Follow Me (Corrupted Hearts, #1)

by Tiffany Snow

Brilliant, quirky twenty-three-year-old China Mack is totally satisfied with her carefully ordered, data-driven life. A computer prodigy who landed a coveted programming job at the cutting-edge tech company Cysnet before even graduating from MIT, China is happiest when following her routine: shower before coffee, pizza only on Mondays, bedtime at ten thirty sharp.

But then things start to get a little…unpredictable.

First Jackson Cooper—Cysnet’s rich, gorgeous, genius CEO—assigns China to a dangerous and highly classified project for a government defense contractor. Her sixteen-year-old runaway niece suddenly arrives in town, begging to move in with China. And then there’s her sexy but oddly unsettling new neighbor, Clark…

Quickly the Cysnet assignment becomes disconcerting—and then downright scary—as key staffers turn up dead. China suspects she’s being followed and isn’t sure whom she can trust. For the first time ever, she’ll have to follow her instincts, rather than logic, if she’s going to survive.

• ISBN10: 1503938395
• ISBN13: 9781503938397
• Publish Date: 4 October 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Montlake Romance
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 302
• Language: English

Reviews

[Lynn]

3.5 stars

China Mack's daily routine runs like clockwork in her OCD world. At twenty-three, she's already worked for her employer Cysnet for four years; a company who head-hunted her before graduating from MIT. She's mostly content in her organised world until her employer; billionaire Jackson Cooper assigns her to a top secret project. If that's not sufficient to throw China's life into uncomfortable disarray, her niece Mia decides she wants to stay with her for a while. Oh, and a sexy man becomes her new neighbour!

An intellectual heavyweight and every woman's fantasy; Jackson M. Cooper is a self-made billionaire and former child prodigy. He'd already made his considerable wealth before establishing Cysnet, a troubleshooting, problem-solving IT consultancy who specialised in highly classified technical solutions no-one else can solve. He employs the best specialists money can buy so, when a highly classified project lands, the person who's perfect for the job is the attractive programmer who sits in a cube is outside his office.

I found China's obsessive personality jarring and tedious as I waded through pages of her daily rituals, although it's charming when Jackson pandas to her whims and indulges her so she can maintain her routine. Then there's neighbour Clark, with dark hair and sparkling blue eyes. I enjoyed the interaction between China and her niece as they learned to live with each other. It was fun when the teenager consistently tried to push her aunt out of her comfort zone.

I wanted to give Follow Me a higher rating due to the suspense element of the storyline because when the plot finally takes off, it kept my interest 100%. What spoilt this book for me was all the references to the numerous fandoms China has time to follow. Really? It bored me, resulting in me skipping pages. Also, the sequence of events and a line of dialogue initially reminded me of No Turning Back, although most readers won't pick up on that!

There's no cliffhanger as such but the ending is wide open for the conclusion in book two. Readers familiar with the author will enjoy Follow Me, but sadly it didn't hit the mark for me. Overall, the book kept me sufficiently interested in wanting to read book two and discover what lies in store for China, Jackson and Clark.

***arc generously received courtesy of Montlake via NetGalley***