Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Review: Deadly Surrender (The Serafina: Sin City #5)

Deadly Surrender (The Serafina: Sin City #5)

by Katie Reus

Blurb:
Getting too close could end their friendship…
Good old-fashioned heartbreak sent Grace running to Las Vegas for a new start. There, she has the support of a college buddy and her social group, which includes Logan…funny, sexy, protective Logan MacNeil. They’ve become close friends, but that’s all Grace is willing to offer. Logan’s a known player, and Grace has been hurt enough for one lifetime, thanks. Getting left at the altar will do that to a woman.
Being apart could end their lives…
Logan’s reputation is more than a little exaggerated, and he’s never cared. Until Grace. She’s worth risking his heart again, if he can convince the brave, independent woman he’s not the playboy he seems. Right now she needs a friend…and a protector. Someone has already targeted them both—twice. Logan suspects he gained an enemy for his part in his boss’s recent failed business deal. But until he’s sure, he’s keeping Grace close. Achingly, torturously close… And when things turn deadly, he’ll lay everything on the line to make her his.
Themes:  Contemporary, Friends-to-Lovers
Rating: 4.25 stars
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Review:
The long-awaited return to the Serafina series has arrived and Logan gives us a story of love and honor that reminds us that not everyone gets it right on the first try, but hopefully we all ends up with the right person in the end.  Katie Reus is for sure a favorite author of mine and I loved this series when it first came out last year, a spin-off of her ---- series.  When the series ended rather abruptly many readers began begging for Logan to get his won story, having gotten to know him when his twin, Roman, fell in love.  Well the wait is finally over and it was worth every moment.  Grace moved to Vegas a few years earlier after a rather disastrous ending to her engagement left her unwilling to stay in the same town as her ex.  Since then she has made a lot of friends and in building her life up, but she’s not exactly a party girl, a teacher with a quite life, except the one bit of excitement in her life is her best friend Logan.  He lights her up and makes her burn anytime he is on her mind on in her presence but she knows his reputation and isn’t willing to trust him with her heart.  Logan has been falling in love with Grace since the moment he met her, but she won’t let him out of the friend-zone.   One wild night changes everything when she let’s down her guard and he gets her into his bed, but she pulls away just as quickly.  Soon he is back pining for the woman that makes him burn and leaves him aching for a life he can’t seem to grab ahold of.   When danger follows him home, putting Grace directly into the cross hairs, there is no way he will let her be in danger because of him, so he pulls her into a protective detail that will put the heat level between them up to a thousand.  Running for their lives doesn’t seem to stop the passion between them and if only they can slow down long enough to actually talk about the future, they might both come to understand that fate has brought them together and they are the perfect pair.  Log is such a big sweetheart, as is apparent from the first moment he appear in this book (for those who hadn’t already met him), and his protective streak is as deep as the Grand Canyon.  Whether he is fighting for their lives or showing Grace how much he appreciates her passion, his dedication in everything he does makes him the ultimate good guy and the type of alpha male that I always love to read about.  I loved seeing him in action both bringing down the bad guys and finally getting a chance to work his magic on Grace.  Grace is a woman who was burned badly in the past, and understandably has her doubts about starting a relationship with someone she thinks is a player, but at the same time I wish she had opened up to Logan a little more sooner.   Once she did begin to see him for the man he truly was, letting her perceptions go, I like her a lot more and began to appreciate her character.  I enjoyed seeing her working alongside Logan when they were on the run and while she was so obviously way out of her depth, she refused to give up or become a damsel in distress, fighting for her man and standing up for those that were in danger around her.  I loved the chemistry between Logan and Grace, but the laughter and sweetness of their relationship was just as fun to read about, building a solid base for them to build their lives on.  I am hoping this wasn’t the end of the return to the Serafina series, but if it was, it was a great way to go out to be sure.  Way to go Katie, another masterpiece.
*ebook provided by publisher (via NetGalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review.  No compensation was provided.

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