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In His Shadow (2014)

by Tiffany Snow(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Montlake Romance

series

The Tangled Ivy Trilogy

review 1: I like the heroine a bit, but not as much as I like Kathleen Turner. I really like Devon, but he's like a less funny, but still as much of an asshole, Kade. I know it's not fair to compare the two series ... but I fell in love with the Kathleen Turner series so that's why I will pick up ANYTHING by Tiffany Snow no matter what.This didn't disappoint and who knows? Maybe this series will turn out to be better in the long run....
review 2: On the one hand this isn’t a bad read at all, I quite enjoyed the storyline, which is an over the top romp full of drama, danger, intrigue, betrayals, passion and hot sex, although I have to say I really disliked the main characters.Ivy is young, beautiful and knows it with a fierce passion for clothes. She oozes confidence an... mored hotness but underneath it all she has spent years trying to get over an adolescence filled with sexual abuse. Although she has looks to die for and oozes confidence, she comes across as clingy and needy.Working as a bank teller and sharing an apartment with her old school friend Logan, she lives a fairly quiet life until she meets Devon, the quiet, polite, well spoken young man who always joins her queue for service.Devon is a modern day young James Bond type, but sadly out of the “wooden Roger Moore on a bad day” mould. His dialogue was incredibly cheesy and sleezy and I did get to the point where I just wanted to tell him to keep it zipped for the rest of the read. He didn’t come across as “silently sexy” just as a sleezeball who talks in clichés. He didn’t seem like someone trying not to fall in love with Ivy, just as someone manipulating her for sex. He is British, cultured and rich with the accent to match and had this annoying habit of calling Ivy “luv”. No way! That is definitely not a “posh man” word and he would never have used it.There is instant chemistry between the two characters although Devon makes it clear to Ivy that he is not going to be hanging around – his life is dangerous and there is no room for romance. Ivy on the other hand cannot help but be attracted to him whilst at the same time wanting nothing to do with him. But, what will happen as the story unfolds and they are drawn together when their paths collide and Ivy finds herself caught up in a world of espionage where killing is part of the game? What would have happened if Ivy had not been asked to deliver some papers to an elderly long standing bank client one afternoon after work – a client who then died the same night? And what is the connection to Devon who seems to be popping up everywhere?Now this book is HOT, seriously HOT and I did have problems with the way in which a young girl who has suffered serious sexual abuse which left her traumatised and unable to form close relationships suddenly turns into a rampant sex goddess just because of the ONE man who immediately and instantly cures her. This isn’t the first book that has used that tack and it really makes me uneasy. If it were that easy, why are there so many psychoanalysts around? As Ivy finally unburdens herself to Devon about her past he is shocked and horrified at what she went through and was far more considerate of her feelings – so much so, in fact that when he wanted to perform an intimate sex act on her – he didn’t wake her up first, just let her carry on sleeping. And when she did wake up half way through – why did she not have a flashback and panic? That was the one thing that really put me of Devon for life – the arrogance and selfishness of it, just made me “blerghhhh”. less

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