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zelofheda's review
3.0
I don't think I'm the target audience for this kind of book, so that may have influenced my feelings. I liked the "forensic" half better, and found my interest waning slightly whenever it switched over to the relationship between Chloe and Jason, but on the whole, I enjoyed it. Without being boring, the book gave me lots of interesting information about being a forensic scientist, and about what life can be like for an actor. I liked that the ending was satisfying, not sugary sweet and unrealistic.
mamakarlita's review against another edition
4.0
The love story is basically gone and Chloe's job takes center stage. It was an interesting case. My main gripe was the beginning of chapter 18 (90-93% of the book according to my Kindle). I wish she had just not put that in at all. I felt like it cheapened the rest of the story and theme. (Spoilers or I'd expand) . A really good book otherwise. Oh - I actually bought this rather than wait for the sequel via signing up on newsletter.
sdz0123's review
4.0
This was a very cute, light read novel. One of those novels that you start reading and then notice you finished it in one reading.
ladyamberreviewspr's review
5.0
So refreshing!! Reading Emily's books takes me out of my normal paranormal and fantasy genre. And it's just so refreshing to read something out of the norm. Nobody's Damsel is so much better than any CSI, NCIS, Law & Order or any other crime scene shows.
I felt so much emotion while reading this story, and loved every bit of it. Of course as usual Chloe is dealing with the stress and hassle from the paparazzi for being married to an A-listed Movie Star. However, this time they have gone too far.
Chloe has started a new job, working in the crime lab for her local police department. She's working on a particular case that is bearing down on her emotions and its hitting home for her. She keeps remembering what had happened to her when she was 11 years old. She's determined to work hard and pull what ever strings available to try to bring a happy ending to this case.
If you want a read that's full of drama, passion and so much more than Nobody's Damsel is perfect.
I felt so much emotion while reading this story, and loved every bit of it. Of course as usual Chloe is dealing with the stress and hassle from the paparazzi for being married to an A-listed Movie Star. However, this time they have gone too far.
Chloe has started a new job, working in the crime lab for her local police department. She's working on a particular case that is bearing down on her emotions and its hitting home for her. She keeps remembering what had happened to her when she was 11 years old. She's determined to work hard and pull what ever strings available to try to bring a happy ending to this case.
If you want a read that's full of drama, passion and so much more than Nobody's Damsel is perfect.
lmrivas54's review
4.0
I loved this book, as much as I loved the first one, Someone Else's Fairytale. In this one Chloe and Jason have been married about a year, but have spent a lot of time apart, due to her Masters studies and his film making. Paparazzi and gossip magazines are accosting Chloe and hinting at marital problems. Chloe is bothered but decides to keep an open mind, which is proof of how intelligent she is. I loved how Jason enforces his devotion to Chloe each time they meet, he's very much a man in love with his wife, but he has career issues too. The presence of a previous girlfriend brings some tension but Chloe manages it with a lot of dignity and intelligence. Her involvement with her work is brilliant, it brings everything together in a very spectacular way, and even solves Jason's seft doubts.
nitzanschwarz's review against another edition
4.0
This series really really surprises me!
Like, it somehow manages to be not what I expect every time. Usually, when there is a series of contemporaries featuring the same couple, the series is dragged into this never-ending stream of relationship drama. And there is some of this, for sure, but this book focused more on Chloe's career, the chaos of marrying a superstar, and a horrific kidnapping case.
Now, I was really surprised, and really impressed, with the direction this book took, even as I was less impressed with the relationship drama. Mostly because I didn't get it. Chloe and Jason talk about their issues, they put it out there in a coherent way, and yet still somehow conversations that didn't seem like arguments at all are described as such, and there is anger that felt to me like it came out of nowhere.
I was also a little sad that we didn't get to see more happy times for them. Give us more scenes of them just enjoying their marriage so we'll feel it's all worth it, because marrying Jason comes with a LOT OF SHIT from famous exs to fangirls and paparazzi.
BTW, don't enter this series for sexy times. There aren't any. This is not a bad thing - it's simply not the focus of their series at ALL.
Like, it somehow manages to be not what I expect every time. Usually, when there is a series of contemporaries featuring the same couple, the series is dragged into this never-ending stream of relationship drama. And there is some of this, for sure, but this book focused more on Chloe's career, the chaos of marrying a superstar, and a horrific kidnapping case.
Now, I was really surprised, and really impressed, with the direction this book took, even as I was less impressed with the relationship drama. Mostly because I didn't get it. Chloe and Jason talk about their issues, they put it out there in a coherent way, and yet still somehow conversations that didn't seem like arguments at all are described as such, and there is anger that felt to me like it came out of nowhere.
I was also a little sad that we didn't get to see more happy times for them. Give us more scenes of them just enjoying their marriage so we'll feel it's all worth it, because marrying Jason comes with a LOT OF SHIT from famous exs to fangirls and paparazzi.
