Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Trick Roller 
SERIES: Seven of Spades #2
AUTHOR: Cordelia Kingsbridge
NARRATOR: Wyatt Baker
PUBLISHER: Riptide Publishing
RELEASE DATE: March 12, 2019
LENGTH: 8 hours, 39 minutes
BLURB:
It’s the height of summer in Las Vegas. Everyone believes the serial killer Seven of Spades is dead—except Levi Abrams and Dominic Russo—and it’s back to business as usual. For Levi, that means investigating a suspicious overdose at the Mirage that looks like the work of a high-class call girl, while Dominic pursues a tough internship with a local private investigator. The one bright spot for both of them is their blossoming relationship.
But things aren’t so simple. Soon Levi is sucked into a dangerous web of secrets and lies, even as his obsession with the Seven of Spades intensifies. Dominic knows that Levi isn’t crazy. He knows the Seven of Spades is still out there, and he’ll do anything to prove it. But Dominic has his own demons to battle, and he may be fighting a losing war.
One thing is certain: the Seven of Spades holds all the cards. It won’t be long before they show their hand.
REVIEW:
There are times I wish I could time travel…. Now is one of those times. So where would I go?
That’s easy. I would travel far enough into the future where the rest of this fantastic series had already been turned into audio. Obviously, in this future it’s a done deal that all of the books would have been turned into audio.
So by this you might already have guessed that I absolutely loved this book. I was hooked from the first to the last explosive sentence. To the point where I listened to the entire thing all in one go. Real life be damned, I had to know what happened next.
Trick Roller could possibly be read as a standalone but I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s a continuation of everything that took place in Kill Game. Levi is still investigating the Seven of Spades on the DL, even though his boss closed the case and ordered him off it.
This book has a great balance of the intense suspense, the hunt for the Seven of Spades and the other bad guys in this book. The heat and tension smouldering between Levi and Dominic. The tender moments, the funny ones, the ones that makes you mad and want to yell at the stupid people for not seeing what’s in front of them (not Levi and Dominic). It was all perfectly balanced and paced, it felt natural, never forced.
I wished this book was longer, twice so. Not because the plot or characters felt under developed or unfinished – well the plot isn’t finished but that’s because we’re only in the beginning of the series. It didn’t feel lacking in anyway. I want it to be longer because I had such a great time listening and I just wasn’t ready for it to end.
Levi and Dominic has such a great chemistry, I love them both. Both together and as individuals. They feel credible, I love how they are flawed, have struggles and that things aren’t magically resolved. That alone will make me love a book.
Wyatt Baker did a wonderful job narrating this book. He sucked me right in from the start and told this suspenseful tail about love and murder and the hunt for an elusive serial killer. He captured the feel and essence of the book and made me feel it all, the thrill of the chase, the heat between Levi and Dominic, the banter, the exasperation of not being believed. I was there and I loved it.
I can only hope that the rest of the series will be made into audios, because this series is quickly turning into one of my all-time favourites.
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