Master Halloween Bingo Post

I tried to make my participation less pathetic this week. I'm blaming COVID I got two weeks ago (I'm fully recovered) for not getting a bingo this year. (and not my busyness or reading slump). I read four books this week though, so maybe I busted out! 

Thanks again to the hosts and all the friends that played this year! Can't wait to delusion myself into thinking I'll get a bingo next year :)

Happy Halloween!

*Will play my usual way with coverall picture slowly revealed and only reading for squares as they’re called, UNLESS I have an ARC that is coming up on my reading schedule and will fit a still non-called square.

Currently Reading:

Bingo Squares with Books Read and their Review Links

Film at Eleven - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Gothic - Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand

Alice in Wonderland - Broken Rival by Tessa Bailey 

Vintage Vibes - Where the Truth Lies by Rupert Holmes

Raven middle square - One of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin

Murder Most Foul - Chasing Demons by Will Shindler

Romantic Suspense - Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worsley

Lost in Space - Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes

Review: Ghost Station

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

Ghost Station was a chilling suspenseful space horror that pitted childhood traumas with and against extraterrestrial beings. This had a slow start with the story being told all from the character Dr. Olivia Bray's head. It's 2199 and she's a mental health specialist about to go into cold sleep to travel to the Resilience, a ship with a five person R & E crew about to land on a planet to continue exploring after the planet was sold from Olivia's family's company to it's rival, who Olivia works for. She's a black sheep as her mother married against her rich family's wishes and dealing with her uncle and mother constantly messaging her telling her not to go on this mission. Olivia's dealing with the trauma of just having a patient commit suicide and knows the crew she's going to has just lost a member to suicide also, so she's determined to go on this mission to try and make up for failing her patient and help others, among other personal reasons.

The beginning of this was a pretty slow start as we get a lot of Olivia's back and forth on guilt, her rich family and a traumatic experience when she was eleven with the cover-up lies that all lead to. The pace kind of stalls with this stuck in Olivia's head part but really takes off when she joins the R & E crew and they arrive on the alien planet. There's the mystery of the crew not seemingly wanting Olivia to know the full story of what happened to their deceased crew member, not wanting her to get inside their heads, and the mystery of what happened to the previous crew on the planet as the station is littered with distressing clues that not all was right.

The dynamics between the crew members and Olivia, helped pull the story out of exclusively keeping Olivia in her own head and breathed some outside life to it. As Aliens is one of my favorite horror movies, it's hard not to compare a lot of space horror to it, and this definitely had similarities that fans of that franchise will enjoy here. The building tension, suspense, and mystery with human dynamics mucking and helping paired with the unknown and danger of an alien planet was engrossing and fun entertainment. The ending delivered on human emotional breakthroughs for satisfying character development and alien danger for a suspenseful plot climax. This also left readers with a much more uplifting ending that what we usually get from this genre, which was pleasantly surprising, so if looking for scifi horror that supplies a little romance thread and a happily for now, definitely pick this one up.

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Review: Man of My Dreams

Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worley
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

Maybe it should unsettle me that this man appeared out of nowhere with my character’s exact name and appearance—with my book in his bag—but isn’t this exactly the sort of thing that would happen in a rom-com? As soon as I’ve had the thought, though, another, darker one swallows it: It’s also the sort of thing that happens at the beginning of a horror movie.

Man of My Dreams was a mystery thriller that at first had the reader thinking they could be witnessing a stalking story only to be thrown into the wilding out for wilding sake end of the pool. Ivy's a new successful debut author who's struggling to finish her second book and getting stressed about the deadline. She had an almost meet-cute in a bookstore, only to get a real one outside, with a man who turns out to have the exact name, occupation, and London birthplace as the character in her new book she's writing. After each encounter with Liam, he's seeming more and more perfect, except she's also started to get threatening notes from someone claiming she's a fraud the exact time she started a relationship with him. Is he the one trying to out Ivy's carefully guarded secret, or is her guilt driving her paranoia? Strap in because you may guess one or even two reveals but you'll never guess the craziness avalanche that hits at the end.

