One last fling (with danger) before the ring? Nothing’s that simple when you’re a geek girl. Julie Moffett’s beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series returns with No Questions Asked. Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time. Weddings aren’t my thing–never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word … States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not.
Before we can say I do, Slash and I are flying off to the Brazilian rain forest. Our mission: stop hackers from stealing a vaccine that could save millions of lives. I thought it’d be easy, but from the moment we step off the plane, I’m up to my neck in trouble.
After an attack by drug-runners, being kidnapped and discovering that the bad guy is even worse than we’d imagined, I’m pretty sure someone in our group is working for the enemy. And they’re succeeding. I’ll have to use all my geek skills to stop the bad guys if I’m going to make it home in time to tie that knot.
And don’t miss the rest of Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael Mysteries, available now from Carina Press: No Stone Unturned, No One Lives Twice, No One to Trust, No Money Down, No Place Like Rome, No Biz Like Showbiz, No Test for the Wicked, No Woman Left Behind, No Room for Error, No Strings Attached, No Living Soul and No Regrets.
This book is approximately 110,000 words
One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!
more
“I used to be an ordinary geek girl who worked at the NSA, liked crossword puzzles, chocolate eclairs, Doctor Who, and living my life online. But a series of events and people over the past year had changed all that. I made friends, found a new life outside my virtual one, got a boyfriend and then got engaged, saved the world a couple of times, and became tight with a little black cloud of trouble that wouldn’t seem to leave me alone.”
Ominously timely!
While this is book twelve in the series, it’s the first one I’ve read. So let’s get that out of the way right off the top. Moffett does a good job of giving readers just enough background. This is a great stand alone! But it’s intriguing enough that I’m sure most, like myself, will want to read the backlist too.
Lexi’s “little black cloud” predictably follows her on her current assignment. The resulting chaos, while it’s nothing Lexi can’t handle, makes her grateful that her fiancé was available to join her.
Follow Lexi and Slash deep into the rainforest of Brazil as they come up against not only snakes and huge spiders, but corporate intrigue and corrupt government officials.
There’s a lot to uncover as they fight for the good guys, and a couple of personal revelations in the mix as well. Great characters and an intricate story line that keeps the pages turning. Everything you want in a thriller with a soupçon of romance.
[Many thanks to NetGalley / Harlequin and the author for the opportunity to read an Advance Reader Copy of this book. This is my honest review; the opinions expressed herein are entirely my own.]
Exciting Adventure in Brazil’s Amazon Jungle
This is an epic episode. Many questions get answered. It also includes an epic wedding. I love this series! Our heroine is a top drawer computer geek and her friends are just as nerdy. Her boyfriend is also the best of the best in the IT field, not a nerd but definitely a geek. There are so many surprises in each story. There are twists and turns that no one will expect. I also love that it is a longer book so the author can put in as much detail or story twists as she feels necessary. I received this ARC book for free from Net Galley and this is my honest review.
This was a fantastic story, that I enjoyed very much!
Lexi Carmichael is desperately trying to avoid wedding planning with her overly, excited mom.
Slash gets orders to take a three week vacation, but his first day off lands him on the news and he gets a reminder about that vacation.
The founder, along with the CEO of Vaccitex, which is a nonprofit organization working on a malaria vaccine to be administered to the very young, request Lexi to accompany the team to the rainforest in Brazil for added security measures. The vaccine in any other hands would net big profits, which requires a higher level of protection.
Slash tags along as an extension of Frisson working under X-Corp where he offers his cyber services. By going, Slash will have a working vacation and also provide much needed support for Lexi, who hates to fly, bugs, heat & humidity.
The trip to Brazil was uneventful until they were introduced to the plane that would take them to the research center. This plane didn’t look fit for flying, but the other options weren’t great either. Opting to take the fastest route, at the last minute the pilot allowed a cage with three chickens to board. Due to turbulence, the chickens got free followed by hilarious escapades in trying to retrieve them.
Once at the research center, Lexi learns that she is required to go along with the team when they visit tribes to vaccinate, so she can enter data immediately. If it isn’t bad enough, that there are plane rides, loose chickens, heat, humidity to contend with; the research center is guarded by soldiers behind barbed wire fence due to pirates and thieves.
The excursions to reach the tribes are met with trial after trial. When they finally are able to inoculate one tribe, the unexpected happens. Lexi will have to rely on her wits and cunning to leave, but in the process, she finds new friendship and an experience beyond measure.
I, definitely could relate to Lexi not wanting to fly or be in a rainforest, but loved how Lexi adapted to the circumstances, despite her fears, which lead me to laugh; as well as, cheer her on! I laughed about the part of the chickens running amok on the plane and could visualize feathers flying all over. So many other parts that had me laughing out loud like an unintentional mooning. I was surprised by the ending, and was left with the hope that eventually things will work out and it’ll come together in another book. Just like the quote says: “Love conquers all.”
I received an ARC from NetGalley via HARLEQUIN-Carina Press and I have voluntarily reviewed this book.
Lexi and Slash are engaged to be married and – next to Lexi’s eager mom – even POTUS is giving his input on her wedding plans! Fortunately (or not..) Lexi is asked to fly to Brazil to help with protecting data for an organization that wants to test a new malaria vaccine – in the jungle!
