3.75 Stars
Violet McFadden, 34, lives a
pretty ordinary life. That is until a little detour while running an errand one
evening places her at the Grim Rock Distillery and into the sights of Sergio
and Rocky. But Violet is looking for a little
adventure and excitement, and Rocky Duncan, 29, is looking for a book keeper at
his not so friendly business. An exchange of self-defense lessons for some
secretarial work puts them both on a new road.
“He was either going to murder me or bury my body or we’d have a lovely moonlit evening. Fingers crossed for the latter!”
Rocky is a bit anti-social,
guarded, and intimating. He’s the type of guy you don’t mess with, built and emanating
an air of danger.
Violet isn’t exactly your
typical heroine. Quirky is probably the best way to describe her. While she’s
always been the wallflower and had a limited social life, she’s far from bland
or mousey. At times she’s a ball of
contradictions, a bit of a plain Jane who knows cars and guns as well as a germophobe
who shops at thrift store. A reader herself, she has no tolerance for BS
misunderstandings in romance novels, and I liked that about her.
“‘Grow up, fake book people!’”
But while Violet is pretty vocal and thus there is thankfully no BS misunderstanding break ups here, Violet could, however,
stand to grow up a bit. She didn’t always act her age, and while sometimes I found her humorous,
other times I just wanted to tape her mouth shut.
Told via Violet’s 1st
person POV but with the occasional 3rd person sections for Rocky, the
story is pretty long and a thorough edit would make it more manageable as there
were places I skimmed on descriptions. Also Violet repeats everything that
happens to her best friend and mother and not only was it repetitive, but it
also made Violet seem really immature. After a while her mother and friend began to
drive me nuts with how nosey and meddlesome they were. Rocky’s friends were far more interesting and
made an entertaining addition to the story.
All in all, the story has a lot of potential, but could benefit from some tweaking in certain aspects. My Dirty Detour is an original standalone romantic-comedy-suspense.
All in all, the story has a lot of potential, but could benefit from some tweaking in certain aspects. My Dirty Detour is an original standalone romantic-comedy-suspense.
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