Book description:
A deadly attack.
A stolen weapon capable of immense destruction.
A painful secret that threatens to tear two hearts apart.
CGIS Agent Noah Rowley is rocked to the core when several of his valued team members come under fire on his Coast Guard base. He and his remaining team race to the scene and end the attack, but not before innocent lives are lost. Furious and grief-stricken, he vows to do whatever is needed to bring the mastermind behind the attack to justice.
Stunned by the ambush, Coast Guard flight medic Brooke Kesler evacuates in a helicopter carrying the only surviving gunman. The gravely wounded man whispers mysterious information to Brooke that immediately paints a target on her back.
As Brooke and Noah race to uncover answers, emotions between them ignite. Noah struggles to protect Brooke at all costs and to conceal the secret that prevents him from becoming what he longs to be--the right man for her.
Everything is at stake as a horrifying truth emerges. . . .
The attack wasn't the end game. It was only the beginning.
My review:
Dani Pettrey came on the Christian fiction scene in May of 2012 with Submerged, the first book of her Alaskan Courage Series, and immediately became one of my top favorite Christian suspense authors. Deadly Shallows keeps her at that spot.
A year ago, The Crushing Depths left readers thinking and hoping that this next book would feature Brooke and Noah, the CGIS Agent In Charge....and that is what happened.
I try not to exaggerate in book reviews, but this book was over the top awesome. It may be her best one yet. Twenty-five pages in, there is a shooting, and the book has non stop action and suspense from that point on.
The book had a great plot, and Pettrey did a great job of taking that plot and making a very entertaining and suspenseful read that yes, I did read in one sitting. This is NOT a book you leave on your bed stand and read a little of it over a few weeks. It deserves.....maybe even demands to be read and devoured at one sitting. Or did it devour me?
I feel this author excels at team camaraderie. Her first series was about a family, but this and the previous series is about a team. I enjoyed the suspense of course - that is my favorite genre' - but I also enjoyed the interplay and friendships between the team members and those helping them. And possibly more evident in this book was the different talents/specialties of each member and how they worked their individual skill set to solve the case, and give their updates at the daily case board updates.
The bad guys were awesome......well, still bad, but their role and reasons for what happened were well thought out and what is a suspense novel without bad guys?
Noah and Brooke: this is romantic suspense, and this bachelor for life long ago started tolerating the romantic aspect of these books, and now I actually enjoy them and root for them. There is an element of what I guess you can call suspense when it comes to even those parts of the book. They obviously made a great couple, but Noah's secret was holding him back. Both of them were very likable and awesome characters, and I admit my eyes watered at the one scene when Noah finally came clean.
In addition to that romance, there was also a budding romance fun to watch between Caleb and Austin (don't worry - in this book Austin was a female) :)
The further I got in the book, the more suspenseful it got and the more happened as the bad guys desperately worked toward their final goal. There were some surprises, and you never knew who was going to end up dead next.
The whole story came to quite an explosive climax that had me on the end of my seat reading as fast as I could. The good guys did their job, and the bad guys.......well, read the book. But read the first two before you read #3.
Deadly Shadows had a great ending after the case was over. It was both amusing and a satisfying end to the Noah and Brooke part of the story.
This third book in the Coastal Guardian Series shows why this author is so well loved and popular. And it also shows why she needs to keep using her talent to write top quality Christian suspense. Definitely five stars, thought it deserves more than the allotted five.
I am hoping there is a book #4, and that it covers Logan and Emmy. Logan, the non-believer of the team, has been an intriguing character throughout all three books.
I was provided a copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions in this review are my own.
About the author:
Publishers Weekly and #1 Amazon bestselling author, Dani Pettrey has sold nearly 800,000 copies of her novels to readers eagerly awaiting the next release. Dani combines the page-turning adrenaline of a thriller with the chemistry and happy-ever-after of a romance.
Her novels stand out for their "wicked pace, snappy dialogue, and likable characters" (Publishers Weekly), "gripping storyline[s]," (RT Book Reviews), and "sizzling undercurrent of romance" (USA Today).
She researches murder and mayhem from her home in Maryland. For more information about her novels, visit danipettrey.com.
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