Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: July 2023
There's nothing a community won't do to protect its own...
Shirley Wallace and her four sons return to her childhood home on Pope Mountain in Jubilee, Kentucky, with a lifetime of hardship behind them, hoping to find peace and begin their lives anew. Eldest brother Aaron Pope returns to his life as a police officer, and is settling in just fine. Then Aaron's investigation into an attempted murder leads him right to Dani Owens. She may hold the key to a long-lost part of the Pope family's past, and more importantly, she may hold the key to Aaron's heart.
Last Rites is the second book in the Jubilee, Kentucky series. The series follows the Pope family. This one is mostly Aaron and Dani's story. Dani has moved to Jubilee to get a fresh start. Aaron and his family have finally come home to live among their kin and start a new life as well.
I was so looking forward to this one. I had enjoyed the first book and that mystery. So, I thought I 'd love this one. Sadly, it really fell short of my expectations. The book felt very unfocused to me and was all over the place. There were too many points of view and story-lines. There was a romance, but that was just kind of meh. There was no suspense. The two potential mysteries were easily solved and wrapped up just over halfway through the book. The danger that Dani could have been in never really surfaced. The way her attacker was caught was kind of laughable and ridiculous. The only thing I did like was the hunt for Meg and how her story was wrapped up. That was bitter sweet. So in all this one was a miss for me. Hopefully the next visit to Jubilee will be more focused and suspenseful.
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