This was okay. Had a very promising start with a dark forlorn tone and emotional back story for the tormented wounded-hero that reminded me of her Bridgerton series. But it quickly lost flavor with the sappy heavy-handed dialogue, dull predictable plot and dragged out pacing half way through. Oh man the number of Oh John, 'oh my darling Belle. You heal me. You are my sunshine, my reason for living! I don't deserve you!' just sucked out all the quiet subtle moments and made the characters come off like cartoons from a bad play. The repetitive flowery melodramatic dialogue became so sickly sweet you could choke on the syrup. I got tired of the dramatic sighing, giggling and shrieking that was obviously used for comedic timing but it just fell flat. And JQ's annoying quirk of using the unrealistic expression er bled it's way into here much to my horror. So awkward and unnecessary. And here I thought this was a new habit of hers? *head desk* Guess not. 
 I'm such a sucker for prickly brooding wounded war-heroes who deal with the trauma of PTSD. I thought the flashes of memory and John's fear, while over-dramatized, was a nice touch and had great potential. But of course not even half way in he's pouring out all his secrets and fears to Belle so quickly and it was over and done with. It just lost all edge and dramatic build up after that. And the 'mystery' stalker angle was so obvious from the first page, having John a seasoned solider brush it off several times made him come off painfully dense and TSTL. Same goes for the other characters. I really hate when authors do this especially for a subplot that's so humdrum. A shame that the second half of this was focused on the 'suspense' plot when there was zero suspense in the capturing of the fool villain. Made Belle and John and their group of friends come off like bumbling idiots going in circles shaking in fear over a villain who is a complete moron. SMH. I say this with respect but Quinn can't do suspenseful mystery subterfuge subplots at all and I really wish she left if out of this one entirely. All it managed to do was drag the story out at a turtle's pace.