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Jacob #2
Jacob’s Grace
ATF Agent Allison Jacob is temporarily assigned to the Milwaukee Police Special Crimes Division to assist in solving the gruesome murder of a woman known as X-Girl. The FBI and the DHS become involved as the investigation widens into human trafficking, and AJ and her team must go undercover to solve the murder and stop the exploitation of innocent victims.
Captain Tag Becket isn’t used to being a rookie. Returning home after ten years in the Army, she takes a position as the newest member of AJ’s team. She wants to keep her head down and her past behind her, but her but feelings for AJ’s second in command Grace Fields makes keeping secrets next to impossible.
As the task force draws closer to the perpetrators, team members risk their lives and their secrets to see justice prevail.
Captain Tag Becket isn’t used to being a rookie. Returning home after ten years in the Army, she takes a position as the newest member of AJ’s team. She wants to keep her head down and her past behind her, but her but feelings for AJ’s second in command Grace Fields makes keeping secrets next to impossible.
As the task force draws closer to the perpetrators, team members risk their lives and their secrets to see justice prevail.
- GenresLesbianMilitary Fiction
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 11, 2018
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C.P. Rowlands
5 books22 followersBorn and raised in the Midwest, C.P. Rowlands attended college in Iowa and lived in the southwest and on the west coast before returning to Wisconsin. She is an artist in addition to having worked in radio, sales, and various other jobs. She has two children, four grandchildren, a partner of many years, and some critters. All in all, it’s a happy life. (from the author's website)
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August 23, 2018
3.25 Stars. This is the sequel to Jacob’s War. I would highly recommend reading Jacob’s War before you read this book. I’m a bit conflicted in my rating for this book. I really liked the characters and the book’s overall feel; but it was a little rough for me in places. I going with better than okay but it’s not as good as Jacob’s War.
After wrapping up her last case dealing with gangs and drugs, Allison Jacob’s finds herself in charge of a new task force tackling human sex trafficking. Captain Tag Becket is finally home after ten years in the Army. She is the newest member of AJ’s task force. Will she be able to adjust to life back home, her new job, and a crush on one of the other task force members?
This book introduces a new main character in Tag. AJ is still the star of the book, but Tag gets some lead character time. As a new character Tag is very easy to like. One of the reasons I enjoyed the first book was how great the group of characters were. Tag was added into the group seamlessly and I enjoyed getting to know her.
You have two romances going on in this book. The continuing romance of AJ and her girlfriend (I’m being vague here in case you have not read the first book) and Tag and her new potential love interest. I enjoyed seeing how AJ and her girlfriend were progressing since I really like them as a couple. The other romance with Tag is pretty slow moving. Again, I really like the pair, but there was not a lot of chemistry or swoon worthy moments. It was more just a newer still getting to know you romance.
This review is based on an ARC copy. We all know that ARC’s are not always finale copies so they can contain errors. I absolutely understand that. However, this book seemed much rougher in places than other Bold Strokes Books ARC’s normally are. There seemed to be more mistakes than usual and the writing was very choppy in places. Other times it would seem like many different subjects were all packed into the same paragraph and it would send my head spinning. It felt almost a little spastic at times and I had trouble always knowing what the author was trying to convey. Luckily, the whole book was not like this but still some parts were tough for me. I really hope this is not what the finale copy will be like and that these issues will be taken care of.
The characters and feel of this series really works for me. In fact I would love to see a third book in the future. I did not enjoy this as much as I hoped, but I feel connected to the characters. If you enjoyed Jacob’s War you will probably like this. Hopefully the issues will be ironed out and the book will be stronger for it.
An ARC was given to me by BSB for a honest review.
After wrapping up her last case dealing with gangs and drugs, Allison Jacob’s finds herself in charge of a new task force tackling human sex trafficking. Captain Tag Becket is finally home after ten years in the Army. She is the newest member of AJ’s task force. Will she be able to adjust to life back home, her new job, and a crush on one of the other task force members?
This book introduces a new main character in Tag. AJ is still the star of the book, but Tag gets some lead character time. As a new character Tag is very easy to like. One of the reasons I enjoyed the first book was how great the group of characters were. Tag was added into the group seamlessly and I enjoyed getting to know her.
You have two romances going on in this book. The continuing romance of AJ and her girlfriend (I’m being vague here in case you have not read the first book) and Tag and her new potential love interest. I enjoyed seeing how AJ and her girlfriend were progressing since I really like them as a couple. The other romance with Tag is pretty slow moving. Again, I really like the pair, but there was not a lot of chemistry or swoon worthy moments. It was more just a newer still getting to know you romance.
