Come

by J.A. Huss

[Angie]

This author's books tend to be hit or miss with me, and Come is definitely a miss. I love assassins, and I can totally get behind a falling for your stalker romance, but I did not like this one at all. Harper is on the run, and lives her life very carefully. James has been watching her careful life for months and finally decides to approach her. What he doesn't expect is for her to flip him over her shoulder and then jump off the pier when he asks for her name. This only makes Harper even more intriguing to him, and James won't stop until she's his.

Come rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning. I really do not get Harper, or even particularly like her. It's obvious she's running from something major (what comes out soon enough since this is a novella), but despite her careful, under the radar lifestyle, she makes really stupid mistakes and decisions that make no sense. First of all, she never, ever, ever uses her cell phone. Ever. And in fact, when it rings, she immediately dives for her anxiety medication. Wouldn't it make more sense to not have a phone at all? Or leave it off until she feels the need to use it? Then she claims she doesn't want to be noticed or remembered, and yet she follows the exact same routine every single day, and even points out people that she recognizes from their own routines. Um, wouldn't that mean it's just as likely for someone to remember her and pick up on her schedule?

The romance was also problematic for me. I really have no issue with these darker ones that toe the line between right and wrong. I actually prefer them, but they need to make me believe what's happening. James declares Harper as his before he even meets her. Unless there's some paranormal explanation, I am not okay with that. And then he pretty much straight up tells her that he's been stalking her, instead of lulling her into a sense of false security and then coming clean. He doesn't even try to make her see him as someone she could fall in love with, and yet she does anyway, because...I don't even know. It just happens. Don't even get me started on the fact that Harper says she feels safe with James just a few pages after thinking he raped her while she was unconscious. Yes, I'm serious.

The one thing Come did have going for it was the sex. It's dirty and rough, and that's just how I like it. I was a bit annoyed at Harper being a clueless virgin, but there is a pretty good explanation for that. But other than a few good sex scenes, I did not like this one at all.

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