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3.56 AVERAGE
I like that they have their own community that they created, but it's hard getting into the story cause it's not that new from Lisa Marie Rice's other stories.
"Heart of Danger" is set in the not so distant futures where the iPhone has reached model 15 or so and science is at an all time high. Dr. Catherine Young is a doctor doctor, having received her degrees in various fields and working for a major pharmaceutical company with a hidden agenda. But she has a gift, more of a curse feeling - by touching people she's able to enter their minds and see what they are feeling and thinking and gets a feeling of the future.
She's sympathetic with Patient Nine and through him she's on a mission to find the elusive outlaw Tom MacEnroe. He's an outlaw, living on a compound with other fugitives. When he meets Catherine, he's immediately suspicious and immediately aroused by her.
It's definitely a romance suspense, but at times there were definitely some science fiction futuristic vibes that took over. There are world events that if put on warp speed could be our future (for example, the U.S.'s dependency on China for goods, eating debt, etc). So the main villain here is a brilliant Chinese doctor who has his country on the agenda in creating super soldiers.
Unlike one review that said she/he found it fast paced and suspenseful, I kind of didn't. I thought the beginning was promising, but once it got into the lust and finally the sexy times (I had to groan when Mac describes their sexy times as hmexy times or something like that - like mixing the hex she's put on him and the sexy times). I also didn't particularly like the sex scenes - they weren't very romantic to me. There was so much we are one, if I could crawl and live in her I would. I can't leave her empty, etc. I just thought that took over so much once they got together. And Catherine at this point has only been at the compound for 3 days and all of a sudden its earth shattering sex turning into I can't leave without her/him.
And for me, the mark of a really good book is when I whiz through it, especially when I sneak reading at work. But this one I fought to get through because I find it to be repetitive. And when it did get good it switched to something else. So I'm not sure if I'll read the second book in the series. But Nick's story does seem to be interesting. So just maybe I will continue the series.
A lot is unresolved. The HEA is certainly resolved, but the storyline isn't. In fact, a lot is revealed in the last chapter and it's more complicated than we thought.
She's sympathetic with Patient Nine and through him she's on a mission to find the elusive outlaw Tom MacEnroe. He's an outlaw, living on a compound with other fugitives. When he meets Catherine, he's immediately suspicious and immediately aroused by her.
It's definitely a romance suspense, but at times there were definitely some science fiction futuristic vibes that took over. There are world events that if put on warp speed could be our future (for example, the U.S.'s dependency on China for goods, eating debt, etc). So the main villain here is a brilliant Chinese doctor who has his country on the agenda in creating super soldiers.
Unlike one review that said she/he found it fast paced and suspenseful, I kind of didn't. I thought the beginning was promising, but once it got into the lust and finally the sexy times (I had to groan when Mac describes their sexy times as hmexy times or something like that - like mixing the hex she's put on him and the sexy times). I also didn't particularly like the sex scenes - they weren't very romantic to me. There was so much we are one, if I could crawl and live in her I would. I can't leave her empty, etc. I just thought that took over so much once they got together. And Catherine at this point has only been at the compound for 3 days and all of a sudden its earth shattering sex turning into I can't leave without her/him.
And for me, the mark of a really good book is when I whiz through it, especially when I sneak reading at work. But this one I fought to get through because I find it to be repetitive. And when it did get good it switched to something else. So I'm not sure if I'll read the second book in the series. But Nick's story does seem to be interesting. So just maybe I will continue the series.
A lot is unresolved. The HEA is certainly resolved, but the storyline isn't. In fact, a lot is revealed in the last chapter and it's more complicated than we thought.
I had trouble deciding between three and four stars for this book. I enjoyed it, especially the edge-of-your-seat ending, and I will probably pick up other books in the series as they come out. But I had a few issues with the book that kept me from giving it a whole 4 stars. My two biggest complaints were 1.) The romance happened waaaay too fast. Can you say insta-love? I almost wish the book had been longer so we could see Mac and Catherine's relationship blossom from distrust to trust to love instead of jumping directly from distrust to love. 2.) I think we spent more time with Lee (the bad guy) than anyone else in the book. While I can definitely appreciate a well-written bad guy, his scenes were at the expense of us getting to know Mac & Catherine (and the other Ghost Ops guys) better. Although, if the book had been a bit longer, the timeline stretched out over more than a few days, I don't think Lee's scenes would have bugged me as much.
All in all, a solid read and the ending was seriously tense. 3.5 stars.
All in all, a solid read and the ending was seriously tense. 3.5 stars.
Review posted: Happily Ever After - Reads
Blog rating: B
The new Ghost Ops series by Lisa Marie Rice is set about twelve years in the future, although it feels like light years into the future with the advanced technology that’s available to the characters. After a mission gone horribly wrong, it fractures the Ghost Ops team, a military team made up of men who have no past, their existence is wiped out. The mission leaves three surviving team members who believe that their Captain led them knowingly into the ambush. With the rest of their team presumed dead, the men now led by Mac, along with Jon and Nick, flee to a remote abandoned mine and start over. They have skills and set about building a refuge that ends up not only serving as their home and home base, but people who need to escape and disappear find them. Somehow, someway they attract the people that need them and they’ve created their own little world that’s hidden away from everything.
