Book Review: Rebel's Retribution by Kelly Moore

Fated Lives Book 1

Fated Lives Series: Three shorts stories of how fate connected their lives.

Derrick Rebel: Captain of the Seal Team: The Gunners.

Fallon Davis:  An innocent bystander, thrusted into a world she never knew existed.

Theo Drake: The youngest and only surviving member of The Gunners. 

Book 4:

Rebel’s Retribution

As the leader of his Seal Team: Derrick Rebel has lost everything, betrayed by the woman he loved. He’s become a man without purpose. Until…the one surviving member of his team pushes him to help a woman in need.

Joining forces for an action-packed adventure, they form a task team in honor of the men that were lost. They hurtle themselves deep into a criminal organization marketing men, women, and children. Anyone is fair game.

To destroy the organization, one will become the criminal, the other will be forced to confront unfinished business from his past.  One of them…will never be the same.

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My Review:

I feel really conflicted about this book. The story, the plot, the characters were all good. That should have me jumping for joy, shouting “I loved it!” at the top of my lungs. My issue is that I thought the author telegraphed the “big reveal” too obviously. I spent most of the main story gnashing my teeth in frustration because none of the lead characters had picked up on it – until it’s revealed in the last ten percent of the book. That was a lot of time I spent clenching my jaw. I was also really confused by the format of the book. It didn’t need to be three novellas and the main novel. It all could have just been the one book, the way it’s packaged. I loved that we get to see the three different points of view. I just didn’t understand the point of calling it books 1-4.