There's Always Love (The Jade Mysteries Book 1), by Joycie Russ
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There's Always Love (The Jade Mysteries Book 1), by Joycie Russ
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Jade Simmons, a young homicide detective has a recurring dream that leads her into reopening a cold case as a favor to a friend. As she searches for answers, she discovers old family secrets and she finds herself further from finding the answers she desires. Will she be able to find the killer before the killer finds her?
There's Always Love (The Jade Mysteries Book 1), by Joycie Russ- Amazon Sales Rank: #3084908 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-24
- Released on: 2015-09-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. There's Always Love By Autumn Fallen Over Book Reviews I received this book to give an honest review.After reading the blurb I figured it was really going to be a murder mystery book with some romance thrown in.I was only partially right. There was a murder mystery but there was more romance than anything, but it wasn't the hardcore romance it is more like the newlywed romance. You know the kind that drives your crazy the two main characters just can not get enough of each other. I read so much I love you's in this book than I have ever read before. With that being said I did like the relationship that Jade and Jasper did have, they clicked.Jade is a young detective who is woken up by a dream she has that occurs every now and then it seems. The dream she learns later on is about a cold case that went unsolved. Really has my interest there a cold case oooh this has to be good. I love a good mystery and it seems that something is going to go down.Then she meets Jasper and it seems that the book took more of a focus on the relationship of the two than her trying to solve the case.As the story progresses Jade learns who her mother is, just how big her family truly is being as she never met them before it is like secrets are coming out of the woodwork. And Jade handles it all very calmly, she doesn't seem too nervous about it all.It seems a majority of the story takes place somewhere in a bed, hotel and fireworks are going off but not the fireworks you are probably thinking off. Towards the end I did get a bit confused with all the people involved with the mystery and it was hard to keep straight who was who and married to whom. But I finally got it all figured out.I think the author could have developed the characters a bit more so they had more of a personality. I think she could have focused more on the murder throughout the whole story instead of more towards the end of the book. I think she has a lot of potential and I would like to read more stories by her to watch her grow as an author.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A hint of mystery spices overwhelmed by sparkless romance, lack of agency, and dull characterization! By J. B. Garner From jbgarner58.wordpress.com:The romantic mystery is a well-loved recipe for exciting literary meals. The zing of romance, the tension of a good mystery, mixed with liberal portions of interesting characters, topped up with a dash of thrilling action … it’s a taste sensation that can’t be beat. Having just finished The Thin Man in my off-time, I was certain thrilled by the prospect of digging into something that could be in the same vein (at least by the book blurb) in There’s Always Love.Before we look at this particular recipe, let us recite the Starving Review creed:I attempt to rate every book from the perspective of a fan of the genreI attempt to make every review as spoiler-free as possible.Let’s start with the positives. Ms. Russ has the kernels of a great mystery here and there are many threads that could prove interesting in the knotted background of the protagonist. There are twists, secrets, and betrayals, all great spices to throw into the mix of a romantic mystery. The problem, though, is that all of these spices are used simply as a little dash here or there.Let me explain further. Usually, when you bake a literary treat like this, you use a liberal mix of the two key elements: romance and mystery. Sure, the chef might add a dash more of this, or a bit more of that, but there’s a balance there. Love, as its title foreshadows, sheds the mystery and thriller aspects for at least eighty percent of the book, if not more. The key mystery, the thing the protagonist sets out to solve at the start, only occasionally pokes through the rest of the romantic narrative. Yes, some of the remainder is devoted to family drama and the occasional foreshadowed bit that ties back into the main mystery, but the romance elements far outweigh the mystery. This is especially confusing as the book blurb doesn’t even mention the romantic elements that dominate the book. It’s like writing down on the menu that you are serving pizza only to put out ice cream instead for dinner. It’s not automatically a bad thing, but it’s not what you said you were serving.This could turn out to be a good thing, all the same. As you may know, the Starving Reviewer enjoys a juicy