New York Times Bestselling Author Sandra Brown has been a must read author for me since I can’t remember when. I want to thank Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review Overill.
MY REVIEW
Buckhead. Atlanta. I know the area and love when a book takes place in a location I am familiar with. And football? Are you ready for some football, because I am.
Zach was an MVP Super Bowl quarterback, emphasis on was. He had been booted from a sport he loved and he had no one to blame but himself. Rebecca was a party girl. Again, emphasis on was. He hadn’t seen Rebecca since their divorce.
Zach made a quick exit from the Cayman Islands to her hospital room. He felt her need to control his life, when he was told that he had power of attorney over her medical decisions if there was ever a time she couldn’t make the decision for herself. I can’t imagine having to make that call. I guess I would ask myself, ” What would ? want?”
State Prosecutor Kate Lennon arrives at his secluded cabin to let him know that the man responsible for Rebecca’s vegetative state is being released from prison. She wants to put him back where she thinks he belongs, but she needs his help to do it.
Richy Rich Eban, the man who, along with his three friends, had nearly killed her. He had served two years for what he had done to her. It ticked me off when I read two years (way to tick me off, Sandra), then I almost saw red when I ‘saw’ what his father gave him as a get out of jail ‘gift’. Despicable people and it is his father’s fault for the way he is, though Eban made his own choices, and continues to do so after his release.
I would be so angry….Who do they think they are? Eban, is he a sociopath? Psychopath? Or just a rich ‘kid’ that feels entitled, because he never had to be accountable for his actions. I say through the BOOK at them all. I would feel the same if it was a poor person that had committed the act. I love when I see them knocked down and watch them plead for mercy.
I love books like Overkill by Sandra Brown. The characters came across as authentic, faulty, arrogant. I was empathetic with Zach, not wanting to be the one to make the decision. Would I have been more angry than he was? You bet. But, then I wonder if it was because she was his ex and they had no connection any more. It is so real. I feel the vulnerability. I even discussed with Mr Wonderful about getting video cameras for the house right after finishing it. LOL
Very well done, Sandra. I read it in one day. I love romantic suspense and Overkill hit all the buttons. AND I loved the epilogue, a little something extra is always appreciated.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Overkill by Sandra Brown.
GOODREADS BLURB
#1
New York Times
bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a riveting thriller in
which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an
ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their
lives.
Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger
hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some time—not since their
volatile marriage imploded—so he’s shocked to receive a life-altering
call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent
assault, and he—despite their divorce—has medical power-of-attorney.
Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or
take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the responsibility and
the glare of public scrutiny, Zach ultimately walks away, letting
Rebecca’s parents have the final say.
Four years later,
Rebecca’s attacker, Eban—the scion of a wealthy family in Atlanta—gets
an early release from prison. The ludicrous miscarriage of justice reeks
of favoritism, and Kate Lennon, a brilliant state prosecutor, is
determined to put him back behind bars. Rebecca’s parents have kept her
alive all these years, but if her condition were to change—if she were
to die—Eban could be retried on a new charge: murder.
It isn’t
lost on Zach that in order for Eban to be charged with Rebecca’s
murder, Zach must actually be the one to kill her. He rejects Kate’s
legal standpoint but can’t resist their ill-timed attraction to each
other. Eban, having realized the jeopardy he’s in, plots to make certain
that neither Zach nor Kate lives to see the death of Rebecca—and the
end of his freedom.
ABOUT SANDRA BROWN
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including STING (2016), FRICTION (2015), MEAN STREAK (2014), DEADLINE(2013), & LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL (2011).
Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.
In 2009 Brown detoured from romantic suspense to write, Rainwater, a much acclaimed, powerfully moving historical fiction story about honor and sacrifice during the Great Depression.
Brown was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University. She was named Thriller Master for 2008, the top award given by the International Thriller Writer’s Association. Other awards and commendations include the 2007 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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