This was better than the first book in the series. That being said, the writing is still clunky and awkward. The characters are caricatures, the plot is unrealistic. A man kills his unborn child and nearly kills his wife and is placed in a low-security mental hospital? He’s a ‘genius hacker’ but has access to computers?

I liked the romance in this book more than book one, but I had some problems with Ryan. He did things that felt very contradictory to me. He gets angry at Tara’s father doing a background check on him when he did the same thing to Tara. The fact that he’s a cop doesn’t mean that he can just go snooping at a person’s background without some sort of reasonable suspicion that they have skeletons in their closet.

I also didn’t like some of his antiquated views on women and sex. Tara calls him out on his misogyny, and he says, “I just don’t like to date that kind of girl.” As if a woman in an intimate relationship with another consenting adult is somehow the worst thing a woman could do.

Then there was the continuation of a trend from Book one where all of the girls the author wants us to dislike are slutty with big fake boobs. She really has an issue with breast augmentation.

The end was, like the first book, rushed and left a bunch of threads hanging.