Reviewed by Lynn on
Sassy Smith may be tiny, but what she lacks in height she gains in attitude. She has a pretty smart mouth and can't resist baiting the guy she's had a crush on since she was fourteen years old. Only she uses this tactic as a smoke screen to deflect away from the effect an incident in high school impacted on her life.
After his best friend's kid sister dared him to kiss her, Bryan “Hollywood” Fisher left Mississippi and joined the Marines. Now twelve years later, he's back to help and protect Sassy as she tries to uncover evidence to gain her brother's release from a Mexican jail for a crime he didn't commit. Only Sassy is all grown up now...
The tentative romance between Sassy and Bryan isn't the driving force of the plot – more of an enhancement. Flitting from Africa to the US, the action packed story is full of suspense, conspiracy, deception and hope. Our protagonists whilst incredibly attracted to each other, really have a problem communicating their feelings for one another. Both looking for excuses for not being together instead of finding a way of making a personal relationship work. That is once they are both out of danger and have achieved what they set out to do. Somehow, against the odds they manage to do just that.
I absolutely loved this book, but found that at times I was struggling to keep track with all the information; there are a lot of details crammed within the pages and wonder if I would have benefited by reading the first two books first, if only to familiarise myself with the supporting characters and their backgrounds? This doesn't detract too much from the overall enjoyment and I'll definitely be catching up with the series and other works by this author.
4 stars
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 24 June, 2015: Finished reading
- 24 June, 2015: Reviewed