Reviewed by Cindy
TITLE: LA Vice
AUTHOR: Kat Cassidy
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
LENGTH: 221 Pages
RELEASE DATE: June 18th, 2024
BLURB:
In Los Angeles–glitzy, grimy, a place where passions burn as bright as the Hollywood lights–two men find themselves snared in a web of secrets, danger, betrayal and a love that refuses to be extinguished.
Galen Luskey, once a rising legal star, has been reduced to scraping by with criminal clientele after his career took a nosedive two years ago. Witness to a murder that threatens to shatter the fragile stability he’s rebuilt, he has no choice but to turn to the one man he swore he’d never allow back into his life.
Lev Kavazanjian, a hardened LAPD detective nursing wounds of his own, reluctantly gets tangled up with Galen in the aftermath of the crime. Unhealed scars resurface and long-buried desires reignite, sparking a fierce attraction neither man can deny.
But with secrets in the shadows and enemies closing in, Galen and Lev must confront their pasts if they have any hope of a future together. Set in Kat Cassidy’s LA universe, “LA Vice” is a heart-pounding enemies-to-lovers tale of redemption, second chances, and the power of love to conquer all.
REVIEW:
Galen Luskey loved and lost everything to a man he can’t forget. He’s been deperate and drifting ever since.
Lev Kavazanjian is so caught up in trying to avenge the past that he lost sight of the most important thing in his life.
These two men broke my heart. They are both so stuck in their own personal struggles that finding their way out seems almost impossible. Galen is bitter and angry and it leads him to bad decisions. Lev is lost and lonely and he’s starting to let his emotions get the best of him and not in a good way.
I enjoyed watching them struggle to figure out how to make things better for each other and finding themselves in the process. This book is a little sad and dreary but it totally fits with the story. It reminds me of one of those procedural police dramas from years gone by and I’m glad our heros get their happily ever after eventually.
This author writes conflict very well. Some of the arguments between Lev and Galen are so strong I can picture it in my head. The sex is sweet and steamy at the same time and it made me smile.
I felt for Lev a lot. He spends a lot of the book trying to keep his career from falling apart and it was a little sad how he realized that the life he was living was also keeping him from actually being alive.
I think I will go looking for something else by this author because I really enjoyed the tone and cadence of this story and I’d like to see what else they can do.
It is a shorter story (at least for me) but it’s definitely all there. Good books always leave me wanting more, and this one is no different but I didn’t feel like there was everything missing.
There were no big surprises as far as I’m concerned. There was no question for me what was going on, but I am pretty good at ferretting out the ending of most books. But that’s okay, sometimes it’s the journey not the destination and this was one of those times.
Solid 4 out of 5
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