Caught in the Chase by Kacey Shea

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Audiobook Review: Caught in the Chase (Caught #3) by Kacey Shea, Narrated by Savannah Peachwood and Teddy Hamilton

Alicia and Chase gave me goosebumps. Shea touches the soul. Caught in the Chase throws away the rose colored glasses and gives a glimpse into the darkness of a tarnished heart. With a portrayal that is as haunting as a memory and a journey as painful as it is poignant, Peachwood and Hamilton draw the heart in like a magnet.



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Dirty Dealer by Kacey Shea

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Shea writes the best heroines. Funny, feisty and fiercely independent. That tends to make love more than little complicated, but beyond intriguing. Rachel and Jude are a spirited duo. She pushes his buttons. He tempts her far too much. Somehow they manage to be a temptation that proves to be addictive fun.



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Derail by Kacey Shea

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Audio Review: Derail (Off Track Records #2) by Kacey Shea, Narrated by Jason Clarke and Emma Wilder

How is it possible to fall in love with people you aren't even sure that you like? Shea and company make it so easy. Derail steps outside of the beautiful fantasy and highlights the broken parts. Sean and Jess are hopelessly flawed, yet beautifully real. Wilder and Clarke are the heart of Shea's soul. That detail alone makes for a haunting, yet captivating experience.

by Hunter Shea

Another cute little story from the YA shelf. A nineteen-year-old college student likes to go ghost hunting at night and help lay the ghosts to rest. She is told about a restless spirit who appears around 8pm every night by a graveyard night watchman and decides to investigate.

The characters were well written, but the plot far too simple to make a very interesting story. The editing was pristine though, so perhaps something good for young readers. There's a touch of mystery, though far too much convenience.

by Hunter Shea

The first chapter seemed to keep switching between present and past tense. Twins witness their parents killed by presumably the Loch Ness monster while on holiday. We jump ahead to the twins grown up and settle into mostly present tense.

Natalie is obsessed with hunting down the monster that killed her parents, with the obvious difficulty that most people don't believe Nessie exists. Eventually her brother joins in the hunt after not seeing each other for several years. They've grown up and have much to discover about each other.

The narrative lacks realism. There's no plan for hunting the creature that isn't suicidal and guaranteed to cause some close calls.

I've enjoyed Shea stories before, but on this one I feel he sort of dropped the ball. For one thing I regard whole novels written in present tense trend as the stuff of very young Romance writers who didn't pay attention in English class. There were a few glaring typos or wrong form of words and the plot was overly predictable and lacking suspense.

I did get a laugh from a particularly good one-liner and to be fair, there were some dramatic scenes towards the end but again, they were a little too difficult to suspend disbelief. Definitely not Shea's best work.