The Recruit by Fiona Palmer

RECRUIT
The Recruit by Fiona Palmer
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Genre: Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery, YA
Length: Full Length (199 pages)
Age Recommendation: 14+
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Quince

Jasmine Thomas may not be completely normal, but she’s a pretty typical seventeen-year-old girl. She hates the rich mean kids, loves her best friends, and can’t wait to get out of school each day. Her spare time is spent at The Ring — a boxing gym where she practically grew up — learning karate, boxing and street fighting. So, yeah, Jaz can kick some major butt.
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Life seems pretty normal until the day Ryan Fletcher enters her gym…mysterious and hot with heaps of bad boy charm. Sure, she checks him out. Who wouldn’t? But what doesn’t show on his gorgeous abs are secrets and lies that dominate his very grown-up world. Now Jaz has to figure out just how far she is willing to go to know more. Could Ryan really be offering the life-fulfilling life path she’s always dreamed of?

If I have to make a subtitle for this book it will be: How Jasmine Thomas became a MTG agent and fell in love in the process. Because, this is what The Recruit is about.

Jasmine (Jaz) Thomas is a seventeen-year-old tomboy. She likes to spend her time in the gym or at the shooting range, and she also has some other skills that make her a perfect candidate for an agent. Because of that, Ryan Fletcher approached her and asked her to become a recruit for the MTG agency.

The Recruit is a great story. It has the right amount of action, romance, friendship and teenage drama. It is supposed to be a fast paced story, but unfortunately there are a few chapters that slowed it down a bit. Also, it would be a more perfect story if it was deprived of predictability and clichés. But on the other hand, the romance part of the story is crafted magnificently. The chemistry between Jasmin (Jaz) and Ryan is palpable and it made my heart beat faster. I am sure that the fact that their love is forbidden, due to many reasons, made their romance even more interesting and exciting, for me. The story does not have cliffhanger, but it is obvious that there will be at least one more sequel. Some secrets have to be revealed and Jaz and Ryan’s relationship is far from reaching HEA. I also hope that Ms. Palmer will dedicate at least one story in the series (even the short one) to Taylor and Anna.

I enjoyed reading The Recruit tremendously. Regardless of above mentioned flaws it is a good, interesting and entertaining story. Therefore if you love good romance with a pinch of thriller this is a story for you. I am looking forward to the second installment in the series. But, also I am adding other Ms. Palmer’s novels to my TBR pile.

Adam’s Boys by Anna Clifton

BOYS
Adam’s Boys by Anna Clifton
Publisher: Escape Publishing
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Full Length (157 pgs)
Heat Level: Sweet
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by Gardenia

Wrong girl — wrong time? Adam’s fling with Abbie just weeks after the death of his wife may have been all wrong, but their time together gave him the strength to return home to his newborn son, Pete, and start their new life together.

Wrong guy — wrong time? Abbie’s fling with Adam may have been all wrong, but their time together gave her Henry, the sunshine in her life, and although Adam is long gone, Abbie can never regret the time they spent together.

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Abbie has scars from her own tumultuous childhood, and losing Henry would destroy her. But with only mistrust and pain to bind them, can she and Adam ever find a way through regret to love and the family they could be?

Five years ago, Adam and Abbie spent three weeks enjoying an all-consuming love affair. Although brief, their closeness helped Adam deal with the recent death of his wife and made him strong enough to face the fact that he had a 3-month-old son to raise by himself. As he said goodbye to Abbie, he was resolved to deal with his guilt and to live up to his promise to raise his son with love and care.

The crux of the matter though is that unknown to him he left Abbie pregnant. Because of circumstances, Abbie never alerted him of this fact. Now, Adam has returned and Abbie must break the news to him of the son he has never met.
Wow! Talk about an intense situation! I loved the tension between the characters as they face each other. The time that has passed has alienated them, but the feelings that attracted them to each other still exist.

This story deals with the pain of abandonment and lack of trust. It also deals with the consequences of survivor guilt, as Adam blames himself for this young wife’s death due to cancer. If he had not asked her for a baby, she would have been able to treat her cancer after it was diagnosed. By the time she was diagnosed, she had been in her second trimester, seen the ultrasound pictures, and fallen in love with the baby she carried. There was no way she would endanger her baby by undergoing cancer treatment or an abortion.

Abbie’s history of family abandonment, where she was left devastated and alone, has a deep impact in her inability to trust anyone to stay and live up to their commitments. She cannot trust that Adam will be the partner and father he proposes to be. She knows her son Henry needs a father in his life, but fears Adam will abandon them eventually and Henry will suffer as she did when she was young.

This is a powerful book, full of emotion, dealing with sensitive issues, and in the end, full of hope. I would strongly recommend this love story. There are no steamy love scenes, but there is plenty of angst and deeply moving scenes for all.