Charlie Foxtrot by Giulia Lagomarsino
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Mummies.
Charlie Foxtrot
Yeah, you heard me right. That’s my next job—protecting a mummy.
It wouldn’t be a problem, except someone doesn’t want this particular mummy to make it to the museum.
Not to mention one of my teammates thinks this particular mummy is cursed.
On top of this ridiculous job, I’ve also met the most gorgeous woman in the world.
Except, she’s anti-gun, anti-meat, anti-everything that makes me who I am. And she’s from California.
I really f*@king hate California.
And she’s a screenwriter with absolutely zero experience, writing a story with a ton of action.
No, cars do not just explode while driving down the road. And contrary to popular opinion, it really is hard to shoot out tires from a moving vehicle, especially when you’re firing into the wind.
But the worst part is how excited everyone at OPS is to help her. Fox, New Guy…even Brock has decided to take up a career in acting.
I would walk away, but despite the fact that she’s from California, I find myself needing to be with her. She’s more than she seems, and I’m determined to find out every last detail before she gets blown up trying to learn about explosives.
I just have to keep IRIS away from her.
Romantic and funny!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰😘
The Hero: Red – He is on team three at Owens Protective Services (OPS). He hates California, so is liking the fact that the company has moved into a renovated nuclear missile silo in Kansas. They live in a mansion about a mile away and there is a tunnel to the offices. He loves red meat, guns and is great at his job. He is a former military badass with tattoos and a beard.
The heroine: Zoe – she is a screenwriter from California, a peace-loving vegetarian who hates guns and meat. Her momma lives in Kansas, and she thinks nothing could be more boring. Though she is currently visiting while she works on her first screenplay for a big production company along with her writing partner Lark. Though the production company hadn’t actually contracted them for the job, but they were determined to write the screenplay anyway and wow the executives. She and Lark have a five-year plan to become famous.
The Story: While driving to her Momma’s farm, and face timing with Lark about ideas for the movie, Zoe accidentally drops the phone and swerves a bit which flattened her tire. That is where she meets Red, who isn’t too happy about the California woman who nearly caused him to crash. He takes her to her Momma’s house and helps her with her luggage. Red finds that afterwards, he can’t seem to get her off his mind. Later he comes across her in the grocery store and she asks him for some technical help with her screenplay.
I am really loving this series so far. Giulia Lagomarsino has a fantastic sense of humor, and these books are not only full of action and romance but are hilariously funny at times and the characters are all so great. It is like they become part of your family as you read these books. I love the fact that Rafe, who set up the new home base in the missile silo for OPS, got them a fleet of minivans instead of SUV’s. These big, strong, military guys are pretty funny driving around in soccer mom vehicles.
Three of the OPS teams end up running a protection detail on a semi truck that is transporting an Egyptian mummy in a sarcophagus to a museum and end up being ambushed. There is plenty of action in this one, like the first two books in this series. Though I do love it when Zoe goes to OPS and meets all the guys to get information for her screenplay. The guys are so funny and so genuine that you just want to be her in that scene.
Cash stepped between them. “Okay, nobody’s shooting anyone. This is getting out of control. There will be no shooting anyone, no car chases, and absolutely no climbing out of moving vehicles just to prove you can do it! Am I clear?”
That was how we ended up in a car chase just an hour later, with New Guy climbing out the passenger window and attempting to get on top of the vehicle we were chasing. And Zoe was in the back the whole time with a huge grin on her face, cheering New Guy on.
I am loving Fox more and more with each book. In ways he reminds me of Knight from the Reed Security series, but in other ways, he is completely different. He is crazy and everyone knows it, he loves musical theatre and show tunes, he sings them all the time, he loves killing and his favorite weapons are throwing knives which he is crazy accurate with, and he has taken women under his wing, like Eva, Zoe and Zoe’s mother Blythe. He was even great with Cotton, Red’s autistic brother.
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