romance. However, we don’t really get that served to us either. Our two protagonists fall in love in the first chapter, marry swiftly, and never have that love tested. They remain in stasis, in a perpetual state of newlywed highs for the entire length of the recipe, which takes place over a year or more of in-world time. There’s no build-up to the romance, no layers of spice cake before the sweet center. With no build-up and no proven chemistry, there’s no drama and no pay-off. They don’t even bicker or, if my memory is correct, even really disagree on anything in the entire book.If anything, the only real drama in this recipe revolves around the complicated strands of the main female protagonist’s family and the secrets revealed. This too could have saved the book, especially as it ties into the main mystery, but this is drained of flavor by the presentation. We, the readers, are told many, many things alongside the protagonists, but we rarely see them do anything to find these things out or do anything about them. There are reactions, sure, but even those are a bit muted. It robs the protagonists’ of all agency … even the big mystery itself is resolved, for the most part, by outsiders wrapped up in an out-of-left-field deus ex machina.The last thing that might have come in and salvaged Love would have been great characters. We aren’t lucky enough to get that. Again, there is potential here. I can feel the struggle of characters, mostly our main heroine, trying to break the surface and express themselves, but being rendered devoid of agency, much of that characterization is lost. This is doubly hamstrung by the overall writing style, which struggles to give any of the book’s characters a unique voice in the dialogue. There is no snark, no fire, no quips, no stumbling, no … anything. Also, a total lack of commas in the entire manuscript did little to help.I know this has been a rough review. However, as I have said many times, I review these treats in my pantry to help their chefs, to be critical so that they can improve and also to spread the good word to readers. So, to reiterate, there are some good elements here and some real potential.That doesn’t do much to help my final summation, which is that There’s Always Love might have some potential mystery but it’s overwhelmed by excessive, sparkless romance and dull characterization. If the chef were to take this back to the kitchen, rebalance the recipe, and put the protagonists really into the mix of the mystery, this could turn into a well-baked cake. Until then, though, I’d say keep this out of your pantry, readers.FINAL VERDICT: ** (A hint of mystery spices overwhelmed by sparkless romance, lack of agency, and dull characterization!)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Interesting Reading by Needs a Little Help By LAS Reviewer This story caught my interest on the first page and I liked Jade Simmons as a young homicide detective working to make her mark in her chosen field. She discovers that her recurring dream is related to a cold case and she decides to investigate the unsolved crime.However, midway through the first chapter Jade gets sidetracked as she falls in love with Jasper, a fellow policeman. The mystery falls by the wayside, and Jade becomes weaker and less focused. This change proves to be a less than ideal role model for either women or marriage in today’s world. The mystery does eventually get solved, but more as a sideline than as the main point of the novel.The novel lacks depth and reads more like a detailed outline of a book. The characters are flat and two dimensional, and the dialogue is obvious. Jade and Jasper repeatedly say “I love you,” followed by “and I love you back.” This is said so often, on most pages and sometimes even twice on one page, that it really became annoying. There are no bedroom scenes, but there are many references to the fact that Jade and Jasper spend much of their time in bed, and even those references, using terms such as fireworks repeatedly, become very stereotypical.The focus of this novel needs to be clarified. If the author is writing a mystery, then the mystery–which in fact is a very good mystery–needs to be developed more fully and should become the primary focus of the novel. If the author prefers to have this as a romance, then that also needs to be developed more fully. Currently the novel is floating between genres, neither mystery nor romance.The events in this rather short novel take place over more than a year, and this too is an indication of the lack of depth. There are many threads in the plot which beg for expansion. In fact, the material in this work could easily be the source for an entire series. Short chapters which lack details are followed by further chapters beginning with phrases such as “Three weeks passed,” or “Over the next two months.”There’s Always Love has a great deal of potential. The mystery itself has a lot of exciting possibilities, and if it was fully developed, with fewer, more complex characters, then this could become an excellent novel.originally posted at long and short reviews
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