Sandra's Book Club: Blog Tour: FALL TO PIECES by Becky Flade

Fall to Pieces

by Becky Flade

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GENRE: Romantic suspense

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BLURB:

Detective Alexandra Danvers is determined to bring child killer, Arthur Book, to justice, no matter the cost. Detective Xavier Knight is asked to evaluate Lexi’s fitness for duty. He fears investigating Lexi could allow a monster to walk free. Holding onto their own secrets, they launch a covert investigation into Arthur Book who could cost Lexi and Xavier their careers, including their lives.

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Excerpt One:

Lexi woke slowly. The familiar feel of her bed, the comforting smell of her laundry detergent lingering in the sheet pressed against her face, reassured her. I’m home. I made it home. Head pounding, mouth dry and tasting like a barroom floor–or how she imagined a barroom floor would taste–and with seven-hour- old whiskey roiling in her stomach threatening to reappear, Lexi opened her eyes. A man lay snoring beside her, his head down by her feet and his well-toned, hairy body sprawled on top of the sheets. They’d lost the duvet while tangling over it in the pre-dawn hours. Lexi remembered without embarrassment picking him up at the bar and bringing him home with her, the vigorous sex she’d semi-enjoyed but couldn’t remember his name. Bending a leg, she planted a foot in his cute behind and shoved him out of bed.

“Time to go, Romeo.” Lexi stifled a laugh at the distinctively female yelp as he tumbled to the floor. The sheet puddled around her lap as she sat, but she didn’t bother with false modesty. She reached for the water bottle she’d had the foresight to leave on her nightstand and watched with disinterest as her companion stood. Guzzling water, rinsing the taste from her mouth, she assessed. He was good-looking, athletically built, and a decent lay, but dumb as a stump if memory served. Lexi had no interest in learning more.

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Review: Lexi was a cop with survivor’s guilt, which gave her that numb feeling inside. She was given a new partner named Xavier, and their first case was a homicide—the dead body of a little boy. And the hunt for a child killer begins.

Story was well-written and captivating. The narrative was enriched with lively detail and nice sentence structure, even though they tended to be fragmented to punctuate the emotional toll, which was understandable but not always necessary. The scene descriptions and dialogue can get rather long and slow, causing the story to not move as quickly.

The stand-offish chemistry between the characters—both frustrating and endearing—undoubtedly leaps off the pages, and it gets better as it progresses.

With the romance and the action, this turned out to be a fairly nice read.

Rating: 3.5 stars

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

When I was little I thought everyone had stories in their head. When I found out that wasn’t true and that only special people had stories to tell, I wanted to be one of the people who shared their stories with the world. Here I am, making my own dreams come true, one happily ever after at a time.

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Purchase links for Fall to Pieces:

Kindle US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KT3PCBY

Kindle UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09KT3PCBY

Kindle CA https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09KT3PCBY

Kindle AU https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09KT3PCBY

Smashwords – Fall to Pieces – a book by Becky Flade