Kiss Me, Kill Me

Kiss Me, Kill Me by Allison Brennan

My rating:

3 stars—I liked it.

My thoughts:

This was the second book in the Lucy Kincaid series. I really enjoyed the first. This one was good too, I liked the mystery but not as much the characters.

Not sure if I’ll continue the series or not…

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Lucy Kincaid has firsthand experience dealing with deadly criminal predators, and she’s fully prepared to share her many talents with the FBI. But when her career plans are derailed, her boyfriend, security expert Sean Rogan, asks for help on his latest private investigation. Using her well-honed cyber-hunting skills, Lucy is soon on the trail of a missing teenage girl with a penchant for disappearing—and a shocking secret life.

FBI Agent Suzanne Madeaux is also tracking someone: a serial killer on the loose in New York City. Dubbed by the press the Cinderella Strangler, he cruises seamy underground sex parties, where drug-fueled women make for easy pickings. As Lucy and Sean’s desperate search collides with the FBI’s hunt, Lucy isn’t about to step aside. Haunted by painful memories of her own harrowing encounters with evil, she’s determined to keep any more innocents from meeting the fate she so narrowly escaped. Delving deep into the twisted psyche of a remorseless killer, Lucy must confront her own fears—even if it means risking a future job with the FBI and future happiness with Sean.”

Love Me to Death

Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan

My rating (out of 5 stars):

4 stars—I really liked it.

My Thoughts:

A few chapters in and I realized that I had already read this one! I still finished it though because it is a very well written romantic suspense. I enjoy Brennan and will read more by her.

A definite recommend for the romantic suspense (or just suspense) reader.

Description from Goodreads.com:

“Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands of the law. But when the predators she hunts start turning up as murder victims, the FBI takes a whole new interest in Lucy.

With her future and possibly even her freedom suddenly in jeopardy, Lucy discovers she’s a pawn in someone’s twisted plot to mete out vigilante justice. She joins forces with security expert and daredevil Sean Rogan, and together they track their elusive quarry from anonymous online chat rooms onto the mean streets of Washington, D.C. But someone else is shadowing them: A merciless stalker has his savage eye on Lucy. The only way for her to escape his brutality may be another fight to the death.”

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This week-- 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan
2. Husband and Wife by Leah Stewart
3. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
4. Sister Queens by Julia Fox
5. The Art of Happiness  by Dalai Lama XIV
6. Bhagavadgita
7. Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
8. The Heart of Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
9. Being In Balance by Wayne Dyer
10. All I Ever Wanted by Kristan Higgins

Monday Recommendations

Monday Recommendation List

Random list of 10 books Monday! I have read and enjoyed each of these enough to flag for a potential personal library purchase.

Be bold and just choose randomly, stick to your normal genre...or step outside of your normal reading zone and try something you usually wouldn’t. You can look up the descriptions at Amazon.com, or search my blog for old posts by entering the title in the little search box in the top left-hand corner and clicking the magnifying glass.

This weeks 10 recommendations (in no particular order):

1. Ain’t She Sweet by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
2. What’s New Cupcake by Karen Tack
3. Reaching To Heaven by James Van Praagh
4. Promise Me by Nancy Brinker
5. Nothing But Trouble by Rachel Gibson
6. Hoda by Hoda Kotb
7. Dead Man Walking  by Helen Prejean
8. The Seven Habit of Highly Effective Families by Stephen Covey
9. Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan
10. Sookie Stackhouse Series (starts with Dead Until Dark) by Charlaine Harris

The Kill

The Kill by Allison Brennan

Amazon.com Description:

“Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice.

For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty–that while she wasn’t able to save her sister’s life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth.

Driven by the possibility that she put the wrong man behind bars, Olivia discovers that a serial killer has been at large all these years. Believing that the monster has just struck again in Seattle, Olivia leaves her lab and poses as a field agent, sharing her unofficial investigation with a hardworking Seattle cop. Olivia doesn’t want to lie to detective Zack Travis. And she certainly doesn’t want to fall in love. But as the investigation intensifies, Olivia and Zack find that they’re rapidly losing control–over their hearts, their secrets, and a case that threatens to consume them.”

My Thoughts:

A romantic suspense where the suspense was decent but the romance was not. The relationship between Olivia and Zack felt overly sugar coated and fluffy. The emotion just wasn’t there for me.