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frannieman's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Medical content, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
icecoffeebookqueen's review against another edition
5.0
second time reading this book and it just keeps me going. I love it but very upset about how some things ended with a few characters in the book.
mamabears_fabulous_book_finds's review against another edition
4.0
Three separate stories all tied together. A very dangerous drug and the Organization that backs it. A team of men and women who utilize more of their brain, than the rest of us. A great thriller and romance. I'm really excited about reading the rest of this series.
qu33nofbookz's review against another edition
1.0
What a fuck mess of a bullshit book! Why did I read this? How did it get such a good rating? This is described as an action with a little romance but it's a lie! The plot takes a back seat in a limo of this farce of a romance where everyone falls instantly into lust them immediate love with a stranger who they think about all the time and want to hold hands with and live forever with and just plain fuck at all times....and at some point during all this they are supposed to be saving a bunch or girls, one in particular from the bad guys, named The Organization (really! that's the name you use for the new scourge of the criminal element?) who use said girls to make a drug that is the new scourge of the human population that only the insanely rich know about?
Also I got tired of hearing about all the characters internal and halting outward talks with the people they love but shouldn't but they do and they can't but they can and their not supposed to but have/do and don't want to but just can't seem to help it. (There are chapter after chapter of 2 characters arguing that "I love you", "no you don't" "I know what I feel", "I forced you to feel that", "no", "yes"....and on and on! If you cut out all the repeated conversations, almost word for word from the last one, from after the first time they argued you could probably have taken out 50 pages!!!!!!) Half the very adult middle aged men with former relationships can't even say the word sex or the pill without stuttering and working around it and saying everything but.....if you can't say it you shouldn't be doing it! But they do, a lot. A point that pissed me off about this is how the people with power agonize and argue over how they would be raping their partner since their power makes it so that they seem extra appealing or that their fantasies are shared or know to said partner when this is not an issue at all. Along with that the author has no problem with describing and pointing out multiple rapes of other characters all during this story and not making a big deal out of that since they aren't main characters.
Michelle “Mac” Mackenzie is the most annoying character of the book and she's the main heroine of the story. I wanted to kill her just to get some other character to step up as the main female lead. At two points she is injured enough to die and I was rooting for her to kick the bucket. She's a grown ass woman in an almost military organization that assists the police and has been since a teen but she acts like a toddler or little brat throwing tantrums and talking back at everyone and does everything she can to piss everyone off and disobey her superiors. At a few times she goes against direct orders jeopardizing her health, the case they are working and make things worse for everyone and she doesn't give a shit....neither to her superiors! She comes back to base after one such stint and asks what her punishment is (she should rightly deserve to be locked up) but is told that a night of her self agonizing over what she's done wrong is enough!!!! First of all she doesn't regret it or even think about it once she has done wrong and second she spent all night having sex. Also if I have to read one more time about her looking into Shane Laughlin's so pretty eyes one more time....or him about looking into her so pretty eyes, I'd scratch mine out.
The book switches POV way too many times and is very repetitive having each POV go over slightly the same dialogue or description of an event as the previous one, seriously this book could have been half it's length and you would have gotten the same story. Also the dialogue sucked, very...person...talked...in...halting...conversations. Also two of the main MC's most used words were "Holy crap!" and "Holy shit!" or just "shit". The plot was full of holes big enough to drive a semi through and it wasn't helped by the dialogue. There were a ton of inconsistencies and it seemed that the structure of how these characters were designed and acted and could do was never really solid, it kept shifting. Like character A is this way and so does this and can do that...but wait now they act like that and can do this....but wait now they...it was annoying.
This book needed better editing and a sit down with a story board before it was published.
Also I got tired of hearing about all the characters internal and halting outward talks with the people they love but shouldn't but they do and they can't but they can and their not supposed to but have/do and don't want to but just can't seem to help it. (There are chapter after chapter of 2 characters arguing that "I love you", "no you don't" "I know what I feel", "I forced you to feel that", "no", "yes"....and on and on! If you cut out all the repeated conversations, almost word for word from the last one, from after the first time they argued you could probably have taken out 50 pages!!!!!!) Half the very adult middle aged men with former relationships can't even say the word sex or the pill without stuttering and working around it and saying everything but.....if you can't say it you shouldn't be doing it! But they do, a lot. A point that pissed me off about this is how the people with power agonize and argue over how they would be raping their partner since their power makes it so that they seem extra appealing or that their fantasies are shared or know to said partner when this is not an issue at all. Along with that the author has no problem with describing and pointing out multiple rapes of other characters all during this story and not making a big deal out of that since they aren't main characters.
