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My Review:Title: Consequence
Author: Rachel Higginson
Series: The Confidence Game #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: February 27th 2018
Format: eARC
Pages: 254
Genres: Romantic Suspense, Contemporary
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 #LetsReadIndie Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 Finishing the Series Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Adult Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Release Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Winter Switch 2017/18
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My rating:
Blurb:Consequence, the conclusion to Sayer and Caroline’s epic love story
Five years ago, I escaped a dangerous life I had always wanted to leave. I got away. I found freedom. But it cost me the love of my life.
For five years I lived in hiding, protecting my most valuable secret while Sayer Wesley sat in prison paying for both our sins. I promised to love him forever. I promised to never leave him.
I broke my promises.
Five months ago Sayer found me.
Five weeks ago, I was forced to face my past.
Five days ago, someone took my daughter. They kidnapped her in order to make Sayer and me suffer. I will do anything to get her back. Even if that means coming clean to Sayer, letting him into my life and introducing him to our daughter.
All I wanted was to protect her from this life and now she’s right in the middle of the chaos. Sayer is the only one that can help me. He’s the only one that can get her back.
But it might mean losing him again.
Fifteen years ago, I fell in love with Sayer Wesley. Now I must pay the consequences for falling in love with a con man.
I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
4 stars — I beta read this baby, so I got to read the conclusion earlier than everyone else! Woop woop! I will admit that it came at a time when I was distracted while reading, so I couldn’t sit down and absorb it like I wanted to, which is a bummer and always affects my enjoyment.
As with everything this author writes, I just get sucked in by the characters. Sayer and Caro were so intriguing and multi-faceted, there was so much that made up who they were, and that fascinated me. I didn’t expect to learn so much MORE about them, b/c we already learned so much about them in the first book. But there WAS so much more! I especially loved that we got to see sprinkles from Sayer’s POV in the past, that made my heart SO HAPPY!!! Well, happy and sad, b/c my heart broke for young Sayer, and how profoundly screwed up he was because of the way he was raised. I could see how his young self wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between right and wrong, but just want that security that had been missing.
I will admit that at the same time this book was a bit harder for me in the character space, and I think that had a bit to do with it being a romantic suspense. I don’t read a lot from this genre, and so I’m not used to not always knowing the intentions of my heroes. Well, that’s not true, that happens in contemps too, but the back and forth mystery about Sayer’s intentions was a really big part of the story, it was kind of key, and I struggled with that. In that vein, I also struggled with the fact that Sayer and Caro are both not 100% good guys. I don’t think I’m good at liking bad guys, my tender heart just thinks too much about potential misdeeds. Which is not to say that Sayer and Caro weren’t the best of the bad mob lot, but still…it affected how much I let my heart feel for them, if that makes any sense. It ended up being a LOT of push and pull for me, and I think A LOT of readers are going to love that about this book, but it was a bit much for my poor heart.
And related to that, while the steamy scenes were very hot, the struggle between Sayer and Caro meant I had a hard time getting into the romance at times. That honestly could have just been me though, I think I was holding myself back from them. There were lots of declarations of love between them, but it sometimes felt more like obsession, and I didn’t get to see what they loved about each other. This was tempered with the inclusion of the past chapters though, where I felt more of their connection. I just wished I could have seen the renewal of their connection in the present…well, besides the steamy parts…those were spot on.
You know what I did love?? THE ACTION and SUSPENSE parts!! *snort* So maybe I do like romantic suspense. I was seriously sucked in whenever the action ramped up, and I LOVED how that aspect resolved. I especially loved the ending, it was just so freaking satisfying!!! And related to the action part, I LOVED seeing Caro working her cons and thievery!! I know that’s kind of weird, b/c I just said that I had a hard time with bad guys, but she was just so freaking good at it, and so I liked seeing how her brain worked and how she made those things work. I loved that we got another taste of it in this book.
As for the plot, my head wasn’t in a good space, so occasionally I got a bit lost following all the intricate webs… But at the same time, I loved the little twists and turns we learned, particularly about Sayer and what he was doing in the background right from when he was 13…that was seriously so cool, and brought some interesting side characters into the mix.
As for other side characters, the one that surprised me the most was Mason. I loved Caro’s odd relationship with him, and I felt like the way that developed over the story was very believable. As for the rest, I’m still mega intrigued by Frankie and Gus, and now even Cage. Will be interesting to see if we get to see more of them in their own books.
So as you can see, this was a book with a few ups and downs for me. I ended the book extremely satisfied though, and so I call that a win!
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