{"id":5674,"date":"2016-02-23T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T22:19:00","slug":"dangerous-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5674","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dangerous to Know<\/a><\/em> (2010) Tasha Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dangerous-to-Know\"<\/a>Set in ~1892<\/p>\n

Recovering from the events of the previous book, Emily and Colin go to Normandy, to his mother’s house. Which turns out to be far more problematic than either expected.<\/p>\n

I’m done with this series for now. The stories are intersting, the mysteries are good, and I love the settings, but every book has conflict between Colin and Emily. Something always happens to make Emily doubt Colin.<\/p>\n

Perhaps some of that is natural, since they are still getting to know each other, but, I find it irritating. There is already a murder mystery–must we also have the mystery of what their romantic conflict will be this book? (This is why I stopped reading the Tempe Brennan series–the mysteries were marvelous, but the relationship was the SAME DAMN THING EVERY TIME. Just NO.)<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

A young woman is found brutally murdered, and it turns out that she was an inmate of a local asylum.<\/p>\n

After the Lady Darby story also featuring a lunatic asylum, this story was lacking. <\/p>\n

The positive was that Sebastian returned. <\/p>\n

(W)hen I followed him as he moved into the doctor\u2019s bedroom, he stopped me. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d he said. \u201cI will help you, Kallista, but you can\u2019t expect access to the secret methods of my success. You might decide to turn to a life of crime and steal everything good that I want.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I very much enjoy his character, but even getting him into the story felt forced.<\/p>\n

I’ll continue this series, but only picking up the books on sale.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Minotaur Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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