Cut & Run (Cut & Run, #1)

by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux

[Bookbee]

I liked Ty and Zane...a lot! I have a soft spot in my heart for messed up characters and in this book we get two of them almost switching off who is crazier at any one time. It's a toss up, I feel! And yes, as mentioned by other reviewers, they are über-macho but, in my mind at least, it makes sense taking into account their backgrounds.

There were a couple of wtf moments for me that pulled me right out of the story - mentions of small things that I do not remember in the previous parts of the story. Perhaps that is a lack on my part and I shall have to re-read the book at a future time just to clarify these points for myself. And yes, there are issues requiring me to deploy my 'suspension of disbelief' aura that perhaps could have been eliminated with better editing or research but, since I am not an aficionado of mysteries, I could let that slide.

For me the biggest lack - and why I gave the book 4 instead of 5 stars - was that no insight was given into why the killer (one of 2 characters I suspected from early on) did what he did. The crime was solved but for me there was no closure.

So all in all, a good book with flawed, interesting characters.