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mrsbsbooks's review
5.0
**ARC Provided by Netgalley and Kensington Books for an honest review**.
This series keeps on getting better and better and this time we have Jessica and Q (Quaid's) story.
This book starts about two weeks after the previous book.
Both Jessica and Q have been through a lot in the last five years, each have coped in their own way and each will show you how deep you can love, hope and survive.
You can't help but feel for both of the main characters in this story and the other members of the team are brilliant with their supporting roles. We even get to know who is going to be next with their story, Mitch.
Owen Young also steps up as a major character and we can only hope he plays a larger part in upcoming books and gets his own happy ending.
This book shows that love a second time round will never be like the first time, but can only better with your true love.
A book to be recommended!
This series keeps on getting better and better and this time we have Jessica and Q (Quaid's) story.
This book starts about two weeks after the previous book.
Both Jessica and Q have been through a lot in the last five years, each have coped in their own way and each will show you how deep you can love, hope and survive.
You can't help but feel for both of the main characters in this story and the other members of the team are brilliant with their supporting roles. We even get to know who is going to be next with their story, Mitch.
Owen Young also steps up as a major character and we can only hope he plays a larger part in upcoming books and gets his own happy ending.
This book shows that love a second time round will never be like the first time, but can only better with your true love.
A book to be recommended!
lisa_me's review
4.0
Jessica Fury became a lobbyist after she and her husband, as firefighters, were in a warehouse chemical fire. Her husband, Quaid Legend, was killed. Jessica and her fellow firefighters developed various paranormal powers after their exposure to the chemicals released in the fire.
Q has been experimented on for years. He can't remember his life before he was a guinea pig. But he does dream of a beautiful woman with red hair. For a while, he had a friend in the next cell, Cash. Cash is rescued by the former firefighters from the warehouse fire, one of whom is his sister.
The former firefighters believe that Q is Quaid. They rescue him, but Q can't remember them. He just knows that Jessica is the woman he has dreamed of.
But the powers that be behind the experiments on Q/Quaid want him back. Will the friends survive? What will happen when Q/Quaid finds out the secrets that Jessica is keeping from him?
My thoughts:
I enjoyed Rush. There was plenty of suspense, and Quaid's powers were both mysterious and intriguing. I don't think we're finished with the story arc and character introduced. Quaid had issues, but he made a good hero.
I enjoyed seeing almost all the firefighters together. I look forward to reading all of their stories.
Q has been experimented on for years. He can't remember his life before he was a guinea pig. But he does dream of a beautiful woman with red hair. For a while, he had a friend in the next cell, Cash. Cash is rescued by the former firefighters from the warehouse fire, one of whom is his sister.
The former firefighters believe that Q is Quaid. They rescue him, but Q can't remember them. He just knows that Jessica is the woman he has dreamed of.
But the powers that be behind the experiments on Q/Quaid want him back. Will the friends survive? What will happen when Q/Quaid finds out the secrets that Jessica is keeping from him?
My thoughts:
I enjoyed Rush. There was plenty of suspense, and Quaid's powers were both mysterious and intriguing. I don't think we're finished with the story arc and character introduced. Quaid had issues, but he made a good hero.
I enjoyed seeing almost all the firefighters together. I look forward to reading all of their stories.
sn4p's review
4.0
"Gutsy, jaw-dropping style!" --Larissa Ione"Joan Swan writes riveting twists and turns like no one else!" --"New York Times" bestselling author Stephanie Tyler
Jessica Fury, Washington lobbyist, has money, connections, and her own firm. But five years ago she had something better: happiness. Her firefighter husband, Quaid, was handsome, courageous, and crazy about her. Then one day he walked into a chemical inferno--and never walked out. Jessica has been through hell to get back on her feet. And then a rumor surfaces that could bring a miracle or shatter her world--again.
Q has been a prisoner forever. He's honed his mind and body into weapons. He's developed abilities no one else understands. But he's still at the mercy of a cabal of ruthless men, who blank his memory, test him like a lab rat, and tell him lies. Although his past has been erased and his future looks grim, instinct tells him he has a woman to live for. What his mind can't remember, his body can't forget. . .
The heat is on."
Oh god. This was SO good. I was going "Oh god, no" a few times!
I'm loving the psychic powers that the former/current firefighters have. It adds a unique spin to the story.
Q/Quaid. My heart BROKE for him! Jessica, as well.
The story sucks you in, and you're hooked! I'm DYING for the next in the series, and that's not until January!
Jessica Fury, Washington lobbyist, has money, connections, and her own firm. But five years ago she had something better: happiness. Her firefighter husband, Quaid, was handsome, courageous, and crazy about her. Then one day he walked into a chemical inferno--and never walked out. Jessica has been through hell to get back on her feet. And then a rumor surfaces that could bring a miracle or shatter her world--again.
