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emms_across_formats's review
3.0
If you liked the previous books in this series, you'll like this one.
morebksplz's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Love this series & it was great to end on Dani & Rafe's story. A spin-off is dangled in the last chapter, and there are some side characters I'd love to know more about, but supposedly the series is finished.
malin12ccf's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
After his father died, Rafael "Rafe" Morales basically sold himself to TechCorps and agreed to become a technologically enhanced supersoldier, so he could make enough money to keep his widowed mother and younger siblings safe. He didn't really know what signing away his life would entail, and given the choice again, he probably would have chosen differently. He hasn't been able to see them for years, certainly not since he and his team, the Silver Devils, had to fake their own deaths to get away from their cruel superiors.
Unlike Rafe, Danijela "Dani" Volkova didn't really have external pressures that made her sign up with TechCorps. She was just curious and driven, and once their scientists had experimented sufficiently on her, she became super fast, agile, and graceful and lost the ability to feel pain, at all. This made her the perfect elite bodyguard for the rich and powerful, until she just couldn't handle the cruelty and corruption she was witness to and broke away. She joined Nina and Maya to become one of the mercenary librarians of Atlanta. Dani feels like TechCorps turned her into a monster. She appreciates the love that her chosen sisters and the former supersoldiers who share their lives offer her, but deep down she knows she doesn't deserve it.
Since their very first meeting, when Dani may have "accidentally" stabbed Rafe a little bit, the chemistry between them has been off the charts. But Rafael doesn't want a quick fling, Dani doesn't do long-term commitment, and neither is willing to risk screwing up their new big, unusual family unit with relationship drama. Keeping everything casual and platonic becomes a lot more difficult when the two have to go undercover among the rich and deplorable of Atlanta. After the death of Tobias Richter, the VP of Security for TechCorps, and the one who sat with most of the power, the organisation is desperately scrambling to maintain control, and our enhanced heroes and heroines have decided that it's time to start fighting back.
Having come into unexpected wealth at the end of the previous book, Maya is using all of her considerable resources and brains, her wealth of sensitive information burned into her brain after growing up in the loving arms of TechCorps and learning a lot of its dirty secrets, as well as calling in all the favours from her vast network of informants and allies. It's one such ally, a head researcher at TechCorps, whom Rafe and Dani are trying to contact when they go undercover, as a married couple. Once on the mission, they not only discover that Rafe's little sister is in terrible danger, but it also becomes impossible for them to keep their hands off each other.
This is the third and probably final (there is a suggestion at the end of the epilogue in this one that there may be new dangers facing our intrepid band of heroes, but it seems like the author duo has moved on to new projects now) novel in the Mercenary Librarians series. As such, it's not the best place to start. This might very well not be an almost five-star read to someone else but as the end chapter of all that has been established in the previous two books, with all the seeds sown and the principal cast, as well as the various supporting characters, joining together to launch a full-scale revolution, I loved this book. The romance between Dani and Rafe has been teased from the beginning and didn't disappoint.
Both Dani and Rafe got turned into lethal weapons by TechCorps, but Rafael grew up in a loving family and always knew that the sacrifices he made were for them. Dani was rejected by her parents once they realised the choices she had made, and was honed into a ruthless killing machine by the scientists. She is fiercely loyal and has vast capacities for love and emotion, all of which she is worthy of, but takes her quite some time to come to terms with.
I loved this book, and its action-packed and thrilling finale, where the downtrodden of Atlanta join with our protagonists to kick ass and take names, in order to secure a better future, free of the dominance of TechCorps and their controlling ways.
Judging a book by its cover: The cover for this one at least has slightly more of a sci-fi feel than the last one, but it's still a pretty generic image and I certainly would never have picked up this book from the cover alone.
Unlike Rafe, Danijela "Dani" Volkova didn't really have external pressures that made her sign up with TechCorps. She was just curious and driven, and once their scientists had experimented sufficiently on her, she became super fast, agile, and graceful and lost the ability to feel pain, at all. This made her the perfect elite bodyguard for the rich and powerful, until she just couldn't handle the cruelty and corruption she was witness to and broke away. She joined Nina and Maya to become one of the mercenary librarians of Atlanta. Dani feels like TechCorps turned her into a monster. She appreciates the love that her chosen sisters and the former supersoldiers who share their lives offer her, but deep down she knows she doesn't deserve it.
