Providence, Jamie McGuire
This is the first in the Providence Series, as I live in
Providence, and it takes place partly on the campus of the college where I work
I decided to give it a read. While I
will read sci-fi and fantasy adventure stuff (ok, ok, I’m still slogging
through Game of Thrones, my goal is to finish before my 50th
birthday), I don’t generally read supernatural stuff.
So in what the description on Amazon calls the “old world
shadows of Providence” our heroine Nina Grey, likely no relation to Christian
Gray, which might have spiced this book up a little, finds herself at the
center of a war between good and evil, heaven and hell. I live in the city, and I’m not sure where
the these old world shadows are, but I keep looking for them, wondering if I’ll
turn the corner and see Jared on his motorbike.
Her dad has recently died, and by “coincidence” on the
evening of her funeral she meets Jared, he’s a hottie with a body that won’t
quit, basically every romance archetype.
However he has one little thing that sets him apart from your average
Abercrombie hunk. Jared is meant to
protect Nina, even with his own life.
I found I liked some of the secondary characters in this
book more than Nina and Jared, Claire and Bex provide some comic relief in what
could be a very dreary tale. And just
picturing little spitfire Claire driving her Lotus Exige and kicking ass in
high heeled boots makes you smile.
There were a couple of things that drew me to the book, a.
it takes place in and around my office and my home, b. it’s part of a series,
and as my husband and Kindle can tell you anything that is part of a series is
a book I’ll read, I hate putting away characters when I close the book, or hit “home”
on my Kindle.
It’s an overall enjoyable read, and some of the plot twists
will take you by surprise, and some you’ll have seen coming from halfway up
Thayer Street.
