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Showing posts with label Alison Kent. Show all posts
GRR Reviews The Best Is Yet To Come by Alison Kent
The Best Is Yet To Come is a contemporary romance featuring the "I ain't quite over you" trope as well as "hidden identities" on both sides to good effect. Add family obligation to that and it got angst-y.
Milla Page, as a writer for a dating website, needed dates to review hot date spots like restaurants and clubs. When none of her usual friends were available, she dipped into her ladies' lounge bowl of business cards... and found a name she hadn't seen for six years... Rennie Bergen. Rennie was her college boyfriend's roommate... she tutored him for four years, and... they had a relationship behind her boyfriend's back. But when push came to shove, she left him behind, partly out of family obligation. Six years later, she saw his name and knew she's not over him... Rennie did not expect to see Milla ever again, but he's certainly not unhappy about it when she showed up at his garage. But he's not ready to show her all of his world, including his TV series: Hell on Wheels, not until he knew she came for him, Rennie her ex-lover, not Rennie, hot rich TV celebrity. Even as they snuck around and pick up where they left off, can they handle the secrets that they had been keeping from each other?
Both have secrets they've been keeping from each other. Milla had reasons to leave Rennie behind and it had nothing to do with love but everything to do with obligations. And it was an interesting trip to see how they finally get their HEA.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Woman sees a man she had a hidden relationship but had not seen for six years. She knew she wasn't over him; will he want her?
Tropes: disguise, different worlds, betrayal, family pressure
Overall Rating: 4/5
GRR Review: Larger Than Life by Alison Kent
Larger Than Life by Alison Kent
, as book 6 of her Smithson Group series, is a decent romantic suspense that unfortunately, went in several different directions, leading to a relatively low-key finish.
The book just reads... confused. There were Mick and Neva. Neva also has a suitor in town called Ed, the doctor who also helped her one time or another. That sorta triangle and twist later was good. But there is also a secondary romance, Candy, and Spencer. Spencer is the local high school football star and white, and Candy... is not. Spencer's dad is the local sheriff and tried all he could to get Spencer to concentrate on school, which basically means dumping Candy, and even Candy wanted Spencer to dump her, because she had a deep dark secret she needed to confess to. But turns out Spencer's sheriff dad Yauncy and his wife Jeanne have a secret of their own. That's THREE pairs. Let's add the latest runaway, Liberty, her boyfriend Jase, and the creepy lawyer Holden. Are you confused as to who's who yet? I know I am.
There are just too many moving plotlines that don't seem to intersect quite right, and too many couples to track. While I enjoyed the twists, I don't think this novel was written that particularly well... Too confusing.
There is also a bit of Hollywood physics at the end. Let's just say, if the sniper rifle is as massive as FMC thought it is, it wouldn't be a neat little hole between the eyes of his target, but an exploding head instead.
All in all, mediocre plotting, too many plotlines.
Category: Romantic Suspense
Primary Plot: Wounded Operative recuperating at a small town had to help FMC to save her "underground railroad" operation saving girls forced by religious sect
Overall Rating: 3/5
, as book 6 of her Smithson Group series, is a decent romantic suspense that unfortunately, went in several different directions, leading to a relatively low-key finish.
Mick Savin is working for the Smithson Group, that was investigating a suspect criminal organization when he was captured, seriously wounded, and left out to die in the New Mexico desert. He woke up in a medical center in rural West Texas with a lot of questions, including what was the woman that saved him was hiding... Neva Case was simply at the right place as the right time to save Mick, but she has her own secrets at stake... saving girls who wanted to leave a fundamentalist compound. When that secret was threatened, Mick may be her only hope of survival...
The book just reads... confused. There were Mick and Neva. Neva also has a suitor in town called Ed, the doctor who also helped her one time or another. That sorta triangle and twist later was good. But there is also a secondary romance, Candy, and Spencer. Spencer is the local high school football star and white, and Candy... is not. Spencer's dad is the local sheriff and tried all he could to get Spencer to concentrate on school, which basically means dumping Candy, and even Candy wanted Spencer to dump her, because she had a deep dark secret she needed to confess to. But turns out Spencer's sheriff dad Yauncy and his wife Jeanne have a secret of their own. That's THREE pairs. Let's add the latest runaway, Liberty, her boyfriend Jase, and the creepy lawyer Holden. Are you confused as to who's who yet? I know I am.
There are just too many moving plotlines that don't seem to intersect quite right, and too many couples to track. While I enjoyed the twists, I don't think this novel was written that particularly well... Too confusing.
There is also a bit of Hollywood physics at the end. Let's just say, if the sniper rifle is as massive as FMC thought it is, it wouldn't be a neat little hole between the eyes of his target, but an exploding head instead.
All in all, mediocre plotting, too many plotlines.
Category: Romantic Suspense
Primary Plot: Wounded Operative recuperating at a small town had to help FMC to save her "underground railroad" operation saving girls forced by religious sect
Overall Rating: 3/5
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