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Classified by Ella Frank, Brooke Blaine

michellemoon's review against another edition

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3.0

DNF - got a bit bored

tfpeel's review against another edition

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5.0

Bellissimo

zaza_bdp's review against another edition

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4.0

Avec Classified, Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine terminent en beauté leur trilogie consacrée à une revisite M/M du fameux film Top Gun.

Si dans les deux premiers tomes, on était plutôt dans le combat de "coqs", ici les deux hommes ont atteint le niveau "supérieur" de leur relation. Ils sont toujours joueurs et ne ratent pas une occasion de faire des ping pong verbaux, mais on sent que désormais, les émotions fortes et les sentiments sont au rendez-vous. La romance a bien progressé au cours des trois tomes, on voit la "simple" attirance sexuelle se transformer en un lien plus intime, plus personnel, qui va s'inscrire dans la durée. Panther & Solo forment un beau couple, pas mon préféré de ces auteures, mais ils auront quand même su me plaire et me toucher.

Comme auparavant, on a droit à quelques scènes aériennes excitantes et ébouriffantes, le genre de performance qui doit être vraiment géniale à en vrai (sinon, les vidéos youtube font bien le job aussi, histoire d'avoir un aperçu des capacités des membres de cette Elite Acamedy). J'ai adoré ces scènes, cette compétition entre eux, avec toujours ce côté potache et ces vannes qui pleuvent à tout va tant ils adorent tous (et toutes !) se charrier mutuellement.

J'ai passé un bon moment avec cette série, notamment parce que pour moi ce décor de pilotes de chasse était complètement inédit, et que toutes les scènes liées à ce thème étaient très réussies, d'autant qu'on sent à quel point les auteures se sont éclatées en écrivant cela. En revanche, je reste quand même un peu sur ma faim pour la romance, parce je crois qu'au final, ça va trop vite pour moi, dans le sens où tout cette trilogie se déroule sur un laps de temps trop court. J'aime voir les relations de couple évoluer dans la durée, ce qui n'est pas vraiment le cas ici.

Pourtant, objectivement, il n'y a rien à dire, tout est nickel : c'est sexy, passionné, un poil romantique, c'est un couple super canon qui met le feu aux draps et qui sont les rois des joutes verbales, surtout au début. J'ai aimé aussi voir l'évolution des personnages : découvrir le côté moins tapageur de Solo, celui plus détendu et joueur de Panther qui a pourtant tout du petit soldat bien droit dans ses bottes au début ... Ce jeu des contrastes est quelque chose qui marche toujours bien, et là, même si c'était attendu (du moins pour Solo), eh bien c'est réussi. Oui, il m'a manqué un petit truc pour être complètement emportée ... mais c'est un tome canon qui fait vivre des sensations fortes, et l'épilogue est juste ... parfait !

hanshans's review

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4.25

Perfect ending. Love the couple and the chemistry. Top tier.

amg_reads's review against another edition

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4.0

Enjoyed it
Full Series rating: 3.5⭐️

I really liked this series. Personally I thing book 3 was my favorite, I don’t know if it’s because the story was divided in 3 books but I found myself drifting off throughout the story. It somehow felt like a longer story than it actually was.

I really liked it and the chemistry between Solo and Panther was amazing, the romance was great and I loved it. I do feel like it jumped from sex to love really quick but I still really enjoyed it. The overall story was just missing something for me.

Im rating 3.5 stars for the series, even though I don’t really like doing half stars. I more than liked it but not sure if I loved it. I do love Panther and Solo though, so maybe I need to reread it at a later time

ellaft's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

becksgoesbookish's review against another edition

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4.0

Such a satisfying conclusion to Grant and Mateo's story! I've seen some reviews saying this was too spicy, and to that, I say "lol impossible" because, after the slow burns of books 1 & 2, we *earned* this ending! Though this series probably didn't need to be broken into three parts, I listened to the audiobooks back to back, so they really flowed as a single story for me anyways. Once again the dual narration was perfect. Being the final book this one is filled with a bit of angst around the "what's going to happen in the future" once their program is over, but they work through that pretty quickly. Plus we get some very good grovelling from Mateo right at the start. Honestly, this was on track to be a 5-star series, but the epilogue really did us dirty at the very end. It's nothing pivotal to the story but we really just got robbed with that one. Can't wait to read more books from these authors individually and as co-authors!

andreapiquer20's review

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

kirbyj_'s review

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fast-paced

5.0

the best ending for these Solo and Panther! they deserve absolutely everything.

imme_van_gorp's review against another edition

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3.0

This served as a good and very sweet ending to Panther and Solo's relationship, but as a book itself, I found it be rather lacking.
I mean, there really isn't much of a plot: it's mostly just sex. However, it is definitely obvious that this relationship runs quite deep and that they truly love each other, so that's something at least.

Nonetheless, the absence of a story meant that the read was also a bit boring and definitely repetitive. There was this one thing that happened, though, namely Solo having to grovel to get Panther back after fucking everything up, which I really enjoyed I always love a good conflict with a bit of grovelling, so this was immediately my favourite part of the book. Granted, it's also one of the only (if not the only) real situation that didn't involve a sexual interaction, so the bar was not that high to begin with.

Long story short, I enjoyed this series and this couple, but I do think everything was a bit dragged out and none of the sequels were able to hold a candle to the first book.