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My Review:Title: Dark Horse
Author: Melissa Pearl, Anna Cruise
Series: Aspen Falls #3
Published by: Indie
Release Date: May 13th 2018
Format: eARC
Pages: 396
Genres: Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Romance
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 #LetsReadIndie Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Release Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ IndieBound
My rating:
Blurb:He can’t let go of the past.
And it might cost him a future with the woman he loves.
Nate knows how to solve crimes. He’s dedicated his entire life to the force, sacrificing everything in his desperate attempt to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over his own mother’s unsolved death.
Sally loves Nate, but three years of waiting for him has proven one thing: his career will always come first. Not her. Frustrated by his constant absence, Sally does the unthinkable. She walks away.
Devastated by the break-up, Nate throws himself into a Jane Doe case. But he soon discovers that solving yet another crime does nothing to fill the hole inside him. To make matters worse, Sally is moving on and he doesn’t know if he can ever win her back.
But he has to try…especially when unforeseen circumstances put Sally’s life in danger.
Especially because he might be the only one who can save her.
You’ll love Dark Horse, because of its heart-wrenching romance, nail-biting tension and twists you won’t see coming.
I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.
4 stars — OK, if you guys want to know the honest truth, I apparently forgot about this review. I don’t even know how that happened. I finished this like almost 3 months ago and wrote a few vague notes, and then…what? What happened? I don’t even know. It got lost in the shuffle? I think part of it was that there was a little thing that bugged me in the story (I had an issue with Sally’s family, and they weren’t redeemable in my eyes), but since this was a bit of a mini beta read, the author was going to play around with it a bit (and I saw some of her changes and they looked much better). So I initially didn’t want to review until I’d read the final copy, but I guess I’ll just leave that part out and I can expand my review in the future.
In the meantime this is going to be a bit of a lackluster review. I remember getting MEGA FEELZ in this one with Nate and Sally. I really felt for them with the struggles they went through in their relationship, and it got me in my heart. It was a pretty emotional read as a result, b/c relationships are hard, and it’s hard to watch a couple reach a breaking point based on poor communication (on both sides). It’s funny, b/c they both made mistakes and made me want to smack them, but I also wanted to hug the crap out of them too. They were very flawed.
I found the mystery storyline really interesting. I thought I had it all figured out, and I did guess some things pretty early, but there were twists that I didn’t see coming, and it’s all those little details that made it fun.
And that’s all I got. Lamesauce right? All I remember is that I really enjoyed so much of it, there were just a few problem areas that are likely not as big of problems anymore. Helpful right? Ah well.
I hate when this happens to me! When you read as much as we do, details can run away quickly. I’m glad your responses to the author helped her tweak some stuff.