With every passing breath, I am more certain of two things: I am falling in love with Liam, and I don’t know if I can trust him.

Told mostly from Ivy's point-of-view, the reader is lead by, not fully an unreliable narrator, but one that purposefully holds onto her secrets for the sake of mystery until the end. I was willing to go along with this, as it does work to deliver an intriguing mystery aspect but, the aforementioned wildness, got way too sensational and unbelievable at the end. With Ivy's povs, we also get flashbacks, to eleven years ago, from Ivy's older sister Cora. Cora is severely immune compromised and can't leave the house. As Ivy is dealing with Liam and a potential danger in the present timeline we get Cora dealing with loneliness and her own potential budding romance in the past povs. Cora's povs give a background on the familial dynamics and why Ivy may be so paranoid in the present.

I freed us both.

It's when things start coming to a head in the present that the story started to unravel, not a good way, at the end. With Ivy and her budding romance possible danger from Liam, we also get some secondary character relationships with her Aunt and a friend about to get married, both characters were not developed enough and, especially the friend, felt kind of what is the point of them. A couple reveals we get from Cora's past povs were sensational and good for shock values but it's when we get the reveals in the present pov that sent this story into wilding for me. So many connections and tie-ins get thrown at the reader in the end that I almost started laughing, not in a good way. You'll definitely have more than one “Oh come on!” moments as reveal after reveal gets thrown out. The ending gives a One Month Later update that delivers the cherry on this wilding sundae. The beginning had me locked in wondering what was happening but this ultimately fell apart for me and lost good entertainment value when the story and some characters lost it's way to building substance and most of the reveals were too wild to enjoyably go along with. If you're looking for truly wild though, the later part of this would deliver that in spades.


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Review: Chasing Demons

Chasing Demons by Will Shindler
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

The memory of that figure standing in the doorway came back to him and he shivered, remembering what had unfolded next.

Chasing Demons was a gruesome story that started to get lost in it's scifi, supernatural, horror, and emotional drama weaving. The story starts off with a fifteen year old Joel, who's currently in a centre for adolescent mental health. He's trying to deal with the death of his father, which he can't fully remember, and just walking out of a session with the psychiatrist that churned him up emotionally. In the commons room, a kid that likes to bully Joel and a huge six foot five kid are also getting riled up. As tensions rise, Joel suddenly finds himself out in the hallway sitting up after having blacking out and seeing the carnage of something that ransacked, ripping apart bodies, and murdering the occupants of the room, with only him, the bully, a nurse, and the six foot five kid surviving. The story then jumps twenty-three years to an adult Joel who's a teacher, amicably divorced with an eight year old daughter, and just learning that the psychiatrist who treated him in that centre, has been ripped apart murdered, just like the bodies in that commons room. This time however, the six foot five kid that was blamed for the murders, killed himself in prison years ago, so the question of who or what is to blame is coming back unanswered.

“It’ll follow you if you let it. Stay out of the shadows and you’ll be okay, ’cause it hides in the shadows.”

This had some gruesome horror moments, with all the body ripping apart, and some animal cruelty, so reader beware. There were multiple point-of-views, Joel, the bully, police detective, and various other secondary characters getting pulled into the horror to give a pretty rounded out scope of the story. Joel obviously dominates the povs, as the murders that keep happening in his hometown that he goes back to, on the advice of his new therapist to deal with the death of his father, seem to stem from connections to him. A lot of the hows and whys is kept to the shadows until the later half of the book and I thought it all got a little a messy with the scifi mad scientist aspects and the overall messaging of deal with your personal demons or they're are going to deal with you.

“I told him that— he’ll never, ever outrun it.”

I enjoyed the interpersonal relationships touched on for some emotional bulking up but some secondary characters felt at turns a little intrusive and underutilized. The police detectives helped to add keeping track of facts but I think the reader could have handled it on their own and while a main villain and accompaniment were the conductors of the horror, their revealed purpose never fully felt developed. If you like gruesome horror with messaging this would scratch that itch, even if I thought all the genre weaving got a little messy.

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Review: One of Us Must Die

One of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

“Legally speaking, one of you must die.”

