Hard Line by Pamela Clare

4 Stars

Dr. Samantha Park’s living on and working on the South Pole.  This is supposed to be her second year working there and she was planning on it being just as good as the first year until the death of her roommate.  She is still trying to come to grips with the loss when three men from Cobra International Security arrive to find a downed satellite containing military secrets.  Thor is planning on a mission that will be in and out but things go awry almost immediately.  He also can’t get Samantha out of his head.  They will need to work together to discover who brought the satellite down and murdered Samantha’s friend.

I started with this book and absolutely loved it.  It was interesting to see how things are handled at the South Pole.  I really liked Samantha and Thor together.  They were an interesting couple who led lives that were not going to be on the same continent but by the end it seemed that would work out for them.  It was a really fast read and it made me want to go and read the rest of the series. 

Book 5 Cobra Elite 

Hard Target by Pamela Clare

 

4 Stars

Derek Tower, owner of a private military group Cobra, is sent in when things get difficult.  When he receives a call from a Senator to go to Afghanistan and bring his daughter home no matter what he at first refuses.  However, the Senator uses blackmail to get him to agree to go.  He reluctantly heads over to talk with Jenna into giving up her midwife duties to go stateside.  What Derek doesn’t plan for is the attraction they have for each other or the lengths in which the Senator will go to get her home.

This is a spin off series off of the I-Team series.  I haven’t read this series and jumped in with a different book in this series.  When I finished that one I wanted to read the rest of them so I went back to the beginning.  You don’t have to have read I-Team to understand what is going on in this book.  Now that the explanation is out of the way on to my thoughts on the book.  I enjoyed it a lot.  It seemed pretty accurate on the front of what the expectations of women in Afghanistan are and the danger aid workers are in when they go over there.  I liked the couple for the most part but there were times when Jenna frustrated me.  There was some pretty good action in the book before they head back stateside.  The only real disappointment for me was the Senator didn’t get his comeuppance.  Will definitely be checking out the rest of the series. 

Book 1 Cobra Elite