Review: Code of Honor by April White

Code of Honor by April White
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you are a fan of mysteries with a heavy romantic subplot I highly recommend this. 

The main character Anna reminded me alot of Janie from [book:Neanderthal Seeks Human|52422311].  She is a wealth of random information, is super awkward, and has no filter.  Unlike Janie, Anna does not  have an amazing shoe collection as she prefers motorcycle boots, and she's a bounty hunter.  I immediately liked Anna, she felt very relatable as she owned her awkward and she was a wealth of useful and useless information.  She also wasn't afraid to be the tomboy and live by her own code.  I loved that she challenged Darius, aka the Disney prince, throughout the book as they tried to uncover the mystery of what really happened to the stolen paintings at the Gardner museum while trying to protect herself and her twin sister.  As the story unfolds and they begin to trust each other more, they uncover that they each operate by very different moral codes.  If they want to explore the attraction between them, the code by which they each operate may be a problem.  I do appreciate how that was discussed and handled.  Darius had experienced some pretty heavy stuff as a child and developed a very black and white sense of how the world should operate, making him very good at his job at Cipher Security.  Anna on the other hand operates in shades of gray, making her a very good Bounty Hunter.  Can the rules on how they operate change so they can uncover the mystery of the stolen painting and they can be together?  You have to read the book the find out.

I thought the character development was good, and the main characters have good chemistry.  The pacing was good.  There wasn't a ton of suspense just a good mystery to be solved, so no worries about this being heavy on the thriller aspect.  I could have done without the bathroom humor moments.  I don't appreciate that kind of humor.

If you are a fan of the Smartypants Romance books to date, or you like romantic suspense I highly recommend this one!

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.  This was released on March 24, 2020 and is the second book in the Cipher Security Series from Smartypants Romance.


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