Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Surfacing Secrets

SERIES: Elemental Evidence #3

AUTHOR: Bellora Quinn and Sadie Rose Bermingham

PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing

LENGTH: 286 pages

RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2018

BLURB:

When ex-cop Jake Chivis is woken by the police and questioned about the mysterious death of his neighbor, he thinks his day can only get better. Things go from bad to worse when his lover, Mari Gale, brings him a horrific sex tape which appears to show a man being murdered. As they begin to investigate the origin of the video, nothing is as it seems. Will they find the killers before they strike again? Or will dark secrets rising to the surface in their own lives erupt and tear them apart?

Reader Advisory: This book contains mentions of past rape and sexual assault. There are scenes involving strangulation, violence and murder, and references to suicide and suicidal thoughts.

REVIEW:

This series just gets better and better. It is so well written. Brings a different flavor of mystery and suspense, with hot as hell sex, but real relationships. Everything is not always hunky dory. It’s very real. And i love that.

Jake gets woke up one morning from the police, telling him his next door neighbor is dead. It looks like a suicide. Mari is looking up stuff at his home to help with his problem during sex, when he runs across a snuff film that looks real. After Jake looks at it, he confirms that Mari is right. The police start the investigation and things begin to come together in ways they never thought. The next door neighbor wasn’t a suicide and it’s connected. Mari gets in too deep, to the point of death, Jake is terrified he’s lost his ‘powers’, and everything is getting too much. As they try to stop these killers, they realize things in their own lives need to change or things may fall apart.

I love Mari and Jake. But Mari, sometimes, I just want to smack lol. Ughhhhh. I know he’s been through some things and he has a hard time with some things, but he pushes too hard with Jake sometimes. He’s so afraid of letting people get too close that he constantly pushes Jake away. It hurts Jake so bad but Jake continues to love him. With everything they’ve been through, they have grown in some ways but this case pushes them both to the brink and I was pulling my hair out. The ups and downs, the near death experiences, the almost coming apart, it was killing me. Even though Mari can be a bit much at times, he’s so good for Jake and Jake is so good for him. And when all the drama has gone away, they realize how good they are together.

I still recommend this series. It has everything you want in a book. And I can’t wait to see if there is going to be a book 4. I really hope so.

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