One of Us Must Die was a straight forward domestic thriller that showed what can happen when abusive people have the power. Sterling came from a very wealthy family where her parents, mother especially, didn't like her “attitude”. When Sterling meets Keith in college she starts to fall in love, even when warning signs of his demeanor towards her start to creep up. Sterling then learns that her parents have created a trust for her inheritance and the stipulations are she must marry before twenty-five years old and can never divorce her husband or she and any children she has will lose any claim to the money. Seems like this could cause problems in the future, but parents, am I right?

He was an illusionist, her husband, and she his reluctant assistant.

Readers get their first introduction to the dynamic between Sterling and Keith with Sterling driving her car towards Keith to run him over. After the rush of that moment, the story goes back six months to Sterling starting to wake-up out of the abusive fog Keith has put her in after years of cheating on her and gas-lighting her that she's just crazy. There's numerous flashbacks that show Keith's abuse and the always hovering trust legalities that keep Sterling trapped in the marriage. It's when her eldest daughter is about to get married, with the other two children now out of the house also, she decides that she's going to start gathering evidence of Keith's cheating. Sterling also brings a former friend that Keith made her drop to investigate Keith and get any more dirt on him. I was really disappointed when the friend's evidence never really gets revealed and the promise of all that juicy dirt never came to fruition, making it feel what was the point.

For better or for worse, for richer and by trust, they were forever bound.

When Sterling starts talking to lawyers, it's when she learns that getting out of her marriage and still retaining the money in her trust could be impossible that she starts to fantasize about killing Keith. The flashbacks showing Keith's abuse and constant cruelty towards Sterling wasn't exactly fun, thrilling reading, and it pretty much persists throughout the whole book. There wasn't much mystery to this, most of it was clearly spelled out with maybe a little ending murder mystery. As for a domestic thriller, it's that, but was kind of depressing to read with all the abuse towards Sterling, her at first just living through it and then how she had to take it because of the trust. The family aspects, Sterling's parents, brother, and children come in towards the second half more to give her character more loving support but this still didn't exactly deliver a feel good ending. This was straightforward to the point of not being thrilling and the way Sterling's parents set-up her trust was a little, you'll just have to go along with it, because it's the reason she's staying with Keith. This did have a just desserts ending though, so if looking for a domestic thriller with that requirement, this would meet it.

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Review: Where the Truth Lies: A Mystery

Where the Truth Lies: A Mystery by Rupert Holmes
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

In the seventies, I had three unrelated lunches with three different men, each of whom might have done A Terrible Thing.

Where the Truth Lies was a mystery told from late twenties reporter, Kerry. She has a great opportunity to write a memoir for Vince Collins, an older celebrity who made a name for himself as one half of a comedic duo that was big in the 1950s. His partner, Lanny Morris, and him had a falling out after a young woman was found dead in their hotel room, a room they could prove neither had been to that would work with the time of death. It's the 1970s now and people are still curious about the murdered girl and with Kerry seemingly charming Vince into cooperating and answering any questions she has, she senses a big leap for her career. It's when she has a chance meeting with Lanny, that entanglements start weaving webs she never could have predicted.

We are, as Dickens once said, “secret and revengeful.”

If you were alive in the seventies, I imagine this would be a fun walk down memory lane with all it's shout-outs to pop culture and every day sights and sounds of the decade. There was dedicated time given to tons of time period additives for time setting. Our leader Kerry was a determined enough character to ride along with, if at times a bit willing to get flighty and loved to get herself into pickles, which, with her career in jeopardy, well, there was also a fantasy scene with an Alice in Wonderland Disney actor to help readers remember this was all written by a man.

As Kerry tries to play and ping pongs off Vince and Lanny, there starts to be little bread crumbs for her to follow and put together about the murder mystery. The mystery stayed hidden with enough clues doled out to keep you guessing but some of the characterization wasn't as strong or didn't capture my attention as much. The ending delivers on some suspenseful reveals and then an epilogue to wrap it all up in what some would call a happily ever after for Kerry.

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Review: The Lion's Den

The Lion's Den by Alina Hurtado
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

How many of our choices would be different had we known the outcome in advance?