This review is based on an ARC copy. We all know that ARC’s are not always finale copies so they can contain errors. I absolutely understand that. However, this book seemed much rougher in places than other Bold Strokes Books ARC’s normally are. There seemed to be more mistakes than usual and the writing was very choppy in places. Other times it would seem like many different subjects were all packed into the same paragraph and it would send my head spinning. It felt almost a little spastic at times and I had trouble always knowing what the author was trying to convey. Luckily, the whole book was not like this but still some parts were tough for me. I really hope this is not what the finale copy will be like and that these issues will be taken care of.
The characters and feel of this series really works for me. In fact I would love to see a third book in the future. I did not enjoy this as much as I hoped, but I feel connected to the characters. If you enjoyed Jacob’s War you will probably like this. Hopefully the issues will be ironed out and the book will be stronger for it.
An ARC was given to me by BSB for a honest review.
August 31, 2018
Picking up from Jacob’s War, AJ and Katie have settled into their relationship and their work lives have continued pretty much from where they left off. AJ is investigating a gruesome murder and Katie is still doing her PR work. When her confidential informant Frog, a 19-year-old former addict, tells her that she has been paid by some cops to go with a group of girls being trafficked, AJ’s investigative focus changes to human trafficking. She gives a phone to Frog so that she can track where she’s going.
If I hadn’t read the first in the series I would have very little understand of AJ, Katie and Grace because what was created then isn’t expanded upon here. A new member is added to the team, Tag (I struggled with the name because I had a dog named Tag – he was a watchdog), and she feels a pull towards Grace. Both Tag and Grace have interesting histories, which were alluded to more than anything else, but their characterisation is so shallow that I found it difficult to care about either of them. And I really wanted to.
With each passing chapter, more and more cardboard characters are added and really, all they did was fill up the pages. The story jumped from scene to scene which can give a story its fast pace or it simply doesn’t give enough information to follow the plot. Unfortunately, it was the latter in this case. Human trafficking can be a completely engrossing story line but it needs to be done well and with sensitivity.
Frog (a CI, not an undercover police officer) is sent off with traffickers who are abducting children to be sold into the sex slave trade. AJ vaguely follows Frog’s gps signal for a few days. She and her team go from meeting to meeting, dinner at each other’s houses, a few follow-ups, some more meetings, and this goes on for a number of days, but there seems to be no urgency to get Frog back or find and retrieve the abducted children.
Why are they just sitting around watching, and not for hours but for days on end? I really didn’t get it.
I enjoyed the first installment, Jacob’s War, but I had to push myself to finish Jacob’s Grace. I can’t recommend it.
Book received from Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.
If I hadn’t read the first in the series I would have very little understand of AJ, Katie and Grace because what was created then isn’t expanded upon here. A new member is added to the team, Tag (I struggled with the name because I had a dog named Tag – he was a watchdog), and she feels a pull towards Grace. Both Tag and Grace have interesting histories, which were alluded to more than anything else, but their characterisation is so shallow that I found it difficult to care about either of them. And I really wanted to.
With each passing chapter, more and more cardboard characters are added and really, all they did was fill up the pages. The story jumped from scene to scene which can give a story its fast pace or it simply doesn’t give enough information to follow the plot. Unfortunately, it was the latter in this case. Human trafficking can be a completely engrossing story line but it needs to be done well and with sensitivity.
Frog (a CI, not an undercover police officer) is sent off with traffickers who are abducting children to be sold into the sex slave trade. AJ vaguely follows Frog’s gps signal for a few days. She and her team go from meeting to meeting, dinner at each other’s houses, a few follow-ups, some more meetings, and this goes on for a number of days, but there seems to be no urgency to get Frog back or find and retrieve the abducted children.
"She’s nineteen? That’s old for that group even though she looks younger. Most are ten to fifteen. That girl we saw in the diner this morning couldn’t have been over thirteen, and did you see how afraid she looked? Did you find anything on the girl dressed up older that AJ saw at Clint’s place?"
Why are they just sitting around watching, and not for hours but for days on end? I really didn’t get it.
I enjoyed the first installment, Jacob’s War, but I had to push myself to finish Jacob’s Grace. I can’t recommend it.
Book received from Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.
November 7, 2018
So, I read this as a stand alone book. I then found out it is actually the second book of an ongoing series.
I'll admit that a few times I had to pause to think. There are some references that I assumed that if I had read book one I wouldn't have needed to pause. I think I must go through life obliviously. People actually do this to other people. Guess you're gonna have to read it to know what I'm talking about but if I told you what's the fun in that.
The book takes along time to get started but once it does it flies. But saying that the team assigned are also in the dark. So you do the journey together.
