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review 2014-09-25 00:22
Death By Blue Water (Hayden Kent Mysteries, #1)
Death By Blue Water - Kait Carson

The sea was always deadly. Every sailor knew that. But the dead man below didn't look to be any more a sailor than she was. Just an unlucky guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I spent some time debating on whether to rate this 2.5 stars or 3 stars. Ultimately I choose 3 stars because I felt while the book wasn't great, it also wasn't bad. This book follows Hayden Kent who is a paralegal who loves to scuba dive. While scuba diving she finds a dead body and once the identity of the person is revealed she finds herself the prime suspect in a murder case.

 

What really kind of threw me off about this book was the fact that most of the characters in the book were too melodramatic. Hayden seemed pretty shaken up after discovering the body, which is completely acceptable, but then she spent the rest of the book emotionally unstable. There were times when her emotions were called for but some of the time it just seemed over the top. She was definitely not the only character that was over the top at times. Cappy seemed angry all the time (mainly because her was worried for Hayden's safety), Kevin was over the top aggressive, Paul was a jerk for most of the book, and don't even get me started on the hysterics of Elena (although she might be the only character in this book that should rightly have gotten away with her hysterics).

 

When all was revealed at the end I found myself not surprised with who was behind the murder. I don't feel that there were any real 'twists' in this book and readers can probably figure out who was behind the murder pretty easily. That being said, I still think that this book was overall enjoyable and I did connect really well with Hayden. I would definitely recommend this book if you like scuba diving or are interested in reading a book that has some underwater scenes in it. I'm interested to see what will happen next in this series. Thanks to NetGalley and Henery Press for the galley.

 

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text 2014-09-24 19:58
Reading progress update: I've read 50% of "Death by Blue Water"
Death By Blue Water - Kait Carson

Why is everyone in this book so melodramatic? Yes a dead body was found but everyone is just freaking out randomly now. Cappy seems to be angry at the flip of a dime (but basically because he seems to care a lot about Hayden). Hayden's ex, Kevin, just showed up and was this uber agressive, verging on abusive, jerk. Poor Hayden just can't keep it together for the life of her. She was the one that found the body but for christ's sake she is like a sobbing mess half the time. Just when I think things are started to calm down and people are acting normal again someone will show up and start freaking out and then everyone else gets crazy again too. I don't really have any theories on what I think happened as I am too busy sitting back and alternating between enjoying everyone freaking out and being baffled by it.

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