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mfg1994's review against another edition
5.0
Even with as many books as Maya Banks has written in her KGI series, she continues to satisfy her readers. Donovan 's story is stunning and moving,dealing with issues often absent from romance novels. Eve was an understandable heroine, innocent yet strong. The novel not only had palpable chemistry between Van and Eve, but mixed it in with heavy suspense that kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end. I highly recommend it.
melissasfandomworld's review against another edition
I decided to DNF this book at about 70% in.
I’ve always enjoyed Maya Banks books in the past and Romantic Suspense is a sub-genre I also really love to read. And despite the characters being interesting, a quite nicely set pace and a writing in general that I’m enjoying, I just can’t get behind this romance & it’s development. It just doesn’t click with me and it keeps bothering me. I’m not one who is normally not into ‘insta love’ and all that, but the pace of this romance development is just too much for me. And in a book like this, the romance part is just an integral part of the entirety of the reading experience and that has to be likeable to me. I therefore decided to stop reading, even though I was getting to the end already. Just; too many book, too little time.
I am still curious about other books in the series though. Every book focuses on another couple and romance and seeing I like Maya’s writing in general normally, I really like the romantic suspense sub-genre normally as well, I might definitely return to this world some time I think. This was the 8th book in the series, and you can all read them as stand alone books I will probably look into book 1 someday and start the series again from there on out.
As always when DNF’ing, I won’t rate the book. I just stand by my beliefs that it isn’t fair to rate a book that I haven’t finished from beginning ‘till end.
I’ve always enjoyed Maya Banks books in the past and Romantic Suspense is a sub-genre I also really love to read. And despite the characters being interesting, a quite nicely set pace and a writing in general that I’m enjoying, I just can’t get behind this romance & it’s development. It just doesn’t click with me and it keeps bothering me. I’m not one who is normally not into ‘insta love’ and all that, but the pace of this romance development is just too much for me. And in a book like this, the romance part is just an integral part of the entirety of the reading experience and that has to be likeable to me. I therefore decided to stop reading, even though I was getting to the end already. Just; too many book, too little time.
I am still curious about other books in the series though. Every book focuses on another couple and romance and seeing I like Maya’s writing in general normally, I really like the romantic suspense sub-genre normally as well, I might definitely return to this world some time I think. This was the 8th book in the series, and you can all read them as stand alone books I will probably look into book 1 someday and start the series again from there on out.
As always when DNF’ing, I won’t rate the book. I just stand by my beliefs that it isn’t fair to rate a book that I haven’t finished from beginning ‘till end.
pjfiala's review against another edition
3.0
I have read all of Maya Banks' books and have been a fan for a long time. But, this one disappointed me. So much repetition and unnecessary dialog. It seemed clunky and not Maya's usual style of writing. Van deserved a better book, being the nice guy of KGI. Sorry, this was not up to par.
whatcha_listening_to's review against another edition
2.0
Yep 2 stars from me.. Sigh I hate to do that. I was soooo looking forward to this book. Please don't take this as a book bashing that's not what I want. I am just stating what I didn't like and what I did.
I think if it had spanned over 3 months. And Van was so not Van he seemed like some had his balls. He was like a pussy. He wasn't like the Van of the other books. Sure he was protective but he wasn't Alpha at all.
It wasn't that it was insta-love that I am totally cool with but it was the way it happened. And not only that but like insta-family that I don't get. I think it was because of the Eve's and Camy and Travis's situation that made this so unbelievable to me.
She was soooo protected of them you can feel it. She didn't know what to do she was at the end of her rope and then poof her white knight comes to save the day. So yeah she wanted to run again I totally see that. If it was me I would have so done what she did... This I liked. I am weird it was believable.
But then after the tornado.... it got WEIRD for lack of a better word.
2 or 3 kisses and poof she was family that was a head scratch-er. Even Garrett was like they are family after 1 night. I know they would go with what Van said but it was too weird. I can't describe it.
When did getting her in bed = trust?
Also I didn't find Evie to be a very in depth character like all the other ladies we got to know them not just there situation. Loyalty and being scared were really what I found out about her.
Now it wasn't all bad don't get me wrong. There were parts of the book I loved and parts I didn't. I didn't connect with them as a couple so for me the sex stuff wasn't for me it wasn't HOT like in all the other books for me because I didn't believe in these two as a couple..
Buuuuuttttt
I loved all the parts with Rusty. We get to see what a beautiful, kind women she has become. I don't want to hope for this book because I hoped for this one and it let me down :( so I am just going to hope the next book goes back to how the first few books were because those books for KGI were AMAZING!
I think if it had spanned over 3 months. And Van was so not Van he seemed like some had his balls. He was like a pussy. He wasn't like the Van of the other books. Sure he was protective but he wasn't Alpha at all.