Since their very first meeting, when Dani may have "accidentally" stabbed Rafe a little bit, the chemistry between them has been off the charts. But Rafael doesn't want a quick fling, Dani doesn't do long-term commitment, and neither is willing to risk screwing up their new big, unusual family unit with relationship drama. Keeping everything casual and platonic becomes a lot more difficult when the two have to go undercover among the rich and deplorable of Atlanta. After the death of Tobias Richter, the VP of Security for TechCorps, and the one who sat with most of the power, the organisation is desperately scrambling to maintain control, and our enhanced heroes and heroines have decided that it's time to start fighting back.
Having come into unexpected wealth at the end of the previous book, Maya is using all of her considerable resources and brains, her wealth of sensitive information burned into her brain after growing up in the loving arms of TechCorps and learning a lot of its dirty secrets, as well as calling in all the favours from her vast network of informants and allies. It's one such ally, a head researcher at TechCorps, whom Rafe and Dani are trying to contact when they go undercover, as a married couple. Once on the mission, they not only discover that Rafe's little sister is in terrible danger, but it also becomes impossible for them to keep their hands off each other.
This is the third and probably final (there is a suggestion at the end of the epilogue in this one that there may be new dangers facing our intrepid band of heroes, but it seems like the author duo has moved on to new projects now) novel in the Mercenary Librarians series. As such, it's not the best place to start. This might very well not be an almost five-star read to someone else but as the end chapter of all that has been established in the previous two books, with all the seeds sown and the principal cast, as well as the various supporting characters, joining together to launch a full-scale revolution, I loved this book. The romance between Dani and Rafe has been teased from the beginning and didn't disappoint.
Both Dani and Rafe got turned into lethal weapons by TechCorps, but Rafael grew up in a loving family and always knew that the sacrifices he made were for them. Dani was rejected by her parents once they realised the choices she had made, and was honed into a ruthless killing machine by the scientists. She is fiercely loyal and has vast capacities for love and emotion, all of which she is worthy of, but takes her quite some time to come to terms with.
I loved this book, and its action-packed and thrilling finale, where the downtrodden of Atlanta join with our protagonists to kick ass and take names, in order to secure a better future, free of the dominance of TechCorps and their controlling ways.
Judging a book by its cover: The cover for this one at least has slightly more of a sci-fi feel than the last one, but it's still a pretty generic image and I certainly would never have picked up this book from the cover alone.
cassandra67b07's review
5.0
The world-building in this series has been excellent throughout, but it has grown increasingly complex with each subsequent book. I was worried I wouldn't be able to keep up with all the characters and their intrigues and machinations to take down the corporations/directors who had destroyed their lives and murdered their friends and siblings. Not to worry-Kit Rocha has us covered. The multiple POVs, especially at the beginning of the book, work to get the reader caught up and back into the internal and external dynamics of the team so that when the focus shifts to Dani and Rafe, we are ready for their story and undercover operation to take center stage.
It's a pleasure to read such an intricately crafted story that works on the level of a post-apocalyptic thriller, with multiple romances, a team heist, and sci-fi elements woven throughout. It's a stunning conclusion to an excellent series!
Five stars!
Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for an eARC!
It's a pleasure to read such an intricately crafted story that works on the level of a post-apocalyptic thriller, with multiple romances, a team heist, and sci-fi elements woven throughout. It's a stunning conclusion to an excellent series!
Five stars!
Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for an eARC!
spellboundbybooks's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
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? It's complicated
4.25
winterreader40's review against another edition
4.0
Dani, former assassin and Rafe, the most charismatic of the silver devils are the focus of this story, while the entire gang goes up against the techcorp in a revolution now that the VP of security is dead.
While I could go into more detail about this story I won't, partially because it's book 3 and partially because if you've read the Beyond series by Rocha you've read this story before. There are so many parallels I was almost disappointed, but thankfully Rocha knows how to write characters I care about so this still gets a decent rating but if I'm ever looking to reread a series from them it won't likely be this one unless the next series is somehow connected to it.
