Feb TBR challenge complete!
I haven't been able to be at my desk as much as usual and as a result, I'm finally able to get some reading in!
This weekend, I completed the TBR challenge organized by Angie
The Feb. challenge was to read a new to you author and I chose Rachel Lee's With Malice.
Here are my thoughts and impressions...
Title:With Malice
Author:Rachel Lee
Year published:2004
Why did you get this book? I read a review for her newest book (Crimson Code) and learned that it was part of a series, which started with a book called Wildcard. Wildcard is the sequel to With Malice so there ya go ;) I've been dying to read a nice taut romantic suspense, so this suited.
Do you like the cover?Eh, not really. It would have been better on a hurricane book.
Did you enjoy the book?Yep, I really enjoyed it.
While this book was advertised as a romantic suspense, I found it to be much more mainstream suspense with a slight romance sub plot.
The book opens on a high note, when an elderly woman is murdered while trying to save a younger woman from an attack. The reader quickly learns that the elderly murder victim is a long-time family friend/nanny to a very influential senator and as for the other victim...well, she had a more carnal connection to the senator. This senator has presidential aspirations and the scandal involved in the younger woman's murder could sink his career for good. His chief aide does the unthinkable and moves the younger woman's body, setting off a chain of events that bring together the local homicide detective, a woman who suspects that things aren't quite what they seem.
And this was just the first twenty or so pages. The book was set up very well and carried me along on a ride that, while somewhat predictable, was engrossing.
I never really felt the romance plot, but I didn't mind because the suspense plot held my attention so well.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? I have a few Rachel Lee books, but this was the first I'd read. I'm actually reading Wildcard (the sequel) now.
This weekend, I completed the TBR challenge organized by Angie
The Feb. challenge was to read a new to you author and I chose Rachel Lee's With Malice.
Here are my thoughts and impressions...
Title:With Malice
Author:Rachel Lee
Year published:2004
Why did you get this book? I read a review for her newest book (Crimson Code) and learned that it was part of a series, which started with a book called Wildcard. Wildcard is the sequel to With Malice so there ya go ;) I've been dying to read a nice taut romantic suspense, so this suited.
Do you like the cover?Eh, not really. It would have been better on a hurricane book.
Did you enjoy the book?Yep, I really enjoyed it.
While this book was advertised as a romantic suspense, I found it to be much more mainstream suspense with a slight romance sub plot.
The book opens on a high note, when an elderly woman is murdered while trying to save a younger woman from an attack. The reader quickly learns that the elderly murder victim is a long-time family friend/nanny to a very influential senator and as for the other victim...well, she had a more carnal connection to the senator. This senator has presidential aspirations and the scandal involved in the younger woman's murder could sink his career for good. His chief aide does the unthinkable and moves the younger woman's body, setting off a chain of events that bring together the local homicide detective, a woman who suspects that things aren't quite what they seem.
And this was just the first twenty or so pages. The book was set up very well and carried me along on a ride that, while somewhat predictable, was engrossing.
I never really felt the romance plot, but I didn't mind because the suspense plot held my attention so well.
Was the author new to you and would you read something by this author again? I have a few Rachel Lee books, but this was the first I'd read. I'm actually reading Wildcard (the sequel) now.
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