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Wanted More Between the Main Characters

Revisado: 08-05-21

This book was good and I really enjoyed the mystery/storyline but I felt it was more about Jazzy then Reve and Jacob. They hate each other so much and then all the sudden they want each other? I didn't feel any heat or attraction between the two of them. The author attempted it but failed and then they were married. Sorry but this story lacks a little in the romance department. The story of the mystery itself was good and I enjoyed figuring out who it was although it was fairly obvious. Jazzy is just a dumbass. She didn't feel true to character walking out there alone seeing as she was more careful in the second book. First two books were much better!

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Emily has issues...

Revisado: 08-05-21

Spoiler warning!

This book has some plot holes. The dad just dies and she knows he's dead so she stops them from trying to save him? Just let him die... yeah okay. And then she finds out she has a sister who she mentioned already in book one yet had no idea about until a couple chapters into this book when her dad's lawyer tells her. What was the point of the sister anyway as she's barely mentioned and only visits once with a Dr. whoever that is an anthropologist that was looking at the bones they found?!

Then let's talk about the anthropologist.... after the autopsy, he walks into the other room to wash his hands only to come out and remove his latex gloves?! Shouldn't he have done that before he washes his hands? And he is going to steal pictures and notes from the autopsy report he helped with?! Why wouldn't he already have them? And she just deletes them off of his phone with her next telling him anything and him never telling her anything but having a student call her?! He just drops out of the picture after that...

She was attracted to him but then realizes she is a slime ball and is using her so she walks away from him only to realize she has feelings for Nick after she didn't trust him at all and gets him arrested! Yet you take a guy you just met to your family's house for Thanksgiving when Nick invited you to spend it with him and you give him a noncommittal response!?

Then Emily calls Nick's parents when he's arrested but we never see or hear anything from them... why even call them? What did they do for him?

The mystery was okay... kind of kept you guessing but Emily never considers transfer for the hair or anything...she just assumes Nick is guilty but fights with herself about that. How about you think about reasons these things could be true...and TRUST Nick..work together to figure it out or at least don't be dumb and undermine him...

Then the ending...he's going to Quantico and she's going to Chicago but she found someone to rent the house? That's not explained very well. Is this the end or will there be another book once he's an FBI agent and she's the coroner? Did the run for Coroner? Is she still going to be the Medical Examiner? She can't really leave for 2 years and then come back and pick up those jobs as they will have been replaced by then.

I really wanted to like her and Nick but she never really seemed interested in him until the end and then they were just 'together'?! I wanted suspense/heat/more from them and their romance. I'm not saying I wanted them to go at it as I'm good with no smut/sex in the book but they never even kissed until the end and then they held hands all the time. I needed more before they got there...attraction of some sort...something.

I will read the next book if there is one but hopefully there won't be these plot holes or issues.

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Not the Murder Mystery/Romance I wanted!

Revisado: 08-05-21

There will be slight spoilers in this review for both this book and the sequel.

The book starts out good with Emily going about her day and being proposed to by a seemingly great guy only to find out her father has had a heart attack and she needs to rush home. She runs into her high school boyfriend who happens to be the sheriff and he leads her to the hospital and explains that they have had a murder. All this part is fine and started our with great potential but then plot holes start piling up.

When she goes to her father's house as she forgets to book a hotel, she goes though the house layout in her mind and discusses playing ping pong in the basement with her sister Anna. Well...she doesn't have any siblings, she's an only child! So you wonder if her sister died or something and that's part of the struggle... nope...she has no sister in the book one. She eventually finds out she does have a sister named Anna but not until the second book. So that part was weird.

The second book has similar plot holes..but I will leave that review on that book....

Then, let's talk about the romance between her and Nick...it's not existent. They don't have any stolen moments or moments of struggle where she's attracted to him but is still engaged to Brandon. He moves on to another girl and is with her for years but his feelings are really for Emily yet he doesn't come around or talk to her really...or even do unexpected nice gestures. It's like they just assume they will get together and that's kind of how it happens at the end. There is no suspense, no drama, no burn between them!

The mystery ending is lame too... the guy strangles her and she lays in the barn for 4 hours until Nick happens to find her still alive? And that's after the owner of the barn finds her phone but doesn't look around even though Nick finds her in 2 seconds? She laid there for hours and then has enough strength to tell him who did it?! I don't buy it!