While I could go into more detail about this story I won't, partially because it's book 3 and partially because if you've read the Beyond series by Rocha you've read this story before. There are so many parallels I was almost disappointed, but thankfully Rocha knows how to write characters I care about so this still gets a decent rating but if I'm ever looking to reread a series from them it won't likely be this one unless the next series is somehow connected to it.
fantasyfunk's review
5.0
Honestly, my biggest problem with this is that so much happened because this is just a trilogy, and a lot had to be packed into the last book. This easily could have been two books of slower plot and allowed us to have more books because I'm not ready to be done here. Especially now that more characters have been introduced who need to be paired off!
bookish_notes's review
4.0
So we do end on a cliffhanger of sorts. But it’s kind of a confusing one because I’m just going “I don’t know who this is” at the end. I will say the plot with the TechCorps as we know it is generally resolved in a satisfactory way, but there’s the aftermath of all that still to be worked out. And we have some HEAs for characters that still need to happen! We did get some new characters in this series with this book, so how many more books do the authors have planned? I did enjoy Dani and Rafe’s relationship here, but I liked that there was more at stake and quite a few more action scenes playing out in this book than the last one.
Content notes includes violence, limb loss, deaths (include mass deaths), and bombings.
Dani and Rafe has had sexual tension brewing between them since the first book. While Dani is only in relationships for a good time and not looking for anything serious, Rafe WANTS a serious relationship. They’re both supersoldiers created by the TechCorps to be used as weapons, but they’re also more than that. I appreciated learning about their backstories and seeing Dani finding family with the people around her who accept her so readily, no questions asked. And I’m glad we get to meet the family Rafe mentioned in a previous book. We ended the last book with a cliffhanger as Tobias Richter's data courier, Cara Kennedy, shows up at the home of Rafe's family and wants to offer his younger sister, Tessa, an opportunity. And you just know that was going nowhere good.
We, however, do not see Tessa for awhile. It's like how we knew about Mace at the end of the first book but it took what seemed like forever for him to be introduced to the story in book two? That's what happens here with Tessa as well.
I really liked how this book was more action-packed, and there’s even undercover work going on. Although I’m still kind of confused WHY they needed to go undercover? Was it just to make contact with that one person? I don’t know, it felt kind of like a too elaborate scheme for what they needed to accomplish, but it did give a chance to bring Dani and Rafe together and I feel like that was more the goal here than anything else.
One downside to reading all these books back-to-back is that I feel like I would’ve liked this more if I had some more distance from the Beyond series books? What happens to one community here that brings people together to finally fight back against those on the Hill, is maybe too reminiscent of what happens to Sector Two in the Beyond series. So to me, it just felt like a reusing of plot points, and the thing is I felt like the Beyond series handled everything better. So it was weird to see a condensed version of practically the same events play out in this book.
And speaking of Sector Two, did no one catch that lady offering a card with an orchid on it to Dani and Rafe?? Is that Cerys??? I honestly forgot we never got an ending for her in the Beyond series and I just assumed she died, not that she was still alive living and breathing on the other coast. What is her deal? How is she here? Why is she running the same operations she was in Sector Two? I need answers.
As for suspicious characters, we still don’t know hardly anything about that guy who everyone calls the Professor. Sure, he’s an earlier iteration of the clone program that Nina and Ava were part of, but a man who calls himself John Smith is suspicious as hell and even though we see where he ends up in this book, I’m not entirely sure that was his ONLY endgame. I just feel like that man still has something else up his sleeve but I don’t know what that could be.
We still have at least two more books in this series if all of the Silver Devils get their happy ending. I do feel like there was so much going on with this book though that we didn’t necessarily see the possible relationship build-up like I would have expected for the characters. Obviously there’s Conall and Max, but they barely interact in this book. They have one scene before what’s essentially D-Day, but what about AFTER. Something pretty significant happens and if they’re together at all in the aftermath, I definitely missed it when listening to this book on audio. Then there’s Mace and Ava who interact only a little bit in this book. I’m confused if their relationship also involves one of Ava’s friend clones who we get introduced to in this book, Beth and Phoenix. Will Mace’s story be polyam? I guess we’ll see.
I liked that we see Knox relaxing a bit from being JUST a captain for the Silver Devils. Well, I guess relax might not entirely be the right word but he’s focused his energy on other things as well. Like cooking and baking with the same intensity he has for mapping out a mission. He dotes on Nina and it’s so precious. But what’s even better is the child the crew rescued in book two called Rainbow, and we see Knox basically being a father to the child and it’s cute. I typically don’t even like kids in books, but Rainbow is an exception because I really like her.
