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Code of Ethics
by April White
So this is actually the first book in the Cipher Security series of the SmartyPants Romance books that I’ve read. The others sounded good, I just didn’t choose to try to fit them in before. I will definitely be going back to try to fit them in when I can though, because I ended up enjoying this one a lot, and would like to know more about the other characters that were obviously from those stories that we met in this one. Plus I hope to meet the author at Book Bonanza in 2022, as long as it doesn’t get canceled again thanks to COVID.
Besides the great thriller of a story we had with Russian agents and technology that was so advanced it was crazy, there were some really deep parts in this story as well. I loved the wolf pack tidbits, remembering when Penny Reid went and visited the wolves and then showed us a video of her doing that. And even more intense were the parts about how indigenous people in Canada were treated. Things that most people are only learning about now. It’s scary to hear how recent some of these things were still being done to people. I think it is so great that this was part of the book. Making it so much more than the romantic suspense that it would have been even without that.
The romance was definitely a slow-burn/slow-building type. But I loved Dallas’s family, especially her grandpa. And of course I adored that he had a dachshund named Squirrel! There was a part at the end that was something that irritates me but is often used in romance. When a character tells someone else something about the other character or how they feel that isn’t true, and isn’t something they would actually say if they knew the person was there. And then of course that person ends up being there and hearing it. But I liked how the apology happened, it was done perfectly. This was kind of a long book, so that is part of what made it a little slow for me too probably.
A great read though, and like I said, I look forward to finding time to go back and reading the first two in the series when I can.
Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.
Besides the great thriller of a story we had with Russian agents and technology that was so advanced it was crazy, there were some really deep parts in this story as well. I loved the wolf pack tidbits, remembering when Penny Reid went and visited the wolves and then showed us a video of her doing that. And even more intense were the parts about how indigenous people in Canada were treated. Things that most people are only learning about now. It’s scary to hear how recent some of these things were still being done to people. I think it is so great that this was part of the book. Making it so much more than the romantic suspense that it would have been even without that.
The romance was definitely a slow-burn/slow-building type. But I loved Dallas’s family, especially her grandpa. And of course I adored that he had a dachshund named Squirrel! There was a part at the end that was something that irritates me but is often used in romance. When a character tells someone else something about the other character or how they feel that isn’t true, and isn’t something they would actually say if they knew the person was there. And then of course that person ends up being there and hearing it. But I liked how the apology happened, it was done perfectly. This was kind of a long book, so that is part of what made it a little slow for me too probably.
A great read though, and like I said, I look forward to finding time to go back and reading the first two in the series when I can.
Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.