped and he began."It’s hard not to like reading how much of a charmer Jock was and how protective he was of Kaitlyn."It might not be the time to tell her for a while, but Kaitie was his. He wasn't about to her go. He sure as ____ wasn't going to let some bastard scare her, let alone leave another bruise on her prefect body."Fans of the series will enjoy getting to see how it all started. The only complaint I have is that the villain had promise and I would have enjoyed getting a more complete thriller type story. I definitely plan to go back and read the books in this series I haven't had a chance to read yet. A solid 3.5 STAR READ.Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review