Orientation (Borealis Investigations, Band 1)

Orientation (Borealis Investigations, Band 1)

Softcover
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Shaw and North are best friends, private detectives, and in danger of losing their agency. A single bad case, followed by crippling lawsuits, has put them on the brink of closing shop. Until, that is, a client walks into their Benton Park office.Matty Fennmore is young, blond, and beautiful, and he’s in danger. When he asks for Shaw and North’s help foiling a blackmail scheme, the detectives are quick to accept.The conspiracy surrounding Matty runs deeper than Shaw and North expect. As they dig into the identity of Matty’s blackmailer, they are caught in a web that touches politicians, the local LGBT community, and the city’s police.An attack on Matty drives home the rising stakes of the case, and Shaw and North must race to find the blackmailer before he can silence Matty. But a budding romance lays bare long-buried feelings between Shaw and North, and as their relationship splinters, solving the case may come at the cost of their friendship.

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Format
Softcover
Pages
292
Price
13.60 €

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Book 1 in the Borealis Investigations series.

Great, I've got about 5h of sleep left and I'm angry, confused, puzzled, torn - and absolutely don't know what to think of this book. Shaw and North have a new client. Matty, a pastor's son, shows up scared as he is blackmailed by the man who took his virginity, and a video of it. Can the investigators help him? Spoilers!! I need to rant!! More like can Shaw and North survive? Can their friendship survive? Can I survive? In the beginning both MCs drive me crazy, and I am still unsure whether Shaw has ADHD or whether he's a basket case. Shaw's in love with North, North is in live with Shaw. Both are apparently too blind to see. Shaw throws himself into the arms of some puppy eyes, North throws himself into the arms of a disgusting abuser. Friendship gets torn apart, as do limbs. I felt like I couldn't breathe with the stupid decisions both men were making. Particularly Shaw. And don't get me started on Pari, the self-proclaimed secretary. An entitled, horror-show of a whiny, shit-show of a character who thinks the world owes her for being able to breathe. If she shows up in the next book I'll probably skip her appearances because she boils my blood. I don't loathe the bad boys as much as her. Gaaaaaah.

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Nach „The Adventures of Holloway Holmes“ hatte ich ehrlich gesagt Angst, eine andere Reihe von G. Ashe anzufangen. Ich konnte mir einfach nicht vorstellen, dass irgendetwas an Holloway und Jack herankommt. Naja, mittlerweile bin ich jetzt bei Band drei und quietsche/weine mit den Charakteren im Tandem. Hach, wundervoll. Das Cast finde ich ganz wundervoll. Ashe hat es mal wieder geschafft, nicht nur die Hauptcharaktere ins Rampenlicht zu rücken, sondern auch den Nebencharakteren ihre eigene, kleine Hauptrolle zu geben. Pari hat halt wirklich den Vogel abgeschossen. <3 Ich mag es, wie man schon mitbekommt, dass mehr hinter den Charakteren steckt und das man mit Sicherheit erwarten kann, dass Ashe sich den Hintergrundgeschichten widmet. Was mich wohl am meisten stört, ist der Fakt, dass man merkt, dass sich bei Shaw und North Kommunikationsprobleme anbahnen, sobald ihre Beziehung den Rahmen „Arbeit“ verlässt. Ich meine ... manche Kommunikationsprobleme sind „okay“, aber diese Art hier nervt mich doch etwas. Es verkompliziert einfach auf unnötige Art und Weise alles und zeigt, dass beide nie gelernt haben, wie man richtig über Gefühle und den Stuff redet. (Könnte in den folgenden Bänden also echt anstrengend werden ...) Es erzeugt einfach Drama, das an ein Teenie-Drama erinnert. Ansonsten: Liebe für das queere Cast <3

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