The Lion's Den was an mystery, suspense, and romance drama that took hiding it's big reveal very seriously. The beginning introduces readers to Laura's pov, a seemingly wide-eyed late twenties woman who sounds like she was set-up by her friend Lane to act as Donny's girlfriend. She's a fish out of water as Donny is involved in a cartel and her pov is immersed in fear but somehow always doing the right thing, to the point that the cartel members that she starts to befriend, make her a part of their business.

And there are times we meet a version of ourselves we didn't know existed.

Laura and Donny are kept in the shadows, as the story goes on, I think one of the reveals gives enough clues to what is going on but the bigger one, I think was forced kept hidden, which I mean in the sense if you go back and think about some of Laura's thoughts and actions, it doesn't make sense. While the vast majority of this story is from Laura's pov, there are a few from Donny and other side characters. Secondary characters play a big role in the story, kind of creating a family epic drama feeling, this family just so happens to be a cartel. One of the brothers that leads this cartel, Kid, seems to be very curious about Laura and beside herself, she is drawn to him, even though she's supposed to be in a relationship with Donny. There's some push and pull there, hyping up the drama, and building to the climax romantic drama.

And somehow we collided into each other,<?i> if only for a brief moment in time.

This was over five hundred pages and ends in a cliffhanger (the second book is out) so while there is that family epic drama I was talking about, there was also some slow pacing and stretching out with Laura almost dithering around. There was some Mary Sue with Laura, she can just do it all and doesn't recognize how hot she is! Almost all of the men just find her so resistible, to the point of putting lives and business in danger. The cartel side of the story world building was there if not fully believably structured out but the relationship drama was there enough to keep me reading. Laura makes an insane amount of questionable decisions, to the point you'll just have to go along with them for Drama's sake. The last twenty percent gives the hinted at reveals and a few very surprise ones that may have a few gasping. The cliffhanger felt predictable in it's line of Drama Plot and with the second book going another five hundred pages, if you're looking for some sensational, a bit drawn out, cartel, with family and romance drama, this series could drown you in it's pages.

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#TBRChallenge Review: A Bed of Spices

A Bed of Spices by Barbara Samuel
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

*This is a #TBRChallenge review, there will be spoilers, I don't spoil everything but enough, because I treat these reviews as a bookclub discussion.

"I wish she had loved more wisely," Charles said heavily, looking away. "How could she love you, knowing how dangerous it was? How could you let her?"

September's TBRChallenge was “Lush Life”. I'm going back to NOT reading the back of books because this was the synopsis:
He filled her dreams with desperate longing...

The exquisite Frederica der Esslingen fled the castle to the herbalist's cottage. Rica could never give in to her father's wishes and marry the man her twin sister loved. Another man, a stranger, set her blood racing and understood her bold, searching heart. Yet he was denied her forever.

She set him afire with forbidden desire...

Son of a wealthy Strassburg merchant, and determined to become a physician, Solomon had come to study the herbalist's art. It was there, in a wild garden, that he first set eyes on Rica. Her golden-haired beauty and bold spirit bewitched him. As plague ravaged Europe, he struggled against his passion, risking his life for the woman he longed to hold in his arms forever on...A Bed of Spices.

Sounds “lush”, right? Y'all. Just, please be aware this book discusses/has antisemitism, rape of a child, physical abuse, and murder. I thought I'd get a purple prose heavy on the sexual tones and instead I just got HEAVY. It took me two weeks to finish this and it's about a month later that I'm sitting down to finally write some thoughts. I kind of wanted to forget this story but for readers that like some not oft discussed historical aspects in their historical fiction, I wanted to at least mention some things about this.

Throughout that summer, plague and pogroms raged through Germany.

