suze_1624's review
4.0
A jolly good action adventure romp that I enjoyed.
Fast paced and read quickly, and I enjoyed it enough to ignore the few niggles about operation personnel, backup etc - if it all went well, then there would be no story.
The fishy villains were obvious at the start but worked to move the story on.
The romance as such, was more close proximity in the end but then anEnglish sojourn to cement it.
I was hoping it was a series as I was working out whose story was next!
Fast paced and read quickly, and I enjoyed it enough to ignore the few niggles about operation personnel, backup etc - if it all went well, then there would be no story.
The fishy villains were obvious at the start but worked to move the story on.
The romance as such, was more close proximity in the end but then anEnglish sojourn to cement it.
I was hoping it was a series as I was working out whose story was next!
shelbanuadh's review
2.0
I don't know that I would classify this as a romance story. It's like most action thrillers in the sense that while the hero has some mission they are on, they take a time out to bang the hot blonde... in this case hot blond... and then resume the mission. It isn't until 73% in that anything happens between Alex and Malcolm, and at that point it's just a make-out and frottage session. And then we get a paragraph long blowjob at the end. At least give us a good dose of UST before leading up the "the big bang" at the end.
And for a top tier company and a top tier operative, the whole mission read a little like amateur hour. Why not bring in more people while in England, instead of fumbling around tailing them to Africa and calling in favours left right and centre? And also, if you don't want an operative shooting people on missions, why would you choose someone who specializes in firearms? And for someone who specializes in firearms, you think he'd be able to make shots that are lethal.
And I'm never quite sure what to do when authors have dialogue in a foreign language. Are we expected to also know this language? Are we expected to translate it and hope that the translation is accurate? Are we supposed to gloss over it and dismiss it as irrelevant to the plot? But also, one line of dialogue certainly wasn't French, in the middle of a French exchange, and what Google translated it to certainly didn't make any sense.
I really liked the idea of this, it just wasn't executed in a way that looked for me.
And for a top tier company and a top tier operative, the whole mission read a little like amateur hour. Why not bring in more people while in England, instead of fumbling around tailing them to Africa and calling in favours left right and centre? And also, if you don't want an operative shooting people on missions, why would you choose someone who specializes in firearms? And for someone who specializes in firearms, you think he'd be able to make shots that are lethal.
And I'm never quite sure what to do when authors have dialogue in a foreign language. Are we expected to also know this language? Are we expected to translate it and hope that the translation is accurate? Are we supposed to gloss over it and dismiss it as irrelevant to the plot? But also, one line of dialogue certainly wasn't French, in the middle of a French exchange, and what Google translated it to certainly didn't make any sense.
I really liked the idea of this, it just wasn't executed in a way that looked for me.
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