Heart-Shaped Hack
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When Kate Watts abandoned her law career to open a food pantry in Northeast Minneapolis, she never dreamed it would be this difficult. Facing the heartbreaking prospect of turning hungry people away, she is grateful for the anonymous donations that begin appearing at the end of each month. Determined to identify and thank her secret benefactor, she launches a plan and catches Ian -a charismatic hacker with a Robin Hood complex-in the act. Ian intrigues Kate in a way no man ever has. But after learning he's snooped around on her personal computer, she demands retribution. Impressed with her tolerance and captivated by her spirit, he complies and begins to slowly charm his way past her defenses. Time spent with Ian is never boring, and Kate soon finds herself falling for the mysterious hacker. But Ian has enemies and they're growing restless. In the hacking world, exploiting a target's weakness is paramount, and no price is too high to stop an attack. And when Kate learns exactly how much Ian has paid, she'll discover just how strong her love is for the man who has hacked his way into her heart.
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2 primary books#1 in Kate and Ian
Kate and Ian is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Tracey Garvis Graves.
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Eh this book started out on the wrong foot for me. Guy sees girl on TV. Guy hacks into girl's computer to find things out about her and tracks her location at any given time by her credit card purchases. Then when guy admits he has done this to girl, girl doesn't see anything wrong with it and she invites guy into her home anyways. It's a little overdone. I saw the big twist coming from a mile away. It was just sort of boring for me. The only redeeming quality is the banter between the main characters.
Tracey Garvis-Graves writes great banter. Unfortunately that's not enough to carry an entire book. The plot of Heart-Shaped Hack is very slow and cliched. Woman falls in love with mysterious yet perfect hacker, has great sex, they get more and more involved and have more great sex, and then finally at the 70% mark, something tragic happens but it's obvious to the reader (if not to the heroine) that there's more going on than she realizes. The heroine is a perfect, selfless woman who runs a food pantry without any social services training, and all of her clients totally love her (seriously, has this woman ever set foot in a food pantry?).
Perhaps Garvis-Graves should try writing a screenplay for a movie whose plot has already been determined. The dialogue between Kate and Ian did make me smile a few times, but they deserved a better story and more fully developed characters.
