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Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no one else can do.
It's been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he's received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.
It's been a year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he's received an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethan will have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
PROMISING START IN A NEW ROMANTIC SUSPENSE SERIES,
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This review is from: The Darkest Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
Ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly is hangover again, it's been a year since his wife Rachael was killed in a plane crash in South America and he can't seem to move on, the pain as fresh as the day she died. Ethan has cut himself off from his large family and refuses to have anything to do with his brother's top secret business, that of KGI (Kelly Group International) With their expensive military backgrounds the Kelly brother's are essentially guns for hire taking the tricky jobs the government can't and specializing in intelligence recovery and hostage/kidnap victim extractions.On the anniversary of Rachael's death Ethan receives an unmarked package containing surveillance pictures and maps of a drug cartel base camp in Columbia. The photos show something else too, a woman who looks very much like his late wife. Ethan doesn't think anyone will believe him but of course he now has to try and find her. Good thing most of his family is in the victim recovery business and handy with a gun because he's heading into the jungle and getting his wife back. But Rachael's not the woman he knew a year ago; forcibly addicted to drugs, and suffering from memory loss and PTSD she may never fully recover and just because he's got her back Stateside doesn't mean she's safe either, the bad guys still want her dead. And then there's that little matter of the divorce papers. There were parts of this book that I loved and others that I struggled with but all in all this was a really good romantic suspense. Banks writes an awesome tortured hero and although I did get tired of Ethan constantly "dropping to his knees" in front of Rachael and thanking or apologizing to everyone now that he's stopped self medicating, I loved that he was man enough to shed a few tears (that bathtub scene killed me) One of my biggest issues here however was Rachael's extreme closeness to the brothers; it was just a little too intimate. They were forever enfolding her in their arms and cooing "Baby" and "Sweet Pea" and I guess because I've read some of Banks erotica I kept waiting for her to get it on with at least 3 of the 6 Kelly boys which distracted me from Ethan and Rachael's rekindled love story as well as creating several weird, ick moments. There was also the issue of Rachael having been adopted and brought up by the Kelly parents in the same house as her husband to be. Why was that little bit of info necessary? Wouldn't that kind of make everyone related? Another ick moment. I also found that there were just too many Kelly brothers to keep track of properly and before long stopped even trying. Except for Garrett and Sam (who I'm sure were just trying to get lucky) they all sort of blended together along with the Kelly parents and a side story involving a runaway girl named Rusty that I can only assume we'll see more from in later books. I'll be continuing on with the series of course :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great introduction book to the series,
By Sarah Smith (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Darkest Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
Ethan and Rachel are two characters you can't help falling in love with and rooting for. Maya did a great job of telling just enough back story to keep you reading but not enough that she gave anything away too fast. She also introduces future characters you fall for and can't wait for their books to come out. Definitely check out this series, if every book is as good as the first, which they no doubt will be, it's a can't miss.Sarah Smith
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Garrett stole the show!,
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This review is from: The Darkest Hour (Mass Market Paperback)
Maya Banks has started herself on a very ambitious quest with the KGI series. The Darkest Hour not only begins with Ethan and his brothers rescuing his assumed dead wife Rachel but it also introduces us to the Kelly's, all 9 of them. There is a significant amount of time in The Darkest Hour that does not focus on the primary relationship between Ethan and Rachel. This time is spend acquainting us with the 6 Kelly brothers, Marlene and Frank, their parents and Rusty, a lost young woman that Marlene takes into their home. I was really sucked into the family and loved the feel Maya gave them as a group. I felt like we got a good sense of Rachel, even though she doesn't know herself. Unfortunately I did not feel like Ethan got enough time to dig himself out of the hole Banks put his character in - I had hoped by the end that I would really feel something more for him but all I ended up wishing was that Rachel had chosen Garrett instead. I wanted to like Ethan but it just never materialized, and I have to admit to having a bit of a crush on Garrett so maybe that makes me biased. I did enjoy the story as a whole and Banks did a nice job with the suspense subplot. Banks made sure that all her i's were dotted and t's crossed and ends it with an edge of your seat chase that makes it impossible to put down the book till the end. The KGI series is looking like an addition to my auto-buy list. Way to go Maya!
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