GRR Reviews Carter: The Sinner Saints #1 by Adrienne Bell

Carter is a romantic suspense when the couple was forced on the run from powerful enemies and a giant conspiracy. However, the plot failed to make sense upon further contemplation (i.e. "wait a minute, but...")

Carter Macmillan was a captain in US Special Forces. Now retired, Carter runs Macmillian security with his former teammates, doing security assignments, and they were just hired to provide extra security for a certain senator when news came earlier that his chief of staff's car blew up on the freeway... With him in it. So when a young woman crashed the party, Carter zoomed in on her... and she had the most incredible story to tell... Ally Weaver chases the story as a reporter, and the story she's chasing was incredible... Until her source, scared out of his mind, told her a story even she can barely believe... just as her connection was lost and then news came of his car blowing up. Desperate to find the last words of a dead man, she snuck into that man's office... and was trying to rifle through the contents when Carter came in behind her... But not to detain her... But to save her... and his own company, as he realized he was being set up... As circumstances forced the two together to go on the run, they couldn't help but to fall for each other, as they battle someone corrupt enough to rig the system, and lives are nothing in front of billions in dollars... What was on the flash drive Ally recovered, even as enemies close in on all sides?

To explain the problem with this book, I'll have to spoil the ending.

SPOILER ALERT

WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP

The good guys got this flash drive from the dead guy. The bad guys tried to get rid of the evidence. They can't find it despite bribing the cops and sealed off the entire MacMillan office. So their next plan is to blow up the entire office. Say what? Nobody took it home, or uploaded a copy to the cloud, or whatever? And also, how can a computer expert make a copy that's NOT exact, complete with same volume name? The bad guys bought off the local cops, but didn't count on MacMillian calling in the FBI?

These MAJOR plot holes made the plot "meh".

Category: Contemporary / suspense

Primary Plot: Reporter and Security Guy had to go on the run together when they obtained evidence of a conspiracy, but can they decode it?

Tropes: security, conspiracy, reporter, evil enemies, forced proximity, woman in peril, protector

Overall Rating:  3/5