The Extractor by Leslie Georgeson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
She rocks the sexy nerd look. And catches me off guard. Has the player finally met his match?
The Extractor
No woman can resist me. Cocky is my middle name.
A fierce dreg in a warzone, I use the gentlest of ways to extract information. Seduction.
Until I meet Liz.
Her quiet beauty and inner strength call to me.
She’s not my type, yet I’m the one who can’t resist her.
But she doesn’t want me back. She despises me on sight. She is immune to me.
I lay a trap to friend-zone her, and she gets ensnared, trusting me little by little.
Now my heart is on the line. How does a player show he’s changed? How do I convince her she’s the only one I want?
Then a cunning mastermind intercepts my plans. He has an agenda of his own: steal my girl and see me dead.
Now it is a race against time to win this twisted game.
Will I be able to save her life without losing mine?
Lots of action and suspense!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜💚🩷
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: 😋😀😘😍🤩
The Hero: Ryan – he is one of The Dregs, a genetically enhanced soldier who was held in captivity as a child and experimented on through DNA manipulation a crazy group of people that were trying to make super-soldiers. He was given a bunch of animal DNA and like his friends, ended up with a particular ability. His ability is to secrete a pheromone which will drive any woman crazy with lust. He then can extract any information out of her that he needs or wants. Men didn’t go crazy with lust, but the pheromone acted like a truth serum. That was how he was used when he was running missions for his captors. Since his escape, he is quite a playboy. He doesn’t use the pheromone, as he always wants females to consent. Though with his good looks, the pheromone hasn’t been necessary.
The heroine: Liz – she was the business manager at a bed & breakfast inn in Medicine Park Oklahoma and had been for the last two years. She had sworn of men three years ago after her college boyfriend betrayed her. The owner of the inn, Glenda is a nice lady who is very pleasant to work for. In the winter months, when it wasn’t as busy, Glenda spent all her time looking for her son, who had been missing for fourteen years. She spent all her money on private investigators and false leads. Liz didn’t want to tell Glenda, but she thought that it was a lost cause, and the kid was likely dead.
The story: Ryan and his bonded friend Luke went out at night a lot after they escaped and they both had a lot of women, they often competed about who could get the most women. Though after a while, especially after many of the other Dregs had found mates, the lifestyle got stale and unfulfilling. Ryan wanted someone who actually wanted him, not just what he could give them for a night. He also wanted to reconnect with his mother who had given him up to the General (his father) when he was young. Though it could possibly be dangerous if Ellington, the one shareholder left from The Company found out he went there.
The premise sets off a wild ride where the two main characters are chased and/or cornered by The Company more than once and they get to know each other under less-than-ideal circumstances. Liz has some prejudices about men that look like Ryan, and she has to get over them all while finding herself uncontrollably attracted to him and connected to him in a way that she has never felt before. Plus, there was the great side storyline about Ryan wanting to reconnect with his mom and see if she is the mom he sort of remembers or if she willingly gave him away to a monster.
“And once I gave in, once he took what he wanted from me, he would kick me to the curb. Because that was what players did. They took and took until there was nothing left to take. Then they left, leaving nothing but carnage in their wake.”
“He thought he was going to make me bleed? Little did he know, I was going to make him bleed, too.
This book was as good as the previous books in the series. Though there were problems with the romance. I didn’t really believe how fast the two main characters fell so deeply in love with each other. There was plenty of action, some huge surprises and multiple scenes where one or both of the main characters were in quite a bit of danger. I don’t want to give away the plot, but I like how each one of the books in the series has a different main bad guy that they are up against. Even if I am not too fond of a villain that has better powers than any of the Dregs.
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