Review: Interesting premise, scattered writing. I laughed out loud at the end, but not in a good way.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
Might be some spoilers here.Story 1) IMMORTAL OPS: Lukian and Peren--he's a were working for black ops, he's supposed to take out the target, Peren, but can't bring himself to do it.  Really interesting idea, not well written or executed, shallow characters.Story 2) CRITICAL INTELLIGENCE: Roi and Missy. Roi is number two to Lukian. Missy is a friend of Peren's, she's a supernatural and works for military ops but top secret. Roi is a romeo but Missy is not interested. He can't believe it. They piss each other off but are continually thrown together.  Again, really interesting idea, not well written or executed.Story 3) RADAR DECEPTION Green and Melanie. She's the third of the girlfriends trio, also a supernatural fae (none of them ever shared their super powers with each other) big plot hole--her brother is fae and works with Missy, Missy would have to assume Melanie is supernatural--never comes up. This one grated, Green was portrayed as such a bozo, the author did disservice in painting him a macho hero braniac but he couldn't get over his own selfish issues to step to save this woman's life that he's fiercely attracted to? Ugh.Story 4) STRATEGIC VULONERABILITY: Wilson and Kimberly. In the previous story it ends in the jungle and Wilson is supposedly killed by the master vampire while saving Melanie. No body, no mind connection with his brothers, so they jack around for a few days and then go home. What? Bad ass ops brothers, tight knit team, they give up in two days without proof? The trio of women can't accept it and escape back to the jungle of Brazil --all of them preggers--to see if they can find Wilson. Back to where the psycho maniac will do anything to impregnate supernaturals... In the meantime, Wilson is held by the diabolical maniac Krauss. He tortures Wilson daily. Then Krauss arrives with new prisoners, Kim is one of them. Turns out it's Wilson's mate and there's some interesting tension built in them trying to protect each other. It got stupid at this point. The worst is when they break out and they're in the jungle on the run. They stop to rest and Wilson hands her his gun while he's doing something...Excerpt:"Someone was shooting at them. He glanced around and then down at Kim.  'Stay down. I need to...Kim? Kim, honey?' She stared up at him with wide eyes. Kim?''Wilson!' The sound of this name being shouted by a familiar voice grabbed his attention. He turned and couldn't believe his eyes as he found three women standing in a row. Each one was armed to the teeth.The tallest, a white blonde, didn't seem as comfortable with the idea of being armed as the other two. 'Melanie? Peren? Missy?' Melanie grinned and rushed towards him. He pushed up and off Kim, still shocked the were there. His eyes widened as he realized what that meant. 'Oh s***, you three went against your mates.'A short raven-haired hottie with the ability to kill just about anything wagged her brows. 'We came to get your sorry ass. We missed it.' Melanie nudged her. 'Missy' She rolled her eyes. 'Fine, we missed you too'A medium height, auburn haired beauty smiled. 'How bad are you hurt?' He lifted his hand. Still in shock to see his friends had come for him. 'Just a scratch.,' Missy snorted. 'You must bleed like a madman then, unless the blood on you is from the chick who was holding a gun on you.' 'What?' he asked, glancing down and noticing for the first time that he was indeed covered in blood."...*********There's more comment from the trio and THEN he remembers his mate. Kim appears to be dead and yet he continues to have a rational conversation with the trio. Really? This is where I laughed out loud, and not in a good way.Overall Roth had interesting ideas but that's where it stopped. The first story was rough and sophomoric, stories 2 and 3 started to show more maturity and then it went to hell.