REVIEWED BY ALEXANDER
TITLE: Cross & Crown
SERIES: Sidewinder series book #2
AUTHOR: Abigail Roux
PUBLISHER: Riptide Publishing
LENGTH: 6 hours, 50 minutes
NARRATOR: Brock Thompson
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When Nick O’Flaherty arrives at the scene of a double homicide to find he has a witness to the crime, he thinks it’s his lucky day. But when he realizes his witness is suffering from amnesia and can’t even remember his own name, Nick wishes he’d gone with his gut and put in for vacation time. Then Nick’s boyfriend and former Recon teammate, Kelly Abbott, joins him in Boston, and Nick finds his hands a little too full as the case and his personal life collide.
The witness he’s dubbed “JD” is being tailed by Julian Cross, a retired CIA hitman. To complicate matters further, JD forms an attachment to Nick that Nick struggles not to respond to as they search for the key to JD’s identity. Trying to determine whether JD is friend or foe as they investigate the crime puts them on the trail of a much older mystery. When multiple attempts are made on their lives, Nick is forced to turn to old enemies and new allies to solve a centuries-old crime before he and Kelly get added to the history books.
REVIEW:
Cross & Crown continues to follow Nick and Kelly’s relationship, but adds much more to the storyline arc, with the return of Julian Cross, and a treasure hunt mystery. That being said, I can’t really say much about the story without giving away all the good stuff, but needless to say, Roux managed to pack a ton of story into a small package. That is not to say that Nick and Kelly’s relationship doesn’t progress, in fact some pretty major conversations happen, and I was pretty happy with the end result.
Thompson’s performance in Cross & Crown was superior to that of Shock & Awe, if only because he proves himself to be a master at Irish accents. Julian, who features prominently had a consistent voice in the story, and overall, I could identify the various characters simply based on their voices. It is apparent that Thompson hit his stride in Cross & Crown, and I expect that his future performances will only get better due to his familiarity with the material.
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