Q has been a prisoner forever. He's honed his mind and body into weapons. He's developed abilities no one else understands. But he's still at the mercy of a cabal of ruthless men, who blank his memory, test him like a lab rat, and tell him lies. Although his past has been erased and his future looks grim, instinct tells him he has a woman to live for. What his mind can't remember, his body can't forget. . .
The heat is on."
Oh god. This was SO good. I was going "Oh god, no" a few times!
I'm loving the psychic powers that the former/current firefighters have. It adds a unique spin to the story.
Q/Quaid. My heart BROKE for him! Jessica, as well.
The story sucks you in, and you're hooked! I'm DYING for the next in the series, and that's not until January!
booklovinmamas's review
5.0
Full Review posted on Book Lovin' Mamas
Rush is the third book in the Phoenix Rising series, and it is one tearjerker from the moment I picked up the book to the minute I read the last page. Joan Swan made me break down into a bubbling baby several times in this book. I will admit it; I had to wipe my eyes and nose several times, while the hubs looked at me crazy. Jessica and Q’s story was heart-wrenching.
I give this book 5 full moons and highly recommend it to romantic suspense readers out there.
This book will have it all, action, suspense, romance, and paranormal elements. It will make you go through a box of tissues after you read the last page too…if you are anything like I am. I still cannot get over that ending. (*tear*tear*) I loved every page of this story and now I am anxiously waiting for Mitch’s story since he has intrigued me since the first book. I must know, who ends up with my favorite character. I may have to go through the book and steal him for myself. =)
Rush is the third book in the Phoenix Rising series, and it is one tearjerker from the moment I picked up the book to the minute I read the last page. Joan Swan made me break down into a bubbling baby several times in this book. I will admit it; I had to wipe my eyes and nose several times, while the hubs looked at me crazy. Jessica and Q’s story was heart-wrenching.
I give this book 5 full moons and highly recommend it to romantic suspense readers out there.
This book will have it all, action, suspense, romance, and paranormal elements. It will make you go through a box of tissues after you read the last page too…if you are anything like I am. I still cannot get over that ending. (*tear*tear*) I loved every page of this story and now I am anxiously waiting for Mitch’s story since he has intrigued me since the first book. I must know, who ends up with my favorite character. I may have to go through the book and steal him for myself. =)
shadowmaster13's review
4.0
This review now available on my blog at: http://neverkissandblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/review-rush.html
So, Rush is book three in Joan Swan’s Phoenix Rising series, a paranormal romantic suspense series. With smokin’ hot firefighters. Everything is better with firefighters? Five years ago the firefighting squad went into a burning government building and came out changed. Unfortunately some rogue elements of their government decided the best way to cover it up was to get rid of them.
Quaid was one of the first to enter the building and got an extra blast of chemical, so Gil Schaeffer decided he’d be the best person to experiment with in regards to abilities. This is so evil I can’t even… They (the governmental conpiracy types) had to knew what the chemicals might do but they didn’t warn anyone they just watched to see what would happen.
Jessie was Quaid’s wife and took his loss badly. Really badly. She denied her abilities as best she could and ended up a drug addict as she tried desperately to forget her loss. She was devastated by his loss. When Keira and Teague come to her office in Washington to try and convince her Quaid might be still alive she refuses to believe it. Teague tricks her into scrying for Q, and she refuses to believe that he is Quaid even after astral projecting to him. And I was so drawn into her that despite reading Blaze and being 99% sure that Q was actually Quaid I wanted to shout at Teague and Keira to leave her alone because I sympathised so strongly with Jessica and her inability to cope with her loss.
Q, on the other hand is broken. He is a seething mass of instincts and fear with no memory of how he learnt any of his skills. He doesn’t know about his abilities at all so thoroughly have Schaeffer and Gorin fucked him over. My heart broke as he tried to understand who he once was and who he is now. The rage he went into when he realised how much of his life was stolen is amazing. His utter devastation as he realises that he was married to Jessica and he doesn’t even remember.
As far as the series’ plot goes we have a fair amount of resolution and plenty of set up for the next part of the series. I will say this, the ending is so fast. I’m not sure if Quaid remembers his life before the fire or not. I don’t know if Scaeffer and Green are dead or not and the ending is so quick that it’s closer to a HFN than a HEA.
Bottom line, everything you thought that this book might not do it does. Quaid comes back from the dead and you feel the emotions that it causes the relief and worry, the fear and expectations. You see Quaid trying to understand how to live without being an experiment. Jessica’s fear that he’ll disappear, that she’s not strong enough to live if she loses him again, or if she doesn’t is so real. Read Rush.
