Overtime (Assassins, #7)

by Toni Aleo

[Cocktails and Books]

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Jordie. Jordie. Jordie. If you were to look up "hot mess" in the dictionary, Jordie Thomas would be the poster child. And if you read Jordie's novella WANTING TO FORGET, Jordie made it pretty damn hard to like him, even if you knew just how likable he would be if he got his shite together.
Jordie has issues. Issues he spent the first part of the book saying he didn't have. He'd already lost one of the most important in his life and it wasn't until the second most important thing was threatened that he begrudgingly took the steps to address his issues. And those issues were pretty damn horrific. But as he dealt with everything, I fell in love with Jordie. He was sweet, fun, flirty, sexy, and one with the dirty mouth. He was everything I love in a book hero and I pulled for him to get everything he wanted after all he'd been through.

I liked Kasey. Heartbroken, she managed to keep her life on track and start her life over even though she knew her new life was going to put her in direct contact with the man who broke her heart. I'm not sure if I'd ever been able to do what Kasey did (other than having the chance to physically hurt him every chance I got). But there was a small thing that bugged me with Kasey. As much as she kept telling Jordie she forgave him, she never really did. She held the past against him and almost made it impossible to allow their relationship to move forward. It was frustrating, especially when you know how much she loved Jordie and what he was doing to try and make things right with Kasey.

I loved this book. Loved it. Toni Aleo took a character who I wasn't sure how he was going to get redeemed and made me fall for him, forgiving him everything that he had done before. The story was packed full of emotions that left me with a huge book hangover when I was done. But these are all things that I look forward to in a Toni Aleo book and she never disappoints. So now that Jordie and Kasey have their HEA, I can't wait to see what's going to come next with the Assassins.

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