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A review by mjsam
Breakthrough by Kris Bryant
3.0
ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest revietw.
I like Kris Bryant books and this was a nice story. I was intrigued by the Alaskan setting because I traveled through there (and stayed in Anchorage) a few years ago. Bryant makes good use of the Alaskan setting, it made me want to go back, although the way she referred to Anchorage as a ‘town’ was a bit off-putting, parts of the book make it sound like some hick town with a couple of cops, but it’s actually a fair sized city.
Anyway, that aside, I did like both characters, though I very much wish this story hadn’t been in first person, and that the first person perspective wasn’t Kennedy ‘the helpless’. Lord, did this woman have bad luck. If I was Brynn I’d have stopped coming to the rescue after the second time, but god love her, she hung in there. Due to the first person POV I felt like I didn’t get as much of a handle on Brynn and what she was feeling, but that’s the limitation of first person.
Due to the series of unfortunate events, the two leads do spend a large amount of time together, but again, outside of Brynn’s big trauma, the shelter and Kennedy’s work, don’t really discuss anything of substance about each other. Wally was a cute addition and not your typical ‘pet’, and the few secondary characters weren’t very fleshed out.
The ‘mystery’ was ok, but really only there to ensure the two characters maintained constant contact. The ending was also a little too twee for me, but overall it’s a fairly sweet romance, and I appreciated the lack of any contrived drama between the main characters. 3 stars
I like Kris Bryant books and this was a nice story. I was intrigued by the Alaskan setting because I traveled through there (and stayed in Anchorage) a few years ago. Bryant makes good use of the Alaskan setting, it made me want to go back, although the way she referred to Anchorage as a ‘town’ was a bit off-putting, parts of the book make it sound like some hick town with a couple of cops, but it’s actually a fair sized city.
Anyway, that aside, I did like both characters, though I very much wish this story hadn’t been in first person, and that the first person perspective wasn’t Kennedy ‘the helpless’. Lord, did this woman have bad luck. If I was Brynn I’d have stopped coming to the rescue after the second time, but god love her, she hung in there. Due to the first person POV I felt like I didn’t get as much of a handle on Brynn and what she was feeling, but that’s the limitation of first person.
Due to the series of unfortunate events, the two leads do spend a large amount of time together, but again, outside of Brynn’s big trauma, the shelter and Kennedy’s work, don’t really discuss anything of substance about each other. Wally was a cute addition and not your typical ‘pet’, and the few secondary characters weren’t very fleshed out.
The ‘mystery’ was ok, but really only there to ensure the two characters maintained constant contact. The ending was also a little too twee for me, but overall it’s a fairly sweet romance, and I appreciated the lack of any contrived drama between the main characters. 3 stars