MACK'S WITNESS
By Myla Jackson
Warning:
Battle-hardened, ready-to-cut-loose Marine teams up with a stunning Irish lass
who thinks she can handle him. You’ll need the luck of the Irish to hang onto
your seat for this sexy, suspenseful race across the Emerald Isle.
The Reading Librarian rated Mack's Witness 4.0 out of 5 stars
This review is
from: Mack's Witness Kindle Edition (Hearts
& Heroes)
I received this book in
exchange for a fair and honest review. Myla Jackson writes some hot and sexy
heroes and places her heroines in danger so that the heroes get to strut their
stuff and make us all wish we had a hot handsome hunk waiting for us at home.
Mack’s Witness is no different. This is book two in the Hearts and Heroes
series, with book one being Wyatt’s War. In book two the focus is on Mack,
Wyatt’s brother, but Wyatt and the rest of his family make an appearance or
two. I won’t say anymore than that because I really don’t want to spoil book
number one if you haven’t read it yet. If you haven’t read book number one,
then I would read one before starting two. They can be read as standalone, but
personally I love knowing about how all of the characters connect and relate to
one another!
So it turns out that Wyatt from book one actually has lots of siblings, which
surprised me because I couldn't remember any mention of them in book one, but
maybe that is because I might have glossed over that part if it was indeed
mentioned – he just seemed like a lone wolf to me with just himself to rely on.
Anyway, Wyatt, Mack and the rest of the family are in Ireland for a wedding and
Mack has been in Afghanistan and is happy to be getting some time for R &
R. What he doesn’t bank on is an ice queen – an Irish ice queen who heats him
up in all of the places that haven’t been heated up for a while.
Deidre Darcy is the cousin of the bride and she is stunningly beautiful - of
course as an international model, she would be wouldn’t she? Despite being a
model and having a lifestyle that others would kill to have, she isn’t
fulfilled and I guess that she misses being part of a family – her parents are
dead, and perhaps deep down she is tired of being alone. Mack also doesn’t
recognize her – but then again being in Afghanistan when/where would you see
billboards with female models like the gorgeous Deidre on them?
Mack is your typical alpha male but he has a great sense of humour and from the
beginning when the sparks start to fly he delights in teasing the ice queen and
this just helps to make her more human and down to earth and not as distant.
There were a few issues that I had and these are just my own sensitivity to
what I was reading. Deidre is Irish and I know that they speak with an accent,
but accents are really hard to convey in the written form – when you listen to
the Irish speak it’s more of a lilt in their voice and that is damm hard to put
on paper and into words, so I guess that I probably wouldn’t try too much –
maybe with elderly characters, but not with a young lady like Deirdre. What
made it even more confusing for me was that there were times when Deirdre had
no accent at all and the there were others when she was accent only and rather
heavy at that. I understand that they were in Ireland but the in and out of
accents really got to me and I just began to wish for plain language, not the
Irish, with all of the feckin’ etc .
Mack’s sister Abby also describing her mother ‘We got that from our mother. She
was beautiful.’ was another issue and this just jerked me out of the story and
had me thinking – why use the past tense – the mother is present and she isn’t
dead and there hasn’t been any mention of a disfiguring accident of any kind,
so what is going on? Ah dear, this is the English teacher in me coming to the
fore and I apologise but this kind of thing bugs me intensely.
Back to the story and after escaping from Mack’s room Deidre sees two guys.
This was after some hot and heavy sexiness under the sheets where she is thrown
for a loop because Mack affects her and she doesn’t really know how to deal
with what she is feeling. She drops her things and thankfully Mack comes to her
rescue and there is some more fun in the bedroom – these scenes are so
perfectly written and they are not in the slightest in any way just gratuitous
for the sake of having a sex scene. They are integral to the development of the
story and the development of the relationship between the characters.
It turns out later that Deidre is a witness, having most probably seen the
murderers who killed someone in the room next to Mack’s. It also turns out that
the murderers were travelers – or in plain and simple terms gypsies. They were
celebrating a very gypsy wedding in the same hotel that Mack and Deidre and the
others were staying at.
So, now for issue number two. Deirdre is a witness and can identify the two
suspects and the local police let her run off with Mack into the Irish
countryside. Now I don’t really know that much about police in Ireland, but I
am sure that if you have a witness – your one and only witness, you wouldn’t let
them go and traipse all over the countryside and possibly get killed. OK, I get
that it’s part of the story line but the author could just as easily have put
them in a house/estate under police guard and let things happen and it would
most likely have been a bit more accurate. Anyway, suffice it to say they go
traipsing around Ireland and end up in a castle and somehow – and this isn’t
explained – these travelers find them and all hell breaks loose.
I did like Deidre who, for being an Irish supermodel was not in any way high
maintenance or conceited. She was kind and down to earth. I also really liked
Mack because he was a no nonsense kind of guy who tackled problems head on and
despite all of his alpha maleness he was the kind of guy you could easily fall
in love with – sexy, kind, considerate, great in bed…. I can see myself waiting
for books about Ronin, Sam and Abby, the rest of the siblings.
I also enjoyed how Ms. Jackson made it work that these two with such separate
careers could find some middle ground and start a relationship. Both were quite
resistant to start with, but it takes danger and life threatening injuries to
make people come to their senses and realize that whatever the issues are, they
can be worked out.
A solid second book in a new series by Myla Jackson. Get yourself Mack’s
Witness and fall in love with Mack, Deidre and the rest of the Magnus tribe!
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