Book Review: Echo by Janie Crouch
- Kristen Lewendon
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min read
Linear Tactical Book 7
Sometimes the deepest scars are the ones that can't be seen.
Single mom Peyton Ward works three jobs to make ends meet. At Linear Tactical she’s surrounded by heroes on a regular basis…but none of them are hers. She thought she'd found one in Linear’s silent partner, and country music superstar, Cade Conner.
She was wrong.
Unintended wounds still cut as deep.
Cade may not work day to day operations at Linear, but he takes the mission of the company he helped create—teaching survival intelligence and self-defense skills to the people who need them most—seriously. And finding out he’s wounded Peyton in the worst way possible weighs on him.
So when danger on two separate fronts closes in on her, he will damn well be by her side. Making sure they survive so he can right his personal wrongs.
He might not have been a Special Forces soldier, but Cade Conner knows how to fight. And Peyton is a woman worth fighting for.
My Review:
Peyton’s is the story I think I’ve been dying for since the beginning. Cade is just pretty much perfect, even though he’s not a hero in uniform, which was a bit of a departure for the series. Also different in this book, is that the intrigue and danger are more secondary to the story of Peyton and Cade finding their way back together after so many miscommunications and misunderstandings. Somehow, as much as I loved Peyton in all those previous books, in her own she frustrated the living daylights out of me. I loved seeing how much she accomplished by herself, how fierce and independent she was. But she used that independence as a shield to keep her from accepting help and to punish Cade long after he’d atoned for the sins that were his own. Almost more than seeing Peyton’s happy ever after, I was in this one for the kids. Jess is just a precocious ball of sweetness and light. Giving a story filled with lots of big emotions, as well as action and suspense, some much appreciated comic relief. And Ethan, who only plays a very minor role in this book, gets the best scene of all. I was very nearly in tears for how extraordinarily special it is. I don’t know who’s up next to find their forever, but I can’t wait to read it.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author.
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