Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Flash and Bang 
SERIES: Death and Destruction #2
AUTHOR: Patricia Logan
NARRATOR: Michael Pauley
PUBLISHER: Westburg Publishing
RELEASE DATE: October 9, 2017
LENGTH: 10 hours, 5 minutes
BLURB:
If running from a hit man wasn’t scary enough, ATF Agent Thayne Wolfe has a new challenge in his life, and this one may be even more dangerous than the last. He has to figure out how to work with his reckless new partner, a handsome former Marine who seems to have a death wish.
Jarrett Evans never stays in one place very long, and being chained to a desk doing paperwork is not his idea of entertainment. His lover and new partner at the ATF seems to find ways to throw a monkey wrench into all his fun, especially when Thayne wants to curtail his need to jump off 10 story buildings.
When their boss sends them to San Diego to investigate a fireworks accident, he figures Jarrett can’t hurt anyone playing with sparkers, not even himself. The fact is, danger, intrigue, and Jarrett’s dubious past seem to follow the men wherever they go.
From a Marine base at the Mexican border to an explosion in LA’s Chinatown, they aren’t prepared for a seriously pissed off militia, a smoking hot ex-lover, and more guys who want them dead.
The sparks will fly in and out of the bedroom in Flash and Bang.
REVIEW:
Here we go again…
Flash and Bang picks up about two months after Death and Destruction. Thayne and Jarrett are partners and lovers. More importantly, the hitmen chasing them in the last book seemed to have backed off and they can go on living life as normally as these two, at times insane, men can. They are tasked to investigate a fireworks accident in San Diego. Only it wasn’t an accident and several more attacks occur across the state. The more they uncover the more danger they finds themselves in and they soon finds themselves questioning if they are doing the hunted, or if they are the ones being hunted.
The book felt clunky at times, there wasn’t a natural progression of events – or at least it didn’t feel like it to me. It was a mix of intense action with bullets flying, explosions and jumping of roof tops then there was the marathon, hot and heavy sex scenes. And by marathon I mean some 20+ minutes long scenes. Now you probably know me by now, and listening to these epic and drawn out sex scenes is not my thing, and them happening time and again – I’m sorry but that’s just not for me. I want and need something more, something that I didn’t quite get. This much on page sex feels like either the author needs the words as filler to make the book longer or she’s trying to use it to mask the lack of a deeper connection between the main characters. Maybe it was a bit of both.
Michael Pauley sadly couldn’t bring this book to life for me either. He never really managed to make or keep me interested. At times I listened to the words, but nothing really registered and more than once I found myself questioning what I’d just listened to, what just happened or was going on. As you might guess, that’s not a good feeling to have while listening. I can’t say why it happened, if it was the writing or narration or a combination of the two. The sad thing is that I know they can make it work, I absolutely loved Thin Blue and I wished I could love this series as well.
I can see this book and series appealing to a lot of people, but it seems like I’m not one of them. So I think I might stop this series here, at least for now, and keep to the spin off series instead.
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