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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780505527554
ISBN number: 0505527553
Label: Love Spell
Manufacturer: Love Spell
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 293
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
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THREE
Kira Jordan wakes up in a pitch-black room handcuffed to a metal wall. She has 60 seconds to escape. Thus begins a vicious game where to lose is to die.
TWO
The man she's been partnered with--her only ally in this nightmare--is a convicted mass murderer. But if he's so violent, why does he protect her? And stranger still, what is it behind those haunted sea-green eyes that makes her want to protect him?
ONE
No one to trust. Nowhere to run. And the only hope of survival is working together to beat the
COUNTDOWN
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Countdown is non-stop action and it's a really great read. As the story begins we meet Kira Jordan, a young woman who's lived as a pickpocket for many years following the brutal murder of her parents. She awakes to find herself in the dark, chained to the wall, with a strange man in the room. That man turns out to be a convicted rapist and multiple murderer, Rogan Ellis, whose actions might be more significant to her than she initially realises.
Kira and Rogan are thrust into a series of challenges as part of a giant pay-per-view game where failure means death. The challenges get progressively harder and more bloodthirsty and there's no escape from the game, called Countdown. But as Kira and Rogan work their way through the challenges they learn more about each other and Kira has to begin to learn to trust, despite appearances. But is Countdown more than just a game, might it be even darker than it appears - and can Kira and Rogan escape and prevent something even worse happening?
I really enjoyed this book, finding it gripping from start to finish and very much enjoying the characters and their personalities. The setting is a post-plague future world in which people work to try to escape Offworld to a new colony and the bleak and often dangerous surroundings in which our hero and heroine find themselves add to the story. There were one or two points within the plot that were just a little too easy or coincidental but overall it was a great read.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
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I discovered this book while doing a search on homeless. You got to love the stuff you discover while websurfing on Amazon and I absolutely loved this story. Good character development, good romance without being overboard. And of course, a good ending. Can't beat it since it was in the 4/3 promotion along with other books in the book line. Check it out.
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Kira Jordan had been born three years after a great plague that had wiped out forty percent of Earth's population. Following the plague many of the survivors had begun to develop psi-abilities. Earth was dying. Those who were determined to have strong psi powers got a free ticket to Offworld, a new start in a better place. Though Kira could sense a person's true nature through touch and the "flexing" of her mind, hers were considered to be lesser abilities. Only if she had great wealth would she now be able to attain her dream to go Offworld. As things stood that was not very likely.
Kira had not felt the need to go when her family had been alive but her father, mother and sister had all been murdered one night seven years ago while she'd hidden under her bed in a dark locked room. She alone had been spared but her life had changed forever. She'd done what she had to in order to survive, picking pockets, shoplifting, she'd even once thought to sell her body, but had thought better of it after one dangerous encounter. She also had a debilitating fear of the dark.
Imagine her shock when one minute she is breathing hard in a nearly abandoned mall after lifting a pair of sneakers and the subsequent finding herself chained to the wall in pitch blackness beside a convicted mass murder!
Rogan Ellis had been falsely convicted nine counts of first-degree murder, but claimed to be a bad man nonetheless. The two find themselves to be partnered in a sick top secret reality game called the Countdown where the players either survived the challenges or faced a sudden and brutal death. Subscribers had special implants imbedding in their skulls in order to watch these live events. Kira and Rogan had implants in their heads as well which stipulated that must stay within ninety feet of each other at all times or die. The were stuck with each other for the duration.
Kira has no idea why she has been recruited for the game other than the fact that she's alone in the world. She had no sympathy for murders after what had happened to her family but she isn't read to die yet either. Three, two, one go! The countdown begins and the pair has only so much time to complete each of six levels. The odds of survival are slim, only one had ever succeeded to win all levels.
Kira's survival skills made her scrappier than one might expect. The pair survives several levels due to Kira's quick thinking and deductive reasoning. It becomes increasingly obvious that Rogan knows more about what is happening to them than he is willing to tell her. When she finds out who owns the company that produces the Countdown she knows why. But why had Kira been chosen for the game? She was little more than a petty thief.
Kira's psi skills reveal that Rogan is innocent of the murders and there's nothing like a life or death to situation to accelerate a relationship between two people. Before long the two are deeply attracted to each other by more than just their implants. But will they survive? If they find a way to escape certain death will they find a way to end the game or just go their separate ways?
This story was perfect for a very first person point of view. The reader actually lives the game, with all of its tension through Kira herself. I found myself out of breath more than once. For an exciting and suspenseful romantic futuristic thriller, I highly recommend COUNTDOWN. ~ reviewed for PNR Reviews
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This was an Ok book, easy to put down, the plot and characters were nothing to get excited about.
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I loved the hook to Countdown. Two strangers are dropped into the middle of a deadly game - they must work as partners in order to make it to the subsequent level, each level is timed, the Countdown begins now, and only the winners survive. Kira, a thief, has used her latent psychic talent to survive on the streets after her family was brutally murdered and she'll need the edge that talent gives her to survive the game, where emotions are manipulated to up the viewer ratings. She is partnered with Rogan, a dangerous and deadly convict, the facts tell Kira one thing about Rogan and her instincts another, how can she trust a murderer?
Countdown is one of the newest additions to the multi-author Shomi collection. All are standalone action packed futuristic romances, some with touches of the paranormal or time travel. I truly enjoyed this one. I loved the narrator Kira, even though her smarts were of the street variety she's the one that gives the pair a chance, and she has a good 'voice' for a 1st person heroine. Rogan is a perfectly decent romantic lead with a bad boy edge and hidden vulnerability. The action is pretty much non-stop and entertaining while the game is in progress, and the story only takes a minor hit in the wrap up - it's hard to tie up a romance like this one in a way that's as unique as the rest of the story.
Still, I definitely recommend this one from author Maddox (who also writes vamps as Michelle Rowen) and I will be on the look out for more Futuristics from her and more of the Shomi's too.
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