Review: Darkest Night by Megan Erickson
SYNOPSIS:
USA Today bestselling author Megan Erickson turns up the heat in her sexy and thrilling Wired & Dangerous romantic suspense series.
Bodyguard Jock Bosh has one job: keep Fiona Madden safe. Safe from the men who’ve been hunting her. Safe from the bastard responsible for ruining her life. And with the attraction sizzling white-hot between them, that means keeping Fiona safe from him too.
Fiona has spent the past decade on the run. Her survival is the single greatest weapon she’s had against the men out to destroy her. Until Jock. Now, with him by her side, she finally has a chance to bring them down. But when her enemies make their next move and Jock puts himself in the line of fire, Fiona realizes that there’s more at stake than just her life-she’s also risking her heart.
REVIEW:
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I went into Darkest Night with some expectations and hopes, but this book just fell flat for me. I think there were a couple issues with the book going in. This is a follow up to book one, Zero Hour, and honestly, if you haven’t read the first book recently, this book is hard to follow. There isn’t a whole lot of a backstory and refreshing readers on what happened in the last book, which was hard because I read that book almost 8 months ago. Secondly, when you look at this rag-tag team of characters, literally every single one of them stood out more than Jock, so when Megan announced that he would be the focus of the second book, I was disappointed. But I held out hope because I knew there would be glimpses of the rest of the gang.
The book started off much like its predecessor, SLOW. I mean we were literally just watching Jock stalk/interact with Fiona for the first 40% and I was bored. There wasn’t much of a build-up or connection between them, they hardly had any meaningful conversations, and it was a case of insta-love. Fiona was kidnapped and raped, and she hasn’t had intimate contact since then. That is 10 years of no intimacy but she see Jock and bam, she craves his contact, wants to be intimate, etc. It felt very rushed, like we skipped the meaningful, getting to know each other part, and they just jumped straight into bed. I would have really liked to see some build up and watch the characters grow but there was none of that to be found.
Again, much like its predecessor, the last 25% of the book was nonstop action. From one drama to the next, things just kept hitting the fan. But again, like Zero Hour, the woman makes some heroic display and puts themselves in danger for justice while the man just sits there trying not to go crazy and waiting until it was time to jump to action. If you haven’t noticed yet by this review, Darkest Night had a lot of similarities to Zero Hour.
I feel that Megan isn’t going there with her characters, I really want to feel a connection to these characters and while I enjoy all the secondary members of the crew, I am not emotionally invested in the book or the series. It wasn’t filled with romantic suspense so much as a jumpy plot line filled with insta-love and awkward sex scenes. I might give the next book a go, but if that doesn’t improve I will be letting this series go. Which is really a shame because it has so much potential!
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