Catherine is working with dementia patients when one of her current patients provides her with information in the most unique way. Catherine has a supernatural ability through touch. She can sense feelings, but in touching this particular patient she’s able to see pictures and scenes from his past. Her patient is unable to speak but “projects” to how important it is that she find Mac. She’s sees the exact path she needs to take and isn’t able to fight the compulsion to go off and chase down this stranger all because of the intense feelings she got from her patient.
Catherine and Mac meet early on and Mac is very skeptical, fiercely protective of the people he’s helping hide in their community and has no time for Catherine and her farfetched story. She’s able to convince him enough to keep her around and when it comes out as to who the patient may be that she’s been working with, the men start to reevaluate everything they originally believed about that long ago mission that destroyed their lives and start to plan a rescue mission. The story broke down into two main parts, the romance between Catherine and Mac and the overall building of this series and the world we’re introduced to.
Mac is a hero who’s described as ugly. His face is scarred on one side, burned on the other. It’s said many times that he was not a handsome man, but his main focus has been building their community and he’s become the leader by default. Catherine is a loner, she spent more time in the labs working than she ever did making friends, of which, she has none and no family. She should be terrified of Mac, but through her gift/curse of touch she’s able to tell pretty quickly that he’s a tough, mean guy but means her no harm. Their connection takes quite a bit to build up, but going from the point of Mac being anti-romance with Catherine to him devoting his life to her, it happened like the flip of a switch. It was pretty fast, once they had sex - that was it for him. She was his, he couldn’t imagine living without her, and their sex was fast and furious. On the one hand, I like a scarred, angry hero who falls for the sweet heroine and wants to love and protect her. It just went from one extreme to the other with Mac. But this whole story was little extreme so I went with it and ended up enjoying their romance. The sex was hot, Catherine is incredibly sweet and Mac is fierce. It was a combination that worked.
The bad guy, Lee, is the type of enemy I love to hate. He’s testing out a drug in the US that he wants to take back to China with him and administer it to their soldiers to become the perfect fighting machines. The drug enhances abilities but is incredibly dangerous and hasn’t gotten out of the testing stages yet. I wanted to slap Lee so many times. He’s testing on animals, on humans, he’s perfectly evil and a bit insane.
For the series set up, we’re introduced to some of the residents of this secret world which include Mac’s two other teammates, Jon and Nick, a former actress turned chef for the community who needed to escape a stalker, a couple who ran away from an abusive situation. This group of people have created a super high-tech, safe haven for themselves and they protect it and each other. The technology is so advanced it was actually kind of fun to see what Lisa Marie Rice was coming up with in the creative department with all the new devices and heck, even a desk chair that I was envious about. The heart of this story is with the people and with the rescue mission that ends this story, all I can say is – I want more! I loved what I got with the supporting characters, there’s enough detail given to them to make them intriguing and I want to know what their individual stories. The ending isn’t clear cut, in fact Catherine may still be in danger in future books and I’m good with that, for now. It definitely has the potential to be a strong ongoing storyline and at this point, I’m really curious to see where everything is heading, with the plot and with the characters.
I was a little ‘eh’ about having a character with supernatural powers, it’s not normally my thing in a non-PNR book, and judging by how the book ends, it’s going to continue to be a major theme in this series. But, I ended up having fun getting to know the characters and the world that I didn’t really care in the end. I enjoyed Mac and Catherine as leads, but I’m a lot more interested to see where this series is going. This is a strong start and as I said above, I’m ready for more.
Blog rating: B
The new Ghost Ops series by Lisa Marie Rice is set about twelve years in the future, although it feels like light years into the future with the advanced technology that’s available to the characters. After a mission gone horribly wrong, it fractures the Ghost Ops team, a military team made up of men who have no past, their existence is wiped out. The mission leaves three surviving team members who believe that their Captain led them knowingly into the ambush. With the rest of their team presumed dead, the men now led by Mac, along with Jon and Nick, flee to a remote abandoned mine and start over. They have skills and set about building a refuge that ends up not only serving as their home and home base, but people who need to escape and disappear find them. Somehow, someway they attract the people that need them and they’ve created their own little world that’s hidden away from everything.
Catherine is working with dementia patients when one of her current patients provides her with information in the most unique way. Catherine has a supernatural ability through touch. She can sense feelings, but in touching this particular patient she’s able to see pictures and scenes from his past. Her patient is unable to speak but “projects” to how important it is that she find Mac. She’s sees the exact path she needs to take and isn’t able to fight the compulsion to go off and chase down this stranger all because of the intense feelings she got from her patient.