It really amazes me what actually go's on in our own back yards.
*ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley*
I'll admit that a few times I had to pause to think. There are some references that I assumed that if I had read book one I wouldn't have needed to pause. I think I must go through life obliviously. People actually do this to other people. Guess you're gonna have to read it to know what I'm talking about but if I told you what's the fun in that.
The book takes along time to get started but once it does it flies. But saying that the team assigned are also in the dark. So you do the journey together.
It really amazes me what actually go's on in our own back yards.
*ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley*
December 28, 2019
It is absolutely necessary to read before this one, Jacob's War, written in 2012, which is the first book of this series, otherwise you will not understand anything.
I really liked this book despite some imperfections that I would develop later.
This is a sequel, so ATF agent Allison Jacob, that we find in the previous book, is led to follow burning and delicate files. A new recruit, Tag Becket seems to have feelings for AJ's second-in-command, Grace Fields. All these operations are not without danger, and all of them risk their lives to bring justice back to life.
Okay the story is run smoothly, and the suspense pretty well preserved. We find here characters from the previous book, hence the interest of reading the previous one.
The cover of the first book is, in my opinion much better.
Now this book is of course a good book, but I expected much better for the romance between Tag and Grace as the synopsis, disappointed by that, we believe that ... but no ....
And as usual, I don't know if this is recurrent with Bold Stokes Books, but the end is again too fast, and it looks like the author thought there was not enough Tag and Grace. And boom we rush that in the end. It becomes bored those book ends that seem to catch up with what has not been done before.
Allison, who was already the main character in Jacob's War, is also here. The synopsis talks about the interest of Tag for Grace, but then, for me, it stays in the background and I find it damaging. I would have much appreciated, a background of Allison in favor of the romance between Tag and Grace. It bothered me a lot. Beta and editors of BSB do something... Please.
In short, a good read, but read the first. I recommend buying this book without any reservations.
I really liked this book despite some imperfections that I would develop later.
This is a sequel, so ATF agent Allison Jacob, that we find in the previous book, is led to follow burning and delicate files. A new recruit, Tag Becket seems to have feelings for AJ's second-in-command, Grace Fields. All these operations are not without danger, and all of them risk their lives to bring justice back to life.
Okay the story is run smoothly, and the suspense pretty well preserved. We find here characters from the previous book, hence the interest of reading the previous one.
The cover of the first book is, in my opinion much better.
Now this book is of course a good book, but I expected much better for the romance between Tag and Grace as the synopsis, disappointed by that, we believe that ... but no ....
And as usual, I don't know if this is recurrent with Bold Stokes Books, but the end is again too fast, and it looks like the author thought there was not enough Tag and Grace. And boom we rush that in the end. It becomes bored those book ends that seem to catch up with what has not been done before.
Allison, who was already the main character in Jacob's War, is also here. The synopsis talks about the interest of Tag for Grace, but then, for me, it stays in the background and I find it damaging. I would have much appreciated, a background of Allison in favor of the romance between Tag and Grace. It bothered me a lot. Beta and editors of BSB do something... Please.
In short, a good read, but read the first. I recommend buying this book without any reservations.
September 5, 2018
I received an ARC copy of this book by the Publisher via Netgalley and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is the first book I have read from this author. I was not aware at the time that it was part of a series. In saying that though I got to check out this authors work and was not disappointed. I will be going to get book 1 from this series and then re-reading this one.
I really enjoyed this book although I haven’t read book 1 in the series. I don’t know AJ and Katie’s story but I like them both in this book and I also love Grace and Tag ( Grace being my favourite)and all other secondary characters. Also loved the storyline. I am looking forward to reading more of this authors work.
This is the first book I have read from this author. I was not aware at the time that it was part of a series. In saying that though I got to check out this authors work and was not disappointed. I will be going to get book 1 from this series and then re-reading this one.
I really enjoyed this book although I haven’t read book 1 in the series. I don’t know AJ and Katie’s story but I like them both in this book and I also love Grace and Tag ( Grace being my favourite)and all other secondary characters. Also loved the storyline. I am looking forward to reading more of this authors work.
July 31, 2025
This is the sequel to Jacob’s War which I read recently. I definitely felt that it was a good thing I read this soon after as this hits the ground running in terms of introducing the characters. If you hadn’t met AJ, Katie and Grace in book 1 then I certainly felt you’d be a bit all at sea when they appear in this.
