I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first installment, was actually quite bored for most of the book. The entire trip to Italy could have been cut in my opinion, unless the people we met there will come into play in the next book. I understand that they were couples from other books by this author, so I may have enjoyed this part more had I read those books, but I haven’t so it was kind of just filler to me.
Once Alexius and Leandra came home, things did pick up, and I enjoyed the thriller bit. I’m glad that was resolved, but wish there would have been more revealed about the culprit’s past, so we could understand more about the reasoning. What was presented was too basic, and it seems as through the family plans to sweep it under the rug and we won’t see the topic again. But who knows, maybe it will come back into play in the last book of the trilogy, or in future brother’s books.
I’ve listened to the audiobook for this series, and it is really well done. In this case, it was probably what kept me engaged enough to finish.