It wasn't that it was insta-love that I am totally cool with but it was the way it happened. And not only that but like insta-family that I don't get. I think it was because of the Eve's and Camy and Travis's situation that made this so unbelievable to me.
She was soooo protected of them you can feel it. She didn't know what to do she was at the end of her rope and then poof her white knight comes to save the day. So yeah she wanted to run again I totally see that. If it was me I would have so done what she did... This I liked. I am weird it was believable.
But then after the tornado.... it got WEIRD for lack of a better word.
2 or 3 kisses and poof she was family that was a head scratch-er. Even Garrett was like they are family after 1 night. I know they would go with what Van said but it was too weird. I can't describe it.
When did getting her in bed = trust?
Also I didn't find Evie to be a very in depth character like all the other ladies we got to know them not just there situation. Loyalty and being scared were really what I found out about her.
Now it wasn't all bad don't get me wrong. There were parts of the book I loved and parts I didn't. I didn't connect with them as a couple so for me the sex stuff wasn't for me it wasn't HOT like in all the other books for me because I didn't believe in these two as a couple..
Buuuuuttttt
I loved all the parts with Rusty. We get to see what a beautiful, kind women she has become. I don't want to hope for this book because I hoped for this one and it let me down :( so I am just going to hope the next book goes back to how the first few books were because those books for KGI were AMAZING!
cpikas's review against another edition
3.0
standard of this series. strange how a woman running from one possessive maniac would be comforted to be told she was owned by another.
tasha_fullybooked's review against another edition
3.0
This installment of KGI featured an insta-love relationship. At least on the part of Donovan, the male lead. Only in a Maya Banks novel do you find it's the man that's head over heels upon first sight, and already planning the wedding.
KGI is an elite group that go out on missions and pretty much save the day. This installment of the series I think is the first one in which there is no mission. Yes, at the very end they had to go recover Eve, but they didn't really. Someone else did it for them and KGI pretty much just followed that person. Not really sure if you should call this romantic suspense since there was very little suspense.
Not only did Donovan fall for her and believe every word from her, but so did his family. No questions asked of Eve. No one thought to check and see if her story truly checked out or anything. Donovan's constant declaration that Eve, Cammie and Travis were "his" was over the top. That read more like a shape-shifter paranormal read than that of a contemporary setting.
I liked Donovan and I liked Eve and her family. I just would have preferred that the relationship between all of them developed over time instead of upon their first couple of interactions. It made Donovan appear a little too desperate to me.
KGI is an elite group that go out on missions and pretty much save the day. This installment of the series I think is the first one in which there is no mission. Yes, at the very end they had to go recover Eve, but they didn't really. Someone else did it for them and KGI pretty much just followed that person. Not really sure if you should call this romantic suspense since there was very little suspense.
Not only did Donovan fall for her and believe every word from her, but so did his family. No questions asked of Eve. No one thought to check and see if her story truly checked out or anything. Donovan's constant declaration that Eve, Cammie and Travis were "his" was over the top. That read more like a shape-shifter paranormal read than that of a contemporary setting.
I liked Donovan and I liked Eve and her family. I just would have preferred that the relationship between all of them developed over time instead of upon their first couple of interactions. It made Donovan appear a little too desperate to me.
33p3barpercent's review against another edition
2.0
This was really close to a DNF read. I had liked books previously in the series, but this one seemed to be written by a completely different person. It was super saccharine to the point of cheese and disbelief. Donovan moves his relationship with this poor, shell-shocked, exhausted, and traumatized woman at WARP SPEED. Donovan talks so much about how he's the brother of the family who has always wanted a family of his own--more so than his brothers--and yet he's one of the last to get hitched... It almost read to me like he had found a girl who was sufficient and just went for it. I didn't really feel much chemistry between the two, and I just couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to believe he fell in love with her THAT quickly. I was on his brothers' side: Donovan wanted these three people because it was a ready-made family who needed him. Signed, sealed, delivered, they're yours.
Pass. Disappointing installment to kind of a weird series. (Paranormal elements, rough violent issues, etc etc.)
Pass. Disappointing installment to kind of a weird series. (Paranormal elements, rough violent issues, etc etc.)
athene_srq's review against another edition
3.0
I loved this series but Eve was the sappiest character I've read in a while.
ezichinny's review against another edition
3.0
Everyone knows Donovan Kelly has a heart for abused women and children. So when he learns of Eve, Travis and Cammie via Rusty, his Captain Saver instincts kick in. This begins a story of insta-love, which let me feeling quite unsatisfied and underwhelmed. I don't know what to think about this story because it was not well done. While the characters were so underdeveloped, Van's hero thing was overdone. Maya Banks got really lazy on this one!