Luca by Nyssa Kathryn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Run. Hide. Don’t look back.

Evie Scott went through hell and barely escaped. Now, she does everything she can to remain invisible. To survive. Because if she’s found, she’s dead.

Then she meets Luca…and there’s a spark. But is he worth the risk?

Former Navy SEAL Luca Kirwin is both well-trained and deadly. Recruited into a non-government-sanctioned project, he was unknowingly turned into a weapon. Now, he and his team have one mission—shut down the program.

When a new neighbor with haunted eyes moves in next door, his instincts tell Luca he can trust her. But could she be one of the enemies he’s searching for?

As the couple falls deeper, and the danger get closer, they’ll have to learn to trust in each other…before it’s too late.

Luca

Strong Hero, traumatized heroine!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😚☹️🥹😉
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Evie – she recently moved to the town of Marble Falls, to a small affordable house where she could pay in cash and buy herself a few months of anonymity. She was on the run and was always looking in her rearview for the man who was coming for her, who would hold her hostage again. His name was Troy, and he abused her, physically and emotionally. Evie had been running for a while now, moving every few months, while looking for answers as to why Troy turned into a monster. This was her fifth town, fifth house and like all the others it was only temporary.

The Hero: Luca – he was a Navy SEAL before he was put into “the facility,” which was where he and his Team were held after being recruited for a top-secret program that was not sanctioned by the government. He and his friends were already at the top of their game while in the military, but the program (Project Arma) turned them into live experiments. They were used and lied to and have a lot of anger about it. The government found them and freed them, gave them some reparation money, which they used to open a security and protection firm. Though they all want to find the people in charge of Project Arma as well as any teammates they haven’t yet found.

The Story: When Evie moved into her new house, it wasn’t long before she met her neighbor Luca. He scared her when he first came up to her. She could tell his was military and immediately thought he worked for Troy until he explained he lived in the house next door. She nearly had a panic attack but practiced her breathing to calm down. She promised herself she would never be a victim again, so decided to steer clear of Luca. Though things didn’t work out that way after she gets a job at the company he owns with his friends.

I have been liking the genetically engineered super soldier trope quite a bit lately. I didn’t know for sure that was what this one would be based on the blurb and was happy to find out it was. It was different than most in that the guys are away from the project and living a relatively normal life now. Also, it seems that while they were at the facility they were experimented on without their knowledge and held captive there, but it doesn’t sound like they were tortured as in many books with the genetic experiment trope.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Romona Masters and Gideon Frost. Romona isn’t my favorite female narrator, though her voice was nice. Gideon Frost has a nice voice, and sounds very natural, though I tend to like the male narrator to have a deeper voice. Overall, these two did a great job and I really did end up liking their voices and the story was great. There wasn’t anything completely original about the story, but I don’t always need that and enjoyed this quite a bit. I will definitely read more of this series.

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