#romanticsuspense

Book Review: Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 25, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Good Little Girls by Rita Herron

A terrifying psychological thriller with a romance wrapped up at the heart of it, Good Little Girls isn’t a read for the faint-hearted. It tells the story of Tinsley, the only surviving victim of the Skull, a serial killer who liked to keep his victims as sex slaves, in some cases for months, before finally killing them. Tinsley got away thanks to Wyatt, an FBI agent on her case, but the Skull remains at large. Unable to leave her home due to crippling agoraphobia, when stran

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Book Review: The Surviving Girls by Katee Robert

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 2, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Surviving Girls by Katee Robert

If you’re coming into this book looking for a conventional romantic suspense read, you might want to have a rethink. I’d describe this more as a crime thriller with a side of romance, and it contains some much heavier themes than a typical romantic suspense. The surviving girls of the title are Lei and Emma, the only survivors of a sorority house massacre twelve years before the story is set. Best friends, they live a pretty co-dependent life, sharing a fortresslike house whe

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Book Review: Beyond Control by Kat Martin

Caitlyn Lynch

May 30, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Beyond Control by Kat Martin

Tori Ford would dearly love to stop running. Her ex is on a mission to find her, though, and she's got her little girl to protect. Maybe a horse ranch off the grid in Texas would be safe, for a little while at least… though the owner, Josh Cain, is sexy enough to pose a serious threat to her peace of mind! Tori as a battered woman on the run was absolutely believable in her paranoia, and I'm glad the author didn't neglect the childhood trauma suffered by Ivy. Josh’s ranch was

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Book Review: A Necessary Deception by Lucy Farago

Caitlyn Lynch

May 22, 2018
2 min

Book Review: A Necessary Deception by Lucy Farago

This was an intriguing romantic suspense with the hero not the usual action-guy type, but rather the team’s ‘tech geek’. Still army-trained and capable of holding his own physically, Monty knows his greatest strength is his brain. Taking an off-the-grid vacation on Alaska, he doesn’t expect to run into anyone, certainly not a beautiful woman he has to fish out of a creek. Pursued by Russian thugs, online matchmaking agency boss Taylor Moore isn’t sure if she’s jumped from the

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Book Review: I Am Justice by Diana Muñoz Stewart

Caitlyn Lynch

May 2, 2018
2 min

Book Review: I Am Justice by Diana Muñoz Stewart

There's just so much going on here I'm not sure where to start. Justice, the heroine of the title, is one member of a team of women fighting to right wrongs against women everywhere. All of them were ‘recruited’ after being rescued from abuse as children and adopted by their foundation's wealthy owner. Chasing down a pair of human traffickers who killed her biological sister, Justice has to partner up with Sandesh, a former soldier now running a humanitarian mission helping r

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Book Review: Running The Risk by Lea Griffith

Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 8, 2018
3 min

Book Review: Running The Risk by Lea Griffith

This is the second book in the Endgame Ops series, and if you haven’t read the first one, there are an awful lot of characters to get to grips with here, especially since a number of them are stated in the beginning as having been killed in action and then turn out to be mysteriously alive. And when I say ‘a number of them’ I mean ‘literally everyone’. Starting with one of the protagonists of the book, Ella Banning. She was ‘killed’ a year ago in an operation in Beirut which

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Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 22, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Fast Burn by Lori Foster

Fast Burn is fourth in Lori Foster’s Body Armor series, but don’t worry if you haven’t read the rest. This one stands perfectly well alone. Sahara Silver is the female CEO of Body Armor, an elite bodyguarding agency. Recruiting highly-skilled MMA fighters, she’s turned her business into the go-to agency for celebrities in the spotlight. Keen to add Brand Berry to her stable of former MMA employees, he’s the one man who seems impervious to her wiles. Or rather, not in the leas

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Book Review: Close To The Edge by Dawn Ryder

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 5, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Close To The Edge by Dawn Ryder

Dare Servant is a member of the Shadow Ops task force. Fiercely dedicated, he has no intention of letting emotion cloud his judgement. When innocent Jenna Henson stumbles into the middle of his op, though, all his plans go up in smoke. I wanted to like this book, I really did. Romantic suspense is probably my favourite of all the many genres I read, and a tall, dark and handsome Special Forces agent is definitely my favourite kind of hero. The problem is that Dare Servant is

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Book Review: Survive The Night by Katie Ruggle

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 7, 2018
2 min

Book Review: Survive The Night by Katie Ruggle

This was an absolute thrill ride from start to finish. With nonstop action and a puppy-rescuing police officer for a hero, you won’t want this book ever to end. Born into a prominent crime family, abused and controlled her entire life, Alice snatches at the chance to escape before she is married off to another crime lord to further her ambitious brother’s plans. Finding herself in Monroe, Colorado, she takes on a new identity and vows she’s never going back. An instant attrac

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Book Review: Hunt For Evil and Body Shot by Amy Jarecki

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 15, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Hunt For Evil and Body Shot by Amy Jarecki

I picked up the first two books in Amy Jarecki's ICE series of romantic suspense novels and this is a joint review for both books. Book 1 is Hunt For Evil, and begins with Navy SEAL Commander Logan Rodgers having to get MI6 spy Olivia Hamilton off a yacht owned by an ISIS terrorist before it gets blown sky high. This gets him off to a pretty poor start with Olivia, since she was right on the verge of a major breakthrough in her undercover operation. When they are both sent to