What’s the deal with Luna? She’s still kind of a nonentity in this book and I’m so confused how she essentially disappeared from the series after the importance of her character highlighted in the first book. Like in book two, we still see more of her aunt than Luna herself in this book.
A character I wouldn’t mind seeing more about and getting her own book would be Savitri. In a way, she reminds me of Dallas because she gives no fucks and runs her own little den of sex at her club. But would it be weird to ship her with Adam? Adam is a weird supersoldier/artificial intelligence who looks like a clone of someone she once loved. It probably would be a little weird but I like her and also want her to get a happy ending? I am a conflict of emotions where Savitri is concerned.
The Makhai project is mentioned a few times in this book and that’s a thing that was on the west coast that created my fav, Ashwin. But I’m confused what the Guardian Project is and if that was part of the same Makhai project that created the supersoldiers out west, or if they’re just related projects with the same end goals, and not necessarily the same thing project with different names. I’m not sure why the Makhai were mentioned in this book at all.
I feel like Jaden, a man who has a vast network across all of the south and east coasts would have more presence, but it seems like we barely saw him in this book compared to book two. For such a presumably dangerous and powerful man, I would’ve liked to see more of him. And a side note now that I’ve thought about it, is he the one helping transport O’Kane liquor to Atlanta? He would have the connections. But how and who would he have made the connection with in the O'Kane's?
The little snippets and email reports in-between the chapters in this book weren’t all that exciting until the end. It was mostly just filling in gaps nobody really asked for about what was being communicated between folks on the Hill. The reports in the first book was a look into the backstory of Nina (and I think Maya and Dani) and the Silver Devils. The second book had diary entries by Maya’s owner/mentor. And then this book was just communications between members on the Hill. The reports just didn’t feel as necessary by this book and I guess for continuity sake between the books, the reports in-between the chapters were added in, but I didn’t see how they were all that relevant.
It could be that the publisher had a hand in the editing here more than I’m used to seeing from the authors with their past book series, and while there’s still a lot of violence in these books, it also feels super toned down emotionally? I don’t know how else to describe it except the feel of the Mercenary Librarians series just never felt as emotionally raw as those of the Beyond and Gideon’s Riders series. Yes, there’s still sex scenes in this series but just never felt quite like the other books, you know? While I acknowledge the Beyond series might be a bit…much for traditional publishing these days, I would’ve still liked something more akin to the Gideon’s Riders series? I don’t know.
Maybe it’s because we’ve only had three books in this series to accomplish as much as all the books in the Beyond series and the Gideon’s Riders series COMBINED so everything felt much more condensed to get the whole plot hammered out in a shorter timespan, but I felt like this series was just okay rather a series I LOVE and would like to re-read.
Every problem I mentioned in the second book with the audiobook narration is still present here. Why does Lidia Dornet still randomly give characters accents and make them sound different anytime they show up? It’s a shot in the dark on what characters will sound like every time they speak. Sometimes they have southern accents, sometimes they don’t. It’s baffling.
Second issue with the audio is more with the audiobook publisher. Tor gave over audio rights to Tantor with books 2 and 3, and it’s a hit or miss whether Tantor keeps the audiobook covers or not and if they make the covers better or worse if they change them. They kept the normal ebook/physical cover for book two for the audiobook cover. But for this book they changed it all the way up and the audiobook cover suggests the book takes place in space, but we are not in space. We’re still in post-apocalyptic Atlanta for this book so I think I speak for everyone when I say we're still confused by the cover change. These books have to be read in order anyways, so I’m not sure what they meant to accomplish by changing up the audiobook cover because nobody should be jumping randomly into this series with the third book. I hope nobody is picking up this series thinking they’re going to get a space book. Because they will not be getting a space book.
The elephant in the room is that there’s no more books contracted with the publisher for this series, but the series is very obviously not done yet since there’s doors (and relationships) left open for more books. I know the authors have said they’re writing Hunter, book 4 in the Gideon’s Riders series and I’m totally fine with that because I also want more books in that series (maybe even more so than this one). If they decide to continue this series as a self-pub rather than traditionally publishing them, I hope they can do more with the characters and just go wild with the sex scenes and give us more of the vibes of their self-pub series injected into the Mercenary Librarians.
