Review: Shattered Heart (Z series Book 2)

Title:  Shattered Heart, Z series, Book 2

Author:  Jerri Drennen

Genre:  Romantic Suspense

Book Size:  93 pages/338 KB

Covert Z operative, JT Malone, is in Oregon on assignment. By taking an engineering job, he’ll investigate accusations of possible threats to national security made by an informant, who has since died under suspicious circumstances. He didn't plan to fall for the dead man's widow.

Two years after her husband's accidental death, Charlotte Delaney will do whatever it takes to save her cafe from foreclosure, even accepting a marriage proposal from her late husband’s boss. That is, until an appealing stranger insinuates that her husband's death was no accident and the person responsible could be the same man who's asked her to marry him. The attraction between Charlotte and JT is instantaneous and explosive, making her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her life.

Together, the two battle against an unquenchable desire while scrambling to thwart a terrorist act that could thrust the country into epic tragedy. The closer they get to the truth, the higher the stakes, with Charlotte at risk of becoming collateral damage. Now, both will be forced to put everything on the line: for life, liberty, and love.

By all indications from the blurb, this book looked like a great read. The synopsis seemed like everything I look forward in a book.

By Chapter 5, I gave up.

JT Malone's character started out great. Ms. Drennan portrayed him as experienced, yet apprehensive going into his new assignment. All good stuff. Charlotte Delaney's character, though a bit flat, was believable at first too. A widow of two years, she still loved her husband and found it hard to move on. More good stuff.

What curled my lip was how both characters went from JT's ambition of catching the bad guy and Charlotte's desire to save her beloved cafe, to suddenly both having Fourth of July sexual fireworks and wanting to spank the monkey in her front living room.

One minute she's crying in her deceased husband's untouched-since-he-died office to tongue wrestling outside that very door. The flinging of eye-rolling emotions moved faster than a reader kept up with and eventually left me in the dust with a bad taste for this book.

I had such high hopes from everything the blurb promised. Sadly, this book couldn't keep me interested.

DNF

Review: Irish Moon

Title: Irish Moon
Author:  Amber Scott
Genre:  Fantasy Romance
Book Size:  344 pages / 812 KB

A promise... is a promise and Ashlon Sinclair refuses to let anything deter him. When the chest he vowed to conceal with his life is stolen, his only hope in recovering it is also his only distraction--Breanne O'Donnell.

In her bones, Breanne feels much amiss in her mentor's sudden death. But who would murder the king's own druid? Moreover, how is is his demise linked to the mysterious stranger left behind? 

Their searches intertwine and attraction beckons putting their lives and their hearts at risk under an IRISH MOON.

 

 

What a great story. I love when a book keeps me up late into the night. 

 

Ashlon and Breanne are wonderful characters whose lives are inevitably entwined when fate brings them together.  A former Templar Knight, Ashlon is entrusted by the deceased Jacques DeMolay with the duty of retrieving and delivering a special chest containing a rare item. Breanne is a druid (witch??) in training, until her mentor is discovered murdered.

The story is fantasy, paranormal, and suspense all rolled into one. Action, adventure, and romance bring the well-developed characters to life. When reading the story, you can almost imagine yourself moving along within the scene. Mental images of the historical world are easily incorporated into this fast-moving tale.

The pet peeve of mine is in the final editing. Words and punctuation were missing, which were glaringly obvious to me. That said, I still enjoyed the story immensely.

**** 4-Star Review