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A review by soulwinds
Justice Mission by Lynette Eason
2.0
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
First off, I'm sorry, but this book had some serious issues, in my opinion.
Sophie is the personal assistant to the chief of the K-9 unit, Jordan. The start of the book has her setting things up for the graduation ceremony they are about to conduct when she interrupts a strange man who is going through her boss's speech at the podium. She draws attention to herself by asking him what he's doing and promptly gets herself kidnapped.
Luke just so happens to be pulling in as Sophie is dragged into the perps car. A car chase ensues and when the guy crashes he shoves Sophie into Luke in order to by time for his getaway, which he obviously succeeds in doing or this books wouldn't keep going. Just to make things a bit more interesting, Sophie's boss is missing and the mystery perp was actually slipping a fake suicide note into Jordan's speech. The first 81 pages is pretty much Luke hauling Sophie around, her house getting broken into, etc until on my copy's 81st page where they find her boss. Dead.
So there goes one of the mysteries. Now they are no longer looking for him, but redoubling their efforts to find the mysterious perp. Who slips through their fingers no less then one, two three, four times. Four. At one point there were something like an entire room full of cops...yeah.
The author is obviously setting up an overlaying mystery for all the books that follow. Basically a 'who done it" about Jordan's murder.
All in all I'm pretty disappointed. Lynette Eason usually swings one of two ways with me; she hits it out of the ball park or she misses completely. This was a complete miss. It was aiming for midfield until it wasn't...
I did not enjoy this one. I found the writing stilted and unnatural. People's reactions are off in certain events. Sophie was a doormat. Luke has emotional problems stemming from two places that effect their 'relationship' (can you call it that when they only know each other for a week or two?). Namely, his mother dying with his dad being an asshole and blaming him for it and his only serious girlfriend telling him he's not relationship material. The first one I can see messing with someone, but a girlfriend of not that long saying that...I don't believe it.
That ending....ugh. I do not understand how anyone can LIKE the idea of someone actually only knowing someone for 2 weeks or so (and I mean, finally actually talking to them and giving them the time of day) to PROPOSING MARRIAGE!!! 2 WEEKS, PEOPLE!!!! What the actual ___?!?!?! That is not natural or okay. And the whole office coming out and cheering???? Seriously? Ugh.
In Conclusion
This book was riding a shaky 2.5 star rating until that ending came along and completely ruined everything. Now it's more like a 1.5 and that's seriously because I am feeling guilty about giving it only 1 star...
First off, I'm sorry, but this book had some serious issues, in my opinion.
Sophie is the personal assistant to the chief of the K-9 unit, Jordan. The start of the book has her setting things up for the graduation ceremony they are about to conduct when she interrupts a strange man who is going through her boss's speech at the podium. She draws attention to herself by asking him what he's doing and promptly gets herself kidnapped.
Luke just so happens to be pulling in as Sophie is dragged into the perps car. A car chase ensues and when the guy crashes he shoves Sophie into Luke in order to by time for his getaway, which he obviously succeeds in doing or this books wouldn't keep going. Just to make things a bit more interesting, Sophie's boss is missing and the mystery perp was actually slipping a fake suicide note into Jordan's speech. The first 81 pages is pretty much Luke hauling Sophie around, her house getting broken into, etc until on my copy's 81st page where they find her boss. Dead.
So there goes one of the mysteries. Now they are no longer looking for him, but redoubling their efforts to find the mysterious perp. Who slips through their fingers no less then one, two three, four times. Four. At one point there were something like an entire room full of cops...yeah.
All in all I'm pretty disappointed. Lynette Eason usually swings one of two ways with me; she hits it out of the ball park or she misses completely. This was a complete miss. It was aiming for midfield until it wasn't...
I did not enjoy this one. I found the writing stilted and unnatural. People's reactions are off in certain events. Sophie was a doormat. Luke has emotional problems stemming from two places that effect their 'relationship' (can you call it that when they only know each other for a week or two?). Namely, his mother dying with his dad being an asshole and blaming him for it and his only serious girlfriend telling him he's not relationship material. The first one I can see messing with someone, but a girlfriend of not that long saying that...I don't believe it.
That ending....ugh. I do not understand how anyone can LIKE the idea of someone actually only knowing someone for 2 weeks or so (and I mean, finally actually talking to them and giving them the time of day) to PROPOSING MARRIAGE!!! 2 WEEKS, PEOPLE!!!! What the actual ___?!?!?! That is not natural or okay. And the whole office coming out and cheering???? Seriously? Ugh.
In Conclusion
This book was riding a shaky 2.5 star rating until that ending came along and completely ruined everything. Now it's more like a 1.5 and that's seriously because I am feeling guilty about giving it only 1 star...