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Book Review: On The Chase by Katie Ruggle

Caitlyn Lynch

Sep 5, 2017
1 min

Book Review: On The Chase by Katie Ruggle

On The Chase is a book in the Rocky Mountain K9 Unit series, and the very existence of a unit containing three police dogs and their handlers in a town small enough to have only one diner honestly had me questioning the whole premise from the get-go. As did the idea of a girl who'd moved to California because she loves the warmth and sunshine happily settling down in a back-of-beyond Colorado snow town. If you can get past those unlikely issues, though, there's a lot to enjoy

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Book Review: Close To The Skin by Zara West

Caitlyn Lynch

Aug 24, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Close To The Skin by Zara West

Close To The Skin is a really unusual story, and I find myself struggling to find the words to describe how I feel about it. While I sympathized with Bella, the protagonist, a talented tattoo artist just trying to make a living in Brooklyn, I felt that her love interest was frankly an absolute ass. Vernon is a billionaire not-at-all-ex crime boss. He lies to Bella repeatedly, when he finally convinces her to marry him he empties out and sublets her apartment without telling h

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Book Review: Some Kind Of Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 17, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Some Kind Of Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

It's been a while since I've read any Suzanne Brockmann - my TBR list is bonkers and unless I fall utterly in love with an author I don't religiously read their every work - but I remember her books as being solid romantic suspense with sexy heroes, strong heroines and hot love scenes. So when I spotted this one on NetGalley I figured I'd pick it up. Should be a nice solid read to counter the run of eye-burningly awful ones I've had in the last couple of weeks, I thought. Wel

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Book Review: Breaking The Honor Code by Stanalei Fletcher

Caitlyn Lynch

May 10, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Breaking The Honor Code by Stanalei Fletcher

Breaking The Honor Code is the second book I've read in Stanalei Fletcher's Northstar Security series - you can read my review of Proving Ground here. While loosely connected, each book is absolutely readable as a standalone; you don't get characters from previous books popping up all over the place to confuse the main plot and the romance between the two leads. Allison is Northstar's 'cyborg queen', a brilliant, geeky young woman who genuinely loves her job. When Northstar r

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Book Review: Necessary Action by Julie Miller

Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 24, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Necessary Action by Julie Miller

Necessary Action is an action-packed romantic suspense set in the Ozark mountains. Melanie Fiske has known little else other than life on her family's sprawling farm community, but even she can tell that something hinky is going on when people start turning up missing and nobody is allowed to leave without permission from her uncle. Who can you possibly trust when everyone you know might be in on whatever scheme is going on? Only a complete stranger. Tom "Duff" Watson has per

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Book Review: The Wrong SEAL by Nancy Brophy

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 31, 2017
1 min

Book Review: The Wrong SEAL by Nancy Brophy

This reads like a really good category romance from maybe the Harlequin Suspense line, despite the fact that it's indie-author published. Sam and Cricket are a great couple and the author does a terrific job of not making Cricket's twins not too 'Plot Moppet'. There are plenty of twists and turns to the plot and a rather shocking ending that I didn't see coming, and even though it's fifth in a series it reads perfectly well as a standalone, which isn't easy to pull off. I've

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Book Review: Locked, Loaded and SEALed by Carol Ericson

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 22, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Locked, Loaded and SEALed by Carol Ericson

This was a riveting thrill ride from start to finish. The book begins with Sophia finding her friend and mentor, a Pakistani-born doctor, dead in his ransacked office. Austin Foley is a Navy SEAL sniper who helped get the doctor out of Pakistan and away from the terrorists who wanted him dead; his guilt over failing to save the man a second time drives him to protect Sophia and together the two of them team up to find out just what was worth killing for. In the process (becau

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Book Review: Nanny Bodyguard by Lisa Childs

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 4, 2017
1 min

Book Review: Nanny Bodyguard by Lisa Childs

I'm rather disappointed in this book because it had a really good story which I felt was let down by the quality of the writing and the editing. The protagonists, Lars and Nikki, were well-drawn and likable and the plot was intriguing. I found myself interested in reading the next in the series to find out what happened with Lars' friend and his sister, but honestly I think I'll probably give it a miss because I found the writing really jarring. I've read several modern Harle

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Book Review: The Alchemist's Son by Athena Daniels

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 25, 2017
1 min

Book Review: The Alchemist's Son by Athena Daniels

This is Part 2 of a 2-part series called Beyond The Grave. I read the first part, The Seer's Daughter, a couple of weeks ago and shrieked about that here because I LOVED it. I do think that you need to read The Seer's Daughter first; while this book contains some call-backs and summary, there's a lot that you would miss about the plot if you hadn't read the first book. That said, go the hell out and buy both of these books now because they are freaking FANTASTIC. I am not exa

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Book Review: Proving Ground by Stanalei Fletcher

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 15, 2017
2 min

Book Review: Proving Ground by Stanalei Fletcher

Proving Ground is a fast-paced thrill ride from start to finish! In Caitlin Malone, Stanalei Fletcher has created a heroine we can all root for; a young woman determined to step out of the shadow of her illustrious father and forge her own path as an expert operative for elite private security firm Northstar Security. The only problem is... well, there are any number of problems, really, but most of them stem from Caitlin's own near-crippling self-doubts. Is she strong enough

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