Enhanced World: Book FourTo protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced … member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization.
Samuel “Angel” Piper is eager to leave his DEA undercover work behind as he joins the HERO team as Vance’s regular human partner. But Sam’s painful past is ever present, just below the surface of the life he has built for himself as an ambitious young agent. When the team investigates rumors of a new drug using enhanced blood, the case’s mysterious connection to Sam threatens not just his life but Vance’s.
Trust doesn’t come easy for Sam, but Vance is willing to fight to convince his partner that the strength of his heart might be the salvation they both need.
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Ride of your life
Sam and Vance were unexpected but so worth the emotional ride. Vance has my heart and I’m not willing to let go of him; whereas, Sam was slower to win me over. By the end I was all in with both of them and so happy to see them fly.
Audio review:
Overall – 5
Performance – 5
Story – 5
Vance and Sam! I love them.
I listened to this audiobook when it was released but neglected to leave a review so I’m correcting that now. Nick J. Russo has done an outstanding job will all of the audiobooks in this series published to this point (May 2020). He’s become one of my favorite audiobook performers.
Below are comments from when I reviewed the ebook back in December 2018.
Victoria Sue may be the most versatile author that I follow closely – she can write anything. I started with her historical romance books which I loved, next I read her Sirius Wolves shifter series, which I loved, next came this Enhanced World, which I loved and then she went and wrote a fantastic contemporary series, which I loved. I guess I’m kind of following a theme here, huh? LOL
The Enhanced World books just keep getting better and better. We met Sam/Angel in the previous book, Beneath This Mask and I was really excited to read this one. The Strength of His Heart was everything I expected and more. Victoria Sue never gives her guys an easy path to their HEA but she always gets them there – eventually.
The epilogue was perfect, too.
I liked this story. It wasn’t my favorite but it was still good. (It had to be hard to try to top the others. There are still lots of intriguing characters, a good plot with a twist as well. Sam and Vance’s story was a bit different. it wasn’t the fast fall in love and the men had to work hard at the relationship. There are still some awesome kids involved that add a touch of Awe!! and Witt. I cannot wait to listen to the next book. I am hoping it is Eli and Daniel if the hint is correct.
This was definitely worth the wait!!!
This was not what I expected when I started this book and that’s not a bad thing. Just that’s was a tough read, compared to the other books in the series.
Victoria is going to take you on a emotional rollercoaster ride and your feelings will be all over the place.
There are some unpleasant reading moments and can be a little hard to read sometimes, but Victoria does it so well, that you can’t stop reading.
These two were made for each other and I loved this journey to their HEA.
I couldn’t be more pleased with this book and I would highly recommend it
I can NOT wait for Eli’s book and I’m sure I going to be an emotional wreck!!!
Independent reviewer for Divine Magazine, I was gifted the AUDIO version of this book.
This is book 4 in the Enhanced series, and it’s not necessary to have read/listened to the other three books, but it might help give you a better picture of what it means to be Enhanced, and what this team means to Vance.
All Vance wanted to do, as a child, was follow in his father’s footsteps and join the police force. Waking up with the mark on his face put pays to that, but he was one of the lucky ones. His family did not treat him any differently, and they love Vance, period. Sam’s upbringing is very different, never knowing his father, and his mother dying when was he was a small child. Joining the DEA as an undercover agent helped him get over that, but now he wants out. Meeting Vance and the members of HERO is a dream come true, and Vance himself is a wet dream come true for Sam. But Sam won’t be drawn into anything with the much bigger man, he suffered before and will not again. But when Sam is kidnapped and Vance’s undercover gig is blown, they have to trust each other’s heart will be strong enough to get them out of this.
Vance is a sweetheart! Oh, I loved him here, once we get into his head. He really just wants to look after people, even though his gift was size and strength, he doesn’t want to use it. And Sam? Sam pushes all of Vance’s buttons and then some, he really does. Vance is smitten, right from when we met Sam in book three, and being partnered with Sam here? Vance is in heaven. At least till Sam and Vance have an encounter that ends all kinds of wrong for all kinds of reasons and neither man will talk to the other.
Sam’s past comes back to kidnap him here, and when it’s discovered WHO? I did NOT see that one coming, let me tell ya! But what they are doing with Enhanced adults and indeed some children, is awful, and it’s difficult reading, it really is.
This is far less explicit than the other three books, but I think it didn’t need to be. There is enough of Vance and Sam’s emotions to keep you going!
We meet Vance’s brother here. And while I had him pegged as the partner of a certain nurse, it turns out I am wrong and one of the team is strangely affected by Daniel. Their story, I *think* is next and I cannot wait to read it! Or listen, rather, cos I don’t like to flip between listening and reading in a series!
Nick J. Russo again narrates.
I am loving the combination of Ms Sue and Mr Russo, I really am!
Russo’s voices are clear and consistent across all four books, and his reading voice is deep and even. I have no trouble keeping up with multiple person conversations.
It’s the EMOTIONS I find, that Russo gets across. You can’t always pick that up when you read a book, no matter how well it’s written (and these books are VERY well written!) but hearing someone’s voice, telling you about their rotten childhood and what they had to do to survive, it gets you, right in the heart. I had to stop what I was doing many times, just to LISTEN, you know?? I had to concentrate on what was being said, cos it got to me so much.
I hope that Russo will continue to narrate the books that Victoria Sue continues to write! Cos you know, everyone needs to be happy, and they ain’t right now!
5 stars for the book
5 stars for the narration
5 stars overall
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