BTW, don't enter this series for sexy times. There aren't any. This is not a bad thing - it's simply not the focus of their series at ALL.
kwc1016's review against another edition
4.0
I may or may not have read this in one sitting...okay. I did. Right after I finished the first book!
chiara_2024's review against another edition
5.0
Ich weiß auch nicht es hat einem einfach direkt ins Herz gegriffen. Diese Story die neben der Ehekriese trotzdem im Vordergrund stand war so realistisch beschrieben und traurig und ach ich weiß auch nicht...Ich freue mich auf jeden Fall auf den nächsten Teil!
5 von 5 Sternen voll verdient
5 von 5 Sternen voll verdient
fictionalkate's review
4.0
Chloe is now in her dream occupation - a forensic scientist working crime scenes for the police. But with her career comes stress and Chloe has enough of that having to run from snap happy photographers who capture her every move. Jason is busy with his own job and the drama that comes from being a Hollywood heart-throb.
When the case Chloe is working on brings up memories she'd rather forget and emotions threaten to get in the way of finding the one responsible for a child's abduction and the added stress of Jason's ex back in the picture, it seems there's more to the fairytale than first meets the eye.
Whilst I loved the happy ending of Someone Else's Fairytale, I could not have been happier for the somewhat troubled beginning of Noone's Damsel. The course of true love never did run smooth and that can definitely be said for the characters of Chloe and Jason. Marriage doesn't necessity mean happily ever after. The heroes and heroines of fairytales didn't have stalking paparazzi and tabloids trying to cause drama in their relationships. A problem I have in some novels is that after all the pain and mess a couple goes though to get together, the author then lets them off the hook and everything's clear sailing from then on. Not the case with this particular couple. They have issues, fights and trouble. I thought the realism that this added was fantastic and only made me like Chloe more than I did previously.
Where in the first novel I was focused on the romantic relationship between Chloe and Jason, this book had me more interested in Chloe's job as a forensic scientist. I found it fascinating the relationships between the police and the crime scene investigators. The romance is still there it's just not the sole focus of the story.
The secondary characters are great in their roles - I was especially glad to see Kyra popping up again. They added to the plot and I liked to see how Chloe's relationships with the Van der Volts and her sister has developed.
This novel was a pleasure to read. The writing was well researched. The plot was well though out but still had a few twists. I loved how realistic Tippetts had made the relationship of a Hollywood superstar with a lab geek - both the romance and the demands of their chosen careers. The tribute at the end of the book was heartfelt and beautiful. I can't wait to read the next instalment of Chloe and Jason's lives together.
When the case Chloe is working on brings up memories she'd rather forget and emotions threaten to get in the way of finding the one responsible for a child's abduction and the added stress of Jason's ex back in the picture, it seems there's more to the fairytale than first meets the eye.
Whilst I loved the happy ending of Someone Else's Fairytale, I could not have been happier for the somewhat troubled beginning of Noone's Damsel. The course of true love never did run smooth and that can definitely be said for the characters of Chloe and Jason. Marriage doesn't necessity mean happily ever after. The heroes and heroines of fairytales didn't have stalking paparazzi and tabloids trying to cause drama in their relationships. A problem I have in some novels is that after all the pain and mess a couple goes though to get together, the author then lets them off the hook and everything's clear sailing from then on. Not the case with this particular couple. They have issues, fights and trouble. I thought the realism that this added was fantastic and only made me like Chloe more than I did previously.
Where in the first novel I was focused on the romantic relationship between Chloe and Jason, this book had me more interested in Chloe's job as a forensic scientist. I found it fascinating the relationships between the police and the crime scene investigators. The romance is still there it's just not the sole focus of the story.
The secondary characters are great in their roles - I was especially glad to see Kyra popping up again. They added to the plot and I liked to see how Chloe's relationships with the Van der Volts and her sister has developed.
This novel was a pleasure to read. The writing was well researched. The plot was well though out but still had a few twists. I loved how realistic Tippetts had made the relationship of a Hollywood superstar with a lab geek - both the romance and the demands of their chosen careers. The tribute at the end of the book was heartfelt and beautiful. I can't wait to read the next instalment of Chloe and Jason's lives together.
jscarpa14's review
4.0
First let me note I read a Kindle edition of this book, not the paperback but since I can't find that already on here and I'm too lazy to add that edition to the data base I figured I'd just make note of that in the review.
The sequel to Chloe and Jason's Fairy tale movie star with a crime victim story is presented in Nobody's Damsel, again the story blurs the genres because it's not just a who done it story with Chloe as some sort of detective and though most of our characters from the original story have returned we're seeing different aspects of them. Yes the plot stands out a little more in this novel, but Chloe isn't a detective she's a CSI lab person. One of my main things with this novel is that the timeline doesn't seem to quite mesh. She's been married to Jason for six months but has already managed to graduate grad school and they didn't have a super long engagement but she hadn't yet started grad school when he proposed. I was kind of under the impression that grad school took a little longer than that, though I could be wrong since I never actually finished college myself. It just seems that grad school would take a couple years at least so they should have either been married longer or been engaged longer or something in my opinion for the time line to seem right to me.