Catherine and Mac meet early on and Mac is very skeptical, fiercely protective of the people he’s helping hide in their community and has no time for Catherine and her farfetched story. She’s able to convince him enough to keep her around and when it comes out as to who the patient may be that she’s been working with, the men start to reevaluate everything they originally believed about that long ago mission that destroyed their lives and start to plan a rescue mission. The story broke down into two main parts, the romance between Catherine and Mac and the overall building of this series and the world we’re introduced to.
Mac is a hero who’s described as ugly. His face is scarred on one side, burned on the other. It’s said many times that he was not a handsome man, but his main focus has been building their community and he’s become the leader by default. Catherine is a loner, she spent more time in the labs working than she ever did making friends, of which, she has none and no family. She should be terrified of Mac, but through her gift/curse of touch she’s able to tell pretty quickly that he’s a tough, mean guy but means her no harm. Their connection takes quite a bit to build up, but going from the point of Mac being anti-romance with Catherine to him devoting his life to her, it happened like the flip of a switch. It was pretty fast, once they had sex - that was it for him. She was his, he couldn’t imagine living without her, and their sex was fast and furious. On the one hand, I like a scarred, angry hero who falls for the sweet heroine and wants to love and protect her. It just went from one extreme to the other with Mac. But this whole story was little extreme so I went with it and ended up enjoying their romance. The sex was hot, Catherine is incredibly sweet and Mac is fierce. It was a combination that worked.
The bad guy, Lee, is the type of enemy I love to hate. He’s testing out a drug in the US that he wants to take back to China with him and administer it to their soldiers to become the perfect fighting machines. The drug enhances abilities but is incredibly dangerous and hasn’t gotten out of the testing stages yet. I wanted to slap Lee so many times. He’s testing on animals, on humans, he’s perfectly evil and a bit insane.
For the series set up, we’re introduced to some of the residents of this secret world which include Mac’s two other teammates, Jon and Nick, a former actress turned chef for the community who needed to escape a stalker, a couple who ran away from an abusive situation. This group of people have created a super high-tech, safe haven for themselves and they protect it and each other. The technology is so advanced it was actually kind of fun to see what Lisa Marie Rice was coming up with in the creative department with all the new devices and heck, even a desk chair that I was envious about. The heart of this story is with the people and with the rescue mission that ends this story, all I can say is – I want more! I loved what I got with the supporting characters, there’s enough detail given to them to make them intriguing and I want to know what their individual stories. The ending isn’t clear cut, in fact Catherine may still be in danger in future books and I’m good with that, for now. It definitely has the potential to be a strong ongoing storyline and at this point, I’m really curious to see where everything is heading, with the plot and with the characters.
I was a little ‘eh’ about having a character with supernatural powers, it’s not normally my thing in a non-PNR book, and judging by how the book ends, it’s going to continue to be a major theme in this series. But, I ended up having fun getting to know the characters and the world that I didn’t really care in the end. I enjoyed Mac and Catherine as leads, but I’m a lot more interested to see where this series is going. This is a strong start and as I said above, I’m ready for more.
The futuristic setting and gadgetry made it a little different than her other books, but the transcendental light of love stuff was too much. I'll read the next one though, because I can't help myself.
Lisa, Lisa, Lisa... has thrown in the kitchen sink on this one. While I like her nearly deft introduction of a near future, the addition of the paranormal atop the futuristic setting is too much. The convenient explanation fixes a lot of plot problems, so not is the guy wealthy beyond belief with resources available beyond those of any discharged vet, but the heroine must be psychic. All plot problems are neatly solved by abnormal explanation making this a mediocre novel. Definitely not up to the way she introduced action in others and had her characters fight their way out of a mess. There are fewer and fewer obstacles to overcome because the characters are beginning to reach cartoon-like proportions.
But a Lisa Marie Rice novel is better written than most, so worth the time for the fun 'n games. This just isn't one of her best. The paranormal bit does become less clunky later in the book and it's a fun read, but really - the Deus ex Machina is distracting at the first half.
It would be great to see her return to the less than wealthy, less than perfectly supplied, less than wholly capabable characters of her early works.
But a Lisa Marie Rice novel is better written than most, so worth the time for the fun 'n games. This just isn't one of her best. The paranormal bit does become less clunky later in the book and it's a fun read, but really - the Deus ex Machina is distracting at the first half.
It would be great to see her return to the less than wealthy, less than perfectly supplied, less than wholly capabable characters of her early works.
It was pretty good, only it was not what I expected, at all. I'm not saying it was bad. But it was mostly repetitive in the sense that it was very similar to other stories of Lisa and it was repetitive in the story. That said, it was a surprising story in the sense that there were aspects I did not expect to read. The kind of futuristic technology was impressive. The background was interesting. The suspense was good and even the way she worked the final pages. I'm interested in reading the next stories...
I tried and I just couldn’t get into it and I have all 3 of this series. I will try again some day.
This book was awesome!!! I loved it. The narrator did a great job.