Reviewed by Amber
TITLE: Bad Dogs and Drag Queens
SERIES: Rose and Thorne #1
AUTHOR: Julie Lynn Hayes
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 138 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 25th, 2016
BLURB:
Vinnie Delarosa and Ethan Thorne are partners—on and off the clock. Federal undercover detectives, they’re part of a covert task force designed to promote goodwill between the feds and local authorities. They lend an unobtrusive helping hand wherever it’s needed. No credit required.
Vinnie and Ethan work primarily in the Southeast region of the United States and live together in Richmond, Virginia. A mugger problem brings them to Roanoke, where Vinnie is thrown out as bait to catch the man who’s been snatching purses in a city park, but they end up with more than they bargained for. Why is Vinnie always the one who has to wear the dress? Ethan says it’s because Vinnie looks much prettier in a skirt. How can he argue with that?
Expecting to return to Richmond afterward, Vinnie and Ethan find themselves assigned a new case instead. They are to go undercover at The Stroll, one of the biggest gay nightclubs in Roanoke. Someone is terrorizing both the customers and the performers. Could they be dealing with a hate crime? Someone has to protect the drag queens of Roanoke, so it’s Vinnie and Ethan to the rescue!
REVIEW:
DAMMIT!!!! For the title alone I wanted to love this story. I mean, I really, really wanted to love this story. But, dang it this was just not for me at all. There was almost nothing about this story worked for me. I did, however, like the dog. Benny was awesome and spunky!
Vinnie and Ethan are in a personal/professional partnership. In the workplace they keep everything professional but at home they’re incredibly comfortable in their relationship. Vinnie and Ethan find themselves the leads in ridiculous, over the top cases all while trying to manage their home life as a couple.
My issues started pretty much from the beginning. I didn’t really understand what agency Vinnie and Ethan worked for and why. Vinnie almost from the onset didn’t even seem to like Ethan one minute, then the next butt crazy in love. The dynamics between the two characters seemed forced I didn’t really feel the love, to be honest. There’s no denying they had passion, this author can write a love scene, that’s for sure. I would have loved a bit of back story. Maybe even a glimpse of how they met and the initial stages of attraction.
Unfortunately, this was not my cup of tea but this was a new to me author so maybe it was this particular story. I would be interested in giving another story a go to see what it’s about.
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