Review: Worlds Best Prequel!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
"I'd lost my entire team, and nearly lost my life. In a way, I had lost my life, and was left with this--a tightrope walk between hunting down creatures people didn't believe existed, and being locked up as one."It isn't often that a writer comes along who really hits all my buttons. Of course, I am sort of an oddball myself. I like women characters who can, in a word, kick-ass, take-names, and generally stick up for herself - with a little help from her friends, and without having to have a male holding her hand and making the big-bad go away with her cheering him on. I like women characters with depth, who have a back story that is tough, but that she makes it through on her own.Amber is definitely tough, but she is also a good person, with heart and soul and a deep desire to do the right thing. She doesn't lay down and cry because her life has gone into the toilet, but she doesn't take it out on others, either. She is the kind of person that others immediately trust and believe in.In this prequel to the Amber Farrell "Bite Back" series, Amber's life is something of a walk through the fun house mirrors. Nothing is as it seems, only when it is. Her life has been turned upside down, ripped apart, and stomped on a few times for good measure by a government she once trusted. She is back "home" doing a job she never expected, with Big Brother watching over her shoulder, waiting with baited breath to snatch her back to a cold, concrete cell, never again to see the light of day, victim to needles and knives. It is enough to make the strongest woman cringe a bit.If you have read the Bite Back series, this will give you the back story on Amber's introduction back into Denver's seedier side. If this is the first you have heard about Amber, grab this novella first, then move on to Sleight of Hand, then Hidden Trump.This is a KILLER series about a woman who is strong enough to know what she wants and goes after it, without walking all over everyone to get there. Buy the books (this one is FREE) and read them. You won't be disappointed.