It's Strassburg, Summer 1348, and we know what that means, the Black Plague is lurking around. True to form, no matter the time, people are frightened about a disease they don't understand and are blaming Jewish people for it, creating a dangerous atmosphere. So, of course, our FMC Rica, is falling in love with our MMC Solomon, a Jewish man studying medicine under the same midwife Rica goes to for herbs and medicines to help the people of her father's castle. Rica is also the twin sister of Etta, who is mute to just about everyone than Rica. When Etta was six, she was out walking with her mother when soldiers came and raped her mother to death and then raped Etta, leaving her unable to have children or have sex again. I told you, this book gets so dark. One of Rica's father's knights, Rudolf, wants to marry Rica and makes a deal with her father that he'll court her over the summer but if he still doesn't win her over, he still gets to marry her. Even though Etta seems to keep herself pretty distance from everyone, she likes Rudolf and this starts off Rica and Etta pretending to be each other at times to fool Rudolf. Rica thinks he'll eventually fall in love with Etta, not knowing how often Etta pretends to be her. Rudolf is very religious, growing more towards zealot as the story goes on and this causes him to see one of the sisters in his thoughts as a whore and generally just gets more erratic as they play with his mind by switching.

His eyes were grave when he looked at her, and weary beyond measure. "There is no force that can stop fear, liebling. Remember that."

The romance has that “trying to fight it but not too hard” back and forth between Rica and Solomon, as they both know her being a Lady and him being Jewish kind of forbids them to be together. There's also the added danger growing as the Plague gets closer and the danger for Jewish people grows because of antisemitism. It all comes to a head when Solomon's father finds out about their romance and he beats Solomon, trying to put fear into him about he's risking his life and the end of summer has Rudolf wanting to marry Rica. Solomon is told by his father that Rica died and leaves town, while Rica prepares to marry Rudolf thinking it's her way of saving Solomon, only to be drugged by Etta, who has also steadily grown more erratic, and takes Rica's place as Rudolf's bride. Because of the physical damage from the rape, Rudolf realizes he married the wrong sister and this causes him to strangle Etta to death.

We're at 50%. If you're still hanging in there, some comic relief:
His limbs trembled so violently he reached for a crotch of the tree to brace himself.
Romance, where even the tree crotches get action!

"It seems we are fated to meet, my lady. What are we to do?"

Rica's been miserably living at home as her once bestfriend father won't speak to her because he blames her for Etta's death, thinking Rica maneuvered it so Etta had to marry Rudolf. It takes the midwife straight talking the father to finally get him to see the truth. Meanwhile, Solomon ends up surviving the Plague, causing him to go back home and in his traveling ends up seeing Rudolf whipping himself because he has joined the flagellants (still doesn't feel like a justice enough ending for him to me). Once home, Solomon immediately runs into Rica, who pretends to be Etta but Solomon's not fooled but goes along with it for the moment. Once he is reunited with his father, all the antisemitism catches up with them and we get Solomon relaying this make you tear up story to Rica when he decides to finally go to her:
"My father pretended he would leave with me on Friday. I dressed as you see me now to travel. When the mob came to arrest us with the others, he screamed that I was trying to convert him." Solomon raised his eyes, unable to quell his grief. "He would not come with me. He screamed that he'd rather die a Jew than—" Overcome, Solomon bent his head. "And die he did."

With Rica's father also dying (a stroke), they decide that life's too short to be apart and get married. Their love doesn't solve antisemitism though, and they recognize the danger and decide to move to Cairo, where Solomon's ancestors originally moved from. It felt a little out of left field to me but maybe there was a historical movement by Jewish people at this time to Cairo that I'm not aware of. So, they get their HEA but my god, what a not make you particularly feel good love story, however, there was good historical context and feel if you're wanting a different time period historical romance, just be prepared for all those trigger warnings.

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Review: Broken Rival

Broken Rival by Tessa Bailey
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received this book for free, this does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review

My parents abandoned me fifty-two years in the past.

A dystopian young adult romance that leaned into the teenybopper feel. Magnolia's parents were scientists in the year 2076 who found a way to invent time travel, which ends up causing catastrophic results for the year 2024. While they tried to keep the technology restricted to trusted users, it gets out to the masses, and in a world where resources and environmental concerns are rampant, everyone is trying to travel back. This causes havoc for 2024 and with people trying to protect their resources in their time, a General Cyrus gets power and he uses it to kill any time travelers that come through. Magnolia's parents are killed when they come through but she's only sixteen years old at the time, causing people to stick up for her and she ends up being taken in by a family. A family with two sons, one who seemingly loves her right away and one who seemingly hates her on sight.

