Man with the Muscle Book

I loved this book for a lot of reasons.

I loved that something about this book was different from the usual cliched premises I'm often graced with when I open a book. Julie Miller is very good at defying the normals and writing books that go outside of the stereotypes.

Let me just say that I loved our kickass heroine, Audrey Kline. Audrey is a lawyer, and she is desperate to step outside of her father's shadow and make her own future. But it is her job to lock away a gang leader, and she is also the victim of the Rich Girl Killer's onslaught. This man has already taken the lives of Gretchen Cosgrove and Valeska Gordeeva (which is also a perfect segue into the fourth book, Nanny 911), two of her rich and beautiful friends.

And then we have Alex, a handsome SWAT officer with a dark past filled with alcoholic mothers and gang relations (and he has the scars from tattoo laser removal surgery to prove it). He knows what it's like to be part of a gang, and now that his love interest, Audrey, has fallen victim to their callous onslaughts, he feels a strange sense of protectiveness over the auburn-haired, strong-willed beauty.

What ensues is an incredible novel filled with a gradual love, and a sense of need and desperation. I whirled through this book very quickly, as Ms Miller's books are short and light to read, yet still enthralling and slightly exciting. With the potential sexually to be a Mills and Boon book, it also has the concept and writing to be a proper novel, being the perfect mix between the two. It also helps that it's not extremely short, but not too long either. Ms Miller is a jack of all trades when it comes to length, description, concepts and writing. I applaud her for writing such an excellent series.

I think what I like the most about this book is the ties each book has to the other. With the arrival of Miranda Murdock in the second book and the mentions of Quinn Gallagher and Valeska Gordeeva from the very beginning, it always gives you the proper information you need to understand each book. Trip and Charlotte are also mentioned in this book, and I know that they are the two protagonists in the next book. Something about the fact they all tie into each other gets me somewhat irrationally excited over the concept, and I can't wait to continue on with the series and see what Julie Miller has in store for her readers on the next book.