Reviewed by Tidal
TITLE: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
SERIES: Drive Shaft #2
AUTHOR: Geoffrey Knight
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 146 pages
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“When the going gets tough, the tough get going—so start your engines!”
Once in a while, everyone falls on hard times. Every year it seems the cost of living goes up, business slows down and money’s just too tight to mention. But for old Clyde, ever-increasing debts have forced him to turn to a notorious loan shark, Tony Trimboli, just so he can keep the doors to his auto shop open and make sure his two hard-working employees—Dean ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson and Jensen Rivers—are able to pay their own rent and make ends meet.
Now the time has come for Clyde to pay up, or else the troublesome Trimboli Triplets—Tony’s three trigger-happy sons—will not only take Clyde’s business from him… they’ll burn it to the ground.
For Hutch and Jensen, there’s only one way to raise the money in time to save Clyde’s livelihood—win the perilous Reaper’s Rally, an illegal two-day race across the scorching desert with a cool $50,000 cash waiting for the first car to cross the finish line.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to buckle up and start your engines! The race is on to save not only the auto shop but each other’s lives, as Hutch and Jensen blaze a trail of turbo-charged testosterone and high-speed action across the burning California desert in Drive Shaft 2: Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
REVIEW:
This book was awesome! Usually when I read a later books in a series, often times I feel disappointed and feel it is nothing more than a rehash of the first book. That is not the case with this book! This book is fast paced and offers all the excitement of all seven “The Fast and the Furious” movies rolled into one plus hot sex too. This installment brings in more characters and really takes the time to flesh them out and lets each of them shine.
The sex scenes are hot but the action is just as exciting. The characters have grown since the first book and it is neat to see how they have evolved. We also are introduced to not only one villain but a family of four villains. The Trimboli Family is a force to be reckoned with. The odds are stacked against Hutch, Jensen and Clyde but that has not stopped them before and it does not this time either. To save Clyde’s business Hutch and Jensen enter the famous cutthroat Reaper Rally Race. It is illegal, cutthroat, has no rules and offers a $50,000 dollar prize. Losing this race is not an option.
This book is exciting to the last moment! The action in this installment stood out so much. We meet some new characters and all of them are so well developed and each carried their part of the story making it appear seamless. I like that the story was not totally predictable and had a few surprised at the end.
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