Reactivated: Oz by Charissa Gracyk

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“Project Phoenix…Find Oz…”

Those were the last words her brother Jonah said when he died in her arms. Convinced that he was murdered, Navy Intel Officer Allegra Steele learns that “Oz” is her brother’s former Navy SEAL teammate, Jack “Oz” Cullen.

When Allegra asks for Jack’s help, she doesn’t expect the undeniable electricity that sparks between them. And, Jack, still trying to adjust to civilian life, knows he should stay away from the intelligent beauty.

Swept up in adventure and each other, they uncover a sinister evil called Project Phoenix, an experiment that gave each SEAL on Jack’s team a super power. When Jack’s ability suddenly resurfaces, he can hear other people’s thoughts—and, Allegra’s steamy internal dialogue makes this super sexy soldier sweat.

Reactivated: Oz

Super Soldier SEALs!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔😃😤🥰

The heroine: Allegra Steele – she works for the office of Naval Intelligence in Washington, DC. She is upset when she is passed over for a job she really wanted, so she goes to her brother’s apartment to see if he can give her any advice. He used to be a Navy SEAL, but now is an EMT and they have always been very close. When she finds her brother having been shot in chest and abdomen, she tries to save him but can’t. He blurts out “Project Phoenix” and tells her to find Oz, before dying in her arms.

The Hero: Jack “Oz” Cullen – he is a former Navy SEAL and now, along with his friend Dominic “Capo” Rossi, he buys old homes, fixes them up and flips them for profit. The two of them had been together since BUD/S Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea, Air and Land training and were both in the DEVGRU (Naval Special Warfare DEVelopment GRoUp). DEVGRU, a Tier 1 special ops team, and the top ranked group in the Navy. Oz was the commander of the team, but after Capo was injured by a bomb blast and lost an eye, they decided to retire and open a business together in San Diego.

The Story: One day while at work on a house, Oz is about to pack it in for the day when he gets a blinding pain in his head. The pain quickly goes away, but afterwards he finds that he can actually hear people’s thoughts. After Oz and Allegra get together, they start looking into project phoenix and what it was all about. They find out disturbing things that were done to Oz’s team without their knowledge, and even more disturbing was the fact that once fully reactivated, he might be under complete control of whomever is behind his re-activation.

The story was good, though the process behind making the guys super soldiers and their activation and the fact that their powers were somehow turned off, then re-activated, was obvious science fiction and not even remotely believable. Also, something else really bothered me. Whomever it was, apparently re-activated or tried to re-activate Allegra’s brother Jonah and were trying to re-activate Oz. So, when another of their brothers was behaving strangely, it was unthinkable that these intelligent people didn’t even think that Adrian wasn’t reactivated.

There were some pretty steamy intimate scenes though I loved the fact that every time the two main characters were intimate with each other weren’t detailed to the fullest. I like it when sometimes, it just says something like the fact that they hooked up three times during the night instead of having pages about each time. I like a little steam with my action, not the other way around. Lastly, the book ended abruptly without any real resolution. It continues on in the next book, which is about Capo, but really there was no ending at all.

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