Reviewed by Carissa
TITLE: Snap Decision
SERIES: Delarosa Secrets #2
AUTHOR: T.A. Chase
PUBLISHER: Totally Bound Publishing
LENGTH: 174 pages
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Sometimes the only way to do your job—and discover love—is to trust your instincts.
D’Marcus ‘Snap’ Jefferson is a DEA agent who has worked hard to keep drugs from hitting the streets of Houston. So when Kenneth Santos walks in, claiming to have information about an upcoming drug shipment, Snap must make the choice whether to trust the stranger or not.
Kenneth Santos is a recovering addict and ex-con trying to clean up his act. Some mysterious informant has chosen him to act as the go-between with Agent Jefferson. It’s a precarious line Ken must walk because his life could be in danger if the cartels discover he’s working with Snap and the DEA.
Neither man expects to fall in love while playing such a dangerous game. Yet Snap always trusts his gut and it’s telling him that loving Ken could be the best decision he ever made.
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of torture.
REVIEW:
I can just feel the edges of a migraine coming on, so this is going to be written pretty fast so that I can get off the computer as quickly as possible. (Then I am going to go downstairs to crash on the couch and catch up on yesterday’s hockey. There’s no way that would exacerbate my headache now, right?)
After he got out of jail, Kenneth Santos just wanted to get clean and get on with his life. But he knows that while he might be done with drugs and the cartels that push them, they are not done with him. Forced to become an informant, by some unknown figure, Ken walks into the DEA’s headquarters pretty much expecting nothing but his life expectancy to be counted in days if not hours. He never expected that Agent D’Marcus ‘Snap’ Jefferson would take one look at him and decide to change his life forever. Whether that change is for better or for worse is yet to be seen.
I really do like this series by Chase. The topics can at times get a bit gruesome, but overall they are pretty light, enjoyable stories about cops and the bad guys that evade them (some of them better than others). Finding books about law enforcement that I can read with any real enjoyment is a bit of a long and hard search, so I’m glad to have found this series. Even if I think shagging your confidential informant is a really bad idea.
This is the second book in the series, and I have be liking the slow build-up of this world and these people (I’m also really excited to read book three because then we will finally get some quality time with out ‘bad guys.’ But for now, it was nice to see Victor and Perez some more). Ken is a total mess, but then again, he’s an ex-junky/criminal, so I wasn’t expecting the world’s most together man. But even with all the shit that he is having to deal with, there is something about his acceptance of his life that I like. It’s a bit depressing, sure, but he knows what he has coming for him, and he still agrees to put his life on the line. I like that about him.
And despite the fact that keeping the growing Delarosa secret is a bit of an ethical minefield for these guys, they really do care for each other. They just all seem to have a firm grasp on reality, which is nice even if not pretty.
The ending was a bit rushed, and I would have loved to have seen a bit more buildup happening before the last big hurrah, but overall this was an enjoyable story. And I am really looking forward to book three. That one should be all kinds of fun.
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