I started reading this one hyped up and VERY impatient. I wanted to be able to envision John DEAD. Nothing less than that, but first I had to endure Tom and Prophet struggling to deal with Prophet keeping secrets YET AGAIN and Tom's reaction, as usual, isn't very accepting. Prophet kept pushing Tom away but unlike his usual self he wasn't pushing him away physically. He needed him WITH him. He knows Tom can help with the John issue but it's not just that. Tom grounds him. He is essential to him. So while I WAS annoyed with him, I was also proud as well because in a way it was a maturer version of Prophet, one who is ready for a relationship to last or outlast John Morse.
About third way in Tom, Prophet and his team together with Cillian were still working on a plan and I was scratching the walls, yet once things got moving THEY GOT MOVING. I mean, half way through we were already in confrontation mode and I was THRILLED. It wasn't an easy read with everything that went down, and what was revealed, but this is what everyone who read this series have been waiting for - John going down. It's was already clear that while John wasn't ready to part with Prophet, staying close yet not harming him (too much..), he IS a sociopath and once Prophet FINALLY makes the right gesture in front of John that's the end of being "nice" to one another.
The team worked together well, together with a few more added spooks/ex-military some we've met and some we haven't. But in the end, or rather not truly near the end they succeed in their mission, battered but alive only to realize things are even more complicated than they thought and so HEA had to wait a bit more.
We get A LOT of answers from the previous books. Some more complicated than others. I'm sure there's quite a lot I've missed because not everything was explained very well. It's Jakes' way which is something I really don't like. I felt like I've been kept in the dark, not only Tom (and at times Prophet as well) and even when we got an explanation I'm not sure if it was just me or was it meant to stay a bit vague.
The book ended with another mission which needs to be addressed but I'm pretty sure it's going to be mostly Cillian and Mal who work it out in their own spin-off series "Dirty Deeds". The first installment was novella length and let to where Cillian and Mal were during and a bit after the 3rd installment. I guess that now that Jakes returned to publishing new books it won't be long till we get to this one.
I had fun re-visiting this series and FINALLY getting the much awaited HEA for Prophet and Tom. I can see it working for them, I truly can and they SO deserve it. I enjoyed seeing them at the very end, so different yet so alike from when it all started. Farewell Prophet and Tom and GOOD luck :)
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Rating:
★★★★ |
E-Book
Edition |
330
pages
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Read on:
15-16 February 2019
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Hell or High Water is a 4 book MM Romance series by SE JAKES telling us the romance between Elijah "Prophet" Drews (a former navy SEAL) and Tom Boudreaux (former FBI). As a new member of "EE" (Extreme Escapes Ltd. - A private contracting firm), Tom is partnered with Prophet who isn't into having a partner. From there you can guess what happens :)
Each book has it's own story line / missions but there is a wider arc of story for all books. In the first book we learn more about Prophet (the case involve someone from his past) and the second gives us the background on Tom (taking place in where Tom grew up). The third build to the last novel and final confrontation of the wider story line. With the in-between novella mostly being about releasing sexual tension (which they do A LOT in this series which personally I'm less of a fan..). The fourth and last installment FINALLY deals with the big villain - Prophet's former best friend and SEAL team member John Morse ending this series with a bitter sweet note of everything that was lost, but enough that is still left to mend and heal. I can see Prophet and Tom living a long and happy life together.
I like the series but don't LOVE it. I have a few issues with it. Firstly, you better remember all the small details and who's who and what's their agenda when you go through the series because there is hardly any explanation to things that happened in the previous books or in the past and were re-visited. Second issue is I feel this series has too many similarities in MC to the Cut & Run series by Abigail Roux. Prophet is too much of a Ty and Tom is too much of a Zane. I do feel like these two series ARE independent and there is a "place" for both of them and yet I have my misgivings sometimes. My third issue I mentioned above - there is WAY too much sex. While there's a good reason - them using sex to communicate emotionally - it was TOO DAMN MUCH for me.
Free Falling (published 5 September 2012) ★★★★★
This is a standalone short novella telling us of Mitch and Blue, two EE
Ltd. operatives. Their story line takes place before Hell or High Water.
The
both of them have their appearances in some of the next books but they
bare no significant to the main story lines.
Dirty Deeds (published 13 January 2014) ★★★
This is an intended as a spinoff. Currently it's only a short novella of
Mal, former
teammate of Prophet in charge of shadowing Cillian - Prophet's neighbor
and a spook who Prophet suspects knows more than he's should about their
business. This one takes place in the same time
line as (and a bit after) the third book of "Hell of High Water".
Honestly, did really like this one so I don't think I'll continue with
this one whenever the next ones are published.
Books:
1. Catch a Ghost (published 13 September 2013) ★★★★
2. Long Time Gone (published 28 October 2013) ★★★★½
3. Daylight Again (published 5 May 2014) ★★★★
3.5. Not Fade Away (published 14 August 2014) ★★★
4. If I Ever (published 21 January 2019) ★★★★
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