A Novel with Thoughts and Ponderings

NIGHT MOVES

Author: Stephanie Tyler ISBN: 9780440423058 10/2011 SUSPENSE Publisher: DELL

Night Moves by Stephanie Tyler
Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.
 
Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story—and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.

Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other—and simply surrender.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

NIGHT MOVES is the fourth in Stephanie Tyler’s Shadow Force series.  In this book, Kell Roberts and his best friend Reid Cormier are in the middle of an operation when they find themselves rescuing Teddie Lassiter from the people who are chasing her.  While assisting Teddie, they discover that Kell is being hunted also.

As much as I enjoy Tyler’s work, I found this one to be disappointing.  The story seemed scattered and almost out of order.  Instead of being involved in the plot, it seemed as if things were just happening.  As a reader, I didn’t feel like I knew the primary characters, nor did I think there was any chemistry or connection between them.  It was more that the romance was stated, instead of felt.  In addition, there was quite a bit of buildup in reference to one of the villains, that was solved rather anticlimactically at the end.  The subplot, a likely set up for the next or a later installment, between Reid and US Marshal Grier Vanderhall was infinitely better, but couldn’t quite make up for what the rest of what the book lacked.

Christina Baker

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