A review by romanceandrose
The Fixer, by Jessica Gadziala
3.0
I'm still trying to digest this book, so bare with me... but it was weird.
I'm usually one to read typical romance novels, you know friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, fake relationship, etc. I'm not even sure what this book would be characterized as but it definitely isn't my typical book. I had to find a title with an 'X' in it for my A to Z reading challenge and that is how I came across fixer and its safe to say I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
Aven moved to Navesink Bay to get away from home and start fresh. Little did she know she would find herself in trouble in this sketchy town with a stalker that refuses to let up. He's increasingly encroaching in on her and his actions are beyond inappropriate. The police have been less than helpful and she's desperate after waking up one morning with the worst feeling that today will be the day her stalker gets in her house and tries to do God knows what. This brings Aven to find local "fixer" Quinton Baird.
Quin works on a lot of different types of cases cleaning up other people's messes, but he doesn't take on stalking cases for the reason of there's simply not usually much he can do. But when one of his employees encourages him to check this case out due to hoe desperate the woman sounded for help, his gut tells him its the right thing to do. Little did he know what kind of mess he would be stepping into to help a beautiful woman stuck in a bad situation.
I quite liked this book at the beginning and thought the premise was interesting even though the details about Aven's stalker made me feel sick. Where the book started to lose me was how the relationship between the two characters seemingly came out of nowhere. In their respective pov's, you could tell they were pining after each other, but when things finally start to happen it feels very out of nowhere with not a lot of build up. Then for a good chunk of the book, the characters literally only speak through text and phone calls, just for Quin to come back to town to write Aven off after an honest misunderstanding. I don't know, after the first quarter or so of the book, I was convinced I would read the whole series at some point, but by the time I finished, I knew I could live without it. This book may be some people's cup of tea, but unfortunately it wasn't mine.
I'm usually one to read typical romance novels, you know friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, fake relationship, etc. I'm not even sure what this book would be characterized as but it definitely isn't my typical book. I had to find a title with an 'X' in it for my A to Z reading challenge and that is how I came across fixer and its safe to say I didn't know what I was getting myself into.
Aven moved to Navesink Bay to get away from home and start fresh. Little did she know she would find herself in trouble in this sketchy town with a stalker that refuses to let up. He's increasingly encroaching in on her and his actions are beyond inappropriate. The police have been less than helpful and she's desperate after waking up one morning with the worst feeling that today will be the day her stalker gets in her house and tries to do God knows what. This brings Aven to find local "fixer" Quinton Baird.
Quin works on a lot of different types of cases cleaning up other people's messes, but he doesn't take on stalking cases for the reason of there's simply not usually much he can do. But when one of his employees encourages him to check this case out due to hoe desperate the woman sounded for help, his gut tells him its the right thing to do. Little did he know what kind of mess he would be stepping into to help a beautiful woman stuck in a bad situation.
I quite liked this book at the beginning and thought the premise was interesting even though the details about Aven's stalker made me feel sick. Where the book started to lose me was how the relationship between the two characters seemingly came out of nowhere. In their respective pov's, you could tell they were pining after each other, but when things finally start to happen it feels very out of nowhere with not a lot of build up. Then for a good chunk of the book, the characters literally only speak through text and phone calls, just for Quin to come back to town to write Aven off after an honest misunderstanding. I don't know, after the first quarter or so of the book, I was convinced I would read the whole series at some point, but by the time I finished, I knew I could live without it. This book may be some people's cup of tea, but unfortunately it wasn't mine.