Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Blog Tour for Booktoure

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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...
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Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz and Narrated by Scott Brick

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Title: Lone Wolf
Author: Gregg Hurwitz
Narrator: Scott Brick
Series: Orphan X
Genre: Suspense
Format: Audiobook
Listening Length: 13 hours and 13 minutes
Date of Publication: February 13, 2024

Description: This program is read by multi-award-winning narrator Scott Brick.

"Brick employs perfect timing and emphasis to portray Evan and plays him with heart...Brick shines in long passages of exposition, setting up the stakes with deft talent, and quickly shifts into periodic high action."—AudioFile

Once a black ops government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the Program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Now struggling with an unexpected personal crisis, Evan goes back to the very basics of his mission—and this time, the truly desperate is a little girl who wants him to find her missing dog.

Not his usual mission, and not one Evan embraces with enthusiasm, but this unlikely, tiny job quickly explodes into his biggest mission yet, one that finds him battered between twisted AI technocrat billionaires, a mysterious female assassin who seems a mirror of himself, and personal stakes so gut-wrenching he can scarcely make sense of them.

Evan's mission pushes him to his limit—he must find and take down the assassin known only as the Wolf, before she succeeds in completing her mission and killing the people who can identify her—a teenaged daughter of her last target, and Evan himself. Matched skill for skill, instinct for instinct, Evan must outwit an opponent who will literally stop at nothing if he is to survive.

My Thoughts: This is my second audiobook by Gregg Hurwitz and narrated by Scott Brick. This is a series and I have not read the previous ones. With that being said, I don't feel like I had any issue with following the story or the characters. I honestly didn't even know it was a series until I looked to the book further.

This one was just not for me. It's about assassins and then also a little girl's lost dog. For me, I just felt lost and disengaged throughout. I did enjoy the bits of the story that talked about the technology they use to avoid identification from cameras and then the drama with one of the characters HOA presidents.

I'm also not a big fan of Scott Brick for narration but that could also be because I didn't really like the book unfortunately.

Rating: I'm giving this a 2 out of 5 because it was not for me, but I did finish. Although to be honest if I had not received this as part of Macmillan's influencer program, I probably would have DNF.

Many thanks to the Macmillan Audio Influencer Program for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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