Michelle “Mac” Mackenzie is the most annoying character of the book and she's the main heroine of the story. I wanted to kill her just to get some other character to step up as the main female lead. At two points she is injured enough to die and I was rooting for her to kick the bucket. She's a grown ass woman in an almost military organization that assists the police and has been since a teen but she acts like a toddler or little brat throwing tantrums and talking back at everyone and does everything she can to piss everyone off and disobey her superiors. At a few times she goes against direct orders jeopardizing her health, the case they are working and make things worse for everyone and she doesn't give a shit....neither to her superiors! She comes back to base after one such stint and asks what her punishment is (she should rightly deserve to be locked up) but is told that a night of her self agonizing over what she's done wrong is enough!!!! First of all she doesn't regret it or even think about it once she has done wrong and second she spent all night having sex. Also if I have to read one more time about her looking into Shane Laughlin's so pretty eyes one more time....or him about looking into her so pretty eyes, I'd scratch mine out.
The book switches POV way too many times and is very repetitive having each POV go over slightly the same dialogue or description of an event as the previous one, seriously this book could have been half it's length and you would have gotten the same story. Also the dialogue sucked, very...person...talked...in...halting...conversations. Also two of the main MC's most used words were "Holy crap!" and "Holy shit!" or just "shit". The plot was full of holes big enough to drive a semi through and it wasn't helped by the dialogue. There were a ton of inconsistencies and it seemed that the structure of how these characters were designed and acted and could do was never really solid, it kept shifting. Like character A is this way and so does this and can do that...but wait now they act like that and can do this....but wait now they...it was annoying.
This book needed better editing and a sit down with a story board before it was published.
geisttull's review against another edition
3.0
read very quickly - brockmann does relationships well. this is the first in a new series. I don't know about the weird scientific stuff, but if you're willing to accept the outlandish powers, than the characters should carry you through. i'll read the next one just to see what happens to one of my favorite characters.
alboyer6's review against another edition
3.0
I finished it! (I gave it 3 stars but it is more like 2.5) The bones of the story are great. I like the concept of Greater-thans and their different abilities and the Institute set up to research, train and protect. Where the story failed me was the characters. A number of times I just wanted to tell them to shut up. Mac just was constantly angry. And then in the last third of the book I felt Anna needed to just shut up because it was making it worse for the situation she was in. I was glad I stuck with the audio book and I will probably listen to the next one but this wasn't Brockmann's best book.
smallness's review against another edition
4.0
Not the best book I've ever read, but ridiculously entertaining and just what my tired brain needed this weekend.
seeinghowitgoes's review against another edition
2.0
Paranormal meets Navy seals, I'm not entire sure what to make of this series from the author of the troublemaker series. Based off the concept that people are separated into Greater-Thans and Less-Thans (again based off the fraction of their brains that they're able to utilise), what results is a strange mix of romance, Paranormal and the X-Men?
Powers range from the standard telekinesis to metal manipulation and mind control, it's Paranormal gone a little wild and not entirely effective in this world which doesn't seem to impose any limits or disbelief on itself.
I do appreciate the efforts of the author to keep the cast of characters interesting, and always love Brockmann all the more for her casual including of a gay couple. Unfortunately it's not quite enough to make me bite and believe in this world building.
Powers range from the standard telekinesis to metal manipulation and mind control, it's Paranormal gone a little wild and not entirely effective in this world which doesn't seem to impose any limits or disbelief on itself.
I do appreciate the efforts of the author to keep the cast of characters interesting, and always love Brockmann all the more for her casual including of a gay couple. Unfortunately it's not quite enough to make me bite and believe in this world building.
judysch's review against another edition
3.0
One of the things I love most about Suzanne Brockmann's books is her lovable, fully realized characters. Although this book had plenty of likeable characters (especially Joseph, who I hope will be getting a book of his own soon), I thought the heroine (Mac) was two-dimensional and almost completely UNlikeable. The hero (Shane) supposedly falls in love with her because she's smart and funny, but to me she was just foul-mouthed and petulant. And I didn't see ANY examples of her humor.
Disappointing in that respect, but still a good read.
Disappointing in that respect, but still a good read.