Pulse pounding thriller with a tough as nails heroine whose after a serial bomber.

The author waste no time in throwing you right into story with a madman blowing up a woman in public. Evie Jimenez its a bomb expert. She's diffused them for the military and is now the bomb and weapons expert for the Apostles, an elite FBI team. She's in a bit of hot water with the President over the last job she' was on but when she gets an invitation from billionaire Jack Elliot to come to LA to discuss information he has on the bomber she jumps on the plane for a chance to bring down the man that is terrorizing California.

Most of the characters from the previous books are back in this one along with some new quirky characters this author is famous for introducing in each book.

The suspense of trying to find the bomber before he took his next victims had you on the edge of your seat but the author took the story a couple more steps and integrated another story within this one that involved Jack in more than his just figuring out a connection between the bomber and works of art. Both the main characters are very complicated people and throughout the course of the book we got to see that they were more that the tough and eccentric people they appeared to be.

I enjoyed this from beginning to end and cant wait for the next adventure of the Apostles. ( )

In The Blind Shelley Coriell presents a dynamic story that starts quickly and keeps the reader both interested and invested in the characters. Evie Jimenez is a strong character who is the best bomb and weapons specialist among a group of elite FBI agents. In spite of already establishing herself as the best she nonetheless feels the need to continue proving herself. She reluctantly (at first) finds herself working with an equally strong-willed rich businessman, Jack Elliott, in stopping a serial bomber who uses women posed as art works (before they are blown up). As they work on determining who the bomber is they also develop the kind of mutual respect (though Jack almost ruins it) on which not just a romance but a relationship can be based.

The thriller aspect of the story is fast-paced and keeps the reader guessing while the budding romance both adds a more personal element to the story and serves to strengthen the thriller plot as well. Though most of us don't deal with bombs or tremendous wealth, we can relate to the very human doubts and insecurities both of these characters exhibit. There are some very real takeaways for readers to help enrich their own lives.

I would highly recommend this book for lovers of suspense/thriller novels as well as romance novels. There is good character development of all the key characters, not just the lead pair, so those who enjoy character studies will get plenty of that here as well even though the book is still an action first book.

Reviewed from a copy made available through Goodreads First Reads. ( )