Genres: Romantic Suspense
Published by Montlake Romance
Released on January 2, 2018
Pages: 311
Length: 9 hours and 44 minutes
Format: eBook, Audiobook
Source: Kindle Unlimited
The Delight
An interesting plot of someone selling military secrets and they send in the most unlikely person to find out who: an injured soldier to a recovery facility. The premise was interesting as the hero is deaf and has limited use of his right arm. Eco-therapy seems to be a thing and we find out what it means to heal when you don’t want to heal.
Review
When I started this story, there were a couple of story threads that seemed to go together and then it seemed to go every which way. Cole Makani Hunter, former Navy SEAL, returns home from a disastrous mission without his hearing, use of his right arm and his best friend. When he asked to uncover a traitor, he feels useful again even if he has to infiltrate a rehab center for vets. Eco-therapy is up first and he’s ready to turn tail and get away from this hippy dippidy woman communing with nature.
Annie Murray is a ecotherapist who rescues all kinds of animals and communes with nature. A bad relationship has driven her back to her hometown where her grandfather hasn’t exactly been welcoming and her cousin is trying to make a name for herself in flipping houses. Annie works part time in ecotherapy while saving for her dream to open an animal sanctuary.
Cole and Annie clash from first meeting to second meeting where they don’t exactly get along. Cole is one scary dude, but at every turn he turns out to be the gruff good guy. While Cole is deaf, Annie made sure he could read lips and talked to him when he could see her lips. I would have really liked to have seen more sign language being used as I had deaf grandparents while I was a kid and that’s how they communicated as well as reading lips.
The suspense is all over the place. Someone is stalking Annie. Someone is selling military secrets. Someone kills off a character I was beginning to adore. And when it all finally culminates to the climax, I felt very unsatisfied. It fell flat as I don’t feel the author built up the suspense enough for me to feel truly terrified and you could figure out who it was extremely easily.
So while I was reading this for I Dare You week, I ended up keeping it out of the mix. It just wasn’t that thrilling nor suspenseful.
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How utterly disappointing! I thought it sounded fab, too, as you described it.
It wasn’t really horrible it just seemed to drag a lot and didn’t evoke emotions I wanted to feel. The hero being deaf should have offered a lot more emotionally to the suspense. I never saw sign language, but instead him reading lips. If he couldn’t read lips, then it wasn’t communicated. It does play a part that he can’t hear the bad guy, but by then it wasn’t very interesting.
My paternal grandparents were deaf. While they could read some lips, it was mostly sign language. I expected to see at least the hero learn it.
Bummer this was not a hit. Sometimes less is better. It had a lot going on. I like real life issues in book as long as it plays a good factor so hero not using sign language might bother me.
It bothered me he didn’t have sign language in his basket. He wasn’t happy with his injuries and felt bad about how his career ended. It just felt off all around.
I didn’t know about this one, nor the author I confess but sorry it wasn’t more
I was looking for a thriller book for the I Dare You event and found this one on Kindle Unlimited. Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy it enough to use it for the event.
yikes ): sorry this was a complete hot mess
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. It’s the way of reading!
Sorry to hear you didn’t like it more. It sounds like it could have been really good.
I was hoping for more. I can’t quite put my finger on it other than they all seemed like weird people.