**I received this book as an ARC from Kensington via NetGalley**
So, Rush is book three in Joan Swan’s Phoenix Rising series, a paranormal romantic suspense series. With smokin’ hot firefighters. Everything is better with firefighters? Five years ago the firefighting squad went into a burning government building and came out changed. Unfortunately some rogue elements of their government decided the best way to cover it up was to get rid of them.
Quaid was one of the first to enter the building and got an extra blast of chemical, so Gil Schaeffer decided he’d be the best person to experiment with in regards to abilities. This is so evil I can’t even… They (the governmental conpiracy types) had to knew what the chemicals might do but they didn’t warn anyone they just watched to see what would happen.
Jessie was Quaid’s wife and took his loss badly. Really badly. She denied her abilities as best she could and ended up a drug addict as she tried desperately to forget her loss. She was devastated by his loss. When Keira and Teague come to her office in Washington to try and convince her Quaid might be still alive she refuses to believe it. Teague tricks her into scrying for Q, and she refuses to believe that he is Quaid even after astral projecting to him. And I was so drawn into her that despite reading Blaze and being 99% sure that Q was actually Quaid I wanted to shout at Teague and Keira to leave her alone because I sympathised so strongly with Jessica and her inability to cope with her loss.
Q, on the other hand is broken. He is a seething mass of instincts and fear with no memory of how he learnt any of his skills. He doesn’t know about his abilities at all so thoroughly have Schaeffer and Gorin fucked him over. My heart broke as he tried to understand who he once was and who he is now. The rage he went into when he realised how much of his life was stolen is amazing. His utter devastation as he realises that he was married to Jessica and he doesn’t even remember.
As far as the series’ plot goes we have a fair amount of resolution and plenty of set up for the next part of the series. I will say this, the ending is so fast. I’m not sure if Quaid remembers his life before the fire or not. I don’t know if Scaeffer and Green are dead or not and the ending is so quick that it’s closer to a HFN than a HEA.
Bottom line, everything you thought that this book might not do it does. Quaid comes back from the dead and you feel the emotions that it causes the relief and worry, the fear and expectations. You see Quaid trying to understand how to live without being an experiment. Jessica’s fear that he’ll disappear, that she’s not strong enough to live if she loses him again, or if she doesn’t is so real. Read Rush.
**I received this book as an ARC from Kensington via NetGalley**
labraden's review
4.0
I really enjoyed Rush. At the end of Blaze, after rescuing Cash, the team discovered that Quaid might still be alive. At the beginning of Rush, Quaid is rescued - end of story, right? Not really. Quaid has been called Q for 5 years and has lost his memory of his team and his past. He is a different man, just how different is part of what makes this story so good. His wife, Jessica, who has had to overcome her own issues over the past 5 years, is afraid to believe that this man might be her husband. The story went a little off the rails at the end, but overall a really gripping story with a satisfying end. Can't wait to read Shatter, but I'm sorry it's going to be the last book in the series.
franjessca's review
5.0
Full Review posted on Book Lovin' Mamas
Rush is the third book in the Phoenix Rising series, and it is one tearjerker from the moment I picked up the book to the minute I read the last page. Joan Swan made me break down into a bubbling baby several times in this book. I will admit it; I had to wipe my eyes and nose several times, while the hubs looked at me crazy. Jessica and Q’s story was heart-wrenching.
I give this book 5 full moons and highly recommend it to romantic suspense readers out there.
This book will have it all, action, suspense, romance, and paranormal elements. It will make you go through a box of tissues after you read the last page too…if you are anything like I am. I still cannot get over that ending. (*tear*tear*) I loved every page of this story and now I am anxiously waiting for Mitch’s story since he has intrigued me since the first book. I must know, who ends up with my favorite character. I may have to go through the book and steal him for myself. =)
Rush is the third book in the Phoenix Rising series, and it is one tearjerker from the moment I picked up the book to the minute I read the last page. Joan Swan made me break down into a bubbling baby several times in this book. I will admit it; I had to wipe my eyes and nose several times, while the hubs looked at me crazy. Jessica and Q’s story was heart-wrenching.
I give this book 5 full moons and highly recommend it to romantic suspense readers out there.
This book will have it all, action, suspense, romance, and paranormal elements. It will make you go through a box of tissues after you read the last page too…if you are anything like I am. I still cannot get over that ending. (*tear*tear*) I loved every page of this story and now I am anxiously waiting for Mitch’s story since he has intrigued me since the first book. I must know, who ends up with my favorite character. I may have to go through the book and steal him for myself. =)
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