You're killing Me - Review of Killing The Competition by Kennedy Shaw

Let's be honest, not every book that's published is a best seller. Every story doesn't get nominated for Oprah's book of the month club, and a ton of books will never make the top 10 sellers list. However, when a buyer picks up a book, a romance novel in particular, they expect it to at least be interesting. Romance novels (RNs) are supposed to hold you rapt. They should be page turners that get your heart racing, even if its just to get you to the next racy scene. Kennedy Shaw's Killing the Competition was none of the above.

For me, there is nothing worse than getting excited to read a new book, only to be gravely disappointed. I'm an avid reader of several genre's, and I have to tell you that I am hard to disappoint.   I'm a book lover, I'm a reader, and I am hard to let down. This book let me down.

Killing the Competition  is a story about a newspaper reporter, Kyra Chase, who is being targeted by a killer. Subsequently, she is sent to some small, one-horse town by her boss to keep her out of danger. Predictably, the danger follows her. Kyra is oblivious to all of the danger around her, and the town's stud of a sheriff is both annoyed by and attracted to her in the most annoyingly obvious of ways. You can tell where the story is going after the first few pages. Shaw attempts to create romantic tension between the characters but fails miserably, in my opinion.

I would be happy to tell you how story ends between the uptown reporter and the small town sheriff but I was so disgustingly bored by it that I couldn't finish the book (which has only happened to me once before, and I have read hundreds of books, mostly romance). Guessing by the predictability of the story, let me fill you in on how it likely ends: The reporter keeps running into the Sheriff, they get into a heated argument, the argument turns into a passionate kiss, she decides they're in love after some back and forth, bad guy tries to kill reporter, Sheriff saves the day, they live happily ever after.Throw in a vivid sex scene or two and you'll have this book in a nutshell. In fact, my 50 some word synopsis of what likely happens is probably a lot more interesting than the entire 316 page book, I assure you.  Someone who could stomach reading this book all the way through, please tell me I'm wrong. I challenge you to tell me I'm wrong! Seriously Kennedy Shaw,  you're killing me...