This book was fine and I LIKED Dani and Rafe, and all the other characters here. But “like” is not the same as feeling like I’m going to go feral for the characters like I would with the other books? It was mentioned that Dani and Rafe want to travel, so maybe they’ll make it somehow to the O’Kane’s and party it up. It was mentioned that they could travel to Dallas, Texas, but not to Dallas the person. But who knows. I look forward to seeing what the authors can do with this series in the future.
Content notes includes violence, limb loss, deaths (include mass deaths), and bombings.
Dani and Rafe has had sexual tension brewing between them since the first book. While Dani is only in relationships for a good time and not looking for anything serious, Rafe WANTS a serious relationship. They’re both supersoldiers created by the TechCorps to be used as weapons, but they’re also more than that. I appreciated learning about their backstories and seeing Dani finding family with the people around her who accept her so readily, no questions asked. And I’m glad we get to meet the family Rafe mentioned in a previous book. We ended the last book with a cliffhanger as Tobias Richter's data courier, Cara Kennedy, shows up at the home of Rafe's family and wants to offer his younger sister, Tessa, an opportunity. And you just know that was going nowhere good.
We, however, do not see Tessa for awhile. It's like how we knew about Mace at the end of the first book but it took what seemed like forever for him to be introduced to the story in book two? That's what happens here with Tessa as well.
I really liked how this book was more action-packed, and there’s even undercover work going on. Although I’m still kind of confused WHY they needed to go undercover? Was it just to make contact with that one person? I don’t know, it felt kind of like a too elaborate scheme for what they needed to accomplish, but it did give a chance to bring Dani and Rafe together and I feel like that was more the goal here than anything else.
One downside to reading all these books back-to-back is that I feel like I would’ve liked this more if I had some more distance from the Beyond series books? What happens to one community here that brings people together to finally fight back against those on the Hill, is maybe too reminiscent of what happens to Sector Two in the Beyond series. So to me, it just felt like a reusing of plot points, and the thing is I felt like the Beyond series handled everything better. So it was weird to see a condensed version of practically the same events play out in this book.
And speaking of Sector Two, did no one catch that lady offering a card with an orchid on it to Dani and Rafe?? Is that Cerys??? I honestly forgot we never got an ending for her in the Beyond series and I just assumed she died, not that she was still alive living and breathing on the other coast. What is her deal? How is she here? Why is she running the same operations she was in Sector Two? I need answers.
As for suspicious characters, we still don’t know hardly anything about that guy who everyone calls the Professor. Sure, he’s an earlier iteration of the clone program that Nina and Ava were part of, but a man who calls himself John Smith is suspicious as hell and even though we see where he ends up in this book, I’m not entirely sure that was his ONLY endgame. I just feel like that man still has something else up his sleeve but I don’t know what that could be.
We still have at least two more books in this series if all of the Silver Devils get their happy ending. I do feel like there was so much going on with this book though that we didn’t necessarily see the possible relationship build-up like I would have expected for the characters. Obviously there’s Conall and Max, but they barely interact in this book. They have one scene before what’s essentially D-Day, but what about AFTER. Something pretty significant happens and if they’re together at all in the aftermath, I definitely missed it when listening to this book on audio. Then there’s Mace and Ava who interact only a little bit in this book. I’m confused if their relationship also involves one of Ava’s friend clones who we get introduced to in this book, Beth and Phoenix. Will Mace’s story be polyam? I guess we’ll see.
I liked that we see Knox relaxing a bit from being JUST a captain for the Silver Devils. Well, I guess relax might not entirely be the right word but he’s focused his energy on other things as well. Like cooking and baking with the same intensity he has for mapping out a mission. He dotes on Nina and it’s so precious. But what’s even better is the child the crew rescued in book two called Rainbow, and we see Knox basically being a father to the child and it’s cute. I typically don’t even like kids in books, but Rainbow is an exception because I really like her.
What’s the deal with Luna? She’s still kind of a nonentity in this book and I’m so confused how she essentially disappeared from the series after the importance of her character highlighted in the first book. Like in book two, we still see more of her aunt than Luna herself in this book.
