Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Thing About Love/ Julie James/ 365 pgs

This is a contemporary romance with characters who work at the FBI but I would hesitate to call it romantic suspense because I was expecting a bit more suspense and it just wasn't there. I still liked the book, though. It starts slowly with background on both characters. Jessica just moved to the Chicago office after divorcing her Hollywood husband. John just discovered his girlfriend was sleeping with his friend and he's ready to move across the country to Quantico to take a different path in his career. They went through training together five years earlier and did not hit it off. Jessica thought John disparaged her physical abilities (he thought he was motivating her) and John thought she disparaged his intellectual abilities (she was trying to be distant so as not to spark any nasty rumors). Now, they are assigned to work an undercover job together. I liked both of these characters, especially how they were willing to clear the air about their earlier miscommunications and misconceptions about each other. The undercover job they are working on is very tame. I kept waiting for something explosive to happen, but it really never does. Still, the characters are fun and the author has clearly done her research on the FBI.

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