THE ALL-NEW KGI NOVEL from the “incredibly awesome” (Jaci Burton) #1 New York Times bestselling author of When Day Breaks.The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business.Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background.Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t…The enigmatic … gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t…
The enigmatic Hancock has been both opponent and ally to the KGI teams for as long as they’ve known him. Always working a deep game, Hancock’s true allegiance has never been apparent, but one thing is for certain—he never lets anything get in the way of duty.
But now, his absolute belief in the primacy of his ultimate goal is challenged by a captive he’s been ordered to guard, no matter how much she suffers in her prison. She’s the only woman who’s ever managed to penetrate the rigid walls surrounding his icy heart, but will he allow his perplexing feelings for the beautiful victim to destroy a mission he’s spent years working to complete or will he be forced to sacrifice her for “the greater good.”
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This series is awesome. Can be stand alone too. Banks is one if the best.
This entire series is wonderful. Action/romance/good ending.
Love everything she writes
I thought the previous book by Maya Banks about Swany was repetitive and an ill conceived store, but this was worse. The earlier KGI books were great, these last two not so much. Don’t waste your money or time
Excellent series
The KGI series is a very good one, however this particular book was not up to par.
Story line is a little disappointing.
Super Spoilers and ranting
I am so ticked and disappointed right now! I have waited forever for my beloved Hancock’s story. His story had such potential. My Hancock, the super soldier, cold, hard, but good and redeemable under it all. That is not what I got here. See that is the problem when you love a character so much and you wait for their book, sometimes it doesn’t live up to your expectations. Well this book didn’t just let me down, it blew my dreams of a yummy Hancock love to hell!
The first 30% of the book was so boring, repetitive, and tedious it took everything in me to power through. Repeating over and over the same lines, thoughts, and inner- struggle. Then over the top, unnecessary details are the reason it took 50 pages to say what could have been covered in 10 tops. At points my eyes glazed over and I just prayed for it to be over!
So in the first half of the book I really liked Honor. I thought she was brave, sassy, and a fighter. She had a sweet caring heart and a ton of courage. Then it’s like at about the 60% mark she turned into someone else completely. Someone so over the top ridiculous, and unrealistic that I could no longer relate to her and felt a complete disconnect. Come on, you want me to believe that this woman, this fighter, or any woman for that matter, would all of a sudden just be ok with being a sacrificial lamb for the greater good? She not only is okay with dying she knows she will be raped repeatedly, and tortured beyond belief before said death will come and then the death will be slow and painful, but hey she’s okay with that. It’s cool.
Oh and of course I am suppose to believe that after she is nearly raped twice, beaten during both almost rapes, Hancock betraying her, breaking her trust, and planning to hand her over to hell, She wants him to be her first lover. You know so that her first time isn’t from rape since she is going to be raped over and over.
That leads to the creepiest sex I have ever read. It was bad, just bad. I mean wtf! The whole time he is “making love” to her he is thinking of how he has to make it good so that when she is being raped she can hold on to this beautiful memory! LOL sure. Hancock the whole time he is sleeping with her (because that was not making love) is doing it while still planning on turning her over to a fate worse than hell. Because nothing is more romantic then thinking about impending rape while making love for the first time to a traitor.
And Hancock, pff his character was destroyed for me. I mean I could understand to a point that he is a harden man and he has to finish the mission for the greater good. But from the minute he started having feelings for Honor he should have changed the plan to sacrifice her. As the book went on I lost all respect and love for him. He was so hypocritical and ludicrous. He was not the same Hancock I grew to love from the other books. He even at one point thinks of how he could save her, he has done it twice before, saved other women. That there would always be another chance to get the bad guy, but he ain’t gonna do it. Why? Cause he is tired of chasing the bad guy and letting him slip through his fingers. So tough luck Honor. Oh but he feels guilt about it.
By the time he gets his crap together and decides he isn’t giving Honor up. It’s too little, too late for me. He was ruined for me. I didn’t buy his instant change of heart. I didn’t buy his love. I didn’t buy that he goes from a heartless prick to a sappy wuss that cries all the time in the blink of an eye. And I didn’t buy their relationship at all. This book was a total fail for me.
It really upsets me. This book was a total hot mess. like a train wreck that you can’t look away from. KGI has always been one of my favorite series. Their stories so awesome, their loves so epic. I can’t believe this is a KGI book, let alone my Hancock’s book. I feel so let down. I really hope this isn’t going to be the new norm for the KGI books, because I can’t take much more of this crap.