Review: 5 ACTION PACKED, TWISTED, UNEXPECTED STARS
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
We are back with a BANG.  This story starts where it left off in Book #1.Margaret McHeyzer does not disappoint – and OMG – the cliffhanger had me reeling….I need the next book ASAP.This story is full of mystery and suspense, hot sex, secrets to unearth, lies being told, more targets to kill and people to save.Everyone, and I mean everyone in this book has secrets and is hiding behind a mask.  Piecing this puzzle together was a mind screw for me.  I got it wrong so many times, but loved that I got it wrong because it kept shocking me with the unexpected.We meet Katsu Vang, a powerful, controlling Asian man with many evils.  Anna senses Katsu’s evil ways by that all protective serpent bit she feels.Anna knows he’s dangerous and needs to figure out what he’s involved in.  She devises a plan to get involved with him to take him out.  But will her plan work?  What has Anna gotten herself into?  What will she endure to get the answers she is looking for?  Is it more than she can handle?Katsu is one creepy and evil individual.As we know from the beginning of this series, Anna was never supposed to fall in love with Ben, but she has and she senses the need to protect him.  After not being in touch for over 15 months she contacts Ben to check in on him as she misses him.  But she always has an ulterior motive.  She needs to find out what Ben knows.The passion and lust between them is still there after all this time.  Ben really cannot get enough of her.  Their love for one another is real – but will secrets get in the way?I have to say - Ben is really a pussy most of the time in this book.  I really wanted to shake him up and slap him across the side of the head and tell him to grow some balls.  Anna had him in the palm of her hand all the time.  Which wasn’t a bad thing – as the role reversal was refreshing.I was just totally surprised that Ben was the way he was considering who he is and the secrets he is keeping???  But then again, we are to expect the unexpected from Margaret McHeyzer.Anna is still a sexy, bad ass, fierce woman, but we see a softer side of her when her feelings for Ben come out.  Will this be Anna’s undoing?As the story progresses Anna gets more involved with Katsu and that relationship is one I despised.  The things that Anna puts herself through are awful.  But she always has her mask on needing to be as ruthless as she can.  She needs to get results and needs to put herself on the line to get them.The more the story unfolds, Anna realizes that she and Ben need to work together to eliminate a common enemy.  But the secrets that unfold will leave you speechless.Toward the end of the story, it was beautiful to see Anna’s vulnerability in making a decision that could change her life.  She wants to change, she wants to love and be loved, she wants a future with Ben.  But can it really happen?  Will Anna get her HEA?I had a hard time predicting what was coming.  Margaret McHeyzer had me hanging by a thread every minute I was reading.  She never ceases to amaze me with her stories.  With so many twists and turns, unexpected moments and when you think you are almost done and the end is near – IT’S NOT – she leaves you strung out with a huge cliffhanger.  Totally riveting.What will happen to Anna?  Can Ben grow some balls and save her?I just can’t say enough - what an exceptional job Margaret McHeyzer has done with this series.  I consumed each one in two days and it left me craving more.  Her characters are edgy, convincing, fascinating and absorbing.  It is definitely not for those of you who are easily frightened or disturbed.  But if you are looking for something unique, extraordinary and hypnotizing – then this is for you.I will say this again – Margaret’s stories are a breath of fresh air – so different to what I’ve read before with a sexy, fierce, assertive leading woman and a somewhat hopeless romantic male lead, so love struck and unable to help himself in more ways than one.I love Margaret McHeyzer’s fresh and in your face writing style and her “outside the square” thinking.  She creates her characters with so much depth that we are always given a perfect insight into who they are.  It allows you to create picture perfect images in your mind of how she portrays her characters.Margaret McHeyzer - thank you for bringing me Anna.  I loved her and her story.  It really blew me away in more ways than one.  You really do ROCK it out.Now bring on HiT to Live – the Finale.