Don't Look Back
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He was chuckling, a deep, sexy sound as he pushed Peter back on the satiny cushions. Was this for real? Was he going to go through with it? Peter blinked up as his tie was unfastened, tossed aside, his shirt unbuttoned, laid wide. The evening breeze—scented of smog and jasmine—felt cool against his overheated skin, like the lightest breath… Peter Killian, curator at Constantine House in Los Angeles, wakes in the hospital to find himself accused of stealing a Tenth Century Chinese sculpture. Peter knows he’s not a thief—but that’s all he knows. The rest of his memory is MIA. Nothing makes sense, including why is handsome hardass LAPD Detective Mike Griffin so sure he’s guilty—and so bent on seeing Peter arrested? As if all that wasn’t confusing enough, why in the world is Peter having these weird dreams about an unseen lover who somehow reminds him uncomfortably of Detective Griffin?
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Interesting story from Josh Lanyon. Don't Look Back had my attention from the first pages. A theft? An attack? Loss of memory? I was just as curios as Peter was to find out what happened. Well, the matter was more urgent for Peter.
Apart from the theft I was curious about Peter's private life as well, which seemed to be in shambles. A cop who obviously knew more than he let on, a married best friend who he had feelings for, and being accused of theft? So much happening already.
I enjoyed reading how everything came together and how Peter managed to figure out what the people around him meant to him. Trying to make sense out of his own life was very interesting to me. Peter had to investigate himself and he did a pretty good job.
I would like to think the outcome would have been the same even without the amnesia. The conclusions Peter reached in the end had already formed in his mind previous to the attack and I liked him so I don't want to believe he wouldn't have had the guts to do what he knew was right and to grab what he wanted.
I liked Mike too, he was pretty awesome, but I would have also liked more of him. And of him together with Peter. I don't feel like I spent enough time with the main characters and that's the only minus from me, because otherwise the novel was great.
3.75This was a perfect palate cleanser courtesy of [a:Josh Lanyon 359194 Josh Lanyon https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1289326144p2/359194.jpg] and the whiskey smooth voice of [a:Lance Greenfield 6903110 Lance Greenfield https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1420196163p2/6903110.jpg]. The mystery isn't too deep and it doesn't really matter. The story is really about regret and the loss of what could've been if we'd made different choices. It's about how we allow others to manipulate our emotions. It's about second chances. The whole story floats on a sense of ennui. But the real treat is seeing another version of Jake and Adrien, in the form of Mike and Peter. It's almost like a template for the Adrien English series, particularly when it comes to Mike Griffin, the Jake prototype. However the story is enjoyable on its own merit. As usual Josh doesn't disappoint.
