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Chargement... Hard Rain (Rogue Book 1)par Irma Venter
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#hard-rain-rogue-book-1 Alex Derksen is a foreign journalist from South Africa on assignment in Tanzania. Shortly after arriving in the new country, he meets beautiful photographer Ranna Abramson. For Alex, it’s love at first sight. But Ranna is not an easy woman to love. She seems attracted to Alex but she’s constantly pushing him away at the same time. She’s obviously hiding something but she won’t share her troubles with Alex. She shows up for a date with a bloody arm one night. Not long after, one of her acquaintances is found dead and Ranna is suspected of murder. What exactly is Ranna hiding? Or what is she running from? I wanted to like this more than I did. It’s a pretty solid premise but the writing was too–jumpy? I actually restarted it about 20 pages in because I thought I had missed something. Alex and Ranna barely knew each other but Alex seemed to think that she owed him something. It was some crazy insta-love. And then Ranna finally shares her worries with Alex and all I could think was, “What? Really? That’s where we’re going?” With this revelation in hand, I had a good idea of who done what, so to speak. All that I needed was the full details of why. I was correct about who but the why? It felt far-fetched. And then the resolution? That really left me scratching my head. Alex and Ranna’s choices made absolutely no sense to me. I did enjoy the hot, humid, rainy setting of the book. The author’s descriptions of Tanzania and South Africa made my travel bug flare up. It was also fun to read some South African words that I hadn’t come across before, like bakkie. It’s a pickup truck, if you’re curious. Apparently this is a series but I don’t feel any need to continue with it. I received this book for free through the Amazon First Reads program. I am not an Amazon affiliate. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRogue (1)
Chaos, murder, and a hint of sizzling romance descend on East Africa in this electrifying page-turner of a mystery.Journalist Alex Derksen's new assignment in Tanzania should be easy, but he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the news. It starts when he meets Ranna, a beautiful photographer with something to hide. Alex stopped believing in love a long time ago, yet here in the middle of East Africa, it's found him again.Alex knows a thing or two about chaos--wherever he goes, it follows. When an IT billionaire washes up onshore after seasonal flooding, he finds himself at the center of an investigation with Ranna as the main suspect. It turns out she may have a good reason for hiding her past.Wherever she goes, murder follows.Alex should be used to these cat-and-mouse games, but this time it's different. Should he listen to his heart and help Ranna hide the bloody trail leading to her? Or should he use his head and run for his life? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is all told from Alex's POV with a strong forward momentum, building tension scene after scene.
And then Ranna takes over the story, and the tension dissipates. In the interest of avoiding spoilers I won't say much more except that I felt the suspense of not knowing that imbued Alex's side of the story was frittered away once Ranna, with prodding from Hamisi, shares what haunts her.
I kept hoping that there would be a twist at the end that would salvage my hope for an African noir, but in the end I was disappointed. Factoring in the great beginning and the evocative descriptions of Tanzania and later South Africa, I'm giving it 3 stars, despite the let down of the closing half of the book. ( )