Although I don’t own all Nicole Edwards offerings, I do own
most – my favorite being the Alluring Indulgence series. After reading and liking the excerpt of 'Waiting for Morning' in Nicole Edward's newsletter I was looking forward to this new
series. For me Nicole is usually a four
or a five star player. Honestly, I was
disappointed.
I have nothing against the characters she’s created, the
protagonists, Trace and Marissa. They’re
fine people. But I never really managed
to develop empathy for them either. Their
storyline felt a little unrealistic, the situation nothing more than a means
for the two of them to be compelled together.
In this case, it wasn’t necessary.
They had grown up with each other, fancied the pants off each other from
the time Marissa was a teenager though Trace had remained shtum. To top it off, although
the skulduggery and danger made for fine reading the villain and the need for
villainy came across as a little lame.
Having a crossover of characters with the final book Brendon
in the Alluring Indulgence series (4 stars for that book, btw), the necessity to get
this novel out before that went live has meant quality has suffered. Some facts were repeated way more than necessary
and even couched in the same phraseology. I
found this to be frustrating and a little patronizing - they were facts I remembered already. This trait was not so evident in the previous books of Nicole's that I have read.
Other than Z and RT, characters who piqued my interest, I’m
not yet sure whether I will continue with this and the spin-off series The
Southern Boy Mafia.
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