2.5 Stars
Janette signed a life contract with Bradley to be his bodyguard/driver. After a debilitating car accident, she goes
on the run in violation of her life contract.
She starts over as a librarian.
When her new life comes crashing down around her with the assassination
of a senator outside the library her old life comes back with a bang. Bradley is investigating the assassination of
elected officials when he finds his long lost bodyguard. They will need to work together to find out
who the killer is.
This book was literally an introduction to the characters
and the mystery and absolutely nothing else.
Going to break this down by issues.
Mystery: There was no suspects. The killer was introduced before the book
started. Janette came in after the
murder had already happened. The killer
doesn’t make another appearance until the very end of the book. Literally there is just talk about the
assassinations but no progress in the mystery at all by the end.
Romance: There isn’t any.
The book alludes to Janette being in love with Bradley but not able to be
with him because of her job until they reconnect several years later. Then all of a sudden, they are engaged to
protect Janette if a bill is passed that would put her in the military. You don’t have to have sex scenes to write a
good story, but I would like to have some kind of wooing.
World Building: Nonexistent.
There doesn’t have to be a massive dump but some idea of how things will
work in this world would be nice. What
makes people be Adept. Is it genetic or
an anomaly? How does testing and Life
Contracts work? Are there protections in
place for people after testing? Nothing
is really explained.
The next book isn’t even scheduled to come out yet. The next one is said to be coming out end of
2021 or beginning of 2022. There is also
supposed to be five in the series so if I have to wait for it to conclude it
will be a while to see where the series is actually going. Why would I invest more time and energy in
this series? It is getting to the point
that I am not reviewing R.J. Blains books positively. Not every book is for everyone, but I should
have more books be positive than negative and not feel like I’m struggling through
the book. This book took days to finish
because I was so bored with the story that I kept putting it down to do
something else. This does not make for a
good book. Read at your own risk.
Book 1 Vigilante Magical Librarian
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