Special Agent Jon “Ice Man” Anderson is one of the FBI’s best monster hunters, catching predators using their darkness against them. It’s his purpose, and he’s relentless.
Rookie Special Agent Tracey Smith is Jon’s opposite, shining light in the shadows and counteracting the dark with hope. Together, they may be the perfect combination to catch The Family Man, a sniper terrorizing St. Louis, dealing death through the scope of a high-powered rifle.
They can’t afford distractions.
Jon can’t ignore the feelings Tracey has evoked.
Feelings he hasn’t allowed himself in years.Jon’s not the only one compelled by Tracey….
In a city held hostage, the FBI races to stop the killing.
Before the sniper finds them,
And they lose everything.
The Mind Hacker: The Family Man is the 107,000-word opening salvo of a gay romance/suspense series following a law enforcement/workplace pairing through a bisexual awakening all the way to their eventual happily-ever-after.
Content warning: The Mind Hacker series contains themes of dark violence, including off-page sexual assault, psychological manipulation, narcissism, and other disturbing themes. If you’d like specifics, the author will happily answer questions through their email: [email protected].
Every word and cover of every book published by this author has been crafted by a human and always will be.
Review:
Dear AJ Rose,
It is possible that part of the reason why I loved this book so much is because it has been a few months since I found a new m/m book that I enjoyed at all, however I do think that even if I was having a more successful streak of finding m/m books recently I would have liked it. I think that this is basically inspired by the show “Criminal Minds” and the foreword pretty much talks about criminal psychologists and how TV portrays them. I actually found the foreword to be quite interesting, because the author talks about real criminal psychologists actually doing their jobs in a much less flashy way than how TV portrays in “Criminal Minds” and like shows. That they do not really travel to the place where the accident took place, that they create their profiles basically at their desks, that they support field offices of FBI and other agencies. I am summarizing here, not quoting. And basically the author says that it is more fun for the viewer to see what TV portrays.
And then I thought that the book does the same thing as what the shows discussed in the foreword do – portrays them in more fun way that has very little to do with reality ;-). Actually I guess the story gave at least a nod to reality. Tracey mentions that in his past job, he basically worked in the office and did not go out in the field (or that was my impression of what he meant). Our characters also mention that they only go to the most important cases and a lot of cases they work while being in the office.
In any event, this was not really a criticism, this really was fun to read for me. I really liked both Jon and Tracey and two other members of their team, I thought they had good chemistry together. I found the attraction between Jon and Tracey believable, I did not even find it too fast, but when the book has suspense/ adventure as a main storyline I am often able to buy the attraction developing faster than usual.
I enjoyed the mystery and liked how the members of the team went about trying to figure out the identity of the shooter. I have to say though that I did not quite like the resolution. It felt that the shooter appeared too late in the story and I am not sure what puzzle the reader would be able to figure out alongside the characters. I am not sure if that makes sense but in my head it did.
I enjoyed that for the most part the two main characters behaved like adults, the issues in their past notwithstanding, but man I wanted to slap Tracey closer to the end. No, I do not think that this being his first case with the new team excused that. I would not mind him messing up, it was a high stress situation, he was only human, but that way? He did great with all the interviews, he supported his team members and closer to the end it was literally, *do not do this* and he went and did exactly the opposite and as far as I am concerned for no reason at all.
I still like him tons, but I felt like this was a moment when the author decided that the character needed to act that way because the plot needed to go the certain way and it was needed to place the character in danger.
Grade: B/B+
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Sirius started reading books when she was four and reading and discussing books is still her favorite hobby. One of her very favorite gay romances is Tamara Allen’s Whistling in the Dark. In fact, she loves every book written by Tamara Allen. Amongst her other favorite romance writers are Ginn Hale, Nicole Kimberling, Josephine Myles, Taylor V. Donovan and many others. Sirius’ other favorite genres are scifi, mystery and Russian classics. Sirius also loves travelling, watching movies and long slow walks.
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