Review: Dangerous Beauty

Dangerous Beauty by J.T. Geissinger
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

DNF at 33%.

Evalina flees her sadistic Russian mafia boyfriend Dmitri and runs away to Mexico. Naz is a former special ops soldier turned private security operative, his job is to follow a Russian mobster's runaway socialite wife and report on her movements - easy money! But when Eva gets attacked by a group of men in an alleyway Naz feels honour-bound to intervene. Unfortunately in such a small town they keep running into each other and soon overwhelming attraction threatens to jeopardise his mission.

I loved J.T.'s Slow Burn series so a new series from her was a no-brainer for me. Sadly this book just didn't work for me and when I start forcing myself to read a book I know I need to ditch it. What I loved about the Slow Burn series was the humour, that's here too but it just doesn't work in a romantic-suspense novel (in my opinion). Eva's story was too familiar from every other romantic suspense novel I've read, beautiful woman abused by wealthy powerful man, she escapes and falls in love with broken special ops guy, yadda yadda. The humour was great - just in the wrong book for me. This felt like a romantic comedy wedged into a military/special ops romantic suspense.

I still love J.T. as a writer but this was a did not finish for me. Luckily from early reviews I have seen everyone else loved the book.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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