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Fun read
Fun thriller. Especially since all the action started off right outside our courthouse! This is fiction, but it was interesting following all the players through the familiar neighborhood, until the scene switched to Tucson, AZ.
It dragged a bit in parts, and it was a little far-fetched but still gripping and suspenseful.
Fun thriller. Especially since all the action started off right outside our courthouse! This is fiction, but it was interesting following all the players through the familiar neighborhood, until the scene switched to Tucson, AZ.
It dragged a bit in parts, and it was a little far-fetched but still gripping and suspenseful.
As a fan of Maldonado’s Nina Guerrera series, I thought I would check out her new series when I came across it on NetGalley. I like Isabella Maldonado; she’s a good writer and storyteller. As a former FBI agent for more than 20yrs, she adds a lot of credibility to her crime thrillers/murder mysteries. As a Latina woman, in a predominantly white, male profession, she uses her law enforcement experience to create some truly BAD@$$ female characters. My fave kind of MC’s!!!
The book summary lays out the premise for the primary storyline. Of course, there is a secondary storyline, the relationship between Dani (28) and her younger siblings, Erica (23) and Axel (21), who Dani has been helping support for 10yrs since the death of their military father and institutionalized mother. Dani has a contentious relationship with the aunt who lets Erica and Axel live with her during their college breaks, even though Dani pays her for the additional expense for Erica’s and Axel’s brief stays with her. Without getting into the nitty gritty details, suffice it to say that “Tia Manuela” is a bit of a witch!!!
Dani goes undercover with Toro and most of the story revolves around Dani and Toro trying to make it out alive from some dungeon in a completely wacked out “competition” that is more like a real-life Dungeon’s Nightmares (a really scary video game) that pitted 13 people against each other. Dani and Toro chose to become allies in order to increase their odds of surviving the competition. Things between Dani and Toro get even more complicated when “the Nemesis” (the wacko who created the competition and has been sabotaging the players survival) outs Dani as an FBI agent and places a million-dollar bounty on her head.
The ending comes in a flurry of intense, nail-biting, death-defying, heroics for Dani and her team. The final scenes were very emotional and left a lump in throat. This was a really good read, one that had me up and reading wwwaaayyy past my bedtime😊 I want to thank NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
#NetGalley #Thomas&Mercer #KillingGame
The book summary lays out the premise for the primary storyline. Of course, there is a secondary storyline, the relationship between Dani (28) and her younger siblings, Erica (23) and Axel (21), who Dani has been helping support for 10yrs since the death of their military father and institutionalized mother. Dani has a contentious relationship with the aunt who lets Erica and Axel live with her during their college breaks, even though Dani pays her for the additional expense for Erica’s and Axel’s brief stays with her. Without getting into the nitty gritty details, suffice it to say that “Tia Manuela” is a bit of a witch!!!
Dani goes undercover with Toro and most of the story revolves around Dani and Toro trying to make it out alive from some dungeon in a completely wacked out “competition” that is more like a real-life Dungeon’s Nightmares (a really scary video game) that pitted 13 people against each other. Dani and Toro chose to become allies in order to increase their odds of surviving the competition. Things between Dani and Toro get even more complicated when “the Nemesis” (the wacko who created the competition and has been sabotaging the players survival) outs Dani as an FBI agent and places a million-dollar bounty on her head.
The ending comes in a flurry of intense, nail-biting, death-defying, heroics for Dani and her team. The final scenes were very emotional and left a lump in throat. This was a really good read, one that had me up and reading wwwaaayyy past my bedtime😊 I want to thank NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for sending me this eARC in exchange for my honest review.
#NetGalley #Thomas&Mercer #KillingGame