A character I wouldn’t mind seeing more about and getting her own book would be Savitri. In a way, she reminds me of Dallas because she gives no fucks and runs her own little den of sex at her club. But would it be weird to ship her with Adam? Adam is a weird supersoldier/artificial intelligence who looks like a clone of someone she once loved. It probably would be a little weird but I like her and also want her to get a happy ending? I am a conflict of emotions where Savitri is concerned.
The Makhai project is mentioned a few times in this book and that’s a thing that was on the west coast that created my fav, Ashwin. But I’m confused what the Guardian Project is and if that was part of the same Makhai project that created the supersoldiers out west, or if they’re just related projects with the same end goals, and not necessarily the same thing project with different names. I’m not sure why the Makhai were mentioned in this book at all.
I feel like Jaden, a man who has a vast network across all of the south and east coasts would have more presence, but it seems like we barely saw him in this book compared to book two. For such a presumably dangerous and powerful man, I would’ve liked to see more of him. And a side note now that I’ve thought about it, is he the one helping transport O’Kane liquor to Atlanta? He would have the connections. But how and who would he have made the connection with in the O'Kane's?
The little snippets and email reports in-between the chapters in this book weren’t all that exciting until the end. It was mostly just filling in gaps nobody really asked for about what was being communicated between folks on the Hill. The reports in the first book was a look into the backstory of Nina (and I think Maya and Dani) and the Silver Devils. The second book had diary entries by Maya’s owner/mentor. And then this book was just communications between members on the Hill. The reports just didn’t feel as necessary by this book and I guess for continuity sake between the books, the reports in-between the chapters were added in, but I didn’t see how they were all that relevant.
It could be that the publisher had a hand in the editing here more than I’m used to seeing from the authors with their past book series, and while there’s still a lot of violence in these books, it also feels super toned down emotionally? I don’t know how else to describe it except the feel of the Mercenary Librarians series just never felt as emotionally raw as those of the Beyond and Gideon’s Riders series. Yes, there’s still sex scenes in this series but just never felt quite like the other books, you know? While I acknowledge the Beyond series might be a bit…much for traditional publishing these days, I would’ve still liked something more akin to the Gideon’s Riders series? I don’t know.
Maybe it’s because we’ve only had three books in this series to accomplish as much as all the books in the Beyond series and the Gideon’s Riders series COMBINED so everything felt much more condensed to get the whole plot hammered out in a shorter timespan, but I felt like this series was just okay rather a series I LOVE and would like to re-read.
Every problem I mentioned in the second book with the audiobook narration is still present here. Why does Lidia Dornet still randomly give characters accents and make them sound different anytime they show up? It’s a shot in the dark on what characters will sound like every time they speak. Sometimes they have southern accents, sometimes they don’t. It’s baffling.
Second issue with the audio is more with the audiobook publisher. Tor gave over audio rights to Tantor with books 2 and 3, and it’s a hit or miss whether Tantor keeps the audiobook covers or not and if they make the covers better or worse if they change them. They kept the normal ebook/physical cover for book two for the audiobook cover. But for this book they changed it all the way up and the audiobook cover suggests the book takes place in space, but we are not in space. We’re still in post-apocalyptic Atlanta for this book so I think I speak for everyone when I say we're still confused by the cover change. These books have to be read in order anyways, so I’m not sure what they meant to accomplish by changing up the audiobook cover because nobody should be jumping randomly into this series with the third book. I hope nobody is picking up this series thinking they’re going to get a space book. Because they will not be getting a space book.
The elephant in the room is that there’s no more books contracted with the publisher for this series, but the series is very obviously not done yet since there’s doors (and relationships) left open for more books. I know the authors have said they’re writing Hunter, book 4 in the Gideon’s Riders series and I’m totally fine with that because I also want more books in that series (maybe even more so than this one). If they decide to continue this series as a self-pub rather than traditionally publishing them, I hope they can do more with the characters and just go wild with the sex scenes and give us more of the vibes of their self-pub series injected into the Mercenary Librarians.
This book was fine and I LIKED Dani and Rafe, and all the other characters here. But “like” is not the same as feeling like I’m going to go feral for the characters like I would with the other books? It was mentioned that Dani and Rafe want to travel, so maybe they’ll make it somehow to the O’Kane’s and party it up. It was mentioned that they could travel to Dallas, Texas, but not to Dallas the person. But who knows. I look forward to seeing what the authors can do with this series in the future.