Review: Heart Strike

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As a victim of the Kobra’s bomb, and with unique access to classified information, Fabian Santiago isn’t content with justice being delivered someday. When the Seven Seas unit bogs down in trivia she heads to Ukraine to find the Kobra herself.

When she falls—literally—into the arms of Mischa Sokolov, a charming Russian living in Kiev, their affair is so heated she is distracted from her very personal mission…until she leans that Mischa is not quite what he seems, and that her coming to Ukraine is shaking apart decades old conspiracies…

Genre: romantic suspense

Publication date: January 2020

Mature content: yes, but nothing overly graphical

Review: Let me start by saying that I loved this book. Now, Heart Strike is book 3 in the Project Kobra series by Tracy Cooper-Posey and should not be read as a stand alone. Well, I didn't read either of the previous two books. Sometimes I do this with series and it's still ok. In this case, it really isn't, because all of the dynamics of the team hunting the Kobra is clearly lost if you missed the previous instalments. 

So, in fact, I missed parts of the background story. There were even a few pages I skipped because I wasn't getting anything out of them. This is all on me, though, not the author's responsibility by any means.

And...I would still rate this book with 5 stars no matter what, because the parts that had little to do with the previous stories and everything to do with Fabian and Mischa? Amazing. Outstanding. Their romance is just the sweetest thing, and Mischa now ranks up there with my favorite book male heroes of all time. There are no repeated descriptions of his muscles, of how alpha male he his, but he makes everything seem effortless - including loving Fabian and taking care of her. Definitely a keeper.

 

My recommendation? Read the first two books (I haven't yet, so I can't comment on them, but I will post reviews as soon as I finish reading them). But if you don't want to (or can't), you should still give this one a try anyway.

Happy readings!

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