Review: Now I need to read the others
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
I should start out by saying that I have not read the first two books of the series.  While I would not call this story stand alone I felt the author did a great job giving just enough information to understand the background so I very rarely felt lost.Audrey and Nate have a past.  They parted 5 years ago and Nate’s back to find her having learned she’d been pregnant at the time he escaped.  At the same time he thinks she has access to the codes that will deactivate the kill chips in his and his brothers’ spines.  He finds her working for Senator Nash and cool and detached in a way she hadn’t been before.  For her part, Audrey is dismayed to see Nate back.  She been happy he escaped and coming back no risked the commander finding him again.I was totally ready to dislike Nate.  Alpha jerks are not my thing.  And while Nate did have that high handedness I despise, physically restraining Audrey to make her talk, he was also very sweet.  There are several moments that grab his heart and he’s not afraid to show how they make him feel.  He doesn’t shy away from the knowledge he loves her and will do anything to take care of her.Audrey is great too. She’s working as a double agent with the commander and Senator Nash to bring down the commander.  This mission has controlled her whole life in the five years since she last saw Nate.  In it she’ll shut down the commander’s experiments, but she also hopes to save mother, a woman who betrays Audrey in one of the worst possible ways and is not worthy of Audrey’s love.Together Audrey and Nate work.  Matt and Shane appear for those missing them from their stories.I have some niggles.  There’s a side story with another group out to take down the commander and at one point Audrey is kidnaped and saved by the commander.  I couldn’t help but wonder were and the heck Nate was in all that.  Also I was a bit jarred by the abrupt ending.Overall however I enjoyed the story and expect to pick up the other brothers’ tales so I can see how it started.ARC received from Netgalley.