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Lädt ... Guilt by Associationvon Gregory Ashe
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Okies | Mar 2, 2024 |    ) terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 | Fucking finally! ( ) claudiereads | Nov 25, 2022 | Now I have a pretty high tolerance for slow burn and I don’t mind stories that emphasize the mystery more than the romance at all, but with the repeated reminders of Nico/Cora and all the blatant ways their relationships weren’t working throughout the pages, I was too busy thinking “here we go again” to focus on the crime at hand. I defended Nico in previous installments of the series, but this book? Maybe his insecurity reached a crescendo (personality revamp for plot?? (  ) loqiton | Aug 1, 2021 | But I have to spoiler it. Because series arc, etc etc. [ There was a point in this book where I thought, "Ok, this is the weirdest unrequited love but also not unrequited love story of all time." Both are convinced here that they are leaving the other to the relationship they should be in and the one that makes them happy. At this point, both have admitted to very important people (including themselves) that they are in love with the other. There have been enough under-the-influence and other weird vulnerable moments between the two of them that the balance has shifted, not from "does he?" but to "should we?" And I found that effective, but I also thought "if this keeps up, it's going to be too draining." Hazard is finally admitting to Somers what he's been through in his romantic partnerships and why he's willing to settle. And there's this exquisitely painful moment where Hazard is saying he's with Nico because he's nice to him that just destroyed me, because we know that Somers is crying (Hazard suspects so), we know that they've had enough mirrors held up to them at this point in the series from the young lovers in #3 (we know Hazard recognized himself and is desperate to reconcile what he says to Frankie with what he does with his life), to the Cyrano moments with the text to Nico, to the fact that it's so very clear that their relationship is their primary one because they understand the need to talk but not talk, to be there and finally to choose each other. There's been a moment when Hazard explains that he trusts Somers and it's as good as a love confession, and he's been stringing his story together for Somers over the course of 2 books and Somers doesn't need to ask, Hazard needs to tell him. We know why. And I guess all this is why, while I was shocked after wondering how this was all going to resolve itself in the series, knowing Ashe couldn't take us much further/longer to do so, in the end it was all so appropriately simple. There were already plenty of confessions. It didn't need to be complicated. Good lord, we didn't need any more complicated back and forths or dropped topics, no more hedging, nothing. And I guess I think that while it wasn't expected or in some sense even gratifying, it was exactly the right way to do it. So the relationship has this ring of realism to it. While this is no small town I'd ever live in and must be the bloodiest in history, the mysteries / suspense are interesting to read and compliment one more way. But I wasn't reading this one for that plot - at all - which is unfortunate b/c I think this one was well done and interesting. I was reading this one b/c of the feeling of inevitability in the relationship, and I guess that piece feels a little unfortunate. (hide spoiler)  ) samnreader | May 31, 2021 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Everything in Emery Hazard's life is finally going well: his boyfriend, Nico, is crazy about him; he has a loyal partner at work; and he has successfully closed a series of difficult murders. By all accounts, he should be happy. What he can't figure out, then, is why he's so damn miserable. After a fight with Nico, Hazard needs work to take his mind off his relationship. And someone in town is happy to oblige by murdering the sheriff. The job won't be easy; the sheriff had enemies, lots of them, and narrowing down the list of suspects will be difficult. Difficult, but routine. The arrival of a special prosecutor, however, throws the case into turmoil, and Hazard and Somers find themselves sidelined. With an agenda of his own, the prosecutor forces the case toward his favorite suspect, while Hazard and Somers scramble to find the real killer. As the people they care about are drawn into the chaos, Hazard and Somers have to fight to keep what they love--and to keep each other. To find the killer, they will have to reveal what each has kept buried for years: their feelings for each other. And for Hazard, that's a hell of a lot scarier than murder. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.03)
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Hazard and Somerset know each other better, so there isn't the suspenseful reacquaintance. Hazard is recovering from a head injury, something that is giving him killer headaches in this book - so he's even more grumpy and wild. Somerset puts up with it all, placates Hazard, is there for him ... and bemoans his cowardice in not being able to tell Hazard what he means to him. Although it must be so obvious, and Hazard is plenty smart when it comes to finding the murderer, he surely must know Somerset's feelings.
So the HEA, so long in coming - 4 novels? - is a drawn out illogical, unsatisfying, tortuous tease. There was no equivalent Nico character to add another thread to the Hazard and Somerset tension; Nico's role in this concerns his place in the murder mystery.
The murder mystery is quite well done, but not enough of a drawcard to plough through the longish book. And the sparks between the detectives are still brilliant but too few and far between. (