Black and Blue........review

So last night I finished Black and Blue by Gena Showalter. Let me tell you it was a HOT book! Wow-zer! I mean delish! I only had one problem with the whole book. But I'll get to that later.

So, you have Evie Black, a cocky black ops agent, that makes a mistake and gets someone she loves killed, and then quits her black ops job and doesn't let go of the "its all my fault" guilt. She does a  black ops job with Corbin Blue, an other worlder football player to society, but who she knows is a secret black ops agent as well; which doesn't go well for Corbin, because Evie takes matter into her own hands and finishes the job herself. So they have this I hate you but your still sexy as hell relationship. After the job ends they part ways. Corbin has to lead this sort of double life where he pretends that the affairs he's forced to have because of his black ops position have society thinking he is a heartbreaking two timing play boy. But he wants someone to see that there's more to him then that.

Eventually something happens ( I say something because I'm not into spoilers, I despise when people do that, it just ruins everything. ) and they are forced to work together once again. They fight their mutual attraction, which to me is the best part, because when they finally give in, it's like the finale at the fourth of July fireworks show! It's awesome! Ladies, if you read romance, or are into paranormal romance, then you are gonna love this, it has you breathless, and even possibly wondering when the last time you felt something like this was. They have to fight together to save people they care about, try to fight their attraction, before they both get killed.

All in all this book was awesome. Kept me turning the pages, I was only interrupted once, which kept me away from the book for a few hours, but the good thing was when I cracked it back open, the words flowed so easily that I was able to quickly lose myself in the story again, remembering all the previous happenings. The thing I love about Miss Showalter is how well her chapters flow, how well the characters move together, how they inter-twine with each other. You don't hear much mention of either of these characters in any of her previous books. In fact I don't remember Evie Black at all, I do recall snippets of Corbin Blue references in a couple of previous books, so I was excited to see that Corbin got his own story actually. At first I was like this isn't the same Corbin Blue that was in the other books is it? Turns out, yeah it is, and I was stoked.

So I'm just reading along, and I get to the last few pages, and all of a sudden the story starts being rushed. Felt like maybe Miss Showalter rushed to finish the last few pages, or the editor cut out a lot of the ending to make the book so many words. I think if the last part, particularly the part about who they saved was a little more descriptive, maybe from the characters point of view, then I think that it would have flowed better, and not felt as rushed to me. It was like I was super speed reading through the last three pages.

So honestly I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes paranormal romance, some of the scenes where very hot. But the best part was the anticipation the author gave the reader!

I give it 4.8 Stars!