The story continues with a first person narrative told from Chloe's point of view though I'll admit by this point I'm kind of itching for some other points of views. Chloe doesn't completely understand what Jason is thinking or his reactions to things so as a reader I can't understand him or Kyra or many other characters in this story either. She's still emotionally stilted but she's grown considerably from the previous novel and continues to grow in this one as she starts to understand a bit where others are coming from. While I did find myself hoping to find the victim and see the mom survive and put the killer behind bars, it wasn't really about that. It was about Chloe seeing the other side of what happened to her. Chloe was a kidnapped and almost murdered as a child, and in the first novel you can see how she doesn't totally get why Jason's parents who were district attorneys during her case felt so protective of her or why Office Baca went above and beyond to look out for her. She didn't understand exactly why they felts such a personal connection to her when she didn't really know them. Now being on the other side of that she starts to understand what it's like to not know the victim but to spend sleepless nights worrying about her. She understands what it's like to sit in a hospital room and just feel a sort of horror that one person might do this to another which helps her sort of understand why she felt like she had to fix her mom after her attack instead of her mom stepping in to protect her.
As a secondary plot the media is making noises that Jason is cheating on her with former co-star Vicki and that they are on the verge of divorce. While this isn't true having paparazzi follow her around on a regular basis to see her reaction to the supposed cheating doesn't help her do her job any. Chloe is kind of torn between what she knows and what she sees so adding that on top of this case put in her in a major emotional turmoil. I kind of liked this one even better than the first because you see this character recognize that yes she's broken and yes she needs to change. Is she or her life perfect at the end of the story? No. But what makes this particular story worth reading in my opinion is that she finally seems to see what was so obvious to me as a reader in the first novel. It's hard for me to explain what this novel is and why it's worth reading because it blurs so many genres lines. My point over all though is that though you're not going to find your stereotypical mystery or romance or whatever it is you're looking for in this novel, you are going to find a story that's worth taking the time to read.
The sequel to Chloe and Jason's Fairy tale movie star with a crime victim story is presented in Nobody's Damsel, again the story blurs the genres because it's not just a who done it story with Chloe as some sort of detective and though most of our characters from the original story have returned we're seeing different aspects of them. Yes the plot stands out a little more in this novel, but Chloe isn't a detective she's a CSI lab person. One of my main things with this novel is that the timeline doesn't seem to quite mesh. She's been married to Jason for six months but has already managed to graduate grad school and they didn't have a super long engagement but she hadn't yet started grad school when he proposed. I was kind of under the impression that grad school took a little longer than that, though I could be wrong since I never actually finished college myself. It just seems that grad school would take a couple years at least so they should have either been married longer or been engaged longer or something in my opinion for the time line to seem right to me.
The story continues with a first person narrative told from Chloe's point of view though I'll admit by this point I'm kind of itching for some other points of views. Chloe doesn't completely understand what Jason is thinking or his reactions to things so as a reader I can't understand him or Kyra or many other characters in this story either. She's still emotionally stilted but she's grown considerably from the previous novel and continues to grow in this one as she starts to understand a bit where others are coming from. While I did find myself hoping to find the victim and see the mom survive and put the killer behind bars, it wasn't really about that. It was about Chloe seeing the other side of what happened to her. Chloe was a kidnapped and almost murdered as a child, and in the first novel you can see how she doesn't totally get why Jason's parents who were district attorneys during her case felt so protective of her or why Office Baca went above and beyond to look out for her. She didn't understand exactly why they felts such a personal connection to her when she didn't really know them. Now being on the other side of that she starts to understand what it's like to not know the victim but to spend sleepless nights worrying about her. She understands what it's like to sit in a hospital room and just feel a sort of horror that one person might do this to another which helps her sort of understand why she felt like she had to fix her mom after her attack instead of her mom stepping in to protect her.
As a secondary plot the media is making noises that Jason is cheating on her with former co-star Vicki and that they are on the verge of divorce. While this isn't true having paparazzi follow her around on a regular basis to see her reaction to the supposed cheating doesn't help her do her job any. Chloe is kind of torn between what she knows and what she sees so adding that on top of this case put in her in a major emotional turmoil. I kind of liked this one even better than the first because you see this character recognize that yes she's broken and yes she needs to change. Is she or her life perfect at the end of the story? No. But what makes this particular story worth reading in my opinion is that she finally seems to see what was so obvious to me as a reader in the first novel. It's hard for me to explain what this novel is and why it's worth reading because it blurs so many genres lines. My point over all though is that though you're not going to find your stereotypical mystery or romance or whatever it is you're looking for in this novel, you are going to find a story that's worth taking the time to read.