Kee Smith qualified as a helicopter crew chief, a top sniper, and the second woman to ever make the Army’s secret Night Stalkers. When she chooses her copilot as her next target, he doesn’t stand a chance.His role as helo copilot and top team strategist always fit Archie Stevenson. Until a pint-sized shooter kicked his world sideways. When a mission gone wrong threatens to start a new war, they must solve it together—if they don’t kill each other first.
Publication date: December 2021 (for the current Kindle version; this book was originally published in 2012)
Mature content: yes
Review: I read book one in this Night Stalkers series years ago - and loved it (you can find my review of The Night is Mine here), but then for some reason I never went back for the rest of the books.
Since all the books have been re-edited recently, I decided to give book two a try. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. Almost everything I remember loving from book one is missing from this book two, most especially the capacity to convince me the story is realistic and could have happened in real life.
Yes, it is fast paced. Yes there's action, suspense and romance.
But...Kee is not a character I enjoyed. She arrives convinced she's the best of the best, downplays and almost outright insults the rest of her team, but I never really grasped anything really amazing in her. Even when she "adopts" a local girl who lost her parents, she still doesn't convince me. Archie is ok, but again a bit inconsistent.
And to believe that such a team could be deceived into a fake operation by someone who just shows up on base, doesn't present a real ID to anyone and requests the use of a helicopter for some secret operation (which really turns out to be a terrorist attack) - and everyone falls in line without questioning his presence or his mission... If that can happen in real life, then we're really not safe at all. I prefer to believe that, while mistakes do happen occasionally, the men and women in the armed forces know better than that and do strive to protect the rest of us to the best of their abilities.
So, all in all, I can't bring myself to recommend this book. I will try the next one in the series, though, to see if there's an improvement.
Happy readings otherwise!
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