And then the very ending...her dad is a doctor who understands medical need and neccessity procedures yet refuses to get a bypass surgery that people do every day? And the reasoning is because he doesn't deserve it or because he wants to make amends with Emily...well how can you do that? That's ridiculous... you can't make amends if you are dead. it doesn't make sense...

This book had some real potential. I liked the premise and the story but it was lacking in several areas.

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What happened?!

Revisado: 03-06-20

What happened? I use to love these books! They were fun and cute. This one was a little too sappy an didn’t feel authentic as much as the others. I also got confused as to who was talking - Greyson or Kora - as I often thought it sounded like Kora but was actually Greyson. The differentiation in voice just wasn’t there for me. I’ve never thought that before so maybe this is a one off!

The overall story was good but I’m still confused as to what the final prize did. Kora confronting the Fox was a little predictable but ended strangely. Everything was a little too easy in this book which again, I haven’t noticed in previous books! Let me with too many questions!

I also felt like Greyson lost something! I liked him in the Jayne Frost books until that story got messed up! I like him and Kora (more than him and Jayne) but I wanted more for them! Something was missing :/

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Really?

Revisado: 03-06-20

The caper was great but the “cleaning up” of Jayne’s love life was horrible! Four books to end this way? I won’t be reading more of these books! Will stick with Nocturne Falls or Shadowvale Series by Kristen Painter going forward!

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Another Great one by Karen Rose

Revisado: 03-01-19

I really liked the story and I love how it ties together with the previous books in Karen Rose's collection but starts a new story/chapter. My only issue with this book was the performance. Women who were 40 years old sounded like they were 90 by the narrator and I almost stopped listening after the first few chapters because I was annoyed by the voices. I finally got over that and would only cringe every now and again when he made the old person voice for someone who wasn't even remotely old... I also couldn't tell who was talking sometimes because the voices were all very similar.

Other than that, I loved the story. It was long and well written. There was definite suspense! I don't care for hearing the killer's voice or what they are doing but those are always in Karen Rose's books so I knew to expect it. I also felt like this one wasn't quite as suspenseful at the end. It was just over in a way you knew was coming... there wasn't a connection where we were like that was the killer in the beginning as we have found in other books of this author's. He didn't have ties to find out what was going on within the FBI as many previous books in the "series" do.

Overall, a great book! If the narrator had been different and there was more suspense or a confrontation between Daisy and the killer at the end, I would have given it many more stars!!

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Just okay...wouldn't read again. Wish I hadn't!

Revisado: 12-08-16

I have kept debating on writing this review or not as I don't like leaving negative feedback. After seeing it in my library again, I knew I needed to share. The book was okay... the best couple is a couple way to far apart in age for my liking. As a woman of a similar age, Quinn is just too old for Courtney! Her relationship and growth is by far the best in the book and that doesn't say a lot as sometimes I am grossed out by how much older than her he is!

Sienna is just dumb and obviously doesn't like the guy she is with, even though it takes the entire book for her to figure what she really thinks of him. She seems kind of too good for everyone and complains a lot.

Rachel's marriage really doesn't change all that much from beginning to end. I couldn't see her and her relationship growing at all. It was basically we hate each other but we have a kid so lets be civil even though you cheated on me. Then it was all okay, lets get back together. She complains about no one helping her and doing everything on her own but she put herself in that boat. I guess this is what she ultimately figures out but it is just a day and night thing from the entire book to almost the last page.

I just didn't feel as though there was enough character growth with any of these women. There relationships were kind of boring and pointless. I had to force myself to finish the book as there wasn't anything exciting going on. I kept hoping it would pick up but it just doesn't.

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Another great one!

Revisado: 11-09-11

Loved it! Just as good as the first! The plot is good! The characters are good! And it is really funny! Can't wait to see what Darynda Jones has in store for book 3!

Lorelei King is one of the best narrators around! Love her! So glad she did both books in this series! Hope she continues with this series!

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Stephanie Plum But Funnier

Revisado: 11-09-11

I really loved this book! It reminded me of Janet Evanovich in the first few books of the Stephanie Plum series before they got so repetitive! Very fun and clever idea!

I just hope the series doesn't go on for 20 books because things get old, repetitive, and annoying! I prefer fewer books with angst and drama but then let them have their happy ever after!!!

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