Good but 1st book was better
348241
I enjoyed the book and I love the character but I did not think it was as good as the first book in the series.
3812485
This book is great. I loved how it just picked up after the 1st. It was like the first just kept going. page turner the 1st was great but this was better. Again i didn't like the religousness and enough with the flash backs.
3944869
Having just finished the first book in this series, Justified Means, I decided to pick up the 2nd one and continue on reading.  Over all it was a good, enjoyable read but to me it wasn't quite as good as the first one.  The author has a way of crafting her characters that I really like as it makes their personalities come alive with my favorite in this book being Leo.  He was a biker that became a Christian and then turned himself into the police.  After his testimony against the biker gang, he was hid in a small town.  With his appearance which included piercings, tattoos, ear gauges, the occupants of the town were very nervous and scared around him.  The author did a great job using this to show how we judge others too quickly and harshly based on appearance alone.

About the time I was getting halfway in the book, I was starting to wonder where The Agency fit into the storyline as they hadn't appeared yet but the last half of the book includes them.

The book had a good conclusion but it seemed a little unfinished to me as there was one particular character that I didn't feel it explained enough about him and made me feel something was missing.

Overall I would recommend this book.
3780244
I liked the first book better.  This one seemed a little slower.  i am now reading number three and my quess is that 2 books would have been enough.  I am enjoying the books.
436930
I liked the 1st book in this series so much. Not as much for the 2nd book. Still going to read the next one tho!
4565869
I liked this book, but it lacked the tenderness and edginess of the first book. For every hurt, Price gave an equal and opposite comfort.  That balance was missing here - he felt more like a wounded beast and she was his beauty to bring him back to humanity.  The quid pro quo thing in the first book that was so transactional - and therefore intriguing - turned stalkerish and made him weaker.

This author is a great writer - better then this genre generally sees.  I hope she figures out how to get back to the edginess of the first book in the next installment, which I definitely will read.
3139763
The suspense in the first one was kept up much better, I can't really explain why I wasn't into it as much as the 1st book, has been sometime since I read this book but I can definitely say that I am not interested in reading it again.
3132532
I enjoyed reading it although I liked her first book a little better.
1933674
Good, book but not as good as 1-3. Still it's g old reading.
3086118
The book was okay, I really liked the first book this author wrote better. But overall it was an okay book
3423088
This book was in the works for several years after one of the original authors passed away. I think this book was a bit better than the second book in the series, but not as good as the first.
4022445
Really liked the first book. This one was a little boring for me. Felt like the same characters with different names. I think it could be great with more development.
2605202
I liked the first book, although the zombie teenager annoyed me, I wanted to just slap her but maybe that is what the author was aiming for, lol. The second book was better, more detailed, some funny moments & snarky dialogue kept it interesting. I was disappointed in the 3rd only for the romance (or lack thereof). Ms. Holzner is maybe taking the Urban Fantasy credo of "no romance/sex scenes" a bit too much to heart. It would be nice to have a little more detail in the parts where the main character & her sometime boyfriend (?) get together. It was abrupt & jarring to have them described so concisely. One was only about 5 sentences long! I needed a LOT of imagination there, lol. But overall Ms. Holzner is getting better with each book.
1885786
I liked it, but I think the first novelle of the series was better. Still, I am looking forward for the third book!
1438503
The first book in the series is fantastic, but the story gets less and less compelling in the 2nd and 3rd books. The central conflicts in the 2nd and 3rd books just didn't have as high of stakes. There was much less drama, and the pacing is slower. I recommend you just get the first book.
3196870
Good but not as good as the first. I do not feel the same attachment as I did before and if the reader has not read the first book they will not remotely be able to understand the beginning chapters of this book. That is to a certain extent understandable, but is also a pain. The reason I docked a star is because it alternates narratives and that is a personal thing that I dislike. I hate having to change tracks so to speak mid read. I am enjoying Kim's pov, following the plot then now we jump to someone else. Still a good book.
3979830
This one was good, but the first book was much better! Storee got on my nerve towards the end of the book.  Overall a good read and waiting for Stew's story!