MIDNIGHT REVENGE is the latest installment in Elle
Kennedy's Killer
Instincts series. It features Derek "D" Pratt who has
been in the shadows
until one of his teammates is mistakenly taken, and he
needs to go to Mexico
to save his friend. The premise of this storyline really
intrigued me. It
sounded like it would be a fast-paced read filled with
action and suspense.
However, despite the highly detailed rescue mission scenes
Kennedy is
able to put into this novel, I think the romance is what
stalled this story.
First of all, D's love interest is a doctor who he had a
one-night stand with.
Sofia is a feisty woman who gets tangled into this
dangerous mission. If
you've read Kennedy's books before then you're probably
aware of the fact
that she likes to amp up the hotness level by a hundred
degrees. This is fine
in certain series and novels, but I find in a Romantic
Suspense series like
this one, a balance needs to be made between the action and
suspense with
the romance. I don't think that was the case here. The
author places too
much emphasis on the erotic, which completely undermines
what she has
built in terms of the rest of the plot. Hot sex and tension
are great but not
when it keeps happening at odd times in the story. They
just didn't fit.
Kennedy likes to create tension between her characters. She
employs both
the sexual and the hostile kind and while it can be
interesting, when it
happens in nearly every book of the series, it starts to
lose its sparkle a little
bit. We don't get to know much of D before readers are
thrown into the
action so I didn't feel like I could connect with him. That
sort of disconnect
from the characters also hindered me from really enjoying
the romance as
well. As a result, MIDNIGHT REVENGE didn't feel like the
most well-rounded book in the
series.
Out of all the stone-cold mercenaries in Jim Morgan's black
ops organization, Derek "D" Pratt is the most intimidating.
He is tight-lipped and covered in tattoos, and even the
other guys on his team are afraid to ask him about his past.
D's been off the grid for years, but after his teammate
Sullivan is mistakenly captured in his place, D is forced to
come out of hiding and face his demons.
When D lands in Mexico, he's ready to risk everything to
save his friend. To complicate matters, Sofia Amaro, a
feisty doctor whom D had a one-night stand with months ago,
has tracked him down. And in an instant she's
unintentionally caught up in his life-threatening rescue
mission.
Now D must extract not one but two people from the most
violent world he's ever encountered. And one of them is
carrying his child...
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