Ash’s review of Undertow (Cutter Cay Series, Book 1) by Cherry Adair
Romantic Suspense published by St. Martins 28 Dec 10
Part of Undertow I really like, and part of it just makes me exhausted. It’s like one of those action movies that doesn’t know when to quit, but the romance is pretty good so you still watch it anyway.
I really like Teal. She doesn’t wear makeup, doesn’t care much about clothes or girly things. She loves working on engines and she is a strong person. She’s the character that pulls me into the book. I think putting her together with Zane is a really great idea. Zane is carefree, he loves everyone, and he is not shy like Teal. They are a good balance for each other. They aren’t anything alike and I enjoy seeing them come together. The progression of their relationship and of them as characters is the part I really like.
I think the book would have been better as a straightforward contemporary romance. The suspense part is just too much, and after the first round I’m over it.
Zane is getting millions of dollars worth of treasure off of the ocean floor, so, of course, people are going to want to steal it from him. There is a mystery of who it is and then there’s a fight scene with the bad guys. The book is not close to being over at that point, so I’m thinking it would focus more on Zane and Teal after that. I was wrong, and even badder guys come and the story gets weird. There are gunfights, people dying, people racing for their lives, and it seems to all come out of nowhere. Suddenly Teal knows how to make Molotov Cocktails and Zane becomes a badass fighter. It is all just too much and I’m tired thinking about it.
If Undertow was all action then I probably wouldn’t bother reading the next book, but Cherry Adair did a great job of making the characters into real people. And I really enjoyed the whole salvage and diving parts of the book so I am looking forward to reading Riptide.
Grade: B-
Summary:
SHE TAKES THE PLUNGE.
Teal Williams is content with her career as a ship’s master mechanic—until Zane Cutter, the “Casanova of the Caribbean,” makes her an offer she can’t refuse: to climb on board with him for a real-life treasure hunt. Teal must help him dredge up a shipwrecked vessel containing an abundance of gold, silver, and emeralds—and she’ll claim part of the prize.
HE’S BLOWN OFF COURSE.
Zane needs a mechanic—not a lover—and Teal, who can also dive, is perfect for the job. So it suits him just fine that Teal is completely immune to his charms…or so he tells himself. But with a deadly enemy in their midst—one who’s silently edging closer—Zane and Teal sink into troubled waters. Trapped in the middle of a perilous sea, they have no one to turn to but each other as they face down a danger that runs unfathomably deep—and a passion that runs even deeper…
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