The Darkest Corner (Gravediggers #1) by Liliana Hart Series: Gravediggers #1
Published by Pocket Books on May 23rd 2017
Genres: Romantic Suspense
Pages: 368
Format: eBook
Source: NetGalley & Pocket Books
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart’s first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving it—and no one can ever know.
The Gravediggers aren’t exactly what they seem. They’re the most elite of the world’s fighting forces—and all they have in common is that they’ve been betrayed by the countries they’ve died for. Because they are dead. To their country, their military, and their families.
Sometimes the dead do rise...
Solomon Lange is a dead man walking. A former black ops agent, he was disavowed and stripped of all honor before being recruited as a Gravedigger. But his honor and good name no longer matter, because no one knows he’s alive, and he’ll never get the recognition he deserves. His mission is simple: save the world or die trying. And for God’s sake, don’t ever fall in love. That’s a rule punishable by death. The kind of death a man can’t be brought back from.
Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop, Texas. She has no idea how Solomon Lange ended up in her funeral home, but she’ll eat her hat if he’s only a funeral home assistant. Solomon is dangerous, deadly, and gorgeous. And she knows her attraction to him can only end in heartache.
Solomon is on a mission to stop the most fatal terror attack the world has ever known—what’s known as The Day of Destiny—a terrorist’s dream. But when he discovers Tess has skills he can use to stop them, he has to decide if he can trust her with secrets worth dying for. And, most important, he has to decide if he can trust her with his heart.
**Special thanks to NetGalley & Pocket Books for supplying my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**
The Darkest Corner is the first installment in the Gravediggers new series by Liliana Hart. The cover and blurb were both very intriguing for me.
The Gravediggers are both dead and alive. Everyone thinks they are dead. They are a group of carefully selected men. They are the elite of their profession. They all have military and secret services backgrounds. They come from different countries. What they share is the knowledge of their new identities and their secret. No one should ever know they are alive. What they share too is their new mission to save the world. They are the Gravediggers.
In a parallel peaceful reality, Tess Sherman is the only mortician in Last Stop. She runs the funeral home where she also lives. And though she has her best friend, she always feels lonely. Her love life had its downturns when her fiancée had left her. Not that she has been in love with him or something. She just hoped to build a family. She actually had a lot of dreams. Her own family wasn’t the perfect one with her mother addicted to gambling and caring for no one but herself. She hoped that one day she will run her own funeral home and that she will eventually find someone to love her for who she really was.
The Gravediggers work for Tess. She knows nothing about their real identities. They are her help team appointed by her boss Eve. Still, Tess has her own suspicions about them. She thinks there’s more to them especially when a new member arrives.
Things get even more complicated when a spark starts between Tess and one of the Gravediggers. With their new mission on hand, and the potential relation between Tess and the Gravedigger, there’s a lot at stake.
I first approached The Darkest Corner thinking it was a mystery and thrillers book. My fault of course. The cover and blurb got me confused. Also with the powerful start of the book, all I could expect was a very powerful action thriller read. I should have noticed that it was classified as a romance book. Of course this was one of the main reasons for my disappointment.
Looking back at The Darkest Corner as a romance book, I think it’s good. There’s even a bit of womens fiction to it. The story is entertaining and nice.
However, it’s the thriller part that wasn’t that good. You would expect such an elite team to act very rationally. They were extra smart about everything, but when it came to Tess everything went spiraling down. How bad is it to see a smart perfectly selected CIA agent in a secret live or die mission act as a reckless lover? Too bad right? And very unconvincing too.
However, rating the book overall as a romantic suspense read, I think it was an entertaining fine read. Again, it was my fault to approach it from an action thriller perspective.
About Liliana Hart
Liliana Hart is a New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly Bestselling Author of more than 40 titles. After starting her first novel her freshman year of college, she immediately became addicted to writing and knew she’d found what she was meant to do with her life. She has no idea why she majored in music.
Since self-publishing in June of 2011, Liliana has sold more than 3 million ebooks and been translated into eight languages. She’s appeared at #1 on lists all over the world and all three of her series have appeared on the New York Times list. Liliana is a sought after speaker and she’s given keynote speeches and self-publishing workshops to standing-room-only crowds from California to New York to London.