I liked these two books better than the first two, but what is with all of the angry men who don’t respect women? Like, heaven forbid women shut a door on them...

Another fun read from Nora Roberts.

Skin Deep
Chantel and Quinn make for a fiery couple. The bantering and sexual tension is good in this one and Chantel and Quinn are a good match for each other.

Without A Trace
This one has a bit of espionage. Trace is wrangled into helping Gillian rescue her brother and niece from an international crime organization. She falls in love with him (of course) and he resists (of course) but in the end he admits his feelings for her. I liked that Gillian was strong and smart and Trace was tough but you could still see his soft side. Reunion with the family at the end was sweet.

A really great double feature that finishes up the O'Hurley series. In Skin Deep Chantel O'Hurley is trying to complete her next movie but phone calls and flowers from a stalker are sending her off the rails. Security specialist Quinn is called in to access the situation and hopefully bring a quick resolution to her troubles. An almost instant dislike between bring sparks that can distract them from their end goal, finding Chantel's stalker. Will a happy ending for Chantel equal safety from her stalker plus a future with Quinn? In Without a Trace you finally meet the last O'Hurley sibling, Trace. He has always been supportive of his sisters but after a fight with their father struck out on his own, ending up working for a covert intelligence group. When a chance to redeem the loss of his mentor puts him in the path of physicist Gillian, Trace decides that one more mission before retirement is all he can do. He may be used to working alone but sparks with Gillian make his reconsider. A great conclusion to the series, the flavor of the story is a little different from the earlier in the series but I loved seeing the whole family get their happy ending. Fun reads!

I was always a huge fan of Nora Roberts growing up, all through junior high and high school I devoured anything she wrote but as I get older I have been disappointed with her writing and have been second guessing my love for her other books. They all seem to involve a stubborn girl who meets a sexist jerk and they randomly fall in love. With a lot of scenes that are supposed to be romantic but really just work out to be sexual assault in the long run.
In O'Hurley's Return the male leads are sexist and rude and overbearing. In the first book Quinn only seems to like Chantel when she is submitting to him in some way and he never takes no for an answer when he is touching her. He does not care about her feelings in any of the situations they are in and it is very hard to find a situation romantic or believable when the female lead is constantly being put down or insulted by the male lead. The plot was fairly interesting but I really need to like the characters to read a book and this one was not doing it for me.
Overall I think that Nora Roberts tends to lean towards strong women that make themselves small to make their overbearing men happy. She does not write romances, she writes domestic abuse in the making.

2.5 for Skin Deep
2.5 for Without A Trace
Skin Deep was nice as I said before I wasn’t sure about it in the beginning but I liked it by the end.

As for Without A Trace, I liked it. It was alright. I like the characters. I liked the beginning and all the fun spy stuff but the end felt a bit rushed and mangled together. The reunion of the family was great I really enjoyed that. I think the family needed to be reunited again after all those years.

I've not yet decided if I care for this series because it is so very predictable. And the POV was changed several times in in one chapter, sometimes even in the next paragraph. I did enjoy the premise of the book.