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  That said, Anne Conley managed to get another one out of me, and for a #RomanticSuspense at that.

  I highly recommend her Pierce Securities series. I’m behind on it, having just now read #4 and I couldn’t put it down.

  Get it here: http://amzn.to/2tHZt9T

    PelicanFreak’s 5-star review:

  Short version:

I couldn’t put this book down, from start to finish. I tried to – really- but then I missed it, bad. I had to pick it right back up. It gripped me and wouldn’t let go. I’ve a terrible attention span and not much holds my attention at all these days, let alone sucks me in like that. Clearly Conley was put here to write.

Detailed version:

Cover:

Unoriginal in concept but gorgeous and professionally-graphiced.

Editing/Proofing:

Clearly professional. Very few errors noticed.

Formatting:

Again, professional and the book is gorgeous on the inside too. Clean, easy read.

Character development/design:

All of the characters in this series are so perfectly designed, that you’d think she’s basing them on real people. The continuity from one book to the next in personality and everything else flows flawlessly. It’s really easy to get really attached really quickly to the protagonists. As the series goes on, and I feel all attached to characters I got to know in earlier books, the later books have that much more because I get glimpses at my ‘old friends’ while making new ones. This makes me hate the antagonists that much more passionately and gets me that much more invested in the whole thing. It’s all completely brilliant.

POV:

Flawless. Third person, rotating voices. Never any question of what is who, or feeling unfinished when one wraps and another takes over.

Overall:

I find everything predictable; usually within a chapter or two, I already know how the whole book’s going to play out, maybe even future books. With Conley… well, she doesn’t do it like everyone else. She manages to NOT write the same old store everyone else has already written. She mixes it up. She also has me so engaged that I’m too busy greedily absorbing the words and turning the pages to worry about predictions.

I can feel her characters’ feelings, I can feel their love for each other.

I’m always left wanting more- but not in a cliffhanger way at all. Just more of the whole Pierce Securities world because it’s such a great place to be. Reading Conley truly provides entertainment and a brief escape from reality and is probably detrimental to my mental well being somehow. I cannot recommend this series enough.

FIVE STARS because that’s all the