Ravelin 3D 3D থেকে Maßbach, Saksa
I really wanted to love this book, and I enjoyed Janzen's voice, but in the end, I couldn't buy the HEA, and I didn't really care about it, either. Regan McKinney has reluctantly stepped out her safe world to search for her missing grandfather, Wilson. She follows a clue that leads her to an embarrassing blast from the past, Quinn Younger. Regan has dedicated her life to being safe and secure, caring for her grandfather and younger sister, Nikki, and after a disastrous marriage, she hasn't felt moved enough to risk anything for a man. But Quinn - former car thief and current Air Force hero - shares a special connection with Regan after spending a summer fifteen years ago lusting over each other from afar. When they meet again, Regan's not sure what to make of Quinn. Is he the national hero? The thief? A little of both? All she knows is he intrigues her the same way he always had before, and she needs his help to find her grandfather. Quinn has no doubt in his mind what to make of Regan - she's the girl he's lusted and loved for fifteen years, and nothing is going to stop him from getting the girl this time. The only problem is he has to find some way to protect Regan and her family and catch the bad guys on top of it. Janzen's voice is the closest I've found to Suzanne Brockmann's, and that much I enjoyed. I liked Quinn's devil-may-care attitude, and Regan's no-nonsense sensibility. The sequel bait was interesting enough, if overwhelming, and the action scenes intense. Unfortunately, that's about the extent of what I did like. Jumping POVs, a cramped timeline, repetitious inner dialogue, and way too many details about cars make up the majority of what I did not like. I didn't feel like we got a sense of what was really going on in anyone's deeper character, most of all the two main protagonists. There were four? five? storylines going on, and none of them made me care about the characters' lives, their thoughts, their pasts, let alone their futures. All we got from Quinn was how much he desired Regan, and how he had been in love with her, and still loved her (even though he didn't even recognize her when he first saw her again). From Regan, it was more of an incredulous fear and lust. There wasn't enough time or word count to explore either of their characters more deeply, and in the end, when they exchanged ILYs, I had absolutely no reason to believe that they were really devoted to each other, and really in love. Since the excerpt for the next book (Christian's) seemed to be leading in a similar direction, I don't know that I'll continue with the series, but at least now I know. C+