It appears this is this author's first book, but if it is, I'm gonna take my socks off and eat them. Maybe they've written under a different pen name,It appears this is this author's first book, but if it is, I'm gonna take my socks off and eat them. Maybe they've written under a different pen name, because the plotline is too structured and the writing too fluid, everything simply too on point for Sweet Hart to be Rae Marks's debut novel.
Immediately gripping is the best way to describe it. It began with Brayden knocking at a run-down apartment's door, hoping that whoever opened it had answers about his brother's Mase location. Well, he didn't get any answers, but he met Sam, the most infuriating and sexiest man ever, and also the one who Brayden knew for a fact withheld information on Mase's whereabouts. Brayden wouldn't have anything or anyone stand in his way, even if that meant following Sam to Kiev and straight in the middle of covert operation set up to infiltrate an international trafficking organization.
Things moved fast after Brayden set foot in Kiev and it all happened in a rapid sequence of events. A fake relationship between Brayden and Sam, shootings, danger, surprising shifting alliances, scheming, undercover agents, action. Brayden was taken hostage and shot a couple of times, Sam and his men had to thread water carefully with the gang leaders ... I never knew what would happen as I turned the pages and it was beyond exciting.
Brayden and Sam had each other to, let's say, relief some of the tension lol. They took full advantage of having to fake a relationship and their initial instant attraction transformed into some pretty darn hot sex scenes with a dash of kink dynamic. Acting on their chemistry was the easy part for them, because they showed that under the trained military toughness they hid vulnerabilities that actually blocked them from admitting the strong emotional connection that both slowly started to feel. I loved them together, although I often got irritated at Brayden when he took decisions that risked everyone's lives, or at Sam's stubbornness, but it only got me more invested in their fight for survival and their relationship.
As a whole, Sweet Hart was a thrilling mix bag of romance, secret op, mafia and action. At its core, though, it was a book about family. The found one that Sam, Mase and their group of misfits built for each other, and Brayden's troubled one. Each had their own problems and ways to show emotions, but the bond that united their members was strong. Two different kind of families that met, often clashed and eventually mixed. Brayden and Sam as a couple, and Mase, kind of linked them in this book and maybe Nick, Brayden's twin, will too next in the series. I'm definitely enamoured with this group of men and their different personalities, and I'm looking forward to reading all their future stories.
AND... debut novel or not - still convinced it's not- congrats to Rae Marks for having written an awesome, intense, emotional, steamy, romantic, fast paced and thrilling book....more
Anabela.M.
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