Review: Threw Me for a Loop
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2014
This one threw me for a loop.  I had expectations for this book - uber alpha character (most of the male characters in this series have been a smidge over the top), good action, a bit of drama, with a dash of emotion.  The story starts that way.  Rocco Savage is the new second-in-command at Titan.  He is working with a world-class interrogator to bring down a terrorist group.  They are posing as an arms dealing couple.  Things heat up, buildings go boom, and then our couple goes riding off into the sunset, right?  Cristin Harber gives us that and a lot more.Ms. Harber chooses to write a very gritty trauma into the storyline.  I applaud her for that. It is a courageous portrayal.  When reading romantic suspense there is one thing you can usually expect -  the story can be violent.  The plots often revolve around international or domestic terrorism, serial killers, or slave trafficking.  However, when it comes to the relationship between our two main characters, we don't expect that violence to touch them in an intimate way.  I don't know why it is so unexpected.  Maybe it is because we suspend our reality just a little so that we can get our happily ever after.  In this story, issues have to be worked out. We do not find a simple ending; although we do get a satisfying one in the end.My one critique of this book is the disconnect between Rocco's drugging and the rest of the story.  His episodes only seem to exist as a device to bring Rocco and Cat together.  Disappointingly, it loses it role in the cat-and-mouse story with the Dog Killer.  I thought there could've been an additional tension to the mission with Rocco's uncertain status due to the effects of the drugs.  Still, this is a minor point in an other wise successful romantic suspense story.IN A NUTSHELL:I've never been so relieved for a happy ending.  Cristin Harber takes a adventurous romantic suspense and ties it with a plot turn that has my emotions in a twist.  A great read. I highly recommend it.