I've read a couple of other books in the First Responders series (and have the first three in my eReader all ready to read when I have a spare second), so I thought I'd try this one too.

Unfortunately I didn't like it as much as the others I've read.

The main story (sorta) was about Jay and Olivia. Olivia is the Assistant ME and Jay is a former Surgeon who's gone through hell in the last year. She gets a fellowship under Olivia in the ME's office. It's rocky at first for multiple reasons, and then it has it's ups and downs, but, of course, they do get closer because it wouldn't be a romance book if that didn't happen.

But, at the end it seemed like suddenly with a snap of the fingers they were together. That always weirds me out because I like to have at least some of a work up to the ending. I mean, I know that these are romance books, but I've read plenty of LesFic (heck, I've read plenty of Radclyffe LesFic) where the conclusion to the relationship didn't come from around a corner and whack me in the face, it was built to quite satisfyingly. Unfortunately I didn't feel that in this book.

Also, there were just too many relationships and characters in this book. To warn people, this does have quite a big tie in with Radcylffe's Justice Series (also plan to read it, but haven't gotten there yet). I got caught up pretty fast with what had happened in the previous books, but, unfortunately, they, and so many other characters in relationships seemed to sap all the time away from Jay and Olivia,

Still, I liked the previous books that I've read in this series, and if you've just read the Justice series (and hadn't gotten annoyed with it by the end) you might like to get more of the non-romance story that was quite twisty and turney. To each their own.

I got this ARC through Netgalley on behalf of Bold Strokes Books. ( )