After Magnolia's initial arrival, the story then jumps two years and she's eighteen about to graduate high school and dating Fallon, the son who was taken with her right away, while Ramsey, the son who seemed to hate her left the house Magnolia's staying at with his mother and stepfather, and is working and living with his father, who just so happens to be the killer General.

The story had some interesting time travel plot, the whys of people clamoring to time travel back and how the current time period people react, some shadowing of current immigration issues. However, it didn't really capture me with the romance. Ramsey's revealed instalove made no sense to me, he never knew Magnolia nearly enough to immediately be saying lines like: “Like I said, I’ll go breathe somewhere else.”
Two beats pass. “What about me? How will I breathe, then?”
I think it was around twenty percent when some “I love yous” were said and I was just baffled by it all because at no time did I think there was enough substance between the two for such statements.

The story got a little better for me deeper in, Magnolia realizing Fallon's controlling love was not healthy and more development of the time travel politics. However, I found myself not a personal fan of how the characters younger ages, eighteen and twenty-one, was written with them forgoing a condom and baby talk; it's all personal dislike but with the climate in the US right now, it felt like I was suddenly reading a story implementing an appeal I'm not personally about.

The ending gave some us some action and a switch in pov from all Magnolia's to Ramsey's and some quick, sloppy to me, reveal about Magnolia's true power her parents gave her. I thought a storyline was going to be continued in a next book but it was surprisingly wrapped up and an epilogue gave us an HEA. Some interesting dystopian time traveling concepts here but for a younger demographic that would probably enjoy a less depth filled romance.

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Review: False Flag

False Flag by Rachel Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Jake stood at the foot of his bed, a bemused look on his face. “Please tell me you aren’t armed this time.”
She hesitated for just a moment, then dropped the towel, raising her hands high. “As you can see, no weapons.”
“That’s debatable.” Jake’s voice came out hoarse.

Rachel Grant is back with book four in the Evidence: Under Fire series and it contained all the action, history, and hotness that I've discovered are hallmarks of her storytelling. If you've been reading the series you'll remember Staci, this starts off with her having a sparking moment with a guy named Jake she meets at a pseudo-archaeology podcaster's dinner that she's semi-undercover at, she shuts down anything before it can really get started. Jake's there to try and repair a very strained relationship with his older brother and not an active listener, so he crashes and burns when he tries to impress, the unbeknownst to him, phd student working to show how and why pseudoscientists spread disinformation. When they meet again five months later, the attraction is still there and they'll get an opportunity to explore it when Staci gets picked to join the podcaster's archaeological expedition team and Jake, a Navy SEAL, gets sent in undercover to discover how a billionaire, podcaster, and the Vice President of the United States are entwined.

While exposing him was a goal and even the main benefit, she was also doing it for science.

You could easily pick this up without reading the series, you'd miss some friendship connections and maybe start off a little confused how Navy SEALS and a group called the Friday Morning Valkyries, archaeologists and intelligence agents working to covertly protect archaeological sites and stop artifact looting and trafficking, are all connected but there's just enough rehashing to get new readers caught up. The secondary characters work great as emotional touchstones and series baiting, I need Vickie and Teague's book now. As with most of Grant's stories, there's intricate and complex suspense story weaving; sometimes I think there are too many moving parts but I'm not sure what I could say to take out, you just need to be ready to lock-in when your're reading.

She could hear him whispering her name now, feel his lips trailing on her skin.

This had open-door hotness and I liked the chemistry between Staci and Jake. I thought it took a little while to get Jake's character going because of the front heavy story setting up but Staci was an interesting enough character to carry the load and then with Jake's familial drama coming in, we get good emotional investment from him. The villains were timely with their evilness, making it easy to root for Staci to give readers a living vicariously through her to enjoy some joy revenge. I just really enjoy this series' world Grant has created, for romantic suspense, it's one of the best going right now. I mean, where else can you get believable danger, Pig War(!!!)mention, citogenesis explaining, and a devious paintball war kiss.

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