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A review by haletostilinski1
Dealing in Death by L.J. Hayward
5.0
A whole book from Ethan's POV? Uh, fuck yes! Gimme!
We only got one short story from his POV, so aside from knowing he was into their relationship, we didn't really get insight later on and especially in book 2 and what Ethan was up to all the time.
This was a real treat, because I myself always love getting both POV's of the MC's in romance books. I can live without it if it's really well written - as with these books, I have been doing fine without Ethan's POV for the most part - but if I could get both I would take that over one POV any day.
So getting basically a full length book, or novella, from his POV was awesome and such a treat. I always always was wondering what Ethan was getting up to when he was gone days, weeks, months at a time.
We get that here, and find out that Ethan might not have been as retired as he said...although he is definitely trying to be and that is his ultimate goal. But Ethan is having to deal with his own shit that he isn't exactly talking with Jack about...just as Jack wasn't talking enough with Ethan in the second book.
Plus, one of my favorite things about getting his POV is we get just how deep his love for Jack goes, how much he thinks about him, how deeply he cares for him, how scared he is that he isn't enough for Jack and that he doesn't deserve him. It really puts things, in well...perspective ;).
Plus, it's been quite awhile since I read the second book so I forgot some things that happened here and there, and also there were new things that happened in this from Ethan's POV to make it refreshing as well and not just the same story over again, because it wasn't.
(Like, Two was just called Two the whole time in this book so I forgot that he had been pretending to be the Constable.)
I just loved this, and it is definitely worth a read, especially because it gives us so much insight into Ethan and his past and why he does what he does and how he thinks, and how crazy in love with Jack he is, so if we don't get his POV in the last book...it will be okay, because I know more about how Ethan operates. (although if it was split between both Jack and Ethan's POV, that would be so awesome...IMO)
Two massive thumbs up from me, I couldn't put it down once I started it. Definitely recommend!
We only got one short story from his POV, so aside from knowing he was into their relationship, we didn't really get insight later on and especially in book 2 and what Ethan was up to all the time.
This was a real treat, because I myself always love getting both POV's of the MC's in romance books. I can live without it if it's really well written - as with these books, I have been doing fine without Ethan's POV for the most part - but if I could get both I would take that over one POV any day.
So getting basically a full length book, or novella, from his POV was awesome and such a treat. I always always was wondering what Ethan was getting up to when he was gone days, weeks, months at a time.
We get that here, and find out that Ethan might not have been as retired as he said...although he is definitely trying to be and that is his ultimate goal. But Ethan is having to deal with his own shit that he isn't exactly talking with Jack about...just as Jack wasn't talking enough with Ethan in the second book.
Plus, one of my favorite things about getting his POV is we get just how deep his love for Jack goes, how much he thinks about him, how deeply he cares for him, how scared he is that he isn't enough for Jack and that he doesn't deserve him. It really puts things, in well...perspective ;).
Plus, it's been quite awhile since I read the second book so I forgot some things that happened here and there, and also there were new things that happened in this from Ethan's POV to make it refreshing as well and not just the same story over again, because it wasn't.
(Like, Two was just called Two the whole time in this book so I forgot that he had been pretending to be the Constable.)
I just loved this, and it is definitely worth a read, especially because it gives us so much insight into Ethan and his past and why he does what he does and how he thinks, and how crazy in love with Jack he is, so if we don't get his POV in the last book...it will be okay, because I know more about how Ethan operates. (although if it was split between both Jack and Ethan's POV, that would be so awesome...IMO)
Two massive thumbs up from me, I couldn't put it down once I started it. Definitely recommend!