Reviewed by Danielle
TITLE: Slow Burn
AUTHOR: Sam B. Morgan
PUBLISHER: Loose ID
LENGTH: 197 pages
BLURB: Detective Douglas Brody has only ever known the life of a cop. Raised strict but fair by his police chief father, he joined the academy right out of school, climbed the ranks hard and fast, and now works homicide for the City of Charleston. The job is his entire life. For years it’s kept him happy enough to minimize the side of him that craves what he believes is wrong. An accident on the job puts him on medical leave and everything in Brody’s world changes. He has to prove himself once more to be best cop in the department, all while dealing with Zack – his persistent, sexy, and out of the closet physical therapist.
Zack is tan skin, big grins, floppy hair and tackles his job with the same full-blown enthusiasm he does everything else. When the “patient from hell” is thrown his way by another PT who can’t handle him, Zack is committed to achieving the impossible. His new patient is a head strong and hot as hell homicide detective, who oozes as much resentment as he does sex appeal. Any involvement with a patient, especially a man who is so deep in the closet he can’t see light, is something Zack swore he’d never do. But Brody slowly proves too much to resist
REVIEW:
I have to say I was struggling to get into this book, especially at the beginning. I felt no connection to either of the main characters and irritation had the upperhand.
Still as I am not a person who takes the easy way out, I kept going and I have to be honest it improved a lot. The further the story I got, the more I felt myself get involved, trying to find out what made Brody tick.
Zack is a great guy; there is nothing bad to say about him at all. You might even say he is too understanding and too kind when it comes to Brody, but I admit it works.
The best part of this book is definitely the last quarter, when the relationship between Brody and Zach makes a significant turn. From this moment on the story really steps up, adding some drama to it but most of all interesting material to read and to get involved in as a reader.
If I look to see what part I like and what got me interested I have to say it took quite some time for that to happen but then on the other hand the last parts and the epilogue was totally worth the read.
Overall I settle for a nice, not too complicated story that takes you a bit to get into but in the end leaves you feeling satisfied with the outcome and the conclusion.
Sidenote: Gorgeous Cover!
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