Suffice it to say, things aren't going the way Skye Kellerman planned. And as someone who has spent the last four years doing everything possible to get control of her life, this throws her into a bit of a tailspin.

This is the first book in Novak's new The Last Stand trilogy, featuring three friends –Skye, as well as Jasmine and Sheridan – who have been victims of violent crimes and thus banded together to create an organization to help other victims.

The best character in this book is the rapist's wife, Jane; she seems the most real, with her fears and hopes and anger and suffering. You can tell the author was trying for twisted with her antagonist, but Oliver just comes across as puny and self-absorbed. Skye Kellerman was no more interesting, maybe because her moods and personality fluctuated so frequently she didn't make a very believable character.

The suspense in Trust Me is fairly non-existent.  It comes in at a little over four hundred pages, the first three hundred of which are Skye fretting over Oliver or picking fights with her boyfriend, the semi-married detective. When things finally do kick into gear, it's late enough in the book to seem extremely anti-climactic. Thankfully, the points of view rotated between characters, pushing the plot along, if a bit sluggishly.

Trust Me is worth reading if you're running low on things to read. It's not awful, but it's a far cry from great, since this particular romantic suspense was neither romantic nor suspenseful.

--Sarrah Knight