Never thought I would ever say this.......

but I had a Susan Stoker book that disappointed. YUP! I was floored too!

 

Protecting Tex

The book was supposed to be the story of Tex needing help for a change, instead of doing the helping. I had high hopes..... It didn't pan out that way.

Don't get me wrong, the writing and story was all Susan and the characters were without question still on par with expectations but the whole story was lacking depth.  Most of the teams were represented, which was cool and made me want to re-read the series in order they were written. These guys all know eachother, either because of joint rescues or thru the military, so the cohesian and familiarity was there, people showed up, but somehow the story didn't. I DID realize that instead of the normal close to or over 300 pages, this book only had 154, so maybe there wasn't time to flesh out the details I'm used to.....?

I'm still in a bit of a funky headspace at the moment, so I will re-read it in a couple of months, but, yeah.... I was disappointed. I never questioned price vs pages, because I never had to with her, but when I hit the end 3 hours in, I started wondering, whether she is going for shorter stories. I hope not, it would be the end of my starting any new series.

Not going to publish a review on it, because I don't want to disparage my favorite writer over one book out of 110 books, but needed to "get rid of the thoughts" just the same. I know, everyone that reads, has a favorite writer (or 5) and out of their books there are favorite books you have read 8 times and will pick up again, books you re-read because they're just that good and books that are just part of the series, so I'm just going to put this one in the category "not favorites and will reread if I read the complete series again"