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crazyaunt1992's review
5.0
I love all of the X-ops. Tanner and Zarina's story was a long time coming. You get more background on Tanner and he is reunited with his family finally. Its action packed and full suspense.
inmyhumbleopinion's review
5.0
Exciting happenings in the world of the DCO! Feline hybrid Tanner Howland has always had a soft spot for Dr. Zarina Sokolov and because of that he has taken off to live alone in the woods beliving he is a danger to her and others. Zarina didn’t get to where she is by taking no for an answer. She’s developed a drug she believes may reverse the changes done to Tanner. Either way she loves him and isn’t going to let him run any longer. When she finds him she finds a world of trouble. Can she keep Tanner grounded and can he keep her safe?
This book is the end of one arc and hints of exciting times ahead. I loved watching Zarina get Tanner to own up to his feelings and get control of his cat.
This book is the end of one arc and hints of exciting times ahead. I loved watching Zarina get Tanner to own up to his feelings and get control of his cat.
audiobookmel's review
4.0
Review originally posted at BooksOfMyHeart.net.
I’m a big fan of Paige Tyler’s X-Ops series. It combines shifters and military/FBI/CIA type stuff. In this world, there are shifters, though most of the world doesn’t know anything about them. They don’t shift into full animals, but do have heightened speed and agility. They do grow claws and big teeth. Their eye can shift to give them better than night vision and have great hearing. There are several different types of shifters, cats, wolves, bears, coyotes and more. They are all born this way.
Now, many in the government don’t trust shifters. They partner them with a human, who is to kill them to keep the secret and to keep them under control. Another person high up in the X-Ops group has been working to partner people together to get romantic relationships going. She’s been pretty successful (as you can guess eight books in, and one book had two couples come together).
Now, the humans in this series, they tend to come from a military or law enforcement background of some sort (FBI, CIA, etc). The hero of the first book, Her Perfect Mate, was the leader of a group of guys in Special Forces. They’ve learned about shifters now and have become very important characters in this series.
There are “hybrids”. They are shifters who’ve been created by humans in a lab. They tend to be mentally unstable, though there are different “generations” of these as the scientist learn more and more with each group of new shifters. One of the goals of X-Ops is to shut these scientists down. It does seem for every group they shutdown, another pops up in its place.
This book features Tanner Howland. He is a feline hybrid. He is the first one X-Ops has found that has some control of himself. He does struggle with his shifter side, but has learned through meditation and other means to get himself back under control in stressful situations.
Dr. Zarina Sokolov is a genetic scientist. She was captured by the evil scientist and forced to work on the hybrids. X-Ops saved her in a earlier book and now she is working with them to try to help stabilize the X-Ops rescues.
So Tanner is hiding away, trying to protect others from his wilder side, which can be somewhat unstable, though he has been making progress. He went back near his home in Washington state and is living off the land in that area. There are also some preppers (as in doomsday preppers) that live in the area. They’ve been going missing, but they won’t contact the police, because preppers don’t trust outsiders. Tanner gets involved in the investigation.
Zarina goes out to try to find Tanner. She wants to help him. She even thinks she’s found a cure for Tanner’s hybridism (I don’t think that is a word). Anyway, there is an issue, he could lose all the memories he had of being a hybrid. He would forget her.
Another fun story of more suspense and less on the romance side (though that is a strong part of this story). As the same with all the books in this series, it is characters that really drag me in. I’m very invested in their stories. I would highly recommend that you start this series with book one. There are a lot of pieces that will be lost if you start in the middle of the series.
**Book was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway.
I’m a big fan of Paige Tyler’s X-Ops series. It combines shifters and military/FBI/CIA type stuff. In this world, there are shifters, though most of the world doesn’t know anything about them. They don’t shift into full animals, but do have heightened speed and agility. They do grow claws and big teeth. Their eye can shift to give them better than night vision and have great hearing. There are several different types of shifters, cats, wolves, bears, coyotes and more. They are all born this way.
Now, many in the government don’t trust shifters. They partner them with a human, who is to kill them to keep the secret and to keep them under control. Another person high up in the X-Ops group has been working to partner people together to get romantic relationships going. She’s been pretty successful (as you can guess eight books in, and one book had two couples come together).
Now, the humans in this series, they tend to come from a military or law enforcement background of some sort (FBI, CIA, etc). The hero of the first book, Her Perfect Mate, was the leader of a group of guys in Special Forces. They’ve learned about shifters now and have become very important characters in this series.
There are “hybrids”. They are shifters who’ve been created by humans in a lab. They tend to be mentally unstable, though there are different “generations” of these as the scientist learn more and more with each group of new shifters. One of the goals of X-Ops is to shut these scientists down. It does seem for every group they shutdown, another pops up in its place.
This book features Tanner Howland. He is a feline hybrid. He is the first one X-Ops has found that has some control of himself. He does struggle with his shifter side, but has learned through meditation and other means to get himself back under control in stressful situations.
Dr. Zarina Sokolov is a genetic scientist. She was captured by the evil scientist and forced to work on the hybrids. X-Ops saved her in a earlier book and now she is working with them to try to help stabilize the X-Ops rescues.
