'Disavowed' by Tee O'Fallon is the story of Dom Carew and Daisy Fowler.
Dom is a detective who lives and breaths his job. Dom lost a women he loved in Afghanistan several years ago and never got over it. Dom has harden his heart to getting involved with a women again. But Daisy is someone that he is having a hard time fighting his feelings for. About a year ago he gave in to his desire for her and had a one night stand with her and left in the night without a word to her. But now a year later they both tried to avoid each other but their best friends are marring each other and they thrown back together for a short period of time.
In addition to being a second chance at love story it was also a exciting drama filled read.
"My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read."

This is book #2, in The McGuire Brothers series.  This book can be read as a standalone novel.  For reader understanding and enjoyment, I recommend reading this series in order.

Ronan has been in love with Maddy since they were in school.  Growing up in the same small town, he came to appreciate her quirky ways.  She was busy with someone else, so he had to bide his time until it was right to ask her out.

Maddy has had a lot happen to her in the last year alone.  She lost someone she loved.  She knows she must get on with her life, but it is hard to motivate yourself into action.  Ronan changes all of that by just looking at her.

This story was so sexy!  I loved the characters connection right from the beginning.  Good installment for the McGuire Brothers series.  The pace was good.  Seeing characters from the previous story was nice also.  I give this book a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

Ladies, what would you do if I told you that the most handsome man on the whole planet will spend three glorious weeks with YOU at YOUR house? And all you have to do is make yourself a pot of jo, relax in a hammock, and of course slip on something comfy but sexy as well and the best part is you don’t have to be on a reality TV show, or sign up for an adventure cruise that would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s free. It’s hot off the presses. And he is the answer to all of your dreams. Ladies, I give you the one man that can actually make my heart do the tango: Richard Castle and his new book Heat Wave.

Yes, I understand that Richard Castle is a fictitious character in the new hit show Castle that premiers Monday’s at 10pm on ABC, but come on! It’s Nathan Fillion. Who doesn’t like a “rugged, good-looking” man on TV these days, and Nathan Fillion is doing a superb job filling in those shoes, am I right or what?  If you have not had the pleasure of seeing the show Castle, then you will need to borrow a friends TV, borrow their cable network and watch every Monday at 10 to understand my feelings (or you can also come into the library, go on YouTube and watch the shows on there for free). If you were fortunate enough to watch Castle, bless you. Still, why the reason of telling you ALL of this when I should be writing about a book that I read?

That famous writer Richard Castle based his novel Heat Wave on the proud, the few, the NYPD.

In Heat Wave, Detective Nikki Heat and journalist Jameson Rook are in charge of investigating the over-the balcony murder of a major Manhattan real-estate developer. As suspects start to pile up, things get a little complicated as people aren’t what they seem, even the victim.

So, how to bottom-line this one?

It’s a who-dunnit, suspenseful storyline with one other overpowering twist to it – romance. The play back and forth between the two characters, Heat and Rook, is fun and unforced, often less predictable than the mystery they’re pursuing.

So come to your local library and follow Heat and Rook through the streets of Manhattan and figure out if the butler did it.

But remember, “It’s like a mystery novel, you don’t just go to the last page do you?”

Yeah, I was underwhelmed by <b>NYPD Red</b>, but thought that maybe this series would pick up a little, with everything established in the first. Wow, was I wrong.

This is basically a <b>Dexter</b> retelling -- murderers who got off thanks to good lawyers, bad prosecutors, etc being kidnapped, tortured and killed. Before they're killed, they record a video confession to their crimes, which is uploaded to YouTube shortly after their body is discovered.

Of course, one of the victims is the campaign manager for a mayoral candidate, and the body is discovered 8 days before the election -- making the whole investigation a political issue in addition to a pressing crime. Given the prestige and notoriety of the latest victim, the case is bumped up to the NYPD Red team.

From there, it's pretty much a paint-by-numbers affair -- I called the whole thing, even the twists, early on. There's so little to commend in this book that I can't think of a positive way to finish this sentence.

I guess I understand why you'd have two narrators for the audiobook -- one for the first person detective narration, one for the other perspectives. But I think we're all smart enough to follow things with just one voice. Both narrators did a decent job, but nothing remarkable. They probably did the best they could with the flat prose and dull dialogue.

Dull, predictable plot with personal side-stories that made me like everyone less. Both authors are capable of such more -- I don't know why they aren't delivering with this series.

I am a huge, unabashed Marshall Karp fan. His Lomax and Briggs books are long-time favorites of mine (the best part of writing this post is that I learned that a month and a half ago, he self-published a new one! The fact that I haven't dropped everything -- including this post -- to go read it is somewhat of a shock to me). They have humor, heart, clever stories, great characters, and a crackling good voice.

I have read several James Patterson novels. They are complex, tightly written, and move at a good pace (until they get to the point where they're a little long). Yeah, I think he plays the super-smart psycho villain a bit too frequently, and that he enjoys the torture/violent aspects a bit too much. On the other hand, he sells books like almost no one else alive. So what do I know?

So when you put the two of these together, what do you get? Well, you get something that sells pretty well.

The NYPD has special task force to deal with high-profile cases, cases involving the rich, powerful and famous -- particularly with the entertainment industry (and the money it brings in). This task force is nicknamed NYPD Red (as in red carpet, get it?). It's a cushy, elite post for the crème de la crème. The crème-iest is Det. Zach Jordan, who's getting a new partner (probably temporarily), Det. Kylie MacDonald. Kylie MacDonald is smart, ambitious and gorgeous (a word that describes pretty much every woman in this book) -- and she dated Zach for a bit before she got married. Getting over Kylie has been on his To-Do List ever since.

NYC is in the middle of a big week hosting Hollywood's best and brightest, trying to get more movies and TV made there. But some whack-job has started killing bigwigs in a very public, very noteworthy way. So it's up to Jordan and MacDonald to stop them.

I have got to admit, most of the murders are pretty clever, if unnecessarily elaborate.

It was okay, well constructed, moved things well -- there's a little personal stuff mixed in, too. The killer's a very Patterson-esque killer. The cops are a watered down Karp type. I'm not chomping at the bit to get to the next one, but I'm not opposed to it, either. So, yeah, I didn't dislike it. Let's go with that.

The narration was capable, it didn't add anything to the experience -- and maybe detracted a bit once or twice. Like the book as a whole, the narrators got the job done.