But sometimes I felt those days were passing in real time. There was a lot of action in the book – the whole thing takes less than a week from start to finish.
A whole bunch of hot guy wounded warriors, a pressing need (finding Charlie), danger (finding Charlie) and a love affair complicated by the fact that Nick hates Becca’s dad (whom she adored). What appears to be the series arc of proving the squad’s innocence is not done by the end of Hard As It Gets, but the subplot about what happened to Charlie and, of course, Becca and Nick falling in love, are. Becca implores Nick to help and before they know it, in true Blues Brothers fashion, Nick is getting the team back together to stage a rescue.
It seems Charlie has stumbled across evidence of their father’s corruption and has been abducted because of it. Now, 10 months later, Becca Merritt, Frank’s daughter, turns up on Nick’s doorstep after she receives a cryptic message from her missing brother, Charlie. The remaining guys took the deal and went their separate ways. Suddenly, the squad’s service records are doctored so they look like losers and misfits and they are offered a choice: serve time in a military prison for someone else’s crime or accept a dishonourable discharge and sign non-disclosure agreements about the events in Afghanistan and afterwards. No way Frank Merritt was dirty – even though evidence points to the contrary. When the (all wounded) survivors were well enough to start asking questions about what went down, they faced an impenetrable wall. Nick and his squad were ambushed in Afghanistan and six of them died – plus, the commanding officer, Colonel Frank Merritt. Nick Rixey is former Special Forces and now works as a process server when he’s not moonlighting at Hard Ink, his brother’s tattoo shop. It took me a week and a half to get through a 12-hour audiobook because I kept preferring silence to actually listening to it. The story has all the ingredients I usually like so I’m struggling to put my finger on exactly what caused me to be so bored by it. But I think, in hindsight, I’d have been better off with the ebook. Given there is an overarching story to the series, that was probably a good decision. Hard As It Gets is the first even though I came out in 2013, I like to start at the beginning. My TBL is shorter than my TBR so I thought there was a better chance of finally making a start if I tried the audio version.
In fact, I think I own most of the ebooks in the series already – I just haven’t got to them yet. I’ve been meaning to try the Hard Ink series by Laura Kaye for ages now.
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