Hooked on Books

Silent Creed is the second book in Alex Kava's new series featuring Ryder Creed and his K9 rescue and recovery dogs. Ryder was first featured in the Maggie O'Dell series with his star K9, Grace but they were such a hit, they have their own show now. If you aren't a dog lover, you'll still love Ryder Creed, emotional baggage and all. He's a former Marine K9 handler, rough around the edges with just enough boyish charm to make even Maggie blush when she comes around! Yes, he's hot but I digress....so the story revolves around mudslides in North Carolina which Ryder's company, K9 CrimeScents, is called out on to perform rescue and recovery operations. Of course, its never as simple as that so you'll find a lot of twists and turns throughout. I've always enjoyed Kava's writing style. Her skills are pretty solid. She knows how to keep the story moving along, suspense in the air and action on the ground. She doesn't use a lot of filler and I've never found myself drifting off reading her books. However, the ending of this story felt very rushed. It was like, hey I need to wrap this up tomorrow so I'm going to throw together a quick fix ending when it should have been extended a lot more then it was to wrap the story up completely. There were a few ends that weren't tied up and I was left with more questions then answers.  So, I'm not sure what happened there but hopefully we won't see any slap dash endings in the next release.