Thick as Thieves
By Sandra Brown
Release Date: August 25, 2020
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2 Stars - Lukewarm thriller from Sandra Brown featuring tragic heroine Arden and grisled hero Ledge. While I was hoping for a tense Southern Gothic mystery with a sultry touch, I found myself struggling to get immersed in this flat, cold albeit spooky story. Neither half of this couple is really relatable or likable, and sadly the plot wasn't very exciting. Brown's writing style is sharp as ever though.
I'm not the most contemporary of contemporary romance readers. I've whiled away hours reading oldies but goodies by Anne Stuart and Linda Howard. At times, the hero almost mean and the heroine can be aloof or brisk. Sandra Brown is hit and miss for me, from her "classics" to her modern thrillers but I've seldom had such trouble getting into her books. For the first quarter, all we know about Arden is that she had a terrible miscarriage. And we know Ledge went to juvy and then served in the Army. I couldn't feel anything resembling a connection, outside of Arden's fraying relationship with her older sister Lisa.
The house is what brings these two together. And I would have hoped for some real Southern charm here but my head kept picturing it like a haunted mansion from Scooby Doo. It takes too long to get to any real information or intriguing pieces/scenes. There's no action, no danger in the beginning. Never the less, every chapter tries to end on a cliffhanger, a teasing bit of foreshadowing. The flashbacks didn't add much interest either, being we barely know these people and they barely know each other. If a reader can hang with this, ready for the juicy backstory to reveal itself or just genuienely enjoy Brown's writing style, it may be more worth the significant page-count.
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