BLP REVIEWS

~ Tracy ~

Execution Style was a decent read – I finished it even though there were a few times I could feel my brain do a mental eye roll….

The characters were fairly likeable – Miller more so than Mercy in my opinion. Their coming together was under very intense and difficult circumstances. I had a couple of hmmmm moments around why he was with her – was it a hero complex thing where he felt he had to protect her or was there a vibe from her that he had to stay…. but reading through the story we see that there’s more to it than that.

This pair have to be the unluckiest couple I’ve read about in a good while. The number of things that happened and went wrong was a case of ‘the hits just keep on coming’ and tbh, I found it all a bit much at points.
The ‘villian’ was another ‘what the??’ for me… made out to be a total crazy but the things they did and the information that they could get hold of made me think Miller and Mercy were dealing more with a mastermind that a nutter!!!
I know we have to suspend belief for a bit when we read a work of fiction but in all honesty,  there were a few things that happened in the book that I just felt were a tad excessive and I had doubts that they could really happen in real life – I could be wrong and the author has done her homework and the things I had issues with could very well be possible but I’m still on the nu-uh side of the fence at the moment!!


Saying all of the above, it wasn’t a bad read, sadly it just didn’t give me the feels and left me feeling just ok by the end. I will read the next book in the series as I’d like to know more about the hero in that one.

I rate Execution Style a 3.5*

Execution Style is a ‘shoulda, woulda, coulda’ scenario – Should have been good, story had promise, characters had promise. Would have been good with less OTT drama and a little more substance. Could have been good with a better editor for flow, continuity and errors.
I’m always sad when a book leaves me with just a meh feeling, not really caring one way or the other, I would rather totally love it or totally dislike it – at least it inspired feelings. Execution Style was just too unbelievably dramatic, and yeah I know it’s fiction but seriously? From one horrific event that occurred which is where Miller met Mercy it’s just a roller coaster perilously careering totally out of control throwing in unneeded drama where more substance and exploration of characters and events would have had far more effect.
Everybody deals with stuff differently but it seriously stretches the imagination to say the least that a woman deals with the aftermath of a horrific act in such a way and so I struggled, didn’t really connect with either character despite flashes of humour and banter that is trademark Lani Lynn Vale.
There are secondary cast members I liked but were overshadowed by the OMFG SERIOUSLY???????? moments I kept having as the drama continued with sparkles, glitter and fanfare. I personally needed more emotion, more exploration of the relationship between them without something happening every 30 seconds (see how I threw in over exaggerated drama then?!?!?!).
Sadly this one wasn’t for me and I probably won’t continue with this series.