Vow of Honor

by Emma Renshaw

[Eve1972]

This one was good, not great, but decent. I had a few issues with it. It was almost like two separate stories. The first 60% was packed with pointless OM stuff. Acrimonious exchanges. Fun banter. The heroine was a pathetic doormat regarding the Patrick situation (which ended up leading nowhere). James was an over the top asshole. And not one of those endearing types of assholes, but just a straight up asshole that pretty much treated Tate like crap for way too long. Which bummed me SO out because I LOVED James in book one. The last 40% (which was much better) suddenly turned into this mafia action story, and the OM storylines just went, POOF.





On a more positive note, this author has a very readable way to her writing. The sex was hot, and there was some funny banter at times between Tate and James. I also thought Tate's family were a hoot. There wasn't any OW drama, but it is never made clear whether James had sex with someone after meeting the heroine. It is implied he was looking to hook up, but we never hear any details either way. There was a bunch of OM drama which I found a bit annoying considering like I mentioned above it was just DROPPED in the last 40% of the book. I mean it is implied Simon is crazy every time he showed up in the book, but NOTHING ever comes of it?!!. Last, the ending was SO sweet and had me bawling.

So this was indeed a mixed bag for me. I felt a bit like the author was confused about where she wanted this story to head. A grouchy damaged guy who falls in love, or a grumpy man with secrets and a dangerous past that that catches up with him. Honestly, I preferred the second...