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Mar 09, 2015 Duchess Nicole rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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5 Only-Anne-Stuart-Can-Write-These-Heroes Stars!!!

Un-put-downable!!!!! It's no secret that I'm a huge Anne Stuart fan, and Bastien from Black Ice will always be a favorite hero of mine. While I can't say that James has usurped Bastien's place in my heart for best ass hole gamma hero, I can say that he is neck and neck with the other Ice series heroes. This is what I feel like I've been waiting for since consuming the Ice series three years ago. More of the Committee...only Peter Masden is ★★★★★

5 Only-Anne-Stuart-Can-Write-These-Heroes Stars!!!

Un-put-downable!!!!! It's no secret that I'm a huge Anne Stuart fan, and Bastien from Black Ice will always be a favorite hero of mine. While I can't say that James has usurped Bastien's place in my heart for best ass hole gamma hero, I can say that he is neck and neck with the other Ice series heroes. This is what I feel like I've been waiting for since consuming the Ice series three years ago. More of the Committee...only Peter Masden is in charge now, and we have a whole new set of nearly-unloveable heroes and the women who effing OWN them.

Let's see if I can reel in the gushfest that's trying to spill onto my review space :D

A huge reason that I fangirl over Anne Stuart is because of how true she stays not only to her characters, but to her overall series. The Committee has never been (and I'm assuming never will be) anything less than a hardhearted, cold as ice group of people who do whatever it takes to right some wrongs. That's not to say that everything they do is ethical or legal. Hell no. But they get stuff done, and lucky for us, they give rise to some of the most intense heroes and heroines that have been written into romantic fiction. These people are just the same as they were when the series started.

In this book, the heroine starts out somewhat naive, somewhat lonely, and definitely searching for something that she doesn't know is missing. Somehow the universe deems it a fit time to introduce Evangeline to Bishop, a Committee operative and intrinsically hard hearted man. When she witnesses a murder, Bishop's sadistic partner insists on executing her. But as with all of Stuart's heroines, Evangeline has that intangible something that pulls out James' (Bishop's) protective side. But only for long enough to save the girl. Then, he abandons her and disappears.

And the rest is golden. It's a mental battle for a man who is as cold as they come...a man who has spent his life living with no emotion and no remorse, not to mention no tenderness or love. And poor Evangeline! Trying to move on and yet tied to a man she still loves, even though he wrecked and ruined her. It's the ultimate in the good vs evil dilemma. There is most definitely some evil in James, but his demons come out to play when his "wife" is threatened once again.

Throw these two together again, and the magic that is Anne Stuart is back with a vengeance! I am unreasonably excited about this new series. Especially if this is indicative of how much I'll love it!

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Jan 17, 2015 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing

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My, my, my! This is Anne Stuart doing what she does so well and without any filters. I loved it, rawness and all.

Reviewed for Affaire de Coeur Magazine in the May issue. http://www.affairedecoeur.com. ...more

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Apr 06, 2015 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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James and Evangeline

Anne Stuart and the arsehole hero is back!! Yay! I couldn't be more excited! Full review to come on Fiction Vixen Book Reviews ...more

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Apr 13, 2015 Darcy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, spies, romantic-suspense, 2015

I really liked this author's Ice series, so when I learned that this one was a spin off I was excited it. While I enjoyed this one it wasn't as good as the Ice series.

I sort of hated James at the start. He was so cold and calculated towards Evangeline, even as he had an odd crush on her. As soon as the dog showed up I knew that he was from James, Merlin was too well trained. I liked the role that Merlin played later in the book, how both James and Evangeline thought the dog betrayed them for the ...more

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