(2.8 / 5)
I read the first installment of Lethal in Love a couple of months ago and gave it an average rating. I was so hoping the second installment would be an improvement, but unfortunately it didn’t blow me away either.
Jayda and Seth are working together now, trying to put pieces of the puzzle together so that they can work out who the killer is. That’s if they can manage to keep their pants on around each other that is. Jayda and Seth realise that the killer might know Jayda and that they are all in danger. Cue suspenseful scenes, end on climax for number 3…
Ok the biggest problem I have with this installment is the total unbelievably of one aspect of their predicament… HER SISTER WAS JUST MURDERED!!! Now I don’t have a sister, but I imagine that if I did, and they were murdered, the absolute last thing I would be thinking about the next morning is how unbelievably hot the guy in my kitchen making me bacon and eggs looks in his shirt with the top buttons undone… It just didn’t capture her grief at all, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I was rolling my eyes and I didn’t know if I could go on…
However, if I ignored this extremely bothersome detail, I began to enjoy the story. The characters pasts were delved into more, Seth’s relationship with his parents, Jayda’s relationship with her father and her father’s past in the previous investigation. And it definitely left you wondering who the killer was, could it be someone in Jayda’s life already? Her next door neighbour? Something to do with her father or her birth parents?
This attraction between the characters is still not particularly believable. Their silly conversations and supposedly sexy remarks towards each other that leaves them hot around the collar made me extremely cold. I just don’t believe the chemistry.
Thankfully it was slightly more suspenseful than the first. Slightly…
Again, I’m not sold on this installment thing. I think I would have probably read the whole thing if it was in a novel, now I’m not sure if I am interested enough to go for the third, even though I am now curious to see who the killer is… I think I will hang my hat here.
Would I recommend it?
Probably not.
Thanks to Random House via Netgalley for a copy of this installment in exchange for an honest review.
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