Before becoming a Book Reviewer I’d
never been a real on-going reader of books, but since becoming one and I’m
beginning to enjoy reading every genre of books. Which is why I’m happy to have
won the first three volumes [e-books] of the series these books are part of, as
this is the first real adult mystery/suspense series I’ve begun to read. The
following is my honest opinion for Volume 1 of this series, “Always Cambridge.”
In “Always Cambridge,” H K Carlton takes
us, as if we’ve been watching the episodic storylines of “The Sopranos”, into
the life of a little girl, Holly Cambridge as she grows from being a naïve
child who has no realization of the type of family fate has chosen her to have
been born into to realizing it all too well.
Holly lives an almost cloistered
life and can’t understand, at her young age, why she can’t play like the rest
of limited circle of friends, or why she has some “huge” grownup constantly
watching her every move only a few feet away while no one else her age does. Growing up, she slowly begins to realize and
understand the reality of her daily existence and the mob moss family she has had
the luck or misfortune to have been born into.
When Holly turns that “sweet
sixteen” and begins her long journey into womanhood, her family assigns a much
younger and better looking man, Randy Phillips, to be her new bodyguard. With
unfamiliar hormones coursing through her young body, Holly, the now extremely
vulnerable young woman, looks at her new ever present companion as a friend and
confident with an almost god-like attraction she can’t understand.
Randy, on the other hand, understands
his young charge’s behavior towards him, and is thrilled to have Holly’s
idolization. However, he knows what his limitations are and wisely maintains an
appropriate distance from her.
The author’s writing is clear and
vivid when it comes to the authentic dialogue and interaction within her family
and with other mob families; which for me made an exciting, page turning experience.
When Holly gets injured during a
bloody and deathly on-going rival family confrontation, the association she has
had with Randy gets unexpectedly changed forever. You might be able to envision
what’s going on here, but you’ll have to read this book to find out for sure;
as well as what happens as she becomes a real woman.
At the present time, no matter how
much I’d love to read the other two volumes I’ve received, I can’t. As a Book Reviewer, I’m not afforded that sort
of luxury. I did however take a very brief look at the beginning of next volume,
and as the author, herself, has promised, there’s a seamless transition between
the two volumes. This seamless transition makes it seem as if the two volumes
had originally been one, and got separated later by the author.
Hopefully, I’ll be able to come back
to this series and read the next two volumes I’ve received. So, with no one
holding a gun to my head, I’m giving this volume of the “Always Cambridge”
series, 5 STARS.
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