“Sharp writing, layered characters, and wonderful tension flow through this book, along with a super-swoon-worthy hero and a kick ass heroine I just love.” -- Elizabeth Hunter, USA Today bestselling author
Code of Conduct, the first in the romantic suspense Cipher Security series of standalones, from April White is available now!
There are three things you need to know about Shane P.I.
1) P.I. is not her last name, it's her job title,
2) Her specialty is catching cheaters, and
3) She's a superhuman - kind of.
Gabriel is a security expert for Cipher Security, and a former UN Peacekeeper with a fierce protective streak that finds its focus on the beautiful P.I.
Their attraction is like an elephant in a room full of breakable things, and figuring out how to trust each other with their hearts, and maybe their lives, is the most fragile thing of all.
'Code of Conduct' is a full-length romantic suspense novel, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Cipher Security series, Knitting in the City World, Penny Reid Universe.
Review:
3 stars
***
Code of Conduct has a good story. I liked Gabriel and Shane. They were a diverse, interesting couple with lots of layers to their characters. I found the book a little too long, at over 400 pages, and a little too slow at times. I felt it needed some editing down. The relationship is definitely a slow burn, bordering on just slow without a ton of burn or chemistry. I liked the end of the book more than the beginning, because there is more action towards the end. Still, the writing was good and I enjoyed the series set-up. There is an interesting mystery as well. I did feel like the author was trying a bit too hard to be super smart and Penny Reid-like, but lacking the humor of her writing. I also felt like there were some political commentary that was unnecessary. I don't like it to be included in my romance, since one of the reasons I read is as an escape from reality. I just found the book to be a little too heavy and a little too PC. But I still enjoyed it. At the core was a good romance between two lonely people who deserved to find love and a lasting relationship in each other.
Overall, I enjoyed Code of Conduct. I am definitely curious where the rest of the series will go with the Cipher security company and I look forward to more from the Smartypants romance books in the future.
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About April White
April White has been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, teacher and screenwriter. She has climbed in the Himalayas, survived a shipwreck, and lived on a gold mine in the Yukon. She and her husband share their home in Southern California with two extraordinary boys and a lifetime collection of books.
Her first novel, Marking Time is the 2016 winner of the Library Journal Indie E-Book Award for YA Literature, and all five books in the Immortal Descendants series are on the Amazon Top 100 lists in Time Travel Romance and Historical Fantasy.
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