Review: Her Dark Half (X-Ops #7)

Her Dark Half (X-Ops #7)

by Paige Tyler 

Blurb:

Trevor Maxwell

Coyote shifter with an attitude

Covert operator

Trusts no one, especially his devastatingly beautiful new partner

Alina Bosch

Former CIA, newest operative on the covert team

Hired to spy on her partner

Motto: "Never be deceived again."

Coyote shifter Trevor Maxwell is teamed up with CIA agent Alina Bosch to catch a killer. But when the mission becomes much more dangerous than they expected, they're going to have to ignore the attraction between them and learn how to trust one another to come out on the other side...

Themes: Paranormal, Shifters

Rating: 3.5 stars

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Review:

 This series continues to go into an unexpected direction, more and more going into deep water that shows us that no matter who is in charge, ultimate power truly does ultimately corrupt.  I am looking forward to where all this is heading though and wondering if in the end good truly will overcome evil. Trevor has been one of those characters that you wonder about, his issues with controlling his shifting making him increasingly unstable and his inability to control his urges making him just that much more sinfully sexy.  When the other shifters in the organization were forced into hiding, he definitely stepped up and has taken on a dangerous mission, but he knows that trusting his new partner is not a good idea, even if she is too sexy for words and pulls on his instincts in ways he has never experienced. Alina left the CIA when she found herself being typecast on her missions, only to find herself placed right back into the same situation, except with one very big difference—the partner she is now spying on is not entirely human.  While they work together and slowly come to trust one another the passion and heat between them becomes stronger and just as undeniable as the fact that their lives as truly in danger unless they can root out the evil in the organization that they may just end up giving their lives to.  I really enjoyed seeing Trevor and Alina working together and they were a great couple once they began to trust one another, but I will say that if you haven’t been a follower of this series I don’t think you would have been able to jump right in at this point without being a bit lost, which takes away some of the greatness of the story. The romance between the H&H is worth every second of the angst and tension needed to bring them together and I LOVED the twists and turns the overall series arc took and can see this one lasting a long time to come.  I would like to see a few more of the SEALs come to find love as well, but my favorite part of this series was definitely seeing the growing family that has formed from the couples in the previous stories coming together.  Sometimes the family you build by choice truly is stronger than the one you are born into. I am looking forward to the next story in the series and seeing where Ms. Tyler takes the series now that more secrets have been uncovered and some characters have taken new directions. Keep up the good work.

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