Royce Nadiri
The moment I woke up from brain surgery, I knew I was screwed. Too off balance, too slow, too broken to ever again claim “situation normal.” Now I spend my free time—I’ve got a lot of it—coding apps and avoiding the world.Until my knucklehead friends set me up.Everything about Inara is so gorgeous I forget my own name, much less how to form recognizable words. I’m definitely not … recognizable words. I’m definitely not looking for love, but maybe it’s time to live a little dangerously.
Inara Ruzgani
I’m the best damned sniper in the country. But after a mission gone horrifically wrong, I have to find a way to repack my scattered emotions in a stronger box. Or I may never fire another shot.
My friends think they’re doing me a favor, playing matchmaker. I can’t deny there’s a spark with Royce that quickly flares into an inferno. But when my past catches up with me, it’s a stark reminder why I shouldn’t trust my heart to anyone. Because if I lose everything, I won’t be the only one going down.
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First, let me say that I read an ARC of this book in exchange for a review that would be honest. Most people who know me will tell you that if I don’t like something, I will definitely say something. I cannot find a thing I didn’t like about this book. Nothing at all.
I’ll start with the plot. Patricia Eddy did a wonderful job here intertwining various plot parts and twists into a solid book. There isn’t a place in the book where the reader loses the action because something happened that shouldn’t have. Ms. Eddy was extremely diligent in making sure the action stayed on point throughout.
Then I’ll move onto the characters. Character development is a HUGE thing for me. If the characters aren’t well developed and true to themselves consistently, this really makes it tough for me to like a book. I will say that I’ve read a few of Patricia Eddy’s books, and have every intention of reading them all, because she does the one thing that has made me fall in love with her writing. She creates rich, deep characters, written with technicolor threads, blending the imperfections together to let the reader know that she has created real life characters. I’ve never met a perfect human, and don’t want to read about one either. Ms. Eddy knows what being human means, accepts their imperfections, and writes the character as well as any virtuoso would play the violin. I cannot give her high enough praise for the work she puts into her books. Believe me, if you read as many books as I do (350+ this year), you will recognize the time and effort she puts into each book, making sure that her characters end up being the reader’s friends.
In this book, Inara is a sniper, or sharpshooter, working for a group that mainly handles clandestine rescues (picture out of the country kidnappings for ransom). Inara believes her hesitation killed a co worker in Columbia on a mission in the past. We learn a lot about her background, setting the stage for understanding her ups and downs while she copes with memories that are not quite accurate. She is set up by friends to meet Royce, an incredibly smart man who was felled by a stroke during surgery to remove a tumor. The way that Ms. Eddy wrote Royce endeared me to him immediately. She was able to handle his frustrations and setbacks then combined them against his triumphs to make this man as endearing as any I’ve read in a while. And at the very end of the book, I had even MORE aha moments about Ryker and now I’m in love.
If you have never read any of Patricia Eddy’s books, I would suggest you start with this one. There was one book before this that introduced the “friends” that you’ll meet in In Her Sights, but reading their book isn’t necessary to understanding and enjoying this one. Kudos to you Ms. Eddy – you done good. 🙂