This was SO DAMN GOOD!!! Second chance/reunion done right!! Ohh all the feelers I felt! I was on the edge of my seat until our lovers were reunited agThis was SO DAMN GOOD!!! Second chance/reunion done right!! Ohh all the feelers I felt! I was on the edge of my seat until our lovers were reunited again! So, so good! 5 Stars...more
**spoiler alert** I didn’t really appreciate how half the blurb was laid out in the first 15 pages. This would’ve been a five star read if the author **spoiler alert** I didn’t really appreciate how half the blurb was laid out in the first 15 pages. This would’ve been a five star read if the author dug a little deeper, and took more time showing us 1. How in love Brecken and Camryn were before he left for Iraq. A conversation in the car wasn’t enough for me to really solidify how much they meant to each other. 2. How devastating it was for Camryn to see that Brecken was a POW. We spent two seconds, maybe a paragraph with her watching the news break before we glossed over the next rushed issue which was 3. Bracken’s murder. Why did we get a fucking time jump?!! Let me see how completely traumatized Camryn was! I want to be traumatized with our heroine. This beginning robbed us readers of crying in our showers, our hearts from breaking completely at the lost love.
These were my biggest problems with the book, but not all of them. Just when you think that you’ll get the entirety of the story after skipping over such important details,
4. What was the reason for the time jump at the end too?!! I mean, I realize nobody wants to read through our Hero’s long hospital stay after a gunshot wound to the chest, but maybe if we could see a little of that, followed by Camryn finally stepping through the door of the promised house close to the beach.
Ugh. I just wish there was more thought into all of these really important moments. It would’ve blown this version of the book out the damn water.
I wish I would’ve waited until all the books were released so that I could read the entirety of Fleur and Ba**spoiler alert** Spoiler Review in 3�2�1�
I wish I would’ve waited until all the books were released so that I could read the entirety of Fleur and Bastien’s story, but then I would’ve postponed the joy that was this first installment!
Fleur is happily married to Adrien, a rich criminal art dealer (amongst other criminal activity, I’m sure). She dropped out of college and gave her marriage her all. She loved Adrien and saw herself married to him forever, having children and living a happy life, that is until Adrien’s mistress calls Fleur to tell her about their affair. Knowing her worth, and that she’ll be plagued with distrust in her husband’s faithfulness, Fleur asks for a divorce. But Adrien has reach and the courts deny her every request.
Bastien is the head of a secret branch of government known as The Fifth Republic, basically his job is to police the criminals, making sure they don’t harm innocents, be it women or children. Example? There used to be a prostitution ring of kidnapped women and teenagers that affected the tourism and safety in Paris. Bastien broke it up and restored the safety in tourism, and the local community. With the exception of prostitution rings, Bastien lets crime exist, in return, he gets a cut of the profits that he doesn’t pay taxes on. Anyway, he is powerful as shit and has a much farther reach, bigger bank account, and dick, than Adrien. Bastien doesn’t do relationships, opting for one night stands- or something as shallow as that. But then he goes to a bar one night and meets bartender Fleur. He’s immediately intrigued.
Fleur and Bastien are soooo good together. Their sex is amazing and they fit like they were made for each other. Fleur has the ability to be sassy. She held on to her principles by leaving Adrien and the lap of luxury, to struggle paycheck to paycheck. Fleur wants brutal honesty in her next partner, although she knows she won’t be ready for a relationship for quite some time. Fleur tries to hold Bastien at arms length, in a casual position, not committing to anything solid with Bastien. Bastien, on the other hand, knows that Fleur has a hold on him. He’s a brutally honest man (to Adrien’s cowardice), and he highly respects Fleur for walking away from Adrien and his money. As time goes on, Bastien doesn’t see Fleur as his girlfriend� “girlfriends are for pussies, this here is my woman.� Bastien pushes Fleur to confront her reasons for not wanting a relationship, and admit to them being in a relationship due to their attraction to each other, time spent together, constant communication, and their bedroom routine. But Fleur is scared. She doesn’t trust men anymore, and, Bastien told her that his used to be a hitman, but he hasn’t exactly moved on from taking a life, so she’s worried about how powerful he is and falling for someone again when she know that she feels more for him than she did for her husband.
Then there’s Godric, who is making Paris unsafe again, profiting from kidnapping women and girls to do his dirty work. Bastien won’t let that stand and he sets out to find Godric to stop him� even if Godric is his own brother.
Man, I loved this story and I’m so happy there’s more to come! Bastien is sexy as all hell, and Fleur deserves the love, commitment, and honesty that Bastien will give her. I cannot wait until the end of February for the next book!
I’m glad Jasper died, and Allison’s little white picket fence future was ruined.
I said what I said.
I love Jen**spoiler alert** Can I just be honest?
I’m glad Jasper died, and Allison’s little white picket fence future was ruined.
I said what I said.
I love Jennifer Hartman’s work. I could tell that this was cowritten, because it was more drawn out. It wasn’t as dark as Still Beating, which was a little disappointing to me. The first murder took place 227 pages into the book, and for that many pages our hero and heroine just� talked.
It was hard to like Isaac/Nick at first. He’s a realist, closed off, and a grumpy asshole. He changed, finally ok with admitting that he couldn’t stay away from Everly, but this wasn’t your typical flowers and sweet words romance. There was no screaming for Everly when shit hit the fan. No passion about his love being in danger� not until the second half.
I live for those moments of passion, of ‘touch her and you die�, of utter desperation to save his woman and, again, we don’t get that right away.
This was a flat 4⭐️ for me, I was a little bored with their capture, but the book generally held my attention. There should be a trigger warning for cheating, and Jasper’s weak ass betrayal- BOTH TIMES- was hard to take. Like I said, I’m happy he died...more
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