Reviewed by Dee
TITLE: Rescue Me
AUTHOR: Michelle L. Teichman
PUBLISHER: Ylva Publishing
LENGTH: 272 Pages
RELEASE DATE: October 19, 2016
BLURB:
Life is exciting if you’re one of the top RCMP officers in the country. With a few good years under her belt and a promotion so close she can almost touch it, Staff Sergeant Kristen Bailey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has everything figured out. Until she meets Ashleigh Paige.
Beautiful, naïve, intelligent, and trusting, Ashleigh is the perfect possible lead for Bailey’s case. All she has to do is get close to her. The only problem is Ashleigh’s a paramedic, and in Toronto, paramedics and cops don’t mix.
Undercover and searching for answers as a Toronto police officer, Bailey uses her charm to get Ashleigh to trust her and open up about what she knows surrounding the case of a dead police officer and the paramedics who might have murdered him.
The trouble is, the closer she gets to Ashleigh, the more the line between informant and intimate gets blurred.
REVIEW:
One thing I know for sure when picking up a book from Ylva publishing is that it’s going to be well polished. This one was no exception, however it’s the first time I’ve come across a book set in Canada with what I call Brit spelling – colour, flavour, kilometers, etc. Perhaps it was a regional thing?
The plot flowed well and the characters were engaging. The story is told in third person and dual POV which allows the reader to get to know the leading characters, Kristen and Ashleigh, really well.
Due to a murder, which appeared to be carried out by EMTs, there’s a huge rift between Officers and Paramedics. Therefore, when an undercover cop falls for a paramedic, the supposed enemy, it makes for an interesting combination.
Early on, I had an inkling of who the villains were. I was right on one front and taken by surprise on another. The mystery behind the investigation alone will keep readers flipping the pages.
Ashleigh and Kristen make a great couple. Although I will say, the narration constantly changing from first name to surname took me a long time to get used to. In fact, I don’t think I actually did. There would be a scene with Ashleigh and Kristen and then it would mention something about Bailey. For a minute I’d be on the back foot wondering who the hell Bailey was before remembering Bailey and Kristen were one and the same. Others might not have an issue with such. There are a few adult scenes that compliment rather than overwhelm this story.
The show down wasn’t pretty. It required a bit of suspension of belief on my part, due to the heroine’s heinous injuries, but then again people have been known to carry out mighty feats with adrenaline pumping through their veins. And, as soon as everything comes to a head, the story jumps ahead to the epilogue, without much mention of the horrendous fallout that surely ensued.
Even though I found the eighteen-month jump too big of a leap from where it left off, I was so happy for Kristen’s brother and sister-in-law. A couple who played wonderful supporting characters. But I would’ve liked to know more about the relationship between Ashleigh and her parents, given the story started out with her mother’s issues with her daughter being a lesbian.
All in all, this is a great romp if you don’t over think it. Something I freely admit I tend to do.
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