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    Winter Hawk by Rachel Grant

    written by Dísir
    Winter Hawk by Rachel GrantWinter Hawk: A Raptor Holiday Novella by Rachel Grant
    Series: Evidence, #9
    Published by Janus Publishing on 6th December 2019
    Pages: 200
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    two-stars

    Raptor operative Nate Sifuentes isn’t thrilled to find himself back on the job on the first day of his winter vacation, but he can’t say no when his brother asks a favor. At least he’ll earn an easy Christmas bonus—after all, driving a fired military contractor home after she’s been escorted off base by military police can’t be that hard.

    In a matter of minutes, Leah Ellis has lost everything, and now she’s left stranded in the nation’s capital on the first night of Hanukkah without money, phone, or bed. All she has is a mysterious driver who might be after her technical knowledge of the US military’s drone operations.

    The former Green Beret’s protective instincts—and skills—kick in when he discovers the alluring AI engineer is being hunted. On the run, they escape the winter cold by generating their own heat, but will they find answers in time to stop a terror attack on Christmas Day?

    Nate Sifuentes is the marginalised Raptor operative sent to pick up fired employee and drone engineer Leah Ellis, in what looks like a simple assignment until it blows up in their faces. That in essence, is ‘Winter Hawk’ , a short holiday novella in Rachel Grant’s Evidence series that is classic romantic suspense—non-stop action, tension, a conspiracy to unravel, with hot boinks in the midst of escaping the bad guys while clearing one’s good name. Think Bond or Bourne, just more compressed, with breathier scenes.

    What feels like secondary characters become the protagonists here—older, jaded, done anything and everything with a ton of sexual partners—though the suspense is in no way compromised just because both Nate Sifuentes/Leah Ellis hadn’t been at the forefront of Grant’s books.

    But I thought the brevity of the novella however did the pairing little justice given the speed at which everything went down. There’s the meet and greet to the sex (with a near-stranger) that felt more like a one-nighter than a start to a meaningful relationship and then the resolution, all of which didn’t erase the instalove feel I got from this—more so because it felt adrenaline-fuelled rather than genuine chemistry, heartfelt connection and mutual dependence. At the end of it all, I didn’t get or like this pairing, nor could I properly get invested in them at all, seeing as much of this couple was literally ‘wham-bam-thank you ma’am/sir’ and then it was the happy ride into the sunset along with a few out-of-place TSTL moments at the start.

    Oddly enough, I think I might have enjoyed this more without the romance as a result, since this felt like the only questionable element in the story that proved a little too distracting. So not quite a disappointment, but also not the stellar read that I’ve come to associated with Grant’s kind of calibre.

    two-stars
    Winter Hawk by Rachel Grant was last modified: December 5th, 2019 by Dísir
    6th January 2020 0 comment
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    Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris

    by Dísir 26th December 2019

    Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris Series: Black’s Bandits #2 Published by H.O.T. Publishing, LLC on 12th November 2019 Pages: 325 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Abducted while on a business…

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    Fighting Absolution by Kate McCarthy

    by Dísir 12th September 2019

    Fighting Absolution by Kate McCarthy Published by Kate McCarthy on 10th September 2019 Pages: 404 Buy on Amazon Goodreads “She’s a combat medic.He’s SAS, and her best friend.They weren’t supposed…

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    Total Control by Laura Griffin

    by Dísir 4th September 2019

    Total Control by Laura Griffin Series: Alpha Crew, #4 Published by Gallery Books on 2nd September 2019 Pages: 183 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Navy SEAL Jake Heath has his eyes…

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    Search and Destroy by Julie Rowe

    by Dísir 7th August 2019

    Search and Destroy by Julie Rowe Series: Outbreak Task Force #4 Published by Entangled tangled Publishing, LLC (Amara) on 26th August 2019 Pages: 400 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Dr. Carmen…

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    Ghost by Janie Crouch

    by Dísir 9th June 2019

    Ghost by Janie Crouch Series: Linear Tactical #5 Published by Calamity Jane Publishing on May 21st 2019 Pages: 251 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Everyone eventually breaks under torture. It’s a…

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    Stealing Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    by Dísir 3rd June 2019

    Stealing Vengeance by Kaylea Cross Series: Vengeance, #1 Published by Kaylea Cross Inc. on 28th May 2019 Pages: 269 Buy on Amazon Goodreads She’s an expert at getting into places…

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