3 Stars
Negative Content, Trigger Warnings.
A mention of a man rolling his chair around so that he sat shoulder to shoulder with a woman he was working with, and the woman gave a little jump, thinking that she was unprepared for the sudden move or the next wave of awareness that shot through her, thinking, wow, he smelled good, even after a tussle with a bad guy.
A mention of a woman going swimming, grabbing her towel and the one-piece black bathing suit she never left home without.
A teenage waitress is waiting on a man and woman's table, and flirts with the man(he single), and the woman say, "She's a teenager?" And the man laughed as he watched the waitress, saying, "She does seem older, doesn't she?" And the woman says, "Well, she's not, so you might want to keep that in mind." The man frowned at her, thinking, did she really think he was that low? But before he could ask, she said, " I'm sorry, that was uncalled for. Even though she was flirting with you, you did nothing to encourage it." And it says the heat in her cheeks mollified him.
A man looks a woman up and down in a way that sent ripples of disgust through her.
A old man was thought of as a "old geezer".
A mention of a man standing close to a woman, and her feeling his breathe on her cheek, and when she asked him to get something out of the car, he said, "Yes, ma'am, why don't I do just that?" And he shot her a knowing smile and she felt her flush burn hotter.
A mention of a man telling a woman, "I like the perfume you have on now as opposed to Eau du Dumpster. Makes me think of things like roses and candles." And the a flush that popped out on her olive-toned cheeks made him grin. The woman didn't commenting on a his obvious flirtation, and the man thought that he probably shouldn't be flirting with her anyway. Not if he didn't want his heart to get broken into a million pieces.
A potential informant is killed.
A woman remembers her teenager brother dies of a overdose (years before the book starts), saying, "We were at a party. I followed him when we snuck out of the house." Then she shot him a wry look, saying, "And yes, he was sneaking out of the house at eighteen. If you knew my parents, you would understand that it was better to sneak out then face the inquisition." The man she was talking to nodd, saying, "I get it. The old 'You live under my roof, you follow my rules' dictatorship?" She then replied, "Oh, yeah. Totally."
(It's a Dad and Mom's job to look out for and to guide and to guard their children, even when the children think they know best, it doesn't mean that they do.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
(Proverbs 22:6 KJV). It's not "dictatorship" for parents to not want their kids to leave the house until they get older, they are looking out for them.) She shrugged, and continued, "when he (her brother), realized I'd followed him, he was furious. But there wasn't much he could do about it. So he basically ignored me while I watched him drink. Then-" she pulled in a deep breath "-he started snorting the white powder".
She later remembers him being on the ground. Twitching. Clutching his chest. She called 911, but it was to late. He was dead before she finished punching in the numbers.
A mention of a man laying his hand on a woman's shoulder, and later running his finger down the woman's cheek, and the woman shivered. It later mentioned the hand on her shoulder having squeezed.
It mentions that as a woman walks past a man, her shoulder brushed his chest, and his hand up to rest on her lower back as though to help escort her down the short set of stairs they were approaching.
When a man and woman are crawling for cover from gun fire, the woman sprawled out flat on the ground, so the man grabbed the back of her shirt and yanked her up.
Later, as they exited another building, the man placed a hand at the small of her back and this time the ripples of awareness that shivered up her spine didn't surprise her. From the corner of her eye, she looked at the man beside her. In a different time, a different place...he would have been a definite possibility.
When a man and woman are entering a room to look for evidence, the woman stops in the entrance of the room, and the man comes up behind her and placed his hands on her shoulders, saying, "Are you going to let me in?" She shivered at his touch and moved aside to let him brush by her.
A mention of a woman, in record time, having changed into her swimsuit, and, throwing her clothes over it, she grabbed her jacket and headed toward the covered pool area.
Entering the changing room, she left her clothes hanging on the pegs then reentered the pool area.
Later after she changed, she held up the wet bathing suit saying she needed to hang it somewhere to dry.
A man says to a woman he really likes that his parents are still together and that he wants to have a marriage like theirs one day, and thinks that he needs a zipper on his mouth. Her eyes flew wide and she gaped. Her expression put him on the defensive, asking, "What?" She shrugged, saying, "I just didn't picture you as the marrying kind." He frowned at her and said, " I'm not a playboy." This time she flushed, replying, "I didn't say you were, I just..." To which he said, "Well, now you know. I want marriage and a family. One day."
A mention of a bad guy being found dead in a lake, execution style with a single bullet to the head.
A man sets down next to a woman on her hospital bed and his fingers trailed over the wound on her blanket covered leg, saying, "I could have lost you."
Another great book by Lynette Eason. This was really fun to read and real exciting. The Texas Rangers theme is probably my absolute favorite and one that I'm glad to get to add to my book shelf's.
If I had to name what cut down the rating, I'd say it was the comments about teens sneaking out of the house and not wanting to answer any questions about where they were going, and the mentions of a woman having and wearing a bathing suit (although it was a one piece, it did not say if it was revealing or not).