Josh Lanyon's "The Dark Tide", #32
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katikatAs if recovering from heart surgery beneath the gaze of his over-protective family wasn’t exasperating enough, someone keeps trying to break into Adrien English’s bookstore. What is this determined midnight intruder searching for?
When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the midst of the renovation of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.
Jake is only too happy to have reason to stay in close contact with Adrien, but there are more surprises in Adrien’s past than either one of them expects -- and one of them may prove hazardous to Jake’s own heart.
Review: The 5th and last book in the "Adrien English Mysteries" series. And it's really too bad because I loved Adrien and his level-headedness, his crazy family, his relationship with Jake. On the other hand, he and Jake finally got their happily-ever-after, which was the whole point of the series, so I'm quite happy with that. Though I have to admit that all the loose ends were tied and all the outstanding problems wrapped up maybe too neatly? I mean, I didn't even expect to see some of the characters that popped up in this book again because I was quite content with what happened to them. On the other hand, Alonzo's dislike of Adrien was never properly explained - the way he kept blushing around Natalie, I hoped that he fell for her and that was the reason why he kept bugging Adrien, always coming after him... Oh well. A neat book. For once I felt sorry for Jake and not for Adrien, which quite surprised me. I really loved the "new" Jake, so calm and at peace with himself, though it's too bad that we didn't get to meet his family at all.
When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the midst of the renovation of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.
Jake is only too happy to have reason to stay in close contact with Adrien, but there are more surprises in Adrien’s past than either one of them expects -- and one of them may prove hazardous to Jake’s own heart.
Review: The 5th and last book in the "Adrien English Mysteries" series. And it's really too bad because I loved Adrien and his level-headedness, his crazy family, his relationship with Jake. On the other hand, he and Jake finally got their happily-ever-after, which was the whole point of the series, so I'm quite happy with that. Though I have to admit that all the loose ends were tied and all the outstanding problems wrapped up maybe too neatly? I mean, I didn't even expect to see some of the characters that popped up in this book again because I was quite content with what happened to them. On the other hand, Alonzo's dislike of Adrien was never properly explained - the way he kept blushing around Natalie, I hoped that he fell for her and that was the reason why he kept bugging Adrien, always coming after him... Oh well. A neat book. For once I felt sorry for Jake and not for Adrien, which quite surprised me. I really loved the "new" Jake, so calm and at peace with himself, though it's too bad that we didn't get to meet his family at all.
