This was a lot less romantic and a lot less suspense than I was wanting. Honestly, I'd say around ninety percent of this book was a crime thriller. The romantic leads don't even meet until about forty five percent into the book, which in turn leads to a very quick courtship and a fairly unbelievable Happy Ever After. I would have been good with a "Happy For Now" type of ending, but for some reason the author chose to go all the way with these two, and it really didn't work for me. The psycho crazies that are the perpetrators of some really brutal torture for a group of ex soldiers take up a lot of face time. If you're okay with some medium descriptions of torture, I think you should at least be prepared. Nothing over the top, but it's hard to feel bad for a man who loses his mind after being tortured endlessly for months. Now, the chick who does the killing with him, she is really crazy! A certifiable sociopath who deserves a worse fate than what she got, in my opinion. Megan, the heroine, and Jack, our hero, are really great together once they finally do meet up. Megan is a touch as nails FBI agent, but she's not an uber bitch feminist either. She's very intuitive and smart. Her biggest holdup is her unfailing sense of right and wrong, no shades of gray. Jack is an ex Special Ops soldier, now a soldier for hire, so his duties lie nearly opposite of Megan's. Yet somehow, these two come together and click in all the right places, both romantically and professionally. If you can make it through the first half full of plot setup and killer head games, the rest was really enjoyable. Just don't be prepared for a mystery...the whodunnit is a given. And the romance is very much in the background. I also have a feeling that even though this is the first in this series, quite a few of the secondary characters have been in previous series. This is my first by this author, so I can't say that with any authority, but I got the feeling that some of these boys had been around for a bit.
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This was a lot less romantic and a lot less suspense than I was wanting. Honestly, I'd say around ninety percent of this book was a crime thriller. The romantic leads don't even meet until about forty five percent into the book, which in turn leads to a very quick courtship and a fairly unbelievable Happy Ever After. I would have been good with a "Happy For Now" type of ending, but for some reason the author chose to go all the way with these two, and it really didn't work for me. The psycho crazies that are the perpetrators of some really brutal torture for a group of ex soldiers take up a lot of face time. If you're okay with some medium descriptions of torture, I think you should at least be prepared. Nothing over the top, but it's hard to feel bad for a man who loses his mind after being tortured endlessly for months. Now, the chick who does the killing with him, she is really crazy! A certifiable sociopath who deserves a worse fate than what she got, in my opinion. Megan, the heroine, and Jack, our hero, are really great together once they finally do meet up. Megan is a touch as nails FBI agent, but she's not an uber bitch feminist either. She's very intuitive and smart. Her biggest holdup is her unfailing sense of right and wrong, no shades of gray. Jack is an ex Special Ops soldier, now a soldier for hire, so his duties lie nearly opposite of Megan's. Yet somehow, these two come together and click in all the right places, both romantically and professionally. If you can make it through the first half full of plot setup and killer head games, the rest was really enjoyable. Just don't be prepared for a mystery...the whodunnit is a given. And the romance is very much in the background. I also have a feeling that even though this is the first in this series, quite a few of the secondary characters have been in previous series. This is my first by this author, so I can't say that with any authority, but I got the feeling that some of these boys had been around for a bit.