Gwen is also on the team as a biologist and Slash – confronted with 3 weeks leave – decides to go as well.
No, the plane does not crash this time 🙂
But there is enough action and danger to keep you glued to the pages (of my Kindle in my case). Lexi is always getting into danger or strange situations.
Loved this new installment and it gave me all the feels on the Lexi/Slash front. Kudos to the author for keeping the series fresh and interesting.
I’m an avid fan of Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael series, about a reformed hacker who unravels mysteries and foils bad guys around the world in between awkward comic encounters, all while she develops a relationship with a computer genius named Slash. Who happens to be hot and Italian, which doesn’t hurt. What’s interesting is how the series has evolved. There’s still humor, but there’s also more substance and emotion in each book. I really care about Lexi and Slash, and as they work together – in this case, to stop a villain trying to steal a vaccine for profit – we readers are rewarded with more depth and more intrigue. And, as in No. 12 in the series, No Questions Asked: A Lexi Carmichael Mystery, the stories are still wildly entertaining. “Wild” is the operative word here as the glamour-geek couple descend into the Brazilian rain forest, beset on all sides by villains, snakes and skulduggery. As a bonus, there’s a delicious romantic twist. There’s “no” reason not to say yes to this wonderful series.
A new Emmy Oak story! Carrie, a famous friend of hers, hosts a housewarming party, with Emmy as caterer, and a woman ends up dead. The woman is a celebrity, too, and all signs seem to point to Carrie’s husband as the killer. Emmy also suspects him, but she finds and sees things as the days go on that make her question her initial thoughts.
Emmy will always investigate a case like this, to help her friends (or herself, in some cases) but more often than not she just winds up in trouble.
This was another fun Emmy story, with the usual characters making appearances, and is a great addition to the series.
I alway enjoy reading about Lexi.
Lexy and Slash are at it again in this new added installment to the series. The action and hi jinx’s Lexy manages to find in the Brazilian jungle is hysterical. I enjoyed every last word.
Julie. Moffett is one of my favorite authors I own every book in this series. When I want a guaranteed enjoyable read I will reread them.
Ahhhh, it’s that time of year again when I can curl up with the latest Lexi and Slash book and just lose myself in the pages for a few hours… These books are so good I seriously wish they were longer but in the end, they are that good I just re-read.
So No Questions Asked was just brilliant Lexie and Slash head off with Lexi’s little black cloud right on her head… it’s a jungle adventure in Brazil… Yay talk about excitement overload for our gorgeous Geek couple, who wouldn’t love a few weeks in the Amazon right??? Bugs, snakes and wild natives oh my…
It is for a good cause though so Lexie sikes herself up and off they go, but as usual, things are never quite what they seem in Lexie’s world and this latest adventure is a doozy.
No Questions Asked by Julie Moffett is a winner for me. I love this series and in this one Ms. Moffett has pushed Lexi completely out of her comfort zone. The awesome thing is that Lexi not only adapted well to each situation but began to enjoy herself.
X-Corps has been hired by Vaccitex to prevent security breaches of their computer data regarding a revolutionary malaria vaccine. Lexi is required to go to Brazil with a team of doctors to record the data of the team. Slash is on a forced vacation and volunteers to go with her. This is where the fun begins.
A well developed story that is smoothly paced, spiders, snakes, drug runners, indigenous tribes, Lexi’s little black cloud of chaos, laughter (Lexi and chickens come to mind) and a beautiful and intimate wedding made this a book that I could not put down. Fans of this series will also gain some new insight into Slash’s past that I hope we’ll see develop more fully in the future.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book. All of the above opinions are my own.
No Questions Asked, the 12th book in Julie Moffett’s Lexi Carmichael Mystery series, is a fantastic adventure that we get to share with both Lexi and Slash. I love spending time with Lexi when she is placed in out-ot-her-comfort-zone situations and No Questions Asked starts with a biggie, wedding planning. She has made great gains with help from Slash but he even doesn’t want anything to do with decisions for a Mozilla-sized wedding. Her mother’s runaway plans require Lexi to make decisions that force her to think about being around people, lots and lots of people. She really tries to be a good daughter but, come on, trying on wedding gowns and deciding on flowers, much less just thinking about seating charts is a nightmare equaled only by spiders, snakes, flying…well lots of other stuff.
From one nightmare to another Lexi is pulled into one of THOSE trips, yep, spiders, snakes, and boats in piranha ridden waters, but Lexi’s heart is bigger than her fears and pulls her into a trip to the Amazon to protect data on a malaria vaccine that will protect children.
Julie Moffett never lets things get old with these wonderful characters. Even though regular readers can often guess what Lexi’s reaction will be to any situation, the disasters she faces are so varied and often completely unexpected. We have seen some development in Lexi’s social terror and see even more on this journey. There are some really beautiful moments that takes the trials in No Questions Asked well beyond the norm and make it my favorite book in the Lexi Carmichael series.
I was thrilled to be approved for an ARC by NetGalley even though I had already pre-ordered No Questions Asked as soon as it was available. I adore this series and talk about it with anyone who will listen.
#NetGalley #NoQuestionsAsked