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A review by kaje_harper
Special Forces - Mercenaries Part I by Aleksandr Voinov, Vashtan, Marquesate
5.0
They say that every man can be broken, and when the strongest man breaks, he shatters. That's what happens to Vadim, two years after the KGB snatches him from Afghanistan to endure solitary confinement and torture in prison in Russia. Dan spends every ounce of his time, effort, spirit and money on getting Vadim out. But the man who walks away from Russia towards Dan is not the man he left in that hotel room. And Dan has neither the experience nor the patience to figure out who this new man is, before the force of Vadim's disintegration tears them apart.
This book manages the impossible - to be even more intense and involving than the first installment. If you don't like cheating, violence, menage, BDSM... then this one is not for you. But if you can accept all of those as part of a complex and gut-wrenching story, then prepare for something extraordinary.
Although I'm a romantic, and find this messed-up, crazy-quilt, glued-together relationship of Dan and Vadim's sometimes hard to accept, I am still drawn in by the power of it. Even when they hate each other, even when they hurt each other to the core, there is that bedrock between them that says "I would raze the whole world to scorched earth to keep you safe... from everyone but me." Even when they open the relationship sexually, the emotional focus is pure and brilliant between these two men. They are building something magnificent, and if it happens interspersed with knives and errors, misunderstandings and sex with friends, still what is emerging keeps me glued to the page in anticipation. Highly recommended. (And the donation that will have to be made to the Red Cross to match the value of this series keeps climbing. I'm very glad to have been given that outlet to thank these authors for this amazing work.)
This book manages the impossible - to be even more intense and involving than the first installment. If you don't like cheating, violence, menage, BDSM... then this one is not for you. But if you can accept all of those as part of a complex and gut-wrenching story, then prepare for something extraordinary.
Although I'm a romantic, and find this messed-up, crazy-quilt, glued-together relationship of Dan and Vadim's sometimes hard to accept, I am still drawn in by the power of it. Even when they hate each other, even when they hurt each other to the core, there is that bedrock between them that says "I would raze the whole world to scorched earth to keep you safe... from everyone but me." Even when they open the relationship sexually, the emotional focus is pure and brilliant between these two men. They are building something magnificent, and if it happens interspersed with knives and errors, misunderstandings and sex with friends, still what is emerging keeps me glued to the page in anticipation. Highly recommended. (And the donation that will have to be made to the Red Cross to match the value of this series keeps climbing. I'm very glad to have been given that outlet to thank these authors for this amazing work.)