By Lucy Score
Riley Thorn Book 1
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️
Blurb
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for one of her neighbors…who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others. Unless the "others" are of the female persuasion. Wink. He's a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift. When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress. All they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep a by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. All before the killer discovers she's a loose end that requires snipping.
Genre: Romantic Mystery
Read if you Like:
🔮 New Cover
🔮 She's a psychic
🔮 Entertaining side characters
🔮 He's a PI
🔮 Fake Engagement
My Thoughts:
A funny title always makes me think the book will be entertaining as well and in this case, it was very true! Riley's roommates and psychic powers were utter chaos but also very fun!
I had such a fun time reading this one! I loved all of Riley's wacky roommates. I particularly enjoyed how they kept frustrating poor Nick. Someone was murdered in the building, can you keep the door locked? No... Riley's visions also added an interesting twist. I liked watching her try to figure out how to use her gifts.
I enjoyed Nick and Riley's dynamic. Nick is protective and totally convinced he doesn't need love which makes watching him fall in love even more fun. Nick's team was also really entertaining. I think overall this book would have made an excellent TV show!
I did think this book could have been a bit shorter but the mystery element made the length a bit more understandable. For fans of the Knockemout series, this one definitely has less romance and spice. I recommend this one for people who are mystery and romance readers. I never really care who killed the person so I'm not an idea mystery reader.
🌶️🌶️ - This book had one open door scene which was fade to black. There was a bit of sexual tension but overall pretty low on the spice scale.
Thanks to Bloom Books for providing me with an eARC. All opinions are my own.
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