The Dark Side Of Night by Cindy Dees
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Time Taken To Read - 3 days
Publisher - Harlequin
Blurb From Goodreads
Kinsey
Hollingsworth's tropical-getaway plans didn't include dodging gunshots.
Or a speedboat chase with Mitch Perovski, the tall and tempting spy
who'd commandeered her boat. But the socialite would handle anything
Mitch demanded--whether it meant going undercover or under the covers.
Mitch
didn't work with partners. And although Kinsey proved she was more than
a pampered heiress, she was no match for the assassin targeting
them...or for Mitch's smoldering desire. He had to get through this one
high-stakes task with her. But after a night in Kinsey's arms, could he
walk away from their partnership for good?
My Review
This
is the second book in a combo I bought when on holiday. Kinsey is a
spoiled rich girl hiding out after a huge expose in the papers after a
public split with her fiancé. Chilling out on her daddy's boat her day
is turned upside down by Mitch and a spray of bullets. What follows is
their emotional turmoil battling the passion and feelings they have for
each other whilst trying to dodge the bullets coming from their enemy.
Will they stay manage to fight their feelings for each other and manage
to stay alive?
I did enjoy this book, a new series with new
characters and whilst there is a steamy scene or two and a lot of
imagining what they would do to each other, the story outside of all
that is pretty good. There is action jumping off the pages pretty much
right from the get go and I don't mean of the naughty variety - it has a
really great action story.
Again she uses words that I don't see
often in books and that reminds me of years ago, for example cagey
"Another shrug. Cagey, he was". Or Kowabunga (I would use a quote but
it gives a wee bit away about a particular scene and I don't do spoilers
however if you grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this would
have been a phrase you used a lot through your childhood.
The
story got a tad fantastical near the very end and whilst I did enjoy it I
was sitting going ok that would so never happen. If you fancy a book
that is great for holiday and with some fantasy and a rough bad guy who
is really a good guy then this is the book for you, 3/5 for me this time
and I would read this author again.