Flynn’s Firecracker: A SEALs of Honor World Novel (Heroes for Hire Book 5)

I read the book where Flynn and Anna where introduced. They both were described as having firstly personalities. Flynn was described as a joker, similar to Anna. I expected their characters to clash, but I did not expect that somewhat out of control first scene. I also didn’t expect for the person to ADMIT what was being accused wasn’t believed and the behavior was only a reaction.

I liked the story. I listened to the audio book, but the narration was not great. I found it took away from the story. The tones and inflections didn’t change enough for me to distinguish one character from another without the name of the character being mentioned. I know this is fiction, but I also didn’t get the strength or depth of a command voice I would expect from a bunch of tall, muscled, alpha SEAL’S like described in the book.

The story itself was full of action, adventure, drama, danger, and suspense. The flow was fast paced and held my attention.

I would have liked more background info on both Flynn and Anna. They seemed more like enemies to friends than enemies to lovers. I wasn’t picking up any romantic chemistry between them. I don’t know if that was because of the narration or what.

I also didn’t get that same sense of camaraderie among the team that I have come to expect. It felt like Flynn was on the outside looking in at some level.

I’m going with 3.5 stars. I had to look past the narration to get to the story, and that was pretty decent. Not much romance involved, but decent.

I have this book in the Heroes for Hire Bundle, Books 4-6, but I am reviewing them individually as I read them.

As this book opens you will recall Flynn is no longer providing protection for Anna. He’s been gone for about a week and has also done another assignment since. One thing he did do, was leave his jacket hanging on the back of the kitchen door. An excuse to come back to see her. Unfortunately that little ploy is about to backfire.

When Anna wakes to an owl slaughtered on her doorstep, she calls the police, but after they left she found Flynn’s jacket in her bedroom, with a bloody knife in the pocket. Furious she drives to Levi’s compound to confront Flynn.
Flynn was shocked and Logan suggests they test the blood on the knife. It was human. Now they have find a body and deal with the police.

Since Anna couldn’t stay in her home and animal shelter, Levi invites her to stay at the compound and Flynn rides with her to explain why he left his jacket.

Things start to unravel as Anna gets a SEAL trident in the mail, and the team starts looking at some sort of connection to Flynn. The problem, whoever is responsible is targeting Anna and her no kill animal shelter.

In spite of Anna and Flynn both having tempers, they are really well suited to each other. They both have a love of animals, and I teared up when Anna got a very large donation check which allowed her to catch up on bills and would support many of the needed repairs.

Unfortunately things seem to escalate instead of calm where Flynn is concerned.

Fast paced, action packed and the heat turns up on the fiery relationship between Anna and Flynn.