Veena’s review of Out of Time (Lost Platoon, Book 3) by Monica McCarty
Romantic Suspense published by Berkley 31 Dec 18
This series kicked off with a bang! A top-secret SEAL team mission’s compromised and a betrayal at the highest level. Secret survivors hide off the grid and are hunted by friends or enemies? All included with excitement and romance too. This sounded like the highest grade of catnip for a reader like me. Alas…
When the series started off, I settled in for a cozy series expecting exciting, highly romantic stories for these hunky SEAL heroes and the excitement of hunting down the traitors. As the story has progressed, particularly in the previous book, there were a lot of conflicting stories competing for air time, though the central theme made it through successfully.
And then wham, bang and the series is done, the traitor is exposed. It all feels so rushed and I feel a bit cheated that the series peaked and landed without my realizing it. It is an exciting plot with Russian sleeper agents smuggled into this country, with children growing up in the system and being in position to aid a traitor’s plans.
I am disappointed that the SEALs who died stayed dead and the author did not stage an 11th hour surprise survival story. While I personally felt that there were other stories waiting to be told, the author did not and so I bow to her mage. I read that she is going back to Scotland to spin us tales about the Campbells, which I am looking forward to.
Grade: C
Summary:
A hunt for dangerous secrets leads to explosive chemistry in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Off the Grid.
A team of Navy SEALs go on a mission and disappear without a trace—they are The Lost Platoon.
With his men scattered to all corners of the globe after a disastrous secret op in Russia, Lieutenant Commander Scott Taylor is trying to find out who was responsible for leaking the information that killed half his platoon. Were it not for Natalie Andersson, the woman he’d been secretly dating in the Pentagon who’d warned him of the danger, he knows they’d all be dead. Scott is devastated when he hears that the woman he loved and hoped to marry has been killed for helping him—until he learns that Natalie was the spy who betrayed them. But when his search to clear his name brings him face-to-face with a very much alive Natalie, Scott realizes that justice and vengeance might not be as clear-cut as he thought.
Natalie Andersson, or as she was born Natalya Petrova, has put the memories of her early childhood in Russia behind her. She never dreamed that she would be at the center of an elaborate “sleeper” espionage program. Even when she learns the truth, she refuses to spy for the country of her birth, until the Russians threaten the lives of the only family she’s ever known. But Natalie is the worst spy in the history of spying, falling for her target. When her attempt at misdirection leads to irreversible consequences, she’s forced to run for her life, with her lover hot on her tail.
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