Today I welcome Sophia Rose back to the blog to share her review of Rescue Mission by Kendall Talbot.
Enjoy!
#3 Alpha Tactical Ops
Romantic Suspense
Publisher: self
Published: 10.28.22
ASIN: B0B2QZ8JTN
Pages: 368
Rating: 4.5 stars
Format: eARC
Source: Author
Sellers: Amazon
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GoodReads Blurb:
She’s a skilled sniper. He’s a Hollywood hunk.
But when the bullets start flying nobody is acting.
Ex-army sniper, Maya Grayson (Codename: Ghost) has pulled the trigger on many
bastards. But since her military career was yanked away from her, finding her
place back in the real world isn’t easy. And civilian men struggle with both
her career choice and her sassy confidence.
Born into money, action star hero, Neon Bloom, has it all. Fame. Fortune.
Female friends. And when he’s declared Hollywood’s Most Eligible Bachelor, his
ratings and income skyrocket. So does the attention. And not all of it is good.
Both his movie producers and mega-rich parents will pay any ransom, making full
time guards a necessity Neon hates.
With an abandoned island resort as the backdrop for a new action blockbuster,
feisty Maya is charged with babysitting the cocky playboy and their personality
clash is worthy of an Oscar. But when Maya discovers the true gentleman behind
Neon’s fake façade, saving him from ruthless kidnappers becomes the most
important mission of her life.
Can Maya and her team save Neon? Or will this be his final act?
Fans of kick-ass heroines and cocky alpha men will love the adrenaline rush and
steamy romance packed into Rescue Mission, book 3 in the Alpha Tactical Ops series!
Start reading this thrilling military romantic suspense today! No
cliff-hangers, and a happily ever after guaranteed!
Sophia Rose's Review:
Each entry in the Alpha Tactical Ops series is a burst of
adrenaline and a rush to the finish.
There is no taking one’s time once the book is opened and the pounding
pace that rivets the reader in place doesn’t let up until the last page
flutters shut. And, this latest was no
exception.
Rescue Mission is the third book of the standalone yet
connected adventures in the Alpha Tactical Ops romantic suspense series.
Maya is an ex-army sniper, a cool friend, an adventure
guide, and a woman with dark, disturbing secrets. Her team can count on her and so can anyone
she is on security detail to guard. And,
this includes hotter than hot Hollywood leading men who suddenly finds himself
in need of a new body guard.
Maya barely has time to get off the boat on the secluded
island off the Australian coast and step into the sidelines on the movie set
where her new job is playing an action hero when all hell breaks loose.
Neon Bloom has his own dark secrets and this isn’t a first
attempt to take him hostage for ransom and it isn’t even the second- thus the
security people. Who is the amazing
woman with steel in her eyes, a precise trigger finger, and a body that puts in
the shade the perfect sculpted forms he sees in Hollywood? They come from two different worlds, but as
each moment of survival passes, he grows more determined to stick close to Maya
and he can only hope she feels the same.
Rescue Mission was as pulse-pounding as the earlier entries
and I loved the way Maya really shone forth as a lethal, capable, and cunning
member of her team especially when she is forced to work alone protecting
Neon. She was up against trained mercs
and their cold leader. She had very
little other than her wits and a bit of luck.
It was exciting, heady reading.
But, the author matches all that action with superb
character and relationship development for Maya and Neon and between them. They are reliant on each other and in the
high pressure situation can share with a relative stranger what they couldn’t
with people they have known much longer and this was freeing and allowed for a
deeper connection to form. They were
sexy, but not stupid. Maya kept them on
track.
I enjoyed getting a few scenes with the whole team together
and still putting pieces on the board to solve the mystery behind what had
happened to them earlier. The
camaraderie is great and I really hope Viper, the cranky one gets his story
next.
All in all, it was wow-worthy and I read it in a rush
because I was into it so much. Action
and adventure loving romantic suspense fans who want the exotic locales and
situations really need to take the plunge into this book/series.
Kendall Talbot is a thrill seeker, hopeless romantic,
virtual killer, and award-winning author of stories that’ll have your heart
thumping from the action-packed suspense in exotic locations and the
swoon-worthy romance.
Kendall has sought thrills in all 46 countries she’s visited. She’s abseiled
down freezing waterfalls, catapulted out of a white-water raft, jumped off a
mountain with a man who spoke little English, and got way too close to a
sixteen-foot shark. When she isn’t writing, she’s enjoying wine and cheese with
her crazy friends, and planning her next thrilling international escape.
She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her very own hero and a fluffy little dog
who specializes in hijacking her writing time. Meanwhile, Kendall’s two sons
are off making their own adventures – look out world.
Kendall’s book, Lost in Kakadu won the acclaimed title of Romantic Book of the
Year 2014, and her books have also been finalists for Best Romantic Suspense,
Best Crime Novel, Best Continuing Series, and Best New Author.
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Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia
is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing,
piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments,
restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible
man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes
Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and
Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that
Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a
prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many
wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading
tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and
romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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Sophia, thanks for putting this on my radar. Great review.
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure! I love her books and particularly the adventure plots in exotic locales. :)
DeleteRead it in a rush, I know that feeling
ReplyDeleteI had no brakes. Great feeling, right? :)
DeleteI love finding books that are impossible to put down. This sounds fantastic!
ReplyDeleteYou said it, Carole! :)
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