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A review by kaje_harper
Damaged Package by S.A. McAuley
4.0
3.5 stars rounded up. This is a thriller/mystery/romance story between a young guy with wanderlust who has finally come home for a while, and an older, fired SWAT cop turned private security. Reader ratings will no doubt be all over the map, depending on your level of amusement by the characters, and your tolerance for lapses in logic.
The writing is good, and I enjoyed Trevor and Deacon, especially early on. There is some fun and humor here, decent heat, and some good secondary characters as well. The dialogue isn't always believable, but it made me smile. It's a fast easy read, and the four stars is purely for the pleasure of the ride.
There are rather a lot of plot holes, from some of the basic premises behind Trav's back story, to the multiple unprofessional moments on the part of ex-cops that were required to generate the climax. The book gets credit for a plot twist I didn't see coming, and loses it for the number of times I couldn't buy some minor point. This is not a story for a picky reader, or someone who hates instalove, but I admit to gulping it down in one fast rush, and chuckling more than once at the guys together. For that pleasure, I'm giving it a purely personal rounded-to-4 stars.
The writing is good, and I enjoyed Trevor and Deacon, especially early on. There is some fun and humor here, decent heat, and some good secondary characters as well. The dialogue isn't always believable, but it made me smile. It's a fast easy read, and the four stars is purely for the pleasure of the ride.
There are rather a lot of plot holes, from some of the basic premises behind Trav's back story, to the multiple unprofessional moments on the part of ex-cops that were required to generate the climax. The book gets credit for a plot twist I didn't see coming, and loses it for the number of times I couldn't buy some minor point. This is not a story for a picky reader, or someone who hates instalove, but I admit to gulping it down in one fast rush, and chuckling more than once at the guys together. For that pleasure, I'm giving it a purely personal rounded-to-4 stars.