Lawson by Diana GardinMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
DNF at 55%.
Maverick loner female cop who comes from the wrong side of the tracks teams up with navy SEAL turned private security operative for an undercover mission posing as high end car thieves to break a smuggling ring.
This book was a bit of a rollercoaster. To start with there was far too much 'telling' and not enough 'showing', character after character is introduced with potted histories - I'm not sure if this is a follow on from a previous series or whether the reader will see how the other relationships started in subsequent books. I was overwhelmed by all the different characters, their nicknames, their family histories, their love lives etc.
So I stopped reading but started up again when I realised release day was fast approaching. Luckily the 'telling' ceased and the plot started developing but then I ran into another problem. This was just cliche-central. Our heroine Indigo Stone is a loner, no family, no friends, covering up her background, mentored by an older cop, refuses to work with a partner, tattoos, heavy make-up, bad attitude. Our hero Lawson Snyder is a former SEAL, haunted by what he's seen and done, by the ones he couldn't save, turned vigilante punishing men who attack women until one night he goes too far and nearly kills someone, drinking too much scotch, never letting anyone close yadda, yadda, yadda. It seemed as though every cliche known to man appeared in this book, and there didn't seem to be enough plot to hang it all together. We already got a glimpse of what I fully expect to be the couple starring in the next book(view spoiler).
Ultimately, at over half way through there was a lot of fist clenching, lower lip biting and general sexual tension but not a lot of plot development and I lost interest in reading further. I've read these characters in many, many other books and unfortunately Siana GArdin didn't bring anything new (to me) to the table.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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