The big appeal for me in this book was Bogart. I loved that he noticed what his people needed and gave it to them, often times when they didn't know themselves.I didn't really care for Shay, she fell in the TSTL category. James was ok for me, although I did love that he acknowledged that he thought with his little head, not his big one with his ex. I also had a hard time buying into the romance between Shay and James. With Shay's issues I would have thought things would have been more difficult between them, however the romance was fairly easy. This book had all the makings of a great romantic suspense. Hot cover, sexy man in uniform and interesting blurb with a stolen police dog. Unfortunately I couldn't warm to the heroine. She was a victim as a child, but she was still playing the victim card as an adult. One minute she is all over the hero and the next she is giving him a split lip. I also found her inability to stick up for herself annoying to the extreme. Fortunately I liked the suspense plot so that kept me reading until the end. This was my first book by DDA and I found the dialogue a little unnatural and segues within a scene a bit clumsy. I wondered if it was self published, but I see it isn't. I don't think this series is for me; while I didn't hate it, I won't be recommending it to friends.
What do You think about Irresistible Force (2014)?
maybe 2.5 stars? I just felt the female protagonist had too much negativity in her back story.
—Angelica
