This is the first book in the Coastal Guardians series. I was excited to start a new series by one of
my favorite authors.
Gabby is on the run.
A drug lord is trying to have her killed, and she ends up staying with
the man whose heart she broke last time she was in town. She chose her career over love, and now it’s
like she’s getting put in the same situation.
When people are murdered, Finn’s team has to investigate the deaths,
including a few of their own. Two
investigations are going on at the same time, and it seems like they will
intersect at some point. With Gabby
disappearing to investigate on her own all the time, keeping her safe is a hard
job.
Gabby disregards anyone who wants to protect her to the
point of wandering off for coffee with a “friend.” I put the word friend in quotation marks
because she takes the woman for coffee to pursue an “angle” (her words) for a
story. The friend is 7 months pregnant
and has just lost her husband to murder.
How low can Gabby go? Pretty
low. I never understood what Finn saw in
her. She’s already chosen her career
over him once before, and she’s clearly willing to do it again with no
hesitation for most of the book. She resents
people trying to keep her safe and readily puts herself and OTHERS (including a
pregnant woman and her sister) in dangerous situations with no regard for their
safety. She’s literally like that for almost
the entire book, and I hated her character.
My final review is 2.5 stars. If the story were only about Gabby and Finn,
it would probably be lower. The saving
graces for the book are Noah and Rissi.
I ended up hating Gabby’s character so much that even when she has her
“changing moment” at the very end, it didn’t affect my view of her. I was also disappointed in the ending. I don’t mind antagonists that act like Bond
villains, but if they don’t hesitate to kill everyone in their way for most of
the book, it doesn’t make sense later on if they suddenly change and put people
in a rescuable situation.
This is the first book of Pettrey’s that I haven’t liked,
and I’m sorry for it. Her stories are
normally so great that it hurts to say I don’t like it.
*I received a copy of this book from Bethany House from
NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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