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A review by booksafety
Distraction by Kelly Fox
5.0
Book safety, content warnings and tropes & tags down below.
“You threatened my mother. With a smile on your face.” I open my hands, deadly serious. “Of course. You must enjoy what it is you do in life.”
Hopper has been such a fun side character the entire series, and I was super excited to get to his book and see him finally wear down his RICO agent. Agent Hughes has the patience of a saint, honestly lol. Their relationship and the entire stalker/reverse-stalking situation wouldn’t have worked if Hopper hadn’t been such a sweetheart. The tragic backstory helps.
And no one will ever, ever be as good at murder as you.” My cheeks flush and I press my face into his neck. “That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me. Thank you.”
The book is, like every other in the series completely OTT, but I dig it. I had very high expectations after getting to know the MCs over the entire series, but it thankfully didn’t disappoint me. I guess I expected a little more murder just because of how Hopper is, but I liked seeing his sweet side and to learn about his history just as much. Liam definitely had some good character development going (over the entire series, really), and I appreciate that he learned to understand Hopper. I also adore the audiobook. I recently watched the narrator panel at GRL where Declan Winters talks about this book, and Hopper specifically, being one of the most challenging books and characters to narrate emotionally, and I thought that just made the book even better. He really did a fantastic job with book 2-4.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person look more alone. Except sometimes when I look in the mirror.
⚠️ Spoiler alert ⚠️
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Genre: Contemporary romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Versatile
Content warning
Murder
Graphic violence
Grief
Gun violence
Mentions of forced prostitution
Mentions of child sex trafficking
Mentions of FASD
Claustrophobic event
Death of a family member (off page)
Stalking (friendly)
Gun play (sexual)
Explicit sexual content
Tropes & tags
FBI agent
Mafia enforcer
Serial killer
Morally grey MC
Docking
Mild blood play
Gun play
Mild cum play
Possessive and protective and obsessive
Past trauma
Friendly stalking
Found family
She is wary about my love for Liam. To be fair, I do stalk him, but not in a bad way. Also, he started it. That’s when she points out Liam had been running a government-led investigation at the time, which doesn’t count as stalking.
“You threatened my mother. With a smile on your face.” I open my hands, deadly serious. “Of course. You must enjoy what it is you do in life.”
Hopper has been such a fun side character the entire series, and I was super excited to get to his book and see him finally wear down his RICO agent. Agent Hughes has the patience of a saint, honestly lol. Their relationship and the entire stalker/reverse-stalking situation wouldn’t have worked if Hopper hadn’t been such a sweetheart. The tragic backstory helps.
And no one will ever, ever be as good at murder as you.” My cheeks flush and I press my face into his neck. “That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me. Thank you.”
The book is, like every other in the series completely OTT, but I dig it. I had very high expectations after getting to know the MCs over the entire series, but it thankfully didn’t disappoint me. I guess I expected a little more murder just because of how Hopper is, but I liked seeing his sweet side and to learn about his history just as much. Liam definitely had some good character development going (over the entire series, really), and I appreciate that he learned to understand Hopper. I also adore the audiobook. I recently watched the narrator panel at GRL where Declan Winters talks about this book, and Hopper specifically, being one of the most challenging books and characters to narrate emotionally, and I thought that just made the book even better. He really did a fantastic job with book 2-4.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person look more alone. Except sometimes when I look in the mirror.
⚠️ Spoiler alert ⚠️
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual POV
Genre: Contemporary romance, M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Versatile
Content warning
Murder
Graphic violence
Grief
Gun violence
Mentions of forced prostitution
Mentions of child sex trafficking
Mentions of FASD
Claustrophobic event
Death of a family member (off page)
Stalking (friendly)
Gun play (sexual)
Explicit sexual content
Tropes & tags
FBI agent
Mafia enforcer
Serial killer
Morally grey MC
Docking
Mild blood play
Gun play
Mild cum play
Possessive and protective and obsessive
Past trauma
Friendly stalking
Found family
She is wary about my love for Liam. To be fair, I do stalk him, but not in a bad way. Also, he started it. That’s when she points out Liam had been running a government-led investigation at the time, which doesn’t count as stalking.