Patricia H. (beachcomber) reviewed The Borrowed and Blue Murders (Zoe Hayes, Bk. 4) on + 320 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This is book #4 of a series. (I only read the first book before reading this one, and I wasn't lost in the story line.) If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you will like Merry Jones. The book is very fast paced and feature an art therapist Zoe, and her 2 children and her (cop) fiance Nick. In this book, Zoe is planning her wedding and just a few days before the big day, she finds a body on her back patio. Her 2 future brothers in law are house guests. Lots of twists and turns. A page turner that was hard to put down. Take this on the plane and you will be landing before you know it.
Barbara H. (barbaralois) reviewed The Borrowed and Blue Murders (Zoe Hayes, Bk. 4) on + 84 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
GREAT!!! Who knew that getting married could be so hard?
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Tim H. (Timbuktu126) reviewed The Borrowed and Blue Murders (Zoe Hayes, Bk. 4) on + 486 more book reviews
Overall, I liked it....but not as much as the other books in this series. There were definitely some pages I skipped to get moving. And one thing that I found very implausible was that a wedding planner would drop everything just to take care of a family or their kids.
The books description is very precise and I can't find anything to add to the plot that I find important enough to mention so I'd like to leave it as it is.
Zoe's life has been tumultuous ever since little Molly found a finger in the snow and the two got involved in the "missing nanny case", led my Detective Nick Stiles, her now soon to be husband.
It's not difficult to imagine that her walk to the aisle could run smoothly. Quite the opposite.
First she faces her growing family: Nick's brothers Sam and Tony, her for the time house guests, and the secretive brother Eli who didn't come but is caught by Zoe in the evening, rocking her baby in his arms and vanishing as silently as he entered the house.
Although she feels the brothers bond she has to stand up for herself to let them be a part of their talk about Eli and the investigations about the dead jogger, who turns out was a federal agent. For Zoe's character an impressing move to burst like she did. I really liked this part. Although her best friend Susan still says she lives in a bubble, she finally seems to mature a bit, giving her a new twist. Still her reactions to what's happening around her are slow.
Nick Stiles and his trust issues to open up to the women he loves become a huge bore and the author could definitely brush a little bit color into his character. Although Zoe is the main character of Merry Jones Books, he plays a huge role as well and he deserves more development. So far I found myself not really caring for him.
Molly is still Molly, the adopted child that has seen far too much violence in her short life and the question is how all this will impact this little girl that still plays like a child but carries a lot of wisdom and understanding of what's happening in her life.
The family grows and the reader, me, is sort of excited if Zoe Hayes, it wasn't mentioned if she's going to keep her last name, or Zoe Stiles, is in for a ride with a new, eccentric family full of unknown obstacles she's going to discover, that most certainly carry her into the next dangerous situation.
Zoe's life has been tumultuous ever since little Molly found a finger in the snow and the two got involved in the "missing nanny case", led my Detective Nick Stiles, her now soon to be husband.
It's not difficult to imagine that her walk to the aisle could run smoothly. Quite the opposite.
First she faces her growing family: Nick's brothers Sam and Tony, her for the time house guests, and the secretive brother Eli who didn't come but is caught by Zoe in the evening, rocking her baby in his arms and vanishing as silently as he entered the house.
Although she feels the brothers bond she has to stand up for herself to let them be a part of their talk about Eli and the investigations about the dead jogger, who turns out was a federal agent. For Zoe's character an impressing move to burst like she did. I really liked this part. Although her best friend Susan still says she lives in a bubble, she finally seems to mature a bit, giving her a new twist. Still her reactions to what's happening around her are slow.
Nick Stiles and his trust issues to open up to the women he loves become a huge bore and the author could definitely brush a little bit color into his character. Although Zoe is the main character of Merry Jones Books, he plays a huge role as well and he deserves more development. So far I found myself not really caring for him.
Molly is still Molly, the adopted child that has seen far too much violence in her short life and the question is how all this will impact this little girl that still plays like a child but carries a lot of wisdom and understanding of what's happening in her life.
The family grows and the reader, me, is sort of excited if Zoe Hayes, it wasn't mentioned if she's going to keep her last name, or Zoe Stiles, is in for a ride with a new, eccentric family full of unknown obstacles she's going to discover, that most certainly carry her into the next dangerous situation.
