Nocturnal Book Reviews

4.5/5
Miss Jones has a lovely way of writing compelling erotic thrillers. This was her second series I started, and despite having some minor issues with character inconsistency, I really enjoyed reading about Amy Bensen's life and her various secrets.

We meet Amy for the first time, receiving a mysterious note at her new workplace in a New York museum. It tells her to run again. Straight away there is a mystery. Who is Amy running from all her life? Is she in some kind of witness protection program?

At the same time the lack of stability and her inability to trust someone, to make friends, creates a very vulnerable young woman which is picked upon by a brilliant, up and coming architect, Liam Stone, who shares first class seats on the plane to Denver with Amy.

Liam is a very dominant young man, but he is not obviously pushy and perhaps exactly that dominant side of his reaches to Amy's need to be protected and sheltered. She on the other hand is freaking out, because she has attracted attention of someone rich and famous, which is exactly what she doesn't need while she is on the run.

Their whole relationship is a one big scary mess of lies. Amy can not tell Liam who she really is and tries to break up with him every time something spooks her. At the same time there is an insane chemistry between them plus her emotional vulnerability that makes her want to stay close to him.

Add to it strangers who are not what they seem and this whole mystery which we are given only bits and pieces of, and this whole scenario drives you bonkers.

Escaping Reality left me a bit torn and unsure if I enjoyed it or disliked it, but it also made me want to find out what's going to happen next with Amy Bensen, and that is what you want from a good book, n'est-pas? Recommended with slight reservations.