Helpful Score: 11
This book was very hard for me to get through. There were so many characters with so many alias's, it was hard to keep track. I started to find it quite boring as well. It would go back and forth to talks about terroism and contracts, then a sex scene, more terroism then a sex scene. Who knew that soooo much sex would get so boring! I didn't feel the connection between the two main characters. There was nothing going on in their relationship but sex. I found myself skipping pages just to move more quickly through the book since it got so repetitive. The first book in this series "Wild Card", was so much better. I cared about those characters but with this book I could care less.
Helpful Score: 7
I really like this series by Lora Leigh but this was not as good as the prior stories. Story line was not as tight, MANY sex scenes that did not always make sense and many players that were not truly developed. Hope the next one follows the prior books!
Helpful Score: 7
I am a big fan of both Leigh's S.E.A.L. series and the Elite Ops books. "Heat Seeker" had the potential to be another great addition to the series, but it fell pretty short for me. Bailey and John seemed like cardboard cut-out characters until you get three-quarters of the way through the book. The plot, again, had the potential to keep a reader riveted, but in actuality, all it did was confuse me. There were too many players in this game, it seemed. But these are all minor gripes compared to the one big grievance I have with Lora Leigh: she NEEDS to either hire an editor, if she doesn't have one, or fire the one she has. Awful. I'm still a fan, but the more I read her books, the more galled I am by her continuous misuse of words, character dialogue mistakes and other mind-baffling errors. I will continue to follow Leigh's work - seems as if Jordan Malone may star in the next installment - but I'm praying in the meantime, she undergoes a major editing overhaul.
Helpful Score: 4
This was a disappointing read for me. I'm a LL fan, but this book was bizarre. I found myself pushing to get to the end. The story was unlike her other mass market books of SEALS and special ops with lots of action and sex. Though I love the way LL writes sexual encounters with a lot of emotion, I found myself skipping over the sex scenes in this book because there were soooooo many.
Am I burned out on reading LL in the future? No. Sometimes an author's muse deserts them. Though talented, writers are human but imperfect at times.
Am I burned out on reading LL in the future? No. Sometimes an author's muse deserts them. Though talented, writers are human but imperfect at times.
Helpful Score: 3
OK read - far and away not her best book in this series. As one of the reviewers pointed out almost everyone has an OLD name [from before they joined], a NEW name [after they joined], a nickname [at least one], and a PERSONA name for their current role... I sometimes felt like I needed a score card. And the plot folded so many times I thought it was origami.
Which is not to say it's awful - just not the page turner we expect from Lora Leigh. I still buy the next one of course!
Elite Ops
1. Wild Card (2008)
2. Maverick (2009)
3. Heat Seeker (2009)
Which is not to say it's awful - just not the page turner we expect from Lora Leigh. I still buy the next one of course!
Elite Ops
1. Wild Card (2008)
2. Maverick (2009)
3. Heat Seeker (2009)
Helpful Score: 1
OK book. But not her best work. Characters were blah and plot was more of the same.
Helpful Score: 1
Come on. An ex CIA agent takes how long to figure out that her current lover is a former lover? Hot, graphic sex does not a believable story make.
I love Lora Leigh's S.E.A.L. and Elite Ops series, but I really had to slog through this one. Part of it has to do with the huge ensemble of characters. I've found that authors often reach a tipping point between offering a supportive group of friends and an unmanageable mess that interferes with the main story (ahem, J.R. Ward). I'm afraid "Heat Seeker" has pushed the Elite Ops series into the latter category.
I realize there's a lot of cloak and dagger stuff going on in the black ops world, but we *just* had an I-thought-you-were-dead-but-you-came-back-as-someone-else-but-you'll-never-tell-me plot with "Wild Card," which was only two books ago. "Wild Card" really tore at your heart strings and was infinitely better than "Heat Seeker," which just feels like a retread -- only with even MORE characters and aliases for you to keep track of.
I realize there's a lot of cloak and dagger stuff going on in the black ops world, but we *just* had an I-thought-you-were-dead-but-you-came-back-as-someone-else-but-you'll-never-tell-me plot with "Wild Card," which was only two books ago. "Wild Card" really tore at your heart strings and was infinitely better than "Heat Seeker," which just feels like a retread -- only with even MORE characters and aliases for you to keep track of.
Absolutely LOVE this series. The books get better and better with each new release.
Love Lora Leigh books! Loving the Elite Ops series!
Every Elite Ops you read just getting better & better. Hot, Hot.
This has been my favorite book so far in the Elite Ops series. Bailey Serborne is a past CIA agent who is a very strong woman. She is determined to find the person that killed her family and some friends. John Vincent is equally as strong and his team is looking for the same person that Bailey is for different reasons. They pair up to solve this mystery along with some of the characters from the previous two books. Good story.
Didn't like this as much as the first two, their wasn't that desperate passion for each other that i found in the others. Bailey was an agent herself and she is a stronger character, not that wounded soul that needs rescuing. Their story was rather boring for me, i skimmed thru most of the middle to get to the end and i don't feel like i missed out on any of the story. I will still keep reading the series anyway, I Love Lora Leigh that much.
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VERY weak addition to her Elite Ops series.
the ops guys are hot!
Of all the Elite Ops books, this one really stuck with me. The characters and situation were more memorable than the others. The fact that John Vincent had been thought dead, that he wound up with a new face and a new life, that Bailey found him anyhow, it just stayed with me in the year plus since I read the book.
As you come to expect with Lora Leigh books, the love scenes are burning hot.
As you come to expect with Lora Leigh books, the love scenes are burning hot.
Yeah, what Gina Biblibuff said.
Hire an editor please!
Hire an editor please!
John & Bailey r A LOT of fun. i loved their tragic story. emotional in good and bad ways. LOVED IT!! very sweet n fun n cold, its in Colorado. lots of action n suspense n hot sex. really like these 2 2gether. fun fun fun! altho not as in depth, more rushy feeling, but i love these 2 characters 2 keep n reread. KEEPER!!
This book is so good. I think I could read it again.
Hot read
great
This book in series was very disappointing - the story line was good but too much prose was spent on sex and not enough on story. Was not able to force myself to read entire book.
I enjoy books by Lora Leigh however I do not like the tribe series. I hope to purchase the rest.
I enjoy most of Lora Leigh's books. This one included.
great book.
