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    Audiobook9 hours

    Shooter

    Written by Dahlia West

    Narrated by Mason Lloyd

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    About this audiobook

    Chris "Shooter" Sullivan has returned to his home town of Rapid City, South Dakota, to pick up the pieces of his life shattered by a roadside bomb in Iraq. He only wants to focus on holding what's left of his old unit together, running his garage where he builds custom bikes and cars, and pretending that his murdered father's motorcycle gang doesn't exist.

    Hayley Turner is a young woman with her own traumatic past. Fresh off the bus from Nowhere, USA, all she wants is a job and a place to live, until it's time for her to leave again. She doesn't want to make friends, or enemies, least of all the ex-Army Ranger who obviously doesn't like her. She bristles under his watchful eye. He's even got her convinced that she's bad news.

    But circumstances force two people who don't need anyone to need each other more and more. The more Chris gets to know Hayley, the harder it is to stay detached. And the more Hayley gets to know Chris, the more she realizes that she's been alone for so long she might never recover from it.Contains mature themes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781515974031
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    • 3/5
      2.5 stars

      This is a hard one to rate for me. I was really enjoying it up to around the 30-40% mark and the author had to go and include a scene where the hero and his friends turn into d-bags toward a woman obviously just created to make our heroine look better and create some completely unnecessary angst. I disliked it enough that I seriously thought about dnf-ing because I'm sick of stuff like that. Also, if you have a problem with your hero sleeping with someone other than the heroine, there's a moment you're going to hate, author doesn't show scene but reader gets clear idea on what happened. It was such an odd scene because the only time the hero and his friends displayed this attitude was the one scene but talk about leaving a distaste in my mouth.

      Anyway, the first half had some really fun contemporary moments.
      Ex.:
      “So,” Chris said, leaning on his cart. “If I’m not a pirate king or a highlander, what kind of romance novel character am I?”
      The checkout girl looked him up and down. “Definitely contemporary. Maybe a fireman or-”
      “Army Ranger?” Chris asked teasingly.
      The girl picked up a sales flier and fanned herself. “Lord, girl you snagged yourself an Army man?”
      “Landlord,” Slick repeated. “Land. Lord. No snagging.”
      “We’re having lunch today,” Chris told the checkout girl. “She’s making roast beef sandwiches.”
      “There was a sale,” Slick whined. “I like roast beef.”
      The checkout girl shook her head. “Girl, you like some kind of beef, I’ll give you that. You take that man home and get some beef, okay?”

      A little meta-ness with discussing the heroine's love of romance books and their heroes and some cuteness with Chris our hero actually being a former Army Ranger.

      I thought the second half dragged on with too many sex scenes, this could have been edited down about 20% as far as I'm concerned. It would have made the danger Hayley was in feel more prominent and kept the story engaging. Hayley also turned into some kind of Mary Sue/Leave It to Beaver mom that made me wonder if her character was written from a male gaze. Chris stayed the same throughout and while at sometimes seemed one dimensional, he broke out enough times to make him interesting.

      Overall, I liked this but the slut shaming and general d-bag attitude towards a woman character was not endearing, at all. The story needed to be edited, would have liked the female characters as complexly written as the male, the serial killer plot could have been formed and strung through better, and the writing could have been cleaned up a bit. Chris' friends are clearly serial bait but their different stories and attitudes have me hooked and I'll give the second book in the series a try.
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars of absolutely yummy men and a freaking cool and strong woman who knew how to live her life and to find happiness where she could and would make the most of it. It was a beautiful story, with its highs and lows. There was steam and sexy time, throwback time and the cute and funny times. There was absolutely everything you could want for in a book and I can't wait to get my hands on the next one.