Publisher: Berkley
Published: November
1, 2016
ISBN: 978-0425278581
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Print
Obtained via: Publisher
THREE-1/2 HEARTS
Bodey Taggart, the next to youngest of the four Taggart brothers
has been the wildest of them. His
brothers, Jace and Elam have found the women of their dreams and settled down,
but Bodey has no intention of following in their footsteps. Even “grounded” this summer due to not one
but two head injuries, he’s not about to give up his so-called wild ways. There will always be a new challenge, a new
adventure, a new extreme sport to pursue.
For the past year Beth Tivoli has been on the run with her younger
brother, Eric and sister, Dolly. Leroy
Vonn, the leader of a terrorist group called the Farm, has been tracking them
to bring Eric and Dolly back to his compound.
He will clearly stop at nothing.
To protect them Beth has stayed on the move and trusted no one. But when she meets Bodey, something very
different happens. Something she cannot
explain. Against her better judgment, the
little voice in her head, and stories she’s heard about Bodey, she begins to
let him into her life and not long after, into her heart.
For the first time in his life Bodey is ready to stop running to
the next big adventure. In Beth he finds
someone he too can trust with his heart.
But with Vonn’s people after them, can they keep each other safe?
I enjoyed the first two books in Lisa Bingham’s Taggart Brothers
series, DESPERADO and RENEGAGE. As with
those books I felt this story started off slow.
I felt no connection to either Beth or Bodey. The details of their days as the SASS event
seemed long and tedious to me, but I kept on reading. As with the prior books though, once the
story took off it became a knuckle gripping roller coaster.
Beth’s development from a frightened young woman on the run to
one who was going to stand her ground no matter what was nicely done. And Bodey’s realization about why he drove
himself to extremes time and time again was evenly paced and presented in a
natural way. He wasn’t the dare devil
one day and Mr. Settled the next.
Together they found their way and a realistic way in a wonderfully told
story.
Having had a special needs sister, not because of the same thing
that happened to Barry, but with many of the considerations the brothers needed
to help him I appreciated the gentle, compassionate and realistic way Bingham
developed this character. He is not a
character who will grow up and fall in love so I don’t see how the author could
write an adult romance for him – yet with Bingham’s ability to tell a good
story I fully expect Barry to also have a happy ending.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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