Kala Taggart has known she was in love with Cooper McKay since she was a young girl. But her wild-child ways sometimes clashed with Coop’s apple pie, all-American persona. After the worst night of Kala’s life, she decided to give up on having any kind of normalcy. She focused on her future and let the idea of Cooper go.
Cooper knows he screwed up with Kala when they were young, but the adult Cooper is unwilling to let their past rob them of a future. He joins her CIA team not for the thrill of the job but to be close to the woman he’s always loved. He spends night after night with her at the club, trying to fulfill her needs, to prove he doesn’t need some perfect partner. All he needs is her.
When Cooper and Kala are assigned to a mission, they find themselves locked together and forced to face their problems. As the truth of that long-ago night slowly comes to the surface, Cooper has to admit that Kala might be further from him than ever. And all his plans come crashing down as the elusive terrorist they’ve been hunting makes a move no one is expecting, but the real threat might come from within.
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Review:
Ohmygoshthisseries!
Kala and Cooper’s book had me on the edge of my seat, y’all! I mean, I liked the 3 previous books, but this one? Blew them all away! I didn’t want to stop reading once I’d started, sleep and work be damned 😉
I absolutely loved Kala and Cooper together, and she is hands down my favorite heroine of this series (I suppose I should say so far, but can anyone really top her???)–her inner (and outer) snark is absolute gold, and witnessing the inner workings of her mind? Absolutely gripping. Even when I was arguing with the conclusions she was coming to and the decisions she was making, seeing how she came to them was just gripping. And having a front row seat to Cooper responding to her and saying the absolute wrong thing (more than once!)? Equally fascinating. MCs having trouble communicating is not usually my favorite thing, but here it totally works and is 100% believable.
Once again the drama and danger here is pretty much nonstop, with Kala jumping in headfirst and Cooper following closely behind. The dynamics between them and the rest of their team (and their extended families and friends who aren’t on the team) are absolute gold as usual. (Though goodness–I’m starting to need more background info than just a set of family trees at the start of the book–how about annotated family trees??? Either that or release all the books at once so I can just straight up binge ;))
Though Kala and Cooper do resolve their relationship at the end (thank goodness!) we are left with a bit of a cliffhanger with an escaped villain and missing MCs for the next book, so obviously #6 cannot come soon enough. I especially enjoyed the second half of the book’s final chapter, which featured the OG heroines/matriarchs of the series enjoying some downtime. A lovely way to finish!
No More Spies continues the Masters & Mercenaries: New Recruits series, which really should be read in order because the stories build on each other with the same main bad guy and events that stack up on one another. Do yourself a favor and start the series today if you haven’t already–then maybe the wait until SEPTEMBER for Zach and Devi’s book won’t seem so long! 😉
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
About the author:
New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.
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