Review: Over the Edge

 

 

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When Trevor Westbrook is sent on a suicide mission to rescue his kidnapped teammate, there’s no way Anna Marlow is letting him go alone. Even though she’s not done training in the Valkyrie Ops program to create the first women Navy SEALs, she follows her swim buddy and mentor on the dangerous op. Forced to pose as a couple, their ruse threatens to become real as they go deep into enemy territory in search of Team Reaper’s missing man. Can they keep their smoking hot chemistry from spinning out of control as they walk a tightrope between love and duty, life and death, with all their lives hanging in the balance, or will they go over the edge into disaster?.

Genre: military romance

Publication date: July 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: Over the Edge is book two in the Valkyrie Ops series by Cindy Dees, and closely follows book one, Beyond the Limit (read my review of book one here). While Over the Edge could eventually be read as a stand alone, I don’t really recommend it. It’s better to have read book one first to get a better understanding of the background and the characters, and of why Trevor and Anna are so dedicated to their current mission.

Overall, Over the Edge is a good book and if you like military romances and non-stop action, you shouldn’t miss it. I did have a couple of issues with the plot, hence the four stars rating instead of five.

 

First, the timeline is a bit murky - in one place it seems that Kenny, the team member they are trying to rescue, disappeared a year ago, in another place it mentions about seven months. In any case, I don’t see a rescue operation taking so long in real life. If a wounded soldier disappeared that way, how long would it be reasonable to wait expecting him to still be alive when all odds were against it? 

My second issue with the book (and one I remember already having with book one) is the repetition of the same ideas over and over again - Trevor going back and forth countless times about his feelings for Anna, and his insistence to leave her out of all serious action (even if he supposedly trained her himself and knows she’s capable of the job). Saying it just once would have been enough for the story to work anyway.. 

 

Other than the rantings above,  this is still a book I recommend if you love the genre.

 Happy readings, 

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