Storm Force

De: Susannah Sandlin

Narrado por: Alexander Cendese

When a bomb explodes inside a Houston high-rise and the governor of Texas goes missing in the ensuing melee, former army ranger Jack "Kell" Kellison and the Omega Force counterterrorism team are called into action. Their mission: infiltrate the activist group suspected of masterminding the bombing, neutralize the threat, and recover the hostage. Yet within moments of meeting his prime suspect, beautiful environmentalist Mori Chastaine, Kell knows she's innocent of the bombing - but definitely guilty of something. Mori has a secret, one she is desperate to hide from Kell and the rest of the world - a secret that binds her to a primal power hungry to assure its future, even at the cost of thousands of innocent human lives. If Mori dares to reveal her true identity, will Kell join her fight? Or will she become his next target?

©2013 Susannah Sandlin (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Full On Action!!

Kell is an ex-Ranger with an injury, now part of Omega Force, a group of combined military or ex-military and shifters who are organized as a task force. When a building is blown up in Houston, his group is called in to try to find the culprit. All points at first to Mori, who heads an environmental group, and unknown to the group is a shifter herself. She is involved in the plot as a victim of sorts, but has no part in creating the bombing. From there, the interaction/romance of Kell and Mori takes place.

This book introduces some side characters (Robin and her friend), who are then leads (the heroine) or strong secondary characters in another of Sandlin's books, Allegiance. In timing, this book falls right after Omega in the Penton series before Allegiance.

I really enjoyed this book. Like others of Sandlin's, there is more action and plot than romance, and they are paranormals. She is a great writer though, and I was engrossed in this story, which started as a serial but is contained in entirety in this book.

Read it again and deleted the review..

Third time I read it..

This was a solid 4 star read overall, the story was good, the characters were wonderful BUT I had a problem with a part or two. Michael Benedict was simply evil and here’s what he did: He bombed a high-rise killing more than 200 people and kidnapping the governor (Michael admitted it to Mori). Then when Mori went to Michael in order to save Kell (another stupid heroine who thinks the hero needs her to save him) Michael branded her in the middle of her back with a “B” and threw her in the attic of his mansion without food until she “begged” him to screw her. Then when she was rescued by Kell he was ordered to offer Michael a deal to stop all of his killing, so as not have the world know there was such a thing as a shifter. Now, keep in mind that Michael is a shape-shifting Dire wolf, about 6 feet long from muzzle to tail and standing waist-high to a human, and they sent Kell in to meet Michael ALONE to make this offer, and Kell is just a human. Needless to say, a fight broke out and just as Michael was about to chomp down on the unconscious Kell’s throat Mori showed up and she and Michael fought, since she was a Dire wolf, too. Now, here Michael is unconscious and Mori is about to chomp down on his throat and Kell wakes up and yells at her not to! She’d never be able to live with herself. OMG, really? It shouldn’t have mattered who or how someone killed him as long as someone did. Oh, well, it took a while but he got what he deserved. The last 2 chapters were so exciting I couldn’t read it fast enough. The battle between Kell, Mori, and Michael was awesome.

I liked that Kell was a Ranger working for a really black ops organization, along with the vamps of Penton Alabama. I liked his team too: Robin, the eagle shifter, Nik, the one with the Touch, Archer, the cougar shifter, Gadget, the tech-guy, and Colonel Rick Thomas. They were all great secondary characters. I’m looking forward to the 5th book, due out July 11th.

Kell and Mori had sex at about 27% and then again at about 86% but I never felt any real chemistry between them so I skimmed the sex parts.

And the F-bomb was used 83 times.

As to the narration: First of all, my apologizes to Alexander Cendese for the 2 stars I gave him for his narration the first time I listened to this. I hadn’t listened to too many audios at that point so I was all wrong in my ratings. I listened to him narrate this book AGAIN and he really was wonderful. I rated him on his women’s voices ONLY the first time and that wasn’t right. He absolutely did suck at women’s voices but his men’s voices and his emotions were incredible. Now that I have almost 1000 books in my audible library and I can tell you without a doubt that I’d much rather have a deep voiced woman than a man with a soprano voice. I can listen to a book with the awful voice for a woman but if a man has a girlie voice I almost always stop listening. There’s nothing worse than a hero described as 6’ tall, 6’3,” 6’6,” or 6’8” with a deep sexy voice and when he opens his mouth he sounds just like a girl. Ugh!

Suspense with a dash of fantasy

When I purchased this, I was expecting a straight forward suspense romance. I was surprised when I found that the Omega Force team Kell belongs to had some 'shifter' members. I suppose given Susannah Sandlin's other wonderful books I should have expected this, but the summary gave no indication so I did have a 'what the heck?' moment before I got sucked in to the excellent story. Alexander Cendese has a wonderfully deep reading voice. His female voices were a little jarring at the beginning, but by the end of the story they felt perfectly smooth. Thoroughly recommended!

Hope this isn't the last one!

While a little slow at the start, the story picks up quickly and invites more human/shifter tales to come in the future.

Storm Force

Really good except for a huge mistake in regards to the bad guy, but otherwise, I enjoyed the combo of ex-military & shifters. 👍