Saturday, October 7, 2017

✱✱ Book Review ✱✱ Naked We Came by Robert Lane

I chose Mystery for my latest read and after combing through my Kindle, I settled on Robert Lane's Naked We Came.


Jake Travis searches for the man who abducted and killed his sister and only sibling over 30 years ago, while on a family vacation in Florida. She went to their motel room to get the book "Matilda." She was never seen again.
The man who was once the primary suspect has washed up on a beach near Jake's home. He penned a confession just days before his mysterious death, admitting to killing the young girl. Jake suspects that the confession was forced and that DNA was tainted.
Jake's vengeful quest tangles him in a web of murky and powerful figures. They have a vested interest in keeping him from learning of his sister's fate. As Jake forges ahead, seeking both justice for his sister and personal closure, he questions if he will ever spring free of his past, or whether the past will shackle him in its chains.
Florida Weekly calls Jake Travis, "one of the best leading men to take the thriller stage in recent years." In "Naked We Came" Jake learns that the longest road leads to the beginning.



Naked We Came is available on Amazon and is listed in Kindle Unlimited.


Momma Says: 3 out of 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐

Let me start by saying that Robert Lane and his Jake Travis novels are new to me, so I jumped into this one cold and it's not the first Travis novel. That being said, the premise of this book is quite good - a thirty year old mystery that is about as personal as it gets for Jake. My problem is that I never quite connected to the character. Whether this is because I'm jumping in late to Lane's Travis novels or something else is something I'm still unsure of, but the fact remains. Jake has a sarcastic wit that I usually love in a character, but when there's little else, it gets tedious pretty quickly.
There is plenty going on to keep the story moving, but in the end, I found the conclusion less than believable. The idea of a secret that big staying a secret for that long is far-fetched at best, especially when multiple people are involved. Everything combined, Naked We Came ended up being just an okay read for me. 


**Review copy provided by NetGalley and Mason Alley Publishing


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