Review: CIA employed geek girl meets hot and passionate lover!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 12, 2013
Apparently FBI/CIA/DEA stories are becoming a favorite of mine because from the second I started reading about Elle and her CIA secret missions I was hooked. We meet Elle in her final year of college and going through some pivotal moments that are changing the direction she thought her life was heading. She is wicked smart and graduating isn't a problem but the 10 year plan she had in her head seems to come to a complete halt when her boyfriend is caught cheating. Enter the CIA and hot supervising officer named Preston with a new challenge to help them with cases. Of course she will take the opportunity to help and she is more than capable but she doesn't know how this will change her whole outlook on her life and future.Elle was an approachable character in my eyes. She wasn't the hardcore government agent who kill you with her pinky finger, but more of the nerd/smart/computer-y type of person. She had a strength in here that I'm not even sure she realized throughout the story, but at the end of the day she is going to find you hacking a system over busting in your door. It worked for this story because of how much growth you see from beginning to end. She builds her confidence both as a techy and as a woman throughout and that's what I love to see in a female lead. She only bothered me when it came to her ex-bf Adam and his cheating. She was going to take him back, MULTIPLE TIMES, even though he was clearly alright with cheating. That is never cool with me, I wish she just had the gumption to say scram and that be that. I did, however, understand why it took her longer to really get that it wasn't something to forgive and look past. She came from a divorced home where she never felt comfortable interacting with her parents because of it and she was so focused on making her life plan work that it got in the way of the logical side of her brain. The part that looked at data and found patterns and loved those patterns. I did appreciate the fact that she slowly came to terms with everything around her and really made a gut decision that was good for her.The relationships with other people where what spurred this book on for me. Of course there was all the high stakes danger and CIA-ness going on which was fascinating, but the way Elle and Adam, or Elle and Preston or even Elle and the CIA interacted with each other was what made this book awesome. Character development and dealing with situational problems moved this story along and fast, especially at the end of the book. Preston and Elle's vibes were hot and heavy enough that you could feel their connection through the pages, even if they didn't even know what was going on at first. Adam is just a tool, but at least he was a helpful tool to get Elle where she needed to be in the end. The crime fighting college nerd will have you intrigued from start to finish and really love reading about her coming-to-adulthood phase