(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

It's been three months since that night - the night that Detective Micki Dare almost died. Physically, she's healed but the nightmares remain, and she can't shake the feeling that more happened that night than her partner Detective Zach Harris is telling her. The only thing she can do is try to carry on as normal and solve the latest case she and Zach have been assigned to.
A string of brutal home invasions are rocking the city and the families targeted have nothing in common. Why were these victims chosen? The deeper Micki and Zach go into the case, the more they realise something isn't right. There's something . . . familiar about the person doing this - and it's a familiarity Micki has been trying to forget. Suddenly, this case is hitting too close to home and Micki has to decide if she really wants to learn the truth about that night...

This is the second book in the Lightkeepers series. I haven't read the first one but don't feel that it is totally necessary to have read book one to enjoy this. I'm sure it would have helped at the start, when we were introduced to characters that were involved in the previous book - but there was nothing to stop me enjoying this one.

This book does everything I want it to do: start strongly, be entertaining, have a great mystery, a light touch of romance and a liberal dose of the supernatural. What a combination. Add to that a conclusion that makes perfect sense - and is suspenseful (which, I would think, is the most important part of a "romantic suspense" novel), and you have a really good book.

One that I would happily recommend.


Paul
ARH

I got If You Dare not knowing that this is part of a series, since Netgalley allowed it, I read it. Fortunately for me, the author had kindly included a good summary for book one. So thank heavens for that, or else it would have been slightly more difficult to follow.

My second Erica Spindler book, I like her writing style, but never came back because there are other books in my TBR list that I had to catch first. Plus, I am also an impulse reader, and I have no compulsion to read more of her work yet.

If You Dare (or Triple Six) picks up where Zach and Micki Dare left off, if it were not for the summary, the book would have lost me. Because this one hit the ground almost running, setting up the pace for what is coming. Her writing style is still the same, neat and fast. There is a lot of tension going around the characters, even though they are on the same side. I guess this will be the main issue in the future parts of the series.

The biggest problem is that I did not enjoy reading how the characters keep on making obvious mistakes. Sometimes authors have to remember readers are not stupid. Detectives are supposed to be smart and analytical, not making too many emotional mistakes. However, the characters seem to be forgetting that part.

My other gripe is that the story seems a little slow. There is a lot of things going on in between the major plot, but all are strings for the series, and dangling everywhere. I got annoyed sometimes, when I really wanted the book to move forward but it stayed where it was for a few chapters.

I'm really really sorry, but hadn't realised this had a supernatural element - it's a genre I struggle with and don't usually read.

I started this case I was able to read it, but it's really not my sort of book.

I apologise again!