Overkill by Sandra Brown

Traveling With T checked this out from the local library for personal reading time.

Overkill

Summary: Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some time—not since their volatile marriage imploded—so he’s shocked to receive a life-altering call about her. Rebecca has been placed on life support after a violent assault, and he—despite their divorce—has medical power-of-attorney. Zach is asked to make an impossible choice: keep her on life support or take her off of it. Buckling under the weight of the responsibility and the glare of public scrutiny, Zach ultimately walks away, letting Rebecca’s parents have the final say.

Four years later, Rebecca’s attacker, Eban—the scion of a wealthy family in Atlanta—gets an early release from prison. The ludicrous miscarriage of justice reeks of favoritism, and Kate Lennon, a brilliant state prosecutor, is determined to put him back behind bars. Rebecca’s parents have kept her alive all these years, but if her condition were to change—if she were to die—Eban could be retried on a new charge: murder.

It isn’t lost on Zach that in order for Eban to be charged with Rebecca’s murder, Zach must actually be the one to kill her. He rejects Kate’s legal standpoint but can’t resist their ill-timed attraction to each other. Eban, having realized the jeopardy he’s in, plots to make certain that neither Zach nor Kate lives to see the death of Rebecca—and the end of his freedom.

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I am a semi- Sandra Brown fan. I don’t rush out to preorder her books and I don’t stalk the library website waiting to see when they will get her next book. But the handful of ones I’ve read, I’ve enjoyed and the stories generally work for me.

This one started off with a bang. The scene was set perfectly to set the book up for what happened to Rebecca (hello kinky s*x) and the man she was married to for like 15 minutes has the power to decide if she should be removed from life-saving machines. Tension!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

However, then the book just kinda floated along. It checked a lot of boxes for me in that sometimes I just want books I can read and not really “think” about, and there were some things that mildly annoyed me (the constant mention of football). Essentially, the characters were interesting-ish; but not exactly memorable (like six months from now- I might need some prompting on who they are).

Bottom line: I didn’t regret reading it and I will read another book by Sandra Brown (I actually am working on another review of a different book to go live in the next 2 weeks.)

*Traveling With T checked this out from the local library. All thoughts and opinions are hers alone.*