Blackout(Crossbreed #5)
By Dannika Dark
Narrator: Nicole Poole
Length: 11 hours and 2 minutes
The fate of millions rests on Keystone when they embark on their most important assignment of all…After what was supposed to be a simple job, Raven and Christian uncover a sinister plot against the higher authority, and the stakes are as high as the body count. The assassins are merciless, with anyone who stands in their way becoming collateral damage. Meanwhile, Raven is still struggling to make sense of her feelings for Christian following a memory wipe.During a blackout, the city erupts into chaos. With Breed on the brink of war, Keystone has only twenty-four hours to complete a secret mission. Raven seeks help from the most unlikely of places, but at what cost?It’s a race against time to save lives in this explosive installment of the Crossbreed series.
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* This review may contain spoilers for past books in this series.
This book was bittersweet in the best way possible! Every time I thought I knew what to expect I had the pleasure of having the rug pulled out from under me. Don't get me wrong, I was loving every minute of it! I also adored how well interlaced the storylines are. There are quite a few small tidbits that were presented in past books that are just now growing into complex plot points. I can't wait to see where this goes!
I don't know how this author does it but she's succeeded in making me care about every single main character in the Keystone group. I'm too invested in everyone's happily ever after and I don't know what to do with myself until that happens.
Just when I thought things were going too well with Christian and Raven things went 50 steps back in the span of one conversation. Why can't they be happy and stay happy? Christian has proven time and time again that he actually cares about Raven in more than a fling kind of way. Raven reciprocates his feelings, but they're doomed to be apart. I will riot. They need a happily ever after. And none of this "all in good time" BS.
I jokingly predicted the Patrick twist at 1 am while I was listening to the audio book and slightly delirious. I was so proud of myself for that one! I loved the solution Shepherd's dilemma came to though. It was sweet and imperfect. Just like the Keystone group/family.
Had I known the epilogue would drop that bomb I would have probably held off on reading it until the next book released. Things were bad until then between Raven and Christian, but I can imagine that thanks to that twist it's going to get much worse before it gets better.
The Audio Book:
I have nothing but amazing things to say about the narration! Nicole Poole continues to do a fantastic job. The number of different accents and tones (both male and female) she can realistically do is mind-blowing!
My Rating:
I love it when seeds planted in earlier books come into play in later ones! Sounds like a tough epilogue though. :) I hate it when they leave us hanging like that!
ReplyDeleteGlad this was good on audio too. Some of those narrators are just amazing...
When seeds are planted in past books and done right it makes for an amazing book/series! It wasn't necessarily a cliffhanger but it felt pretty darn close to one! Nicole Poole is one of those really good narrators, though it took a book or two for her to grow on me. She does justice to every book she narrates :)
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