Good fun read.. not terribly believable but it's fantasy so who cares! Hot rock star who is secretly an undercover 'agent'? Yes... believable or not, sign me up. ( )

So... SEALs undercover to catch a 'terrorist' (who sounds more like an ordinary criminal and only serves as a prop) posing as a famous rock star and his bodyguard. Only I gather they have been undercover like that for many years and will stay like that. Really? And the manager has no clue that they are SEALs. Really?
No romance novel is complete without handsome and manly firefighters so at some point they are thrown into the mix as an unnecessary prop.
The heroine has some baggage, which again only serves as a prop later on in the story.
Then there's the house the heroine is designing for the hero. It's like a pop-up house, because one moment it has to be designed, the next it's partly finished, the next it's burned down, then it's as good as finished, only to be destroyed again... And as the whole story seems to take place in days or a week at the most this is really weird.
There is a suspense element, but the culprit can be spotted right away so there's not much suspense, and the ways this person tries to hurt the heroine are erratic and childish at best.
All in all, a bit of a train wreck I couldn't look away from.
Rating: 3/10 ( )

For a free read on Amazon, I really enjoyed it. I was impressed. The author drew me in. I want to know more about Max and Cameron now. It's a good read! ( )

I believe this is the first novel by Mia Dymond, if this is true then I believe the writing will get better. I could see the path the author was taking us along but the path had use stumbling along. The transitions were not smooth. Having said that the story is a good one and does get somewhat better from middle to end. I will try the second book in the series Out Spoken Angel.

Brains before Beauty, that's Rachel Newberry's motto, especially when her quiet, orderly life is interrupted by international rock star, Jaydon Hawke. And true to her word, brains take center stage when she discovers Hawke has a lot more on his mind than beautiful music. Targeted by a madman, Rachel puts her trust in Hawke, a move that may cost both their lives.
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I didn't like this book at alllllll!! I quit after 20%, and that was with forcing myself to 'give it a shot'.

For one thing, not a single scene was believable, every single scene seemed contrived and or ludicrous.

The characters; the BFF seemed schizophrenic, the heroine seemed like an idiot, the hero seemed like a manipulative, womanizing, lying, have-to-have-my-way sort of guy (ok, he so he was that way for his missions ... yeah right), and his buddy didn't seem all that capable of doing his job.

Then there was the 'intrigue', which read like Morse code meets western union. Nothing ever made sense, especially when Max and Hawke spoke. I get that we weren't supposed to know what was really going on, but the way the author tried to build a mystery was just unintelligible. One second they're talking in 'code', the next they are talking about 'reality', somehow weaving in what we were supposed to see with what we weren't supposed to know, just confusing! I can't even explain the weird-ass dialogs that went on! AND, nearly every dialog sounded like I was moving through thought and sound, it was like being on LSD or something! I continually felt like I was coming in in the middle of a conversation (and was also able to hear/read the minds of all those present).

And then there was the constant fluctuation of POV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Christ! That was jarring. One second we're following Hawke, than suddenly it's Max's eyes we're seeing things through, and just as suddenly we're in the mind of Rachel, and all of that in the same paragraph! There was no segue at all.

This book was like a Twizzlers; twisted and convoluted, bad tasting, empty, of no 'nutritional value', and over-rated.

I didn't like ANYTHING about this book, NOR the writing style!!!! AWFUL THROUGH AND THROUGH . ( )