BOOK REVIEW- BECAUSE OF YOU (Survivor Series Book 1) by Emilia Finn

Alex Turner is a small town chief of police. He lives a modest life; truth, honor, and safety his hard and fast rules. He won’t bend them. He won’t break them. In a world where chaos reigns supreme, Alex is happy with his lowly and uncomplicated lifestyle.

Juliette Jones is a successful lawyer and the heiress to the Jones family fortune. She wears red bottom heels and has an ever-expanding wardrobe of designer labels.

Alex and Juliette only have one thing in common; and it’s that they have absolutely nothing in common.

Murder, secrets, families, and careers come between this couple. Can they overcome it all? And will they do it before another blonde-haired, blue-eyed, twenty-something year old woman turns up dead on Alex’s doorstep?   AMAZON  3.5 STARS


This book was so hard for me to rate, because parts I really liked and some others not so much. 

Likes-  Interesting main characters, people who are not your norm.  Loyal, honest people with quirky personalities. A good community of caring people.    Britt who is Alex's sister.  Alex's best friend Oz and co-worker added some funny moments.  And that is something else that I liked there were quite a few smile worthy times in the book. Some of the conversations between Juliette and Alex were really funny.
Also, an unexpected murder mystery going on and it does get resolved.
A H.E.A. is always nice too.
Alex's "ugly" dog,  Bowser. The nicknames that different people call Alex. The "X" was kind of cute.  Some other people called him "deputy" just to rile him in a sassy but goodnatured way. It was kind of different that Juliette gave Alex different nicknames for the different kinds of personality sides showed up.  Like:  Grumpy Alex, Shy Alex, Weirdo Alex" just to  mention a few.  

Dislikes- Too MANY people introduced, that at times had my head spinning. I had a hard time keeping them straight.  Just a bit too much sex talk and actions.  There were some times when some of the talk was kind of cheesy.