Berkley, I love him for uttering such terrible lines with professional conviction. What about Harry Berkeley’s performance did you like? They piled up on me making the read careless and messy. I know, I know un-plug your brain and try to enjoy it, but there were a lot of these kinds of things. A body was incinerated so badly dental records couldn’t be used to ID the body, but her wedding bands were only marred and not a puddle of melted goo. A wayward teen is taken in by a schoolteacher, but no one in county social services or child welfare is notified. We’re going to launch some spook mission into drug cartel territory, but we’re not going to do a trace on who sent the Fed-ex package. If you are a stickler for how the world really works, this book will annoy you. I had to suspend my disbelief too much in order to get through the plot mechanics of this book. What was most disappointing about Maya Banks’s story? Man up Ranger’s, former Marine, and former Navy Seal, this Army Vet thinks you’re all pathetic. I admit it, it’s me and my own jaded bias against men crying, but seriously the dad cried, a brother cried, and Ethan must have broke down crying at least six times. But the over the top masculine posturing was killed by the number of times these brawny boys started bawling. I was just waiting for a scene where they all got drunk, beat on their sculpted naked former military chests, and chanted cadences together. The book is littered with Alpha males, a big ol’ family of alpha males with alpha male buddies and alpha male adopted friends. What disappointed you about The Darkest Hour?

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