So Tanner is hiding away, trying to protect others from his wilder side, which can be somewhat unstable, though he has been making progress. He went back near his home in Washington state and is living off the land in that area. There are also some preppers (as in doomsday preppers) that live in the area. They’ve been going missing, but they won’t contact the police, because preppers don’t trust outsiders. Tanner gets involved in the investigation.
Zarina goes out to try to find Tanner. She wants to help him. She even thinks she’s found a cure for Tanner’s hybridism (I don’t think that is a word). Anyway, there is an issue, he could lose all the memories he had of being a hybrid. He would forget her.
Another fun story of more suspense and less on the romance side (though that is a strong part of this story). As the same with all the books in this series, it is characters that really drag me in. I’m very invested in their stories. I would highly recommend that you start this series with book one. There are a lot of pieces that will be lost if you start in the middle of the series.
**Book was provided to me by the publisher via NetGalley. This review is my opinion and was not requested or provoked in anyway.
wealie's review
5.0
5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A game changer novel in the X-Ops series by [a:Paige Tyler|2300692|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449591042p2/2300692.jpg], that started with [b:Her Perfect Mate|18480539|Her Perfect Mate (X-Ops, #1)|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1380301791s/18480539.jpg|26154974]. This book contains major spoilers for the previous seven novels and is best read as part of the full series to get a good understanding of the motivations of the main protagonists Tanner and Zarina.
[a:Paige Tyler|2300692|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449591042p2/2300692.jpg] departs from the format of the preceding novels a little and opens up the world for some gripping new instalments in the series to come. It was great to see Zarina and Tanner finally get their story, but for me the best part of the novel was the secondary bromance developing between DCO operative Tate and the new character Chase - an ex-marine turned deputy who helps Tate on the manhunt for Dr Mahsood. I had great fun reading their back and forth banter. There were also some intriguing developments with some unknown or fairly new shifters too.
I’m really looking forward to how [a:Paige Tyler|2300692|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449591042p2/2300692.jpg] takes the series forward given the changes to the world this and the previous novel [b:Her Dark Half|34006759|Her Dark Half (X-Ops, #7)|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1486356196s/34006759.jpg|55003661] introduced.
[a:Paige Tyler|2300692|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449591042p2/2300692.jpg] departs from the format of the preceding novels a little and opens up the world for some gripping new instalments in the series to come. It was great to see Zarina and Tanner finally get their story, but for me the best part of the novel was the secondary bromance developing between DCO operative Tate and the new character Chase - an ex-marine turned deputy who helps Tate on the manhunt for Dr Mahsood. I had great fun reading their back and forth banter. There were also some intriguing developments with some unknown or fairly new shifters too.
I’m really looking forward to how [a:Paige Tyler|2300692|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449591042p2/2300692.jpg] takes the series forward given the changes to the world this and the previous novel [b:Her Dark Half|34006759|Her Dark Half (X-Ops, #7)|Paige Tyler|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1486356196s/34006759.jpg|55003661] introduced.
lpcoolgirl's review
5.0
Yeah for these two to finally get together! They've been edging towards being a couple since they were first introduced in the first book! And that ending, wow! Things aren't going to be the same again!
prgchrqltma's review
3.0
Hmm. This was one of those books where the romantic arc has been in process for several books, so the book takes up in the middle of that. There was a parallel plot, clearly introducing new characters for future books, that was suddenly dropped to concentrate on the one involving the romantic characters. There were many checkins with the cast of thousands from previous books. So it seemed like a mid-series book. Or maybe a book trying not to end the series. The episode plot was satisfying, but the overall series arc wasn't advanced much.
nikkisbooknook's review
4.0
Tanner was swept up by a secret government agency and experimented on, all in an attempt to make him a super soldier. But with the help of a kidnapped geneticist he escaped, but not before more of his fellow "volunteers" died. Now essentially a hermit, living in the middle of nowhere, he finds what he needs and has tenuous links with nearby preppers.
Dr. Zarina Sokolov has been working with X Ops in an attempt to reverse the genetic engineering Tanner and the others were forced to undergo. But when she perfects a serum she thinks will return Tanner to his former self, she never expected to have to hike to his camp and then be turned down! But Tanner gave up his family and friends when he was changed and he doesn't want to expose them to more misery if the serum goes wrong.
But Tanners past and present are about to smash head long into each other and he may have to save himself and Zarina from those hunting them, even when it may expose him and those like him to the general masses.
In an intertwining story Tate is investigating a series of kidnappings all linked to the shady Senator who has snuck her way into X Ops.
Great action-packed story with superb characters. There is enough romance to keep me happy and the mix of shifter, hybrid and human characters kept everything from getting stale.
Dr. Zarina Sokolov has been working with X Ops in an attempt to reverse the genetic engineering Tanner and the others were forced to undergo. But when she perfects a serum she thinks will return Tanner to his former self, she never expected to have to hike to his camp and then be turned down! But Tanner gave up his family and friends when he was changed and he doesn't want to expose them to more misery if the serum goes wrong.
But Tanners past and present are about to smash head long into each other and he may have to save himself and Zarina from those hunting them, even when it may expose him and those like him to the general masses.
In an intertwining story Tate is investigating a series of kidnappings all linked to the shady Senator who has snuck her way into X Ops.
Great action-packed story with superb characters. There is enough romance to keep me happy and the mix of shifter, hybrid and human characters kept everything from getting stale.
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