GRR Review: Hearts of Clover by Danielle Stewart

Reading Hearts of Clover just reminds me that this book is basically a teaser, as both "books" added together makes one proper length novel at 272 pages. Furthermore, new characters were added at random and old characters disappear without a trace. The town of Clover was just weird, and lots of plot points were left unresolved for book 3 (and maybe book 4) with cliffhanger endings. Altogether, it feels incomplete.

Devin, a successful businessman, is about to be very rich, but he has a revenge deal in Clover in the works. The town had wronged him... railroaded him into a murder conviction that had him spent years on death row before Innocence Project finally got him out. Now he's going to take revenge on the entire town... by turning it into a landfill and wipe out the police department. The girl he left behind, Rebecca, is still in town, is a single parent, and periodically beaten and have her money taken away by an addict "boyfriend". When Devin convinced the town council to fire the entire Sheriff's department that railroaded him, the whole department went rogue and started waging guerilla war against the town. Now Devin must call in more help to save the town he had swore to destroy... 

The characters of Click and Jordan are interesting, but ultimately feel tacked-on as they didn't appear until book 2 and ultimately have their own plot line separate from the Devin / Rebecca plot line. All in all, it just felt... incomplete, with too many bits left hanging.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Primary Plot: Wronged man return to town to destroy it, found his woman being abused in town, then had to save the town from rogue cops by calling in more help

Overall Rating:  1/5