The problem with this was that it’s detail heavy and action light. There seem to be so many different organisations involved that it’s hard to keep up. Further the amount of time the team spend looking at screens, eating and in meetings with each other means things remain bogged down. Even when an unknown individual is taking pot shots at two of our MC’s, there’s very little sense of drama. Sadly, it was a bit of a struggle to get through and I wasn’t sorry when it ended…
The problem with this was that it’s detail heavy and action light. There seem to be so many different organisations involved that it’s hard to keep up. Further the amount of time the team spend looking at screens, eating and in meetings with each other means things remain bogged down. Even when an unknown individual is taking pot shots at two of our MC’s, there’s very little sense of drama. Sadly, it was a bit of a struggle to get through and I wasn’t sorry when it ended…
August 5, 2023
"Jacob's Grace" by C.P. Rowlands is a heartwarming and emotional romance that explores themes of love, healing, and second chances. The book follows two characters brought together by fate, and their journey is filled with genuine emotions and growth. Rowlands' writing is sincere and heartfelt, creating a deep connection with the characters. With its touching romance and thoughtful storytelling, "Jacob's Grace" is a delightful read that leaves a lasting impression.
May 31, 2020
I really struggled getting into this as three characters followed on from the first book and their relationship was already established and didn't need to be explained. I managed 70% of it before feeling like i was playing a losing battle and i just gave up on it in the end.
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
November 4, 2018
I accidentally read this sequel before the first book and I must say I enjoyed this one a little more because of an already established relationship. However it was nice to go back and see things develop.
December 29, 2019
It is absolutely necessary to read before this one, Jacob's War, written in 2012, which is the first book of this series, otherwise you will not understand anything.
I really liked this book despite some imperfections that I would develop later.
This is a sequel, so ATF agent Allison Jacob, that we find in the previous book, is led to follow burning and delicate files. A new recruit, Tag Becket seems to have feelings for AJ's second-in-command, Grace Fields. All these operations are not without danger, and all of them risk their lives to bring justice back to life.
Okay the story is run smoothly, and the suspense pretty well preserved. We find here characters from the previous book, hence the interest of reading the previous one.
The cover of the first book is, in my opinion much better.
Now this book is of course a good book, but I expected much better for the romance between Tag and Grace as the synopsis, disappointed by that, we believe that ... but no ....
And as usual, I don't know if this is recurrent with Bold Stokes Books, but the end is again too fast, and it looks like the author thought there was not enough Tag and Grace. And boom we rush that in the end. It becomes bored those book ends that seem to catch up with what has not been done before.
Allison, who was already the main character in Jacob's War, is also here. The synopsis talks about the interest of Tag for Grace, but then, for me, it stays in the background and I find it damaging. I would have much appreciated, a background of Allison in favor of the romance between Tag and Grace. It bothered me a lot. Beta and editors of BSB do something... Please.
In short, a good read, but read the first. I recommend buying this book without any reservations.
I really liked this book despite some imperfections that I would develop later.
This is a sequel, so ATF agent Allison Jacob, that we find in the previous book, is led to follow burning and delicate files. A new recruit, Tag Becket seems to have feelings for AJ's second-in-command, Grace Fields. All these operations are not without danger, and all of them risk their lives to bring justice back to life.
Okay the story is run smoothly, and the suspense pretty well preserved. We find here characters from the previous book, hence the interest of reading the previous one.
The cover of the first book is, in my opinion much better.
Now this book is of course a good book, but I expected much better for the romance between Tag and Grace as the synopsis, disappointed by that, we believe that ... but no ....
And as usual, I don't know if this is recurrent with Bold Stokes Books, but the end is again too fast, and it looks like the author thought there was not enough Tag and Grace. And boom we rush that in the end. It becomes bored those book ends that seem to catch up with what has not been done before.
Allison, who was already the main character in Jacob's War, is also here. The synopsis talks about the interest of Tag for Grace, but then, for me, it stays in the background and I find it damaging. I would have much appreciated, a background of Allison in favor of the romance between Tag and Grace. It bothered me a lot. Beta and editors of BSB do something... Please.
In short, a good read, but read the first. I recommend buying this book without any reservations.
October 8, 2018
Really enjoyed these characters and the storyline.
September 8, 2018
I read Jacob's War years ago and was eagerly awaiting the sequel when I heard this was coming. I liked the continuation of AJ and her girlfriend, I am a big fan of them as a couple so it was nice to see them progressing in this book. We also meet a new character named Tag who is a very likable character. Not sure if this books lives up to the first but I would defiantly read this again.
November 14, 2018
This was a good read the plot works well even though I didn't read the first book which I'm going to get when I get some money because I like to read about AJ and her girlfriend Katie. The characters are a group of strong people who work together for the greater good. I also love Tag and Grace relationship development.
I received an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I received an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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