USA Today bestselling author Mary Buckham credits her years of international travel and curiosity about different cultures that resulted in creating high-concept urban fantasy and romantic suspense stories. Her newest Invisible Recruit series has been touted for the unique voice, high action and rich emotion. A prolific writer, Mary also co-authors the young adult sci-fi/fantasy Red Moon series with NYT bestseller Dianna Love. Mary lives in Washington State with her husband and, when not crafting a new adventure, she travels the country researching settings and teaching other writers. Don’t miss her latest reference book Writing Active Setting.
Currently she is neck-deep into writing an Urban Fantasy series centered around five women drafted to combat preternatural beings agitating for world domination. The INVISIBLE RECRUIT series combines a fantasy/paranormal element with high stakes and the pace of action adventure stories. Mary loves creating thrills, spills and spells as she follows the ups and downs of fascinating characters starting with Alex Noziak, the heroine of INVISIBLE MAGIC, INVISIBLE FATE and INVISIBLE POWER.
This book had a great premise but poor execution. Vaughn the female lead despises her instructor but there is no background to establish why this is the case and this animosity toward him carries on for the course of the book. Although the all female team is supposed to be trained as operatives Vaughn is juvenile in her thinking and makes dangerous and childish decisions that could endanger the missions and the people involved. Worse than that is when she does these things she does not tell any of her team members and this is against all the procedures of this these kind of operations. The sex scene was short, basic and the details very general. For a book in the Silhouette line I was expecting something spicy where the sex was involved. I did not have fun reading this book and would not recommend it.
This genre is so out of my comfort zone, but I enjoyed this novel primarily because the characters were so real I felt I could sit and have a coffee with them and then join them on their adventure.
I picked up this book after reading the other books in the Invisible Recruit series. I love this series. This book is the story about Vaughn and M T Stone and their first mission. I really enjoyed this book and I loved the flashy ending. This book could be a stand alone book or read at anytime after reading any of the other books. Just be sure to add this one to your list.
I am so glad Mary Buckham didn't give up on writing this series. I hope she will write more of the stories. With so many recruits this could be a long lived series.