“Being around Mackenzie Bardine was hazardous to a man’s health.”
When Dana Mentink publishes a new Romantic suspense, I run, not walk, for my favorite bookstore! This newest series of hers, Elements of Danger, now includes bk #2, Raging Waters. As someone who has only experienced being on the edges of a hurricane, Mentink’s descriptions of a violent storm, waterlogged earth, and threatened dam break were terrifying. But in a good way. The kind of terrifying of watching a scary movie or choosing a wild ride at the fair. Adrenaline pumping fast, I made sure I was breathing air, not choking on water, as I swiped my pages hoping that MacKenzie ( Zee) Bardine and Gideon (Gid) Landry could learn to get along. Maybe that would make the job of staying alive and out of the enemy’s crosshairs a tad bit easier.
Unfortunately, MacKenzie, now a cold crimes podcaster, has lost her brother Aaron a few years back. After helping police solve a few other cold cases with her results, Zee takes on her brother’s murder. She is upset when Gideon won’t help her in her endeavors, as he was Aaron’s best friend. “Their rapport since Aaron’s death had been at the matches and gasoline type of reactivity level.” Will the secrets that Gideon is hiding protect MacKenzie or will they backfire and leave her ripe for attacks? Fighting the awesome power of nature, some extremely powerful people, their own secrets, plus their attraction for each other...Whew! That’s a lot of conflict that makes for a very fast-moving, nail-biting suspense. Every character they meet is suspect. Can they trust anyone they meet? Can they trust each other? Most importantly, can they trust God?
Great twists! I loved the faith arcs, and loved how Gideon chooses to be present for MacKenzie even when he doesn’t feel like she has all the information, and she can treat him like a heel at times. As Gideon tells Zee, ““I have a choice in all this, too. I choose to stay.” Sometimes I thought he was crazy! I was grateful to still be on dry land when the book was done, feeling safe and satisfied with the mystery of the novel worked out.
I received a copy of the book from Celebrate Lit via NetGalley. I also bought an ecopy, and a few pb copies for myself and a friend. No positive review was required, and all opinions are my own.
Notable Quotables:
“In that moment he knew she was trapped, unable to free herself any more than her brother could from his torment. She was bound to this man by her need for revenge. It would blind her.
It would kill her.” ( Gideon)
“How easy it would be to kiss him properly, to let the feeling seep into her fragile glass heart that hadn’t beat right for a very long time. But there was such a thin coating around that battered organ. One crack, one tiny fissure and it might disintegrate into a pile of useless shards.”
(MacKenzie)
“Whom to trust? The environment might be hostile, but it was nowhere near as dangerous as a human enemy, the kind pretending to be a friend.”
“God will bring justice in this world or the next. In His time, not yours.”- Gideon
“Ugly and vengeful . . . Mackenzie wondered suddenly if that described her too. She shook the thought away. Maybe it had until Gideon convinced her otherwise. She’d let that be her core for way too long. That wasn’t the identity God meant for her, and he’d used Gideon to deliver the message.”
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4.5 stars This Christian romantic suspense thriller definitely started off running. I was totally with Gideon in not knowing what to think about Mackenzie and her antics. He had his hands full and and work cutout with that one. Mackenzie, Gideon’s late best friend’s sister, waltzed back into his life when he was leading a wilderness survival training in Washington and promptly turned his life upside down. While on leave from the Air Force, Gideon never expected Zee to show up - or get arrested! Ever since her brother was murdered, she’s been running a podcast on cold cases and a lead led her up into his territory. With warnings of the dam’s potential failing and bullets flying, this thriller takes us on a harrowing adventure. Through water, around trees, car accidents, and more, this tangled web of danger and suspense never lets up. While they both had crushes on each other during high school, Zee is firmly against Gideon and he struggles to keep her safe - from the elements, their pursuers, and herself. I would’ve liked more on the romance angle, but this book was just jampacked full of action and adventure. I liked book 1 of this series, but this one is even better. The romance is just kisses, intimacy level 1. 4.5 stars rounded up to 5. I received an ARC of this book from the author and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
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