A review by tracisbooks
Brazen in Blue by Rachael Miles
3.0
Brazen in Blue is a fun story about a woman named Emmaline who is about to enter into a marriage of convenience when her old lover, Adam, comes to the wedding and Em convinces Adam to help her run away from her wedding. Adam is a secret agent for the Home Office and Em gets involved in a job he has to take while they’re waiting for her fiance to stop looking for her.
I liked the intelligent, definitely different spin on the typical romance heroine and I liked that she had a disability. The main plot was easy to follow. However, the description of this novel specifically says that it will read as a standalone and I’m just not sure if that’s true or not. I felt like I was getting dropped into the middle of a story—I kept getting snippets of things that I felt like I was already supposed to know, but I didn’t. This made it very difficult to feel invested in the story at all and to be honest I kept wondering if there were parts of my copy that were missing.
The dogs were a great addition and overall I would have loved to feel more invested in the story because it was a unique and fun read. I just felt like I was either missing something or this definitely is not the standalone it’s supposed to be.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my opinion.
I liked the intelligent, definitely different spin on the typical romance heroine and I liked that she had a disability. The main plot was easy to follow. However, the description of this novel specifically says that it will read as a standalone and I’m just not sure if that’s true or not. I felt like I was getting dropped into the middle of a story—I kept getting snippets of things that I felt like I was already supposed to know, but I didn’t. This made it very difficult to feel invested in the story at all and to be honest I kept wondering if there were parts of my copy that were missing.
The dogs were a great addition and overall I would have loved to feel more invested in the story because it was a unique and fun read. I just felt like I was either missing something or this definitely is not the standalone it’s supposed to be.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for my opinion.