The Killing Tide follows in the way of Dani Pettrey’s previous titles with a strong mystery story, plenty of action and high-stakes suspense, and charming, faith-filled romance. *I received a copy of this book from Bethany House from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My hope is that these glaring mistakes were fixed before the publishing date. They are mentioned purely to reflect what I experienced reading the copy I was given. *The formatting and mistakes did not affect my overall rating. Her writing is normally so great that it hurts to say I don’t like it. This is the first book of Pettrey’s that I haven’t liked, and I’m sorry for it. This is NOT the caliber of work I’m used to from this author, and I have no idea what happened. There were also numerous wrong words (ex. When talking about bail hearings, the time wasn’t consistent. Scene switches had no gaps, so it was jarring to start reading the very next paragraph and realize it involved different people. The formatting (I had a Kindle version) was horrible. I don’t mind antagonists that act like Bond villains, but if they don’t hesitate to kill everyone in their way for most of the book, it doesn’t make sense later on if they suddenly change and put people in a rescuable situation. I ended up hating Gabby’s character so much that even when she has her “changing moment” at the very end, it didn’t affect my view her.
The saving graces for the book are Noah and Rissi. If the story were only about Gabby and Finn, it would probably be lower. She’s literally like that for almost the entire book, and I hated her character. She resents people trying to keep her safe and readily puts herself and OTHERS (including a pregnant woman and her sister) in dangerous situations with no regard for their anyone’s safety. She’s already chosen her career over him once before, and she’s clearly willing to do it again with no hesitation for most of the book. The friend is 7 months pregnant and has just lost her husband to murder. Gabby disregards anyone who wants to protect her to the point of wandering off for coffee with a “friend.” I put the word friend in quotation marks because she takes the woman for coffee to pursue an “angle” (her words) for a story.
With Gabby disappearing to investigate on her own all the time, keeping her safe is a hard job. Two investigations are going on at the same time, and it seems like they will intersect at some point. When people are murdered, Finn’s team has to investigate the deaths, including a few of their own. She chose her career over love, and now it’s like she’s getting put in the same situation. A drug lord is trying to have her killed, and she ends up staying with the man whose heart she broke last time she was in town.
I was excited to start a new series by one of my favorite authors. This is the first book in the Coastal Guardians series.
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