A review by desiree_mcl
Hard Evidence by Pamela Clare

5.0

5 stars.

This was even better than Extreme Exposure (I-Team #1).

Julian was dark, delicious, and just all around amazing. Tessa was sweet, brave, and besides a few small issues I had with her she was also amazing. The small issue I had with her was with her being ashamed of her Mom, but I liked that things are better with between them at the end.

The journey Julian and Tessa go on was simply amazing. I loved that he was a certain way with Tessa that he hadn't been with others. As always the secondary characters were wonderful, I loved seeing Reece and Kara again and I can hardly wait to read the other characters stories.

In this novel I have two complaints, it doesn't subtract from the wonderful story but it still irks me a bit. The first complaint is, so far, an issue for me from both Extreme Exposure and Hard Evidence, the bad guys have been very easy for me to figure out. In EE it wasn't as obvious as HE but in HE it was glaringly obvious.
SpoilerAs soon as Julian's former lover came into the picture I'm suspicious of her. There was something in the way Pamela Clare wrote her that I immediately thought she was involved. I think part of the reason was because she was downright hostile toward Julian and although there are a couple reasons given it didn't strike true. So when she shows up at Julian's home and Tessa's alone it wasn't a surprise when she turned out to be working for the bad guy.


And the final minor issue I had was with Tessa, she doesn't even think of the human trafficking possibility. It's not even on her list of options of what's going on until half-way through the book. So that bothered me, I'm not saying she has to follow the human trafficking idea immediately but she doesn't even think it and then scratch it off the list.

Overall, despite those two or three minor complaints it's a wonderful novel, it's very engaging and like with the first one I was swept away with the characters and I did not want to see it end.