Review: Red Nights by Shari J. Ryan
Note: This ARC was provided by Booktrope via
NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
When
Felicity Stone wakes up to smoke infiltrating her bedroom, she fights
desperately to get out but it isn’t easy. With her twin brother Blake away for
the night, she’s alone and suffocating. Soon she’s rescued but then belatedly
realizes that Blake was home the whole time and has suffered injuries that are
impossible for him to recover from. Feeling guilty for not having done more to
save Blake, Felicity wallows in her grief, only finding respite when she comes
across a stranger walking his dog on dark night at a nearby park.
After an
important case goes unsolved and leaves him broken, Hayes Peyton decides to
take a step back from his job with the police force. The sense of loss and
failure haunts him until he meets Felicity Stone. He finds himself wanting to
spend more time with her, but when she’s considered a suspect in the blaze
that’s turned into a case of arson, Hayes offers his expertise in order to
prove Felicity’s innocence. But how can he help her if she begins to doubt his
very presence in her life, leaving her unsure of Hayes’s own motives.
Red Nights is a standalone romantic
suspense novel from author Shari J. Ryan and is about a woman who loses not
just her home to a devastating fire but her twin brother. Weighed down by guilt
and grief, chef Felicity Stone is further devastated by news that the fire was
intentionally set and that evidence appears to be pointing her way. The
stranger she meets at the park turns out to be a former member of the police
department, Hayes Peyton, a man battling his own set of demons but appears to
be exactly what Felicity needs. Theirs isn’t a simple attraction, what with
them becoming heavily invested in each other quickly. While the intensity of
their feelings may seem like a case of insta-love, I do like the dynamic that
they both have together, though the one-liners and punchlines tend to get
tiresome at times.
I
suspected there was something more than a simple house fire going on and I had
the guilty party firmly in my head early on. I changed my mind once and then
stuck to it, which was a good thing because it turned out that my second choice
was the perpetrator. I love books like this—ones that are able to make me
question my original suspicions, leading to second-guessing—because they can
keep readers on their toes. There were moments that the story-telling felt
choppy, almost as if we were jumping from one thing to another with suddenly
new information that seemed out of left field. Still, I enjoyed the story and
the characters and was able to finish reading in one sitting. Red Nights is a good romantic suspense
book and I’m giving it four out of five stars. ♥
Release Date: 18 June 2015
Date
Read: 13 June 2015
Learn
more about Shari J. Ryan here.
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