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A review by kame
Out of the Night by Geri Foster
4.0
Abby Williams is a reporter, a good one. Reporters need great inner strength to pursue their story, but rarely are they called upon to rescue someone. That happens to be what Abby has been asked to do. She must walk into the most notorious Russian prison, pretend she has been sent there to transport a prisoner and walk out with Tony Archuletta. Tony had been kidnapped as he was on a rescue mission for one of the CIA’s most important agents. The agent was still missing, and Tony was the last to talk to him; and the best person suited to find him and bring him home safe. Abby knew Tony might not be happy to see her, it had been eighteen months since he stopped trusting her and walked out of her life; but she assumed he would know who she was. When she took off her disguise, Abby never expected Tony would not recognize her and try to kill her!
Classified as Romantic Suspense; this book is high on the suspense part, but light on the romance. Honestly if you took out the few romantic scenes and the final scene between Abby and Tony you would have a fantastic suspense novel. The romance scenes are few and rather tame; I felt the urgency of the connection but not a lot of the emotions I expected the characters to be going through. There is a high degree of violence, which matches the plot.
I read this book rather quickly; I started around my children’s bedtime, stayed up way too late and then finished the last part in the morning. The structure of this book fostered this ability to read quickly, I felt I would get lost if I put it down for a long period of time. This is because the plot of this book has many different scene locations. Similar to a soap opera episode, this book’s chapters where broken up to set the scene of a few crucial characters in different locations, and then would go back to Tony and Abby. Essential scenes in Dallas, Georgetown, Cairo, and Moscow could all be in one chapter.
Out of the Night is the third book in a series. I have not read the other books in the series, and honestly I haven’t even read the blurbs to know where this connects into the overall series plot. This book fit very well as a stand-alone book for me. At no time did I feel I was missing part of the story. I think Tony’s foggy memory at the beginning of the book helped with the readability. The times I felt lost as to his and Abby’s relationship Tony did too.
I am not sure I would go back and read the other books in this series, but I may move forward in the series if there is a book 4; I would read another Geri Foster book. I received this book as a gift and this is my honest review.
Classified as Romantic Suspense; this book is high on the suspense part, but light on the romance. Honestly if you took out the few romantic scenes and the final scene between Abby and Tony you would have a fantastic suspense novel. The romance scenes are few and rather tame; I felt the urgency of the connection but not a lot of the emotions I expected the characters to be going through. There is a high degree of violence, which matches the plot.
I read this book rather quickly; I started around my children’s bedtime, stayed up way too late and then finished the last part in the morning. The structure of this book fostered this ability to read quickly, I felt I would get lost if I put it down for a long period of time. This is because the plot of this book has many different scene locations. Similar to a soap opera episode, this book’s chapters where broken up to set the scene of a few crucial characters in different locations, and then would go back to Tony and Abby. Essential scenes in Dallas, Georgetown, Cairo, and Moscow could all be in one chapter.
Out of the Night is the third book in a series. I have not read the other books in the series, and honestly I haven’t even read the blurbs to know where this connects into the overall series plot. This book fit very well as a stand-alone book for me. At no time did I feel I was missing part of the story. I think Tony’s foggy memory at the beginning of the book helped with the readability. The times I felt lost as to his and Abby’s relationship Tony did too.
I am not sure I would go back and read the other books in this series, but I may move forward in the series if there is a book 4; I would read another Geri Foster book. I received this book as a gift and this is my honest review.