Cut & Run

Pretty good interplay between the two main characters, but I could have shot the author. Good, but steamy m/m scenes, so watch out.
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When a normally dominant partner finds someone he can 'bottom' for, and then forgets the whole thing due to a head injury....I was ready to spit nails!!!!! Please! I really hope this gets rectified in the next book, and there had better be a next book!! These two are very entertaining to read about.

My good friend owns this series and since he obviously has other friends that like the series...he has had to go searching for the copies that he's loaned out and haven't been returned so that I can get my "Zane & Ty fix". As a result I have read books 4, 5 & 6 before #1. I'm so glad that I read out of order because they were all 5 star books...this one got a 3 because my two guys were SOOO out of character...or at least the character they displayed in the other books... after they came to terms with the fact that they don't really hate one another. I have come to the conclusion that this series runs on these two characters...not the story line. The cases are usually unusual and it's fun to see how they solve them...but Ty and Zane are show more the cement that holds this series together. On to book #9 that my friend has rounded up for me. show less

So, I'm not the biggest fan of super involved crime suspense novels or NCIS (*ducks* I love Law & Order: SVU though). I heard about [b:Cut & Run|5199022|Cut & Run (Cut & Run #1)|Abigail Roux|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327894486s/5199022.jpg|5266173], heard it was a crime-like novel with M/M, so of course you know, I'm down. I've had this book for months, pushing it to the side, telling myself I'll get to it sooner or later.

Then you encounter super fans who gush Ty & Zane" and probably sweat droplets in the form of their faces in their sleep, making me wonder about the hype but eh...I'm still pushing down my TBR list. So then there's this group read and this book's the flavor of the month, so finally I buckle down and crack this show more bad boy open.

Then I start reading and wonder...this is what everyone's raving about? This book's a dud. There's no interaction that remotely alludes to Ty or Zane, our FBI agent team, being anything slightly M/M. There's minor references to one of the men's past but after the friction between the two and the slow snail pace of plot movement, I really could give a flying...well you catch my drift. If it wasn't for the group read, I swear I would have chucked this book to the farthest crevice I could have found. But I'm not a quitter, so I moved on,riding along my snail of a book.

Then around 30% of the book...I became intrigued.

Around 40%...I was engaged.

At 50%, this happened:



This book is a slow burner!

Ty and Zane are funny, damaged, sexy FBI agents with deep scars on the outside and eve worse ones on the inside. And they have to catch this jerk of serial killer whose clues totally stumped me (though I guessed the serial killer right away)

At 88%, I've temporarily renamed, Zane- Boo and Ty- Babe. 'Cause you see Boo and Babe, they got this, folks! I'm reading my book and laughing and cheering and anxious to see what happens next. And the twist and turns...it's the last 20 minutes of the Boo & Babe show and I'm there glued to the story.

At the end of this ride, I finally get why the fans' reactions are so strong to this series. I get it, my mind has been blown.



This is my mind after it's been through Book #1 of the Cut & Run series. What do I think after the destruction of my brain?

FOUR & A HALF STARS for Boo and Babe's: Totally NOT Bogus Adventure
You've got a new fan in me and I'll be reading this series...in ENTIRETY.

I'm invested...can't you tell?

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Um. There comes a time when you read a book that has excellent ratings, reviews and other kudos from friends...but then read it and wonder what the hell everyone is talking about.

I don't get the appeal. At first I was interested because the story-line started strong enough. A serial killer picks people at random to slay, doesn't stick to methodology of killing them, and is hard to track. Two complete opposites are paired together from the FBI and sent to investigate when the killer takes even higher priority when he starts offing FBI agents on his case.

At first I thought, cool. You have an uptight and clean Zane who wants to approach the case methodically with lots of brainpower, with the sarcastic and rough-edged Ty who brings a show more military edge and favors brawn. They are paired together against their will when they are both on downs of their career, and they have to solve the crime while falling in love, or whatever. Instead the mystery takes a major backseat when they get into town and do a few preliminary interviews. The main setting of this novel? The hotel room. They sit in there for days talking, griping, and eventually screwing, but then when they leave the hotel one is hurt, making them have to stay at the hotel room again. Seriously, it gets so redundant.

I get they are not supermen or superpowered, but when you keep having characters taking turns getting hurt every other chapter they just come across as freaking fragile. The first time it's an explosion with a computer monitor of all things, then it's being too close to a car explosion, then it's...well, no point keeping count. They are constantly nursing each other back to health, with Zane meanwhile going into PTSD spots because of his tragic past. The angst isn't welcome on top of the health and isolation of the hotel. The author shows how alike they are when he realizes being clean and stiff is counterproductive and starts becoming late, slovenly and unshaven later to match Ty. This is supposed to be shown as a good thing but I didn't fully get it.

The two have chemistry of sorts but I found the steam small. I couldn't get into the characters and their relationship much. Ty is the sleep and leave them type and indulges in one night stands when they hit town before the two hook up. Their bond is more respectable partner, which is cool in a way, but you can't carry the weight of a book with that alone. And it's hard to get behind their solving the case when they are laid up in bed hurt most of the time.

Due to diminished chemistry, overdoses of hurt and angst, and how unrealistic the politics were (they couldn't hide that easy in the hotel, why all the suspicion?, etc.), I found Cut and Run to be more boring than interesting. The main thing flying through my mind when reading this thriller was hoping it would end soon. show less

I waited WAY too long to start this series. I am sometimes a silly girl.

Ty and Zane. Zane and Ty. Love, love, love them. What's not to love? Smart, witty banter. Two hot guys. FBI protectors with scars both inside and out. And a clever case to solve. I have to admit, I was onto the bad guy, and I still have questions about the motivations, but since Zane is impulsive and rash we will never know.

So glad I read this. Great action, hot romance. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I loved it. 4 stars.

I liked Ty and Zane...a lot! I have a soft spot in my heart for messed up characters and in this book we get two of them almost switching off who is crazier at any one time. It's a toss up, I feel! And yes, as mentioned by other reviewers, they are über-macho but, in my mind at least, it makes sense taking into account their backgrounds.

There were a couple of wtf moments for me that pulled me right out of the story - mentions of small things that I do not remember in the previous parts of the story. Perhaps that is a lack on my part and I shall have to re-read the book at a future time just to clarify these points for myself. And yes, there are issues requiring me to deploy my 'suspension of disbelief' aura that perhaps could have show more been eliminated with better editing or research but, since I am not an aficionado of mysteries, I could let that slide.

For me the biggest lack - and why I gave the book 4 instead of 5 stars - was that no insight was given into why the killer (one of 2 characters I suspected from early on) did what he did. The crime was solved but for me there was no closure.

So all in all, a good book with flawed, interesting characters. show less

I read this because it was voted to the top of a MM romance list. But honestly, this is probably one of the worst of the genre I have read.

First of all, the sort-of-omniscient POV switching drove me INSANE. I would think I was reading Ty's POV and then suddenly I realized it was Zane's POV. It was so confusing. I found myself skipping back a few paragraphs constantly to try and figure out who the "he" in the scene was.

Second... while I appreciated the banter and the sniping; it was pretty amusing. The fact that one minute they were manly bordering-on-misogynistic men then they were having sex nearly gave me whiplash.

I wasn't invested at all in the characters...or the murder mystery/undercover internal investigation bit. Frankly, there show more were so many names in the book that I was lost.

Not sure why people think this is such a great book. It isn't. I mean it would probably be a four star MM romance if the author could, at least, pick a POV and stick to it.

I'm going to go and have a drink now and try to get my brain back to normal.

and no... I didn't finish it. show less