After finishing the Lymond Chronicles, I needed to read something completely different. A contemporary m/m romance between FBI agents who get thrown together to catch a serial killer and hate each other while also feeling an uncontrollable attraction fit the bill nicely.
This was the sort of romance that was almost comforting in its predictability. There's the one agent who seems super uptight and like he would never break rules, but he has a secret tragic past! And the other agent is unpredictable and blase, but actually he's great at his job! The case itself is both hopelessly convoluted and also incredibly obvious; while I don't mind being able to solve a mystery in a book long before the characters do, it makes it a bit harder to believe that they're actually competent at all. There's a bunch of hurt/comfort and the sex is fine, but the POV shifts mid-chapter happened a bit too frequently and without any real pattern, and the entire thing could have been tightened up and shortened without losing anything. Nothing to write home about, but fine for what it is.
Grade: C
This was the sort of romance that was almost comforting in its predictability. There's the one agent who seems super uptight and like he would never break rules, but he has a secret tragic past! And the other agent is unpredictable and blase, but actually he's great at his job! The case itself is both hopelessly convoluted and also incredibly obvious; while I don't mind being able to solve a mystery in a book long before the characters do, it makes it a bit harder to believe that they're actually competent at all. There's a bunch of hurt/comfort and the sex is fine, but the POV shifts mid-chapter happened a bit too frequently and without any real pattern, and the entire thing could have been tightened up and shortened without losing anything. Nothing to write home about, but fine for what it is.
Grade: C
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