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paulabrandon's review against another edition
3.0
Jacob Walsh's life starts falling apart after he's arrested for assaulting his wife's boss, convinced that the two are having an affair. He's bailed out by Alix Callahan, a former classmate back in university that he barely ever spoke to. Through Alix, he meets her bisexual lover, July. When Alix seemingly jumps to her death from a bridge, things only get more complex as he becomes closer and closer to July. There's also the matter of July's ex-husband, a shaman by the name of Sereno, who has escaped from jail. He was put in there for trying to murder her...
Enjoyable, if predictable, thriller. It was all a bit unlikely, and most of the trouble that went down could have been avoided if people had actually talked to each other like normal people. I couldn't stand Jacob's wife, Laura. What is it with male authors around this time creating ex-wives for their protagonists who are such utter bitches and shrews? There was also too much nonsense regarding the book Jacob was writing about a bridge. I know it was supposed to be some sort of metaphor (at least that's what I'm assuming), but the excerpts from it do nothing but grind the pace to a halt.
However, after the last couple of abominations I read courtesy of the Harlequin Intrigue line, it was refreshing and fun to immerse myself in a thriller where stuff actually happened. Once I picked this up, despite its flaws, I had trouble putting it down.
Enjoyable, if predictable, thriller. It was all a bit unlikely, and most of the trouble that went down could have been avoided if people had actually talked to each other like normal people. I couldn't stand Jacob's wife, Laura. What is it with male authors around this time creating ex-wives for their protagonists who are such utter bitches and shrews? There was also too much nonsense regarding the book Jacob was writing about a bridge. I know it was supposed to be some sort of metaphor (at least that's what I'm assuming), but the excerpts from it do nothing but grind the pace to a halt.
However, after the last couple of abominations I read courtesy of the Harlequin Intrigue line, it was refreshing and fun to immerse myself in a thriller where stuff actually happened. Once I picked this up, despite its flaws, I had trouble putting it down.
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