Suspense

A rare book I could not get into, could not and would not finish reading. Found the writing to be really odd and the characters one-dimensional. Just shows that a "NY Times best-selling author" is not for everyone. ( )

It was interesting reading this series of Eve, Quinn and Bonnie.
I read my first Eve Duncan book close to 20 years ago and was fascinated by the book, the author, the style.
Went back for more of the same on and off. No matter the mystery, no matter the characters , at the heart of it all is Bonnie.
Now I started and finished this trilogy.
Here let me say that this is a trilogy. The books are not standalone and cannot be read that way.
Eve : This was interesting. Goes back to a different time. Eve's childhood, her past a totally different kind of storyline. An nice back to the roots book.
Quinn: Its a good progression of the trilogy. Keeping the suspense , thrill on.
Bonnie: Was a bit of an anticlimax to understand how and why it all happened and seemed quite pointless.

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First off I want to say that I have never read this author before and at the recommendation of a friend to try her, I chose to start with book 12 in the series (which is the first book in a trilogy). Why did I start with book 12 – well the premise for this series is the loss of the daughter of the heroine Eve and her determination to find out what happened to her many years ago. This book tells the history of Eve – her life as a poor teenager with a neglectful mother, how she met the father of her baby and how she handled becoming a single teen mother.

I didnt have any problem connecting with the characters and at no time felt lost about any thing. Its all clearly spelled out – the past and present – and even who all the characters were.

Eve's main goal in life has been to find out who killed her daughter. The FBI agent who was first assigned her case, Joe Quinn, are a couple now. Joe has always supported Eve in her quest even to the detriment of having to be second in Eve's life to a ghost. Her best friend is CIA agent Catherine Ling - who has her own series – who feels obligated to help Eve find out who killed her daughter as Eve was detrimental in helping her get back her kidnapped son in the past. Catherine's digging has uncovered a name Eve never would have considered – John Gallo – the father of her child and a man she thought dead for many years. I actually fell in love with Gallo even though he walks the line on is he the good guy or the bad guy. His story was fascinating.

Was the book perfect – no – but it kept my attention from beginning to end and I immediately started reading the next book – Quinn - where we will get to find out how he and Eve met and how their relationship started, along with getting more clues as to who really killed Bonnie – which is the 3rd book.

Some things that have me scratching my head is it took 12 books to finally tell the story of how Eve met her baby daddy and 13 books to finally get the story of how Eve and Quinn's relationship started – what were all the other books about? Anyways – If you're like me and looking for a good romantic suspense I recommend Eve, Quinn and Bonnie – a three book series within a series but gives a beginning, middle and end to the premise of the whole series. ( )

In this novel we are taken back to the very beginning, before Bonnie was even born, when we meet Gallo, about to join the army, and follow his intense relationship with Eve ... and the conception of Bonnie. When Eve is confronted with the possibility that it is Gallo, Bonnie's own father, who kidnapped and killed Bonnie, she had to find out. The question throughout the novel is whether Gallo is being honest with Eve, or whether he is leading her into his own trap.

I love her stand alone books but for some reason I don't like the Eve Duncan books. I think I just got tired of Eve going on every other page about her daughter Bonnie. Okay, it was a mothers worse nightmare but enough is enough. ( )