Karen Janowsky

Nina and Daniel are together working with others in their super hero group to save the world and find the missing artifact pieces before the big bad group finds them and puts them together to change the world.

This story is very jumpy, at one moment fighting bad guys and retrieving artifacts, then intimate sex scenes, then back to the past.

*** SPOILERS to come***

In the previous book Daniel was very shy and uptight about all things intimate. In this one, you can't go very few pages without Daniel and Nina having sex. Every once and a while there's a nod to Daniel's conservatism but mostly he comes out as a completely different person. I kept waiting for something to explain this radical change but it never comes.

Turns out a person from his past is involved with the Nazi and religious zealot groups and he's the one leading the charge. This story line seems to be mostly tease in this book and hopefully will lead someone in the next book.

As I read this story I kept asking myself where is this going? why are characters so out of character, it left for an unsettling read. There's a lot of mythos and dangling threads. I did enjoy most of Daniel and Nina's romance forming stronger bonds but ended the book feeling incomplete.

I received an ARC copy of this book from the author and the above is my honest review.

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Starts in November 1938, Germany, then jumps forward to 2011. Daniel has been changed from a sick young man and has become a super hero nicknamed Lionheart. Daniel was an American visiting Germany, then taken and experimented on by the Nazi's. He's rescued but has changed into a super soldier, but still thinks himself as a ""sick, weak, clueless kid from the Bronx." Seeking answers he returns to the Nazi camp seeking answers and next finds himself in Iraq deserts in 2008. He's taken in by a group, that brings super powered beings together to work to keep the world safe. For all of Daniel's strengths, is social awkward and shy.

In 2011, Nina joins the ranks of their super hero team but has lost her memory. When she meets Daniel they have an instant connection. This story is mostly about their relationship, it's slow and awkward and full of fumbling as Daniel has no confidence or experience and Nina has no memories, but knows she feels safe and comfortable with Daniel. The action and adventure are more like little side trips in this story and while some things are revealed, most is left dangling by the end of the story.

It was an interesting, albeit slow read. The relationship between these two is painful at times and when Nina's true nature is revealed Daniel takes his shock to extremes, avoiding her. I didn't care for Daniel very much, right then even if the author tries to explain his low self esteem as the cause of his jerkiness. In saying all that I am interested in where this series plans to go. I voluntarily received this book for an honest review.

More of my reviews can be found at https://wyldheartreads.wordpress.com/
… (plus d'informations)