Review: A kiss is just a kiss, or is it?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2012
The fifth book of Ms. Black's Justice Series, opens in the year 2094, in a combat zone of North Africa where Mira Luther is working as a triage nurse. When a group of soldiers bring a wounded man in, she recognizes technology that is unmistakably her father's work.Fast forward to 2096 Chicago where Brent Jameson and his special forces team is in the middle of a very boring surveillance detail watching a building hoping for proof that someone was using it illegally. Mira and Jameson had met for a brief heart stopping moment years earlier and fate will once again bring them together.Enforcers are after Mira for openly using her healing powers, a notorious mobster has kidnapped her father, the US military wants to reinstate her back into service, and she and Jameson can't seem to keep their hands off each other. Strap on your seat belts folks; once again Ms. Black is going to take you on a bumpy ride.Right now I'm supposed to be reviewing the writing style and character development, the heck with that, just let me say WOW, WOW, and WOW. O.k. I've got that out of my system, on with the review.After the above statement, I don't think I really need to say anything more about Ms. Black's writing style, it's tight and entertaining. On to the characters then. Mira is a healer who just wants to do her job. She doesn't consider herself as particularly brave or strong, or anything else that would make her a threat to anyone. She gets involved with the gang from the previous Justice books, and her self-confidence really goes out the window. Truth is, she really is brave, strong, smart and one kick butt healer. I liked her and was rooting for her from the beginning before I really knew her.Jameson is, well, every girls dream really. He's a big strong Special Forces, good looking, body that won't quit, good natured hunk of a guy. He is obsessed with Mira since they shared their first kiss years ago, and that obsession turns in something stronger as the story progresses. He is a loyal as you would want a guy to be to his buddies and his friends, but in the end, knows where his priorities lie. Let me just say, he can disappear and shadow me any day he wants to.There is a bad guy pulling strings, but we don't really know who he is until the very end and Ms. Black did such a good job I certainly had no clue that he was, and was surprised when he was revealed. We get to hang out with all our good friends from the previous books again, which is fun since I missed them.I didn't know how Ms. Black was going to build a whole book around Mira, who was just a line or two in a couple of other books, but once again she surprised me. I wasn't really interested in reading Mira's story, she didn't seem all that exciting the few times we met her before, but I'm glad I did. I think this is by far the best book in the series so far. It just keeps getting better and better.I read all the big name author's of urban fantasy, and for my money, Ms. Black is as good if not better than all of them. She builds a story that is never boring or predictable, and leaves us satisfied yet anxious for the next installment when we are finished. She doesn't give us the frustrating cliff hanger, thank you very much; she sets us up and leaves us begging for more. This is me, begging for more please Ms. Black.I recommend this book to anyone who loves urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and hunky men and kick butt women.Reviewed as a Member the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team