Take Me Deeper by Jackie Ashenden

I enjoyed the first book in this series, I enjoyed the first book in this series, Take Me Deeper, about bounty hunters or “fugitive recovery agents.” But this one...not so much. Nora is supposed to be this tough, smart bounty hunter who always brings in her target. Now she’s assigned to go after a biker who is the second in command of a biker gang with an outlaw background. So what does this clever girl decide to do - march into the biker bar and confront a whole crowd of them including the head of the gang, who turns out to be the guy she hung out to dry when she was just 18. And then, when she realizes who the new head of the gang is - because she’s so tough, she didn’t do any research ahead of time - she continues to confront them and him and make her demands like everyone is going to smile and hand over their guy. Come on. What follows is a whole lot of sexual tension and then sexual action and not a lot of plot. We are presented with all the angst about how she did him wrong and then they have sex and then we see how he’s still angry and they have some more sex and she is still getting over her daddy issues and then they have more sex. You get the idea.

The whole set-up of her trying to bring in his best buddy is quickly and easily resolved at the end. I just couldn’t find myself to care about either the H or h and it was irritating to get this whole set up that is basically dropped. Hopefully, the next book in the series will do more to deliver on the promise of the first and not skimp on either plot or character development. I received a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.">Take Me Deeper, about bounty hunters or “fugitive recovery agents.” But this one...not so much. Nora is supposed to be this tough, smart bounty hunter who always brings in her target. Now she’s assigned to go after a biker who is the second in command of a biker gang with an outlaw background. So what does this clever girl decide to do - march into the biker bar and confront a whole crowd of them including the head of the gang, who turns out to be the guy she hung out to dry when she was just 18. And then, when she realizes who the new head of the gang is - because she’s so tough, she didn’t do any research ahead of time - she continues to confront them and him and make her demands like everyone is going to smile and hand over their guy. Come on.

What follows is a whole lot of sexual tension and then sexual action and not a lot of plot. We are presented with all the angst about how she did him wrong and then they have sex and then we see how he’s still angry and they have some more sex and she is still getting over her daddy issues and then they have more sex. You get the idea. The whole set-up of her trying to bring in his best buddy is quickly and easily resolved at the end.

I just couldn’t find myself to care about either the H or h and it was irritating to get this whole set up that is basically dropped. Hopefully, the next book in the series will do more to deliver on the promise of the first and not skimp on either plot or character development.

I received a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.