The Dark Tide
Series: Adrien English Mysteries #5
Pub: 2009
Author: Josh Lanyon
Genre: contemporary mystery
Format: ibook; 263p w/ 18 chapters
Age
Range: adult
Synopsis
As if recovering from heart surgery beneath the gaze of his
over-protective family wasn’t exasperating enough, someone keeps trying to
break into Adrien English’s bookstore. What is this determined midnight
intruder searching for?
When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the
midst of the renovation of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore renovation, Adrien turns
to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working
as a private detective.
Jake is only too happy to have reason to stay in close contact
with Adrien, but there are more surprises in Adrien’s past than either one of
them expects -- and one of them may prove hazardous to Jake’s own heart
Thoughts
Hu…the last book, no matter how much you want, need to read the
book, there is always something truly sad about reading the last of a series.
Lucky for me, Lanyon finished it perfectly, if you asked me.
We start off about three week(?) from the last book with Adrien at
home, finally, after his operation, only to have someone try to break into his
house—lucky for Adrien the bastard was hoping no one would be there and went
running, but it was just the start.
This one goes into the past, again, only this time, it’s an old
body and hold history that’s just on the brink of having all that were involved
being dead. I found myself, if I’m honest, so wrapped up in Adrien’s personal
life that the murder plot didn’t really resister like it had the other books. It’s
not like it wasn’t there. It’s not like it wasn’t somewhat interesting, or
helpful to the whole book, but…it wasn’t the highlight.
Maybe this was because it’s the end and for four books I have
wanted the conclusion for Jake and Adrien. It was coming, you could feel it
back in book one.
This book, maybe because of that point, went faster, the murder
plot a point of Adrien not wanting to think any more about Jake when his
emotion got too much, or when he didn’t want to see things, maybe.
Hell, I’m explaining this really bad, but Lanyon has a way, especially
in this series, with being able to write the most authentic realisation into one’s
self. Brilliant as that is, you see what’s going to happen while you still
sitting on the edge of the seat.
You see what everyone around him sees, while you’re as clueless as
him. And he’s clueless for the point that he’s making himself. He doesn’t want
to see it, feel it, but it’s there regardless.
It’s one of the magic he’s able to pull out of his books. Out of
himself, and for that it makes his books so engrossing.
The best bit, and I’ll pull what other have said, the book is
concluded and yet there story is
just beginning and the end of the book gives them that (gives them a life off
the pages). You can see that, you can feel it. And because of that it was so
much more…..
It made it finished in a way fully closed off books don’t.
All in all I’m very glad I picked up the series. I’m glad I went
for that adventure when normally I would have stayed clear (mystery isn’t my
thing, not a deal breaker, but not really my thing) but I’m glad I didn’t. it
was a great set of books.
Series
Fatal Shadow, A
Dangerous Thing, The Hell You Say, Death of a Pirate King, The Dark Tide
☼☼☼
(not:
none of the cover pictured is the iBook cover--I couldn't find that one, which is a shame, 'cause it's one of the better of the series)
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