Reviewed by Taylin
TITLE: Buyer’s Remorse 
SERIES: Real Estate Relations #2
AUTHOR: D.J. Jamison
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 295 pages
RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2018
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Will love persevere when the truth comes out?
LEE
I changed my name, but I can’t change what I did. My brothers died, and I spent three years in witness protection. Returning to Fields, where I once hid out, feels right. Seeing Miguel again feels even better. But when a dead body interrupts my tour of a building for sale, my start isn’t as fresh as I’d like.
MIGUEL
I’ve been trying to curb my habit of leaping into bad relationships, but when Lee comes back to town, he’s hard to resist. Kids are dying, and life’s too short to shy away from a good thing. But will Lee’s mysterious past come back to bite me?
Between police questioning and trials of trust, it’s far from smooth sailing. If we don’t figure out who’s selling synthetic drugs and convince the police Lee is not their man, we may all have a severe case of buyer’s remorse.
REVIEW:
Lee and Miguel from book one (Full Disclosure) are the central characters in this instalment. Lee returns to Fields, the town he was kept in protective custody and wants to open a business. The heroes from the first story, Reid and Camden, are concentrating on their marriage preparations, so it is up to Miguel to find Lee a property. The sparks that were there in the first book have not dimmed. However, Miguel is taking a rest from his dating habits, and Lee wants to get on a stable business footing before being distracted by another man. Fate negates that course. While Miguel is showing Lee a prospective business venue, they find a dead body. Miguel does not have full disclosure to Lee’s past. The two get involved in a little private snooping into the investigation which puts Lee even more on the police radar.
Despite being part of a series with characters from the previous book, it works as standalone. Reading book one, isn’t necessary, but preferable. The extended cast, also, adds another dimension to the story, which is more investigative and suspect driven, rather than high octane drama.
Buyer’s Remorse has a slightly different vibe to Full Disclosure. In book one the characters are in hiding almost waiting for something to happen and trying to take precautions against attack. In this story, the main characters go looking for the truth, and where, once, Lee was the protected, he now has the protective nature over Miguel, and it is sweet watching the two make things try to work.
The story is told in the first person. The POV’s swap within chapters and are clearly labelled. All the same, I couldn’t help occasionally getting confused as to who’s viewpoint I was reading. With the frequent changes, I think writing the story in the third person would have been more comfortable on the brain. But, there currently seems to be a trend with this type of layout – call me old-fashioned, but I can’t say I’m a fan.
In book one, Lee comes over as a bit of an obnoxious character. When I first started reading, I’ll admit to thinking, ‘oh goody – not,’ but I’ve liked this author’s previous works and stuck with it. Lee grew on me, and before long I was rooting for him and totally buying into his leading man status. I especially enjoyed the tennis match of pseudo-dating banter between Lee and Miguel. Although Reid’s dry, deadpan lines were a highlight.
My favourite line was – I don’t care what anybody says. I did not whimper. I groaned in a manly fashion. Lee is young but worldly wise. This part of him shows in certain encounters, which I’m not going to give away spoilers.
With each passing chapter, another clue emerges, and I couldn’t help putting together my own hypothesis and guessing who the ultimate unsub would be. There are several possibilities, and I found myself changing directions at various point of the story.
This story is one that unexpectedly drew me in. And while it had its sexy parts; I greatly enjoyed the banter and the investigation. It kept me engrossed enough to finish it in just over a day.
My apologies if this review seems a little disjointed, but as Buyer’s Remorse is part of a series, I couldn’t help doing some comparing – a bit of this and a bit of that.
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