A review by chelseaj91
Hot Pursuit by Julie Ann Walker

4.0

Welcome to Black Knights Inc.

What appears to be a tricked-motorcycle shop on the South Side of Chicago is actually headquarters for the world's most elite covert operatives. Deadly, dangerous, and determined, they'll steal your breath and your heart.

Fighting for his life is pretty much standard operating procedure for Christian Watson, former SAS officer. Doing it with bossy, beautiful BKI office manager Emily Scott in tow is another matter entirely.

Actual rating: 3.5 stars!

So this picks up almost immediately after the events in Fuel for Fire. It was pretty interesting to see Christian, Emily and co., trying to get out of England while trying to be essentially invisible. I did like the way that although they were stealing and causing distractions, they always did the best they could to avoid casualties.

Christian was awesome. He was sweet, protective and so damn yummy! GAH! I loved that he has his team members backs and was trying his hardest to defuse an almost impossible situation as bloodlessly as possible, yet when it came to it, he did what needed to be done. I did kind of hate how he tried to blame himself though. Not saying there shouldn't be some regret, but really, Lawrence was too far gone. Nothing Christian or anyone said or did was going to help. So I'm glad Emily was there to smack some sense into him about that.

Speaking of Emily, I was right there, rooting for her. At least for a while. In the beginning, she was sweet and tough and while it frustrated her, she at least mildly acknowledged that she wasn't as trained as the others and that they might know just a little more than she did. But she dropped several points in my book when she told Christian why she couldn't fall in love with him.

Spoiler

I mean seriously, she's cursed because she didn't say "I love you" to a guy? A guy might I point out who became extremely clingy and controlling while they were dating and turned into a whiny mess when they broke up? I would have left too. I'll admit that maybe Emily didn't have the best examples growing up, but because of the fact that she realized it, I think she should have seen she wasn't going to be like them. Thankfully Christian did.

I thoroughly enjoyed Christian's quest to get Emily to admit her feelings. I did wish someone would smack her after they'd gotten back to BKI; she was being an utter bitch. I'm glad she finally not only acknowledged her feelings, but admitted them and listened to everyone about giving this a shot. She was right about one thing: It does end with her.

Rusty and Ace certainly provided some entertainment. And bouts of me wishing someone would knock their heads together. I felt bad for Ace as he was telling Rusty about his husband. And Rusty's past clearly is difficult too. I wish those two would get their own book.