Watch Your Back Author: Visit Amazon's Karen Rose Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0755389921 | Format: EPUB
Watch Your Back Description
- Paperback
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing (February 13, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0755389921
- ISBN-13: 978-0755389926
- Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
For me this book was a perfect wrap-up of all the events that have taken place in past books. But the first thing I feel like I need to point out is that you should probably read previous books first. If you haven't the sheer amount of plot lines going on and the reasoning behind them may take longer to grasp. I also need to say that if you are planning on reading previous books please don't continue reading this review as it will inevitably have spoilers. Having read nearly all of Karen Rose' books I was itching to get this latest one and as soon as it was ready to go on my Kindle I eagerly started.
Stevie Mazzetti is a ballsy woman, however she is also a woman that has spent 8 years grieving the loss of her husband and son. With the killer behind bars she has a path to follow and is desperate to rectify some things. Her ex-partner turned out to be a dirty cop and as Stevie starts to dig cases up, it seems her life as well as her daughters are now in danger. The danger levels are pretty high up from early in the book and to be fair don't drop until the very end making for a fast-paced and pretty tense read.
The additional characters that are involved in this story could take a while to detail, but the main player being Clay Maynard the PI who wants to protect Stevie and her kid. Clay is a great lead character and although he is the main lead in this story we see the return of many other characters from previous books. One of the things I love about the Karen Rose books is that the characters are not forgotten. They may appear frequently or just the once but you get to see glimpses of people from previous stories and how they link to the current characters.
I was really looking forward to reading Clay Maynard's and Stevie Mazzetti's story, two characters who were already thouroughly introduced in previous books. The tension between them was palpable in the previous offerings and I was really curious to see how Karen Rose would elaborate their story.
Clay is my new hero! His patience and dedication to little Cordelia impressed me deeply. The way he drew Stevie out of her isolation and how he reacted when he thought he'd never had a common life with her was heart wrenching. Needless to say that there were some toe-curling sex scenes!
Stevie was a complexer character and for me more difficult to identify with. Surely, faith dealt her a hard hand and who am I to judge how she chose to live her life in order to cope with her immense loss?!
The suspense part of the book started with a bang and just didn't falter ( more specifically, nearly never faltered). Rose chose to develop the suspense plot in two separate threads, which she joint towards the end of the book. This allowed her to keep the reader for a long time in the dark and created a lot of suspense.
Although the happy end was predictable, it was rewarding. It was very nice to see that two troubled souls could find love and a common future. Why then not 5* ?
Firstly, there were far too many names involved in the plot. Some of them were characters from previous books but for somebody who hasn't read the previous books or doesn't remember those main characters, this might be a problem.
Secondly, the ending of the book was completely overcrowded with details that were relevant to the case on the one hand , on the other it didn't make any sense to me to be bombarded with these details towards the end of the book.
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