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What can I saw about the book 7 of the Troubleshooters series... hmmmm...

Well, first off, there's always about a third of the book where I'm just agitated. It's the recipe for the series to have one character fighting his/her attraction to the other. Someday I'm going to write a romance novel where they just happily fall in love and something ELSE happens to keep them apart. I just want to dive into the pages with a frying pan and lay one of them out. This installment was no different. James 'Diego' Nash truly believes that he's a bad man, and therefore he can't contemplate the idea that a sweet girl from Iowa would ever choose to be with him or that he could be worthy of her. I wanted to take that frying pan to Nash for pushing Tess away with cruel words, and I wanted to give Tess a good one for not recognizing that he was purposely trying to hold her at bay.

BUT, there was no one in this book that I wanted to brain more than Lawrence Decker. Deck, the one who was supposedly Nash's very best friend. They were supposed to be soooo close that they knew when the other was in danger, where Nash goes Deck goes and vice versa. They were inseparable. So why was it that Deck didn't realize how Nash felt about Tess. How could he consistently look at his 'best friend' and think that he was worthless. How could he TELL Tess that he 'thought less of Nash' knowing that Nash could hear him. Throughout the whole book it was Nash rushing to Decks aid to keep him safe. Nash was always arranging time for Deck to sleep. Nash was fretting when Deck seemed overly worried about something Deck was keeping secret. But where was the worry on the flip side? I mean, (not a HUGE spoiler coming up as you find this out pretty quickly, but this is your warning), Nash is purposely reckless so that he gets hurt in the field as his version of 'cutting'. Getting physically hurt is easier for him to handle then the emotional hurt that he's piled on himself for years. How is it that DECKER doesn't know this. It took Tess all of one night to figure out, but supposedly Deck and Nash are like 'intuitive twins' or whatever. I'll tell you what, Decker was the most self-centered character in a Troubleshooter book so far. I'm not looking forward to his book.

Okay Peeps, rant over, I swear. Despite all that anger, I actually liked this book. AND the best part was this was a Troubleshooters book that only had one romance! The whole thing was pretty much just Nash and Tess, and that was refreshing. There's a set up there for more, but it's gonna be slow rolling which will be great. Tess and Nash were dense in the biggest sense of the word, but when they realized how they really felt, when Nash gave his big speech, I was grinning and swooning and doing girly hand flutters around the chest cavity region where my heart is. James 'Jimmy' 'Diego' Nash Santucci was one dreamy Alpha man. If Tess had given him up, I'd be happy to take her place!

Great installment. A surprise, seeing as I have my sights set on book nine (Max/Gina and Jones/Molly) and figured books 7 and 8 would just be filler.

Leea, when we moving on?! :)