“You were like this delightful, spritely, incandescent thing capable of lighting up the whole world. I was a moth to your flame, Abby. Surely you knew that.”
Eight years ago, Carlos "Steady" Soto's twin sister who was BFF's with Abby Thompson, daughter of a presidential candidate, died after a bombing which targeted Abby killed her.
Steady turned his back on medicine and became an Army Ranger. Now he was serving the Black Knights Inc., a covert government defense firm disguised as a motorcycle club, and found himself being in the security detail of Abby, now the daughter of the President of the United States, while she attends a convention in Malaysia.
When Abby was held hostage by a terrorist group in Malaysia, Steady went maverick and decided to rescue her by himself because it would take time for their reinforcements to arrive.
He successfully got her out from the clutches of the terrorists only to find themselves trapped in a Malaysian forest. And well, sparks started flying.
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ARC received via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review but it didn’t affect my opinion about this book.
To be completely honest, I liked it. The plot was cool, the characters were witty, BKI reminded me of The Expendables. Everything was going well until the sex scenes were inserted. Everything started to spiral down.
God, it destroyed everything.
After they manage to run away from the terrorist base, they ended up in the forest but the terrorist were still chasing them. When somehow they managed to evade them, adrenaline was pumping furiously in their veins. Or so they claim. So what did they do with that pent up energy? They dry humped each other against a dry tree minutes after terrorists chased them. It was so ridiculous. They could've died for God's sake. Couldn't they do that after they find their way home or at least find shelter? I expected Carlos not to be led around by his libido.
There was also this part where a Secret Service agent actually broke down during the interrogation of an accessory to Abby's kidnapping. I couldn't believe what I was reading. Why would she do that? I knew she was human so she probably felt pity, but to actually cry during torture time? Wow. She sounded really naïve to me and I had a hard time believe she was in SS. I had pegged her as someone stronger than but no she broke and cried and guess who comforted her? Yup, the guy who was with her during interrogation and she asked him to have sex with her. And he said yes.
Everyone in this novel couldn't control their libido and considering they were ex-soldiers or agents or badasses, it's a wonder they managed to survive this long. If all of them were like this? It's no longer a surprise that almost everyone in Abby's security detail died.
And the one thing that made me snap? This freaking scene:
If you don't get what's happening, it's a shootout. The terrorists managed to catch up with them (again, not a wonder because Abby and Carlos were in a fuckfest) and here we go.
“Give us the woman and no one has to die!”
Alrighty then. Sure. And where had she heard that before? Oh, yes. It was a line in every B- rate thriller movie. The kind where everyone— or nearly everyone—ended up dead by the closing credits, regardless of any promises made by the villain.
“The only one who’ll be dying here, pendejo,” Carlos called back, “is you and any rat- faced fucker you brought with you!”
This was probably one of the most idiotic things that I had read in a romance novel.
The terrorist leader and Carlos were shouting at each other during the shootout. And I banged my head on a desk. How dumb were they? God! They actually bothered to hide when the hollering they'd already and obviously disclosed their locations. They were so freaking dumb they sounded like elementary students.
If by this time my review sounded like a rant, I'm really sorry. I tried really hard to like this novel because I saw the plot's potential and it started out great but it just didn't work for me in the end.
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