The Red Admiral

The Red Angel Series, Book 4

By: C. R. Daems

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

Anna's success as the Eastar NIA station chief has catapulted her into the position of Director of NIA Stations. Anna is uncomfortable with the promotion and bored. She has a master chief secretary, a lieutenant aide-de-camp, and 15 commanders and their staff to do the work. But she suspects not all of her commanders are happy with their new, very young admiral or are doing their jobs. But she has no way to observe those commanders as their stations reside on distant systems.

A personal request from Admiral Webb to look into a friend's missing daughter solves the bored problem and provides Anna an excuse to tour her NIA stations. While dealing with resentful station chiefs, she discovers women who meet a very specific profile are being kidnapped across the UAS. Anna manages to unravel the mystery, but because of the profile, she finds stopping the criminal organization and freeing the kidnapped women will take years, during which time more women will be kidnapped and fewer will survive to be saved.

Unless...Anna is willing to disregard the laws that safeguard the innocent and that are protecting the criminals and very influential people the criminals' activities support. Actions that will open her to prosecution and life imprisonment if plots to retire her early and permanently don't succeed first.

©2019 C. R. Daems (P)2019 Skyboat Media, Inc.

This series caught me by surprise!

As mentioned in my title, the series caught me by surprise as I don’t usually listen to this type of story but I am happy to say I really enjoyed the story. But the ending, although good left me hoping for at least on more to in my opinion finish Anna’s story. Because again in my opinion not knowing if Anna lived a long life and not getting any info about red is frustrating to say the least since the author gave us no insight into Red’s origin, Inquiring minds want to know! All in all the story drew me in from the first book and I couldn’t put it down or rather stop listening.

Good but mature Theme

This book is about sex trafficking and may not be appropriate for younger readers. The performance is great. But the material is questionable for the audience that is portrayed on the cover.

good

very good book I would rather listen to female narrators than any othr and she is my favorite narrator. I have dyslexia and I've only been getting into books within the last year really enjoy

I love this series

I love this series I have read this book's my biggest disappointment is that there isn't a final book to let us know whether or not she lived or married

enjoyable reading

I really enjoyed this series of books. They had a different twist to them that keep them interesting and fresh. I recommend for the advent reader that enjoys different types of adventures. The narrator is outstanding in this series.

Overall fun books but some really annoying parts

An example would be if Chris would’ve repeated the line about the husband and future kids one more time I was gonna shoot myself. Also, she literally has the worst security team ever in the history of security teams.

Anna’s toughest assignment, and probably the most dangerous yet. Ends well, and redeems the series. (Spoiler somewhat.)

Thoroughly enjoyed. Formalistic as the preceding books in the series, but fun.


Now I see the wisdom of having a certain event that happened in one of the preceding titles in the series. Had wondered why go in such detail, when I was expecting a cursory approach.


In that previous title with the defining event (which really is second to Anna’s origin story at the start of the series) bothered me at first. I was wondering why it was even in there. Well, in this last title in the series I clearly understand why. And it was rewarding. And it produced tears at more than one interval.


The only thing I didn’t like in this final installment, was how it ended.


All the other titles in the series had something of a happy/feel-good epilogue. Like at the end of STAR WARS “A New Hope.” A little celebration. An intimate time with Anna and her mother “Alexa.” (Which that name/word was a bit of persistent irritation because it set off my Amazon Echo devices in the house that have the wake word “Alexa” active!)


Anyway, I was expecting a happy celebratory experience at the very end. It didn’t. It just concluded with what would be a phone call in our time, or a text message. No drinking drinks, or cheering, or eating with laughter and warm hearts abounding.


I was looking for that.


Oh well, I enjoyed this entire series, and especially this last title in the series because it was redeeming from a certain prior event in Anna’s history. Those of you who have read/listened to the prior titles in the series can properly infer what I’m referring to.


I’m going to miss Red; no more books in the series. Never thought I’d miss a venomous snake, or have fond thoughts of one.


Cheers, y’all.

Timeline?

I loved the story, but can anyone explain why she advances so much in age? First book, she is 17/18 + 2 yr investigation = 19/20. At the beginning of 2nd she is 21 (believable working minor cases) + 2 yr = 23. At the beginning of the 3rd, she is 24 (believable, waiting for promotion date) + 2 yr = 26. But, then immediately, at the beginning of the 4th, she is 30. I thought it a mistake, because the book stated 26 years with Red and I thought oops 26 years old (22 years with Red). Then later a navy captain specifically said she was 30. By my calculations, she was a year into the investigation and should have been 27. What am I missing, because the author probably has a detailed timeline. Of course, I made the assumption that each investigation was 2 years. I actually believe them less, but was being generous to make the previous jumps believable.

Love

I absolutely love all of the books to this series. Never a dull moment. I’m completely engaged from start to finish. I’ll be sad when I have gone through the whole series.

Potentially My Favorite

Of this series, this book may have been my favorite. I loathe snakes but I think if I had one as quirky as red I'd get used to it.