Title: Innocent Target
Series: Redemption Harbor Book #4
Stand Alone Title: yes
Author: Katie Reus
Genre: Romance
Blurb: He wasn’t supposed to fall for her…
She was a target. A contract that came across his desk by mistake. Axel was simply going to warn her that she was in danger and get out. Then he got a taste of her and fell hard. But they’re from two different worlds. Not only is she innocent, she’s out of his league. He should keep his distance, but he can’t. Not when someone wants her dead. Now he’s driven to protect her, to keep her safe.
What happens when she discovers who he really is?
Hadley moved to Redemption Harbor for vet school and to be closer to her new family. Now that her billionaire father knows about her existence, her life has changed drastically. She just never imagined that she might be targeted because of her family. And she definitely never imagined she would fall for the one man she should never want. A man who kills for a living. A man who’s obsessed with her. A man who will do anything to protect her from the danger lurking in the shadows.
Thoughts: I’m a fan of the series, and have read all the books in it thus far. This was not the strongest in the series. I dare to say that if I had started out with this book, and I didn’t already love Reus, I probably wouldn’t be as huge a fan of this series as I am. Innocent Target is my least favorite of the books. Something about it just didn’t work for me. Part of it was that Hadley was just so immature and young-ish for her age and seemed much younger in her mentality….she reminded me a bit of the more annoying YA novels in which the characters are trying to be represented as older, but are less mature than teenagers. Axel, on the other hand, seemed much older than her….I actually liked his character, but I just could not see him being attracted to Hadley at all. I didn’t feel the spark between these characters at all. Add into it that we keep reading glimpses of characters we love – which now seem alien with Hadley thrown into the mix. Yes, we got the history and had heard of her via previous books, but she just didn’t fit. I was just thrown by this book completely….I actually went back and re-read Savage Rising (my favorite so far) to get the bad taste out of mouth and to remind me why I love this series.
Rating: B-/C
Other books in this series: Resurrection (Book #1), Savage Rising (Book #2), Dangerous Witness (Book #3)
Other reviews: Sarah’s Review of Resurrection, Sarah’s Review of Savage Rising, Sarah’s Review of Dangerous Witness
