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Review by catmitchell102390 -- Shadow Game by A.M. Adair
[Following is a volunteer review of "Shadow Game" by A.M. Adair.]
Elle Anderson lives a quiet life. She owns two houses, one in the city the other in the country, in which she resides alone. Her job as a freelance photographer takes her around the world. Those travels capture breathtaking additions to her photo blog, but she still doesn't feel at home. You see, photos aren't all that Elle captures. Elle is most at home when she is in the midst of a strategic assassination.
Freelance photography, while a good pastime, is only Anderson's cover. When she gets a call for her services, they don't want her pictures. They want her honed skills, special abilities, and her silence. The military trained Elle to perform a duty without question and now, they call on her when everything else has failed. Her training, sociopathic tendencies, and intense focus have never failed her or the military. Everything is just how Elle likes it.
Elle works with her hand-picked team. Mike Traviano "Tex" is her right hand man and military himself, Jack Paulson is her techie and a natural geek, and Eve James is her beautiful analyst and desperate to be her friend. They work together to bring down a terrorist group in Iraq. The Daesh is a fascist group of men who have placed themselves in positions of power and use the newly accessible internet to recruit and propagate for their cause. With her team's help, Elle intends to eliminate key players at crucial moments causing civil war within Daesh.
Shadow Game by A.M. Adair is book one of three and beautifully written. I love that it puts a woman at the helm of a male stereotype, yet keeps the femininity intact. Adair gives vivid descriptions that give passage to her story realm. I felt as though I was lying, belly down, next to Elle as she strategically eliminates each of her Daesh targets. The growth of the team, individually and collectively, is remarkable. I found myself in tears, joy and sadness alike.
I would rate this book 4 out of 4 . Grammatical errors escaping my detection, profanity being the same as any other word on the page, and Adair portraying a battle of men as perfectly as a battle of the heart; gives the need to rate this book in such high regard. While there isn't an error in the book, I would recommend that only mature adults read it. It's graphic content and excessive profanity, while necessary, isn't something I wouldn't introduce too early. But without her explicit details, the story loses some of its magic.
The battle of good and evil is not separated by a solid, straight line. Battling emotional turmoil in the midst of physical turmoil finds Elle far from beaten. But does she have what it takes to deal with this challenge in the middle of war? Come and see how her story plays out and join me in getting my hands on the next chapters in the life of this special ops team. On to book two!
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Shadow Game
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Elle Anderson lives a quiet life. She owns two houses, one in the city the other in the country, in which she resides alone. Her job as a freelance photographer takes her around the world. Those travels capture breathtaking additions to her photo blog, but she still doesn't feel at home. You see, photos aren't all that Elle captures. Elle is most at home when she is in the midst of a strategic assassination.
Freelance photography, while a good pastime, is only Anderson's cover. When she gets a call for her services, they don't want her pictures. They want her honed skills, special abilities, and her silence. The military trained Elle to perform a duty without question and now, they call on her when everything else has failed. Her training, sociopathic tendencies, and intense focus have never failed her or the military. Everything is just how Elle likes it.
Elle works with her hand-picked team. Mike Traviano "Tex" is her right hand man and military himself, Jack Paulson is her techie and a natural geek, and Eve James is her beautiful analyst and desperate to be her friend. They work together to bring down a terrorist group in Iraq. The Daesh is a fascist group of men who have placed themselves in positions of power and use the newly accessible internet to recruit and propagate for their cause. With her team's help, Elle intends to eliminate key players at crucial moments causing civil war within Daesh.
Shadow Game by A.M. Adair is book one of three and beautifully written. I love that it puts a woman at the helm of a male stereotype, yet keeps the femininity intact. Adair gives vivid descriptions that give passage to her story realm. I felt as though I was lying, belly down, next to Elle as she strategically eliminates each of her Daesh targets. The growth of the team, individually and collectively, is remarkable. I found myself in tears, joy and sadness alike.
I would rate this book 4 out of 4 . Grammatical errors escaping my detection, profanity being the same as any other word on the page, and Adair portraying a battle of men as perfectly as a battle of the heart; gives the need to rate this book in such high regard. While there isn't an error in the book, I would recommend that only mature adults read it. It's graphic content and excessive profanity, while necessary, isn't something I wouldn't introduce too early. But without her explicit details, the story loses some of its magic.
The battle of good and evil is not separated by a solid, straight line. Battling emotional turmoil in the midst of physical turmoil finds Elle far from beaten. But does she have what it takes to deal with this challenge in the middle of war? Come and see how her story plays out and join me in getting my hands on the next chapters in the life of this special ops team. On to book two!
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Shadow Game
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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