Title: Deceiver of Minds
Series: SPECTR Series Three: Book Five
Author: Jordan L. Hawk
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 105 Pages
Category: Urban Fantasy
Rating: 5 Stars
At a Glance: For fans of the SPECTR series, we know to anticipate the chaos and danger as well as the lovely teases at the end of each novella that bait the hook for the next chapter in the existential mischief and mayhem that dog John, Caleb, and Gray’s footsteps. As always, it’s the imagination that goes into each installment that impresses, and the love story that endears us to these characters.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: John Starkweather is reeling from the discovery that SPECTR, the agency to which he’s dedicated his life, experimented on him as a child. As his true memories continue to return, he has but one purpose: to find the other victims.
When John, Caleb, and Gray discover SPECTR has been tracking their every move, they’re left with only one choice: to go on the run and find the other victims before the agency catches up with them.
But the past isn’t done with John yet, and the truth about one of his fellow victims may hold devastating consequences for the future.
Review: Leave it to Jordan L. Hawk to throw me for a loop. He’s done it more than a few times over the years, and he does it again in Deceiver of Minds. Did I see this one coming? No. Should I have? No. That’s what makes the What now?!?! of it so much fun.
As John Starkweather engages more deeply with his past and the discovery that he’s not who he always believed he was but also that SPECTR had a hand in the betrayal and deception, the more we are treated not only to his current mindset but also the ferocity with which Caleb and Gray love him and will go to any lengths necessary to be there for him and protect him. In this installment of the SPECTR series, it means the revelation of yet another betrayal, this one particularly heinous because it robs John of his free will. And it’s made worse by the fact the person who did it knows very well what it feels like to be deprived of consent, which was such a canny way of revealing this character without leaving them entirely irredeemable. At least for me, as I do have some compassion for them. Whether redemption is in the cards, however, remains to be seen.
For fans of the SPECTR series, we know to anticipate the chaos and danger as well as the lovely teases at the end of each novella that bait the hook for the next chapter in the existential mischief and mayhem that dog John, Caleb, and Gray’s footsteps. As always, it’s the imagination that goes into each installment that impresses, and the love story that endears us to these characters.
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