Taken (Deep Ops #1.5)
by Rebecca Zanetti
Blurb:
Faye
Smith has spent five long years trying to get her life back on track. She knows
she should’ve turned toward Hunter and not away from him. But they both had too
many demons to destroy. Maybe now they’ll get another chance—and save someone
else’s life too . . .
But
first they’ll have to stop arguing long enough to trust the Deep Ops team.
Hunter was a lost boy himself once. In fact, he ran away from the exact same
man, their monster of a father. Now he and Faye will have to unite to find the
brother he never knew—and maybe each other . . .
Themes: Contemporary
Rating: 4.25 stars
Heat Rating: 
Review:
So the craziness continues with a little bit
of a side trip for the new Deep-Ops team, where we get to meet some childhood friends
of one of the members and see him swoop in to assist them on a personal mission.
While I admit I was a little bit skeptical when I read the first story, since
it was seriously nutso, I enjoyed this novella immensely and look forward to the
next story even more. Faye and Hunter were childhood lover who thought for a
while that they would never be separated, but when their lives were struck with
a terrible tragedy their young love was too fragile to withstand the damage.
Now forced to come back together five years later, in order to find and rescue
Hunter’s long lost little brother, Faye and Hunter have to put aside their past
and their broken hearts, which still yearn for one another, in order to get the
job done. Calling in a little back-up from another foster brother, a member of
the super-secretive Deep-Ops team, they work against the clock to come to terms
with each other as well as save Hunter’s brother. It was fantastic to watch these two circling
one another as it was obvious their young love never truly died, but as they
have grown the passions they have found adds and even deeper layer to their
love as they embrace it. Hunter never
truly recovered from Faye throwing their love away and seeing her again is more
than just a kick in the gut, but having to work with her in such close quarters
is making it more and more obvious that the heat between them has actually
increased since their childhood. I loved
Hunter because he was more than just a hero, more than just a sexy alpha male,
but also immediately was a loving brother even though he never knew he was one,
the second he discovered he had a brother out there. Seeing him give his all to finding his
brother showed just how dedicated he was to his family, which could easily
include Faye again if she opened her heart to him, and I wanted so badly for
the two of them to find their way back together. Faye is a woman that has learned her lessons
the hard way for sure; she has had to
come to terms with some seriously bad decisions and find a way to peace with
them, even knowing that happiness will never be complete now that she pushed
aside the only man she could ever love.
Finding her way back into his arms, and his heart, is the wisest choice
she could ever make, but only by trusting in their new love and the relationship
they could build will they both ever find the true happiness they deserve and
be able to build the family they both so badly want. Honestly I found myself more involved with
and enjoying this novella more than I did the first full-length novel in this
series. There was so much heart, warmth,
emotional turmoil, and action, with just a bit of fun and crazy thrown in, that
it had all the makings of a truly fantastic Zanetti story. I am hoping the rest of the series follows in
this story’s footsteps and looking forward to the next book massively.
*ebook provided by publisher (via
netgalley) for the purpose of an honest and unbiased review. No compensation was provided.
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