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Walk A Mile (2014)

by Sarah Madison(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1632161648 (ISBN13: 9781632161642)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

series

The Sixth Sense

review 1: Speechless, I am speechless. I know, I know I gush…..But as a reviewer you get to read many books, and you become menza mens at what you get to review; you follow me? When Sarah stepped up with Crying for The Moon, and The Boys of Summer, I sat back and said wowza ! So here I am reading book two of this wonderful new series called the Sixth Sense Series and I adore it.My review for Unspeakable Words book one speaks for itself.(pardon the pun) I loved it, I loved the two heros, I loved the repartee, I loved the storyline, I loved the tempo, I loved it all.We are talking Special Agent Jerry Parker, FBI, handsome, gay, with a memory like a sieve. Special Agent John Flynn is totally opposite, a profiler, great dresser, straight. Both are thrown together when Flynn arri... moreves on the west coast and Jerry invites him to stay at his place to work a cold case together. Flynn picks up an artifact while at a local museum and is the recipient of otherworldly powers. Walk A Mile continues a few weeks after Unspeakable Words, where Parker and Flynn are traveling to the east coast to Quantico. Jerry had hoped it would allow more time for the two to get in some more sexy time (oh didn’t I mention they are together together as well). It was perfect timing as they heard there was ‘another similar artifact’ in the area and it was worth looking at to see if it could help them with Flynn’s new found ‘powers’Ms Madison has us getting sucked into this story right from take off and again as I said previously the repartee between these two have me laughing at their outrageous interplay. The new artifact has the potential to bring the men into a freaky turn of events and allows each man to see themselves from another view.I love the fact that Ms Madison can solve an aspect of this story, but still leave us hanging. This is a tribute to her great writing ability. I admit it, I am addicted, I cannot wait to see the next calamity to hit the Parker and Flynn show.Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild
review 2: There are so many things I enjoyed about Walk a Mile. So many, many things. This is definitely a character driven tale, but the plot is sound as well. It’s a multi- layered story that includes the ever elusive emotional component that so many authors struggle to capture. I certainly wasn’t disappointed, after waiting a whopping 4 years. Okay. That was passive aggressive. But 4 years?! I practically stalked this poor author’s website for the first year or two following Unspeakable Words. I never gave up hope that Madison would return to fill us in on Flynn and Jerry’s continuing adventures, but my fear was that after such a long reprieve, the build up in my own head would never allow me to enjoy the reality of what she would put out there. How delightfully wrong I was! Here is the breakdown:-Would I recommend it: Yes, yes, put down what you are doing and start this series now if you enjoy complicated but satisfying tales that are character driven with multilayered story arcs. Contains self-conscious FBI agents, one with telepathic powers, and one determined to keep his thoughts to himself thank you very much. But wait, there’s a twist - which FBI agent is which? -Characters - 4/4: To me, with characters,continuity is key. Like, don’t make me love these people in the first book, and then have them act completely differently in the second. That’s a deal breaker. And to be honest, Flynn is not the most lovable of guys, but I appreciate watching his growth from a lesser douche bag to a more understandable one. He can be a super insensitive bag of dicks, and almost every action he takes reflects the fact that he is one walking, talking self-defense mechanism. Jerry isn’t exactly the picture of emotional health either, but in Walk a Mile, much as he does in Unspeakable Words, he is the one who is able to at least put himself out there, vulnerabilities and all. Together, these two don’t form a perfect whole but that is what I love to read about. From the start of the first installment, to the end of the second, what develops between these two is a slow burn, not a conflagration. Madison is very good at getting the reader to ask themselves some hard questions - like, what brings two people together, but more importantly, what keeps them that way? -John looked nonplussed. A little frown appeared between his eyebrows. “I happen to like the person you were before. But if you want to become someone else, hey, I’m okay with that, too. I’ll help you do whatever you want. As long as I get to come along, too.”-Plot - 4/4: Madison did something very clever here. It kind of reminded me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, circa the college years, when Willow loses Amber and subsequently her shit. Yeah, let me explain. That whole season, the viewer was waiting for the big bad to show up, because with Buffy, that was the formula. We had the Master, the Mayor, we had Glory, etc., etc. But in season 6, we had something much less obvious, but so much more dangerous. It wasn’t until the last episode that everybody had a big a-ha moment, because the monster that year didn’t have fangs, or claws. It didn’t drool and hide in a dark corner. It was Willow, it was one of the team. Specifically, it was something that hid within her, actually, the very things we hide from within ourselves: our past, what it has done to mold us into who we are, and facing what we are truly capable of. And this is what Madison does with Walk a Mile. She presents a story that ostensibly revolves around Flynn and Jerry finding the artifact that will help relieve Flynn of his telepathic powers. There’s a high school reunion thrown in there that ends up being way more important than it seems to be when it’s first introduced it, too. Really, though, it’s about Flynn returning home, and taking Jerry with him, rendering it nearly impossible for either of them to hide from Flynn’s past and how it affects his present. By extension, it affects Jerry’s present, too. In the amazing cliffhanger ending (damn you, clever author!) the reader is left wondering if John finally confronting his past, and what he feels for Jerry, will be enough to keep these two together, because like Willow, he might have lanced many of his wounds (although he doesn’t utilize magical witchy bullshit to do it, telepathy or not) but he still doesn’t really have control over his darker parts - That will take practice, which I suspect we will see in book 3. So there you have it, in like, a really complicated and long winded nutshell. Could have been more succinct? Maybe. Probably. less

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