BOMBSHELL by PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS *REVIEW* Lone Star Book Blog Tour
(What Doesn't Kill You, #9)
An Ava Romantic Mystery
by
PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS
Genre: Romantic Mystery / R-Rated
Publisher: SkipJack Publishing
Date of Publication: July 11, 2017
Number of Pages: 236
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Temp worker by day, lounge singer by night, single mom Ava is having a hard time breaking up with her long-distance boyfriend and making it without the support of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. Things improve dramatically when she lands a too-good-to-be-true job at a virtual currency exchange, where she meets a seriously sexy man, and goes to work for a boss so incredible he sponsors her on a trip to New York to record a demo. But when Ava stumbles across the raped and murdered body of a young woman, she recognizes her from a shared trauma back in their school days. Ava is devastated and throws herself into avenging the girl's death. From that moment on, it’s one bombshell after another, going off closer and closer to Ava and the people she cares about most.
PRAISE FOR BOMBSHELL:
"Just when I think I couldn't love another Pamela Fagan Hutchins novel more, along comes Ava. She's smart and sassy, with a story full of juicy plot twists. I enjoyed Bombshell from cover to cover!" — Marcy McKay, author of Pennies from Burger Heaven
"To finally get a whole book of Ava's beautiful voice and attitude was so much fun. And then to see that her outer armor was mixed with the very real insecurities and struggles that we can all relate to was magical. She personifies bombshell in every sense of word and I can't wait to have her voice in my head again in Stunner." — Tara Scheyer, Grammy-nominated musician, Long-Distance Sisters Book Club
"Entertaining, complex, and thought-provoking." — Ginger Copeland, power reader
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My first impression of this book was pure delight; it was just what the doctor ordered. That impression never left. "Bombshell" starts with a boom and doesn't stop, and in fact made me curious about the books ahead of it. Come to find out, yes, it is book 9 in a series, but the series is divided into manageable units by being about different women that are featured in the books. Also the prior books are on audio, too, so that was a great find.
I'm not sure how much the author rocked the story of the other women, but Ava is a sensation. She's a hot mess, but she's not too terribly self-destructive. She's got a past and yet she has things going for her. In other words, she's very relate-able. The mystery tease and solve is a good one, and I thoroughly enjoyed all the twists and turns in Ava's life as well. Also, the setting, in the Virgin Islands, felt so timely to me with all of the hurricanes. Bombshell is just a fun page turner that is well imagined in a world of its own.
I'm officially a new fan, Pamela Fagan Hutchins. Thank you for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. I'll be checking out the Katie series on audio (and am honestly dying to hear Ava's island lingo in that audio, so I hope the Ava Audio is coming soon!). This is just the kind of book I love discovering through Lone Star Blog Tours, without which I never would have found.
My first impression of this book was pure delight; it was just what the doctor ordered. That impression never left. "Bombshell" starts with a boom and doesn't stop, and in fact made me curious about the books ahead of it. Come to find out, yes, it is book 9 in a series, but the series is divided into manageable units by being about different women that are featured in the books. Also the prior books are on audio, too, so that was a great find.
I'm not sure how much the author rocked the story of the other women, but Ava is a sensation. She's a hot mess, but she's not too terribly self-destructive. She's got a past and yet she has things going for her. In other words, she's very relate-able. The mystery tease and solve is a good one, and I thoroughly enjoyed all the twists and turns in Ava's life as well. Also, the setting, in the Virgin Islands, felt so timely to me with all of the hurricanes. Bombshell is just a fun page turner that is well imagined in a world of its own.
I'm officially a new fan, Pamela Fagan Hutchins. Thank you for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. I'll be checking out the Katie series on audio (and am honestly dying to hear Ava's island lingo in that audio, so I hope the Ava Audio is coming soon!). This is just the kind of book I love discovering through Lone Star Blog Tours, without which I never would have found.
Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, award-winning and best-selling romantic mysteries, and hilarious nonfiction from deep in the heart of Nowheresville , Texas and way up in the frozen north of Snowheresville , Wyoming
Her What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series is Janet Evanovich meets Sandra Brown and a smidge of Alice Hoffman's practical magic, featuring a revolving lineup of interrelated female amateur sleuths. She is passionate about great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, riding her gigantic horses, experimenting with her Keurig, and traveling in the Bookmobile.
AWARDS
2017 WINNER Silver Falchion Award, Best Mystery
2016 WINNER USA Best Book Award, Cross Genre Fiction
2015 WINNER USA Best Book Award, Cross Genre Fiction
2014 USA Best Book Award Finalist, Cross Genre Fiction
2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-finalist, Romance
2013 USA Best Book Award Finalist, Business: Publishing
2012 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Ghost Story Contest
2012 WINNER USA Best Book Award, Parenting: Divorce
2011 Winner of the Houston Writers Guild Novel Contest, Mainstream
2010 Winner of the Writers League of Texas Manuscript Contest, Romance
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