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Chargement... Reasonable Doubtpar Gregory Ashe
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |    ) claudiereads | Nov 25, 2022 | By the by, Emery and Evie make an adorable pair. (  ) fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 | “Shush now. It’s going to be ok.” Me in that moment: I’m actually the opposite of ok but sure I’ll take your word for it ( ) loqiton | Aug 1, 2021 | He already did, but now he really does. Anyway at some point I was sobbing. Or maybe a lot of the last bit. Ashe upped his prose for me in this in many ways... Or I was paying more attention now for reasons. Many many more highlights. ( ) samnreader | May 31, 2021 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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After almost twenty years, Emery Hazard finally has the man he loves. But things with his boyfriend and fellow detective, John-Henry Somerset, are never easy, and they've been more complicated lately for two reasons: Somers's ex-wife and daughter. No matter what Hazard does, he can't seem to get away from the most important women in his boyfriend's life. While Hazard struggles with his new reality (changing dirty diapers, just to start), a bizarre murder offers a distraction. John Oscar Walden, the leader of a local cult, is found dead by the police, and the case falls to Hazard and Somers. The investigation takes the two detectives into the cult's twisted relationships and the unswerving demands of power and faith. But the deeper Hazard looks into the cult, the deeper he must look into his own past, where belief and reason have already clashed once. And as Hazard struggles to protect the most vulnerable of Walden's victims, he uncovers a deeper, more vicious plot behind Walden's murder, and Hazard finds himself doing what he never expected: racing to save the killer. Only, that is, if Somers doesn't need him to babysit. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingGregory Ashe est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires  
 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (4.04)
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Unlike, Gregory Ashe, I can't write tragically convoluted, self-deluding, unobservant characters, which is why they're interesting to me. He writes emotional cowards, and does it well. (We are all challenged by reality in ways that draw out our cowardice, I'm certainly not immune.)
So, Hazard and Somerset. I hated book #1 so much I avoided Ashe entirely for awhile. Three years.
But, I enjoyed the Borealis Investigations trilogy a lot. And then, I enjoyed a few other of his novels. So, this fall, I tried H&S book 2. It's not a good cop procedural (none of them are), but the dynamic...worked, that time. Ish. Same for #3, although it was getting repetitious. Finally, at the end of #4, they stop being jerkfaces long enough for some honesty to sneak in. So, silly me, I was thinking #5 would pick up immediately or a week later.
Nope. Two months, into a relationship we suffered for?
No.
I feel cheated.
If I'd known to skip to #4, I'd have missed little and would now be less annoyed that Ashe cheated me out of the explosion of learning curves this pair would require to earn the happiness and ease in the first scene of #5.
It's always the author's choice where to take a story.
It's always the reader's choice to disagree. (