How do you keep going after the one person you always believed you were meant to be with forever gives their heart to someone else? Bryan Roemer never thought he'd have to answer that question; but after losing the woman he loved to another man, he is faced with a new reality. Meeting Mara - exotic, beautiful, sexy - on the flight back to California provided him with a welcome distraction to take his mind off his pain. Still, days are a blur. His nights are spent drowning in memories. At his lowest moment, his friends, Nick Flaherty and Carrie Mayer, summon him back east to photograph their wedding. Reluctantly, he does. Six months have changed Bryan. And when he arrives, the rest of the Circle find that he hasn't come alone. Something dark and sinister has come with him. Something that is determined to keep him at all costs. But waiting there for Bryan is a second chance. one that just might save his life.
My Review:
Redemption is the second novel in LA Kuehlke's Pursuit series. I haven't read the first novel, but that didn't matter as there are plenty of plot catch-ups via conversations about what happened last summer, and the main characters' thoughts and memories.
When I first started reading, I was a bit put off by the angels, demons and circle stuff. From the book's synopsis you don't get any of that, there's only one reference to the circle. I took that to be a circle of friends, which the characters are so it wasn't completely off.
I'm very much in the middle about this novel. It's an interesting, if not a completely original plot - angels and demons among us fighting for our souls trying to destroy us.
I didn't feel anything for any of the characters. They were all a bit too one dimensional for my liking. Bryan the hunky bad boy. Cassidy the beautiful and pure. Nick the happy, go-lucky who loves his cliches. Carrie the beautiful planner. Miranda the beautiful dreamer. And Derek, the hunky super cop.
The premise of the story doesn't add up either. According to Bryan and Miranda (the woman who broke his heart), they were never in a romantic relationship. They were just long time friends, he had feelings for her that she didn't return, instead she fell in love with Derek. That doesn't equal total devastation in my books.At least not enough to travel to the other side of the country and try to forget everything.
From the way this novel ended, I think the third book in the series is going to be about Miranda's little sister Lainey and her fight with demons.
2.5/5
To purchase a copy of this book visit the author's web page on the Outskirts Press website.
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