T.R. Horne

My original Girl Soldier audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.

T.R. Horne crafts an incredibly suspense story with an interesting main character. Rain Wilson is a girl with a missing history. She has no idea who she is or where she came from. All she knows is that she is on the trail to finding her estranged mother and will stop at nothing to find her.

Holly Lindin provides the narration for Girl Soldier and does a really nice job with it. Production quality and narration style worked really well with this book, adding to it instead of taking away from it. I will be keeping an eye out for other books that Lindin narrates.

I'm always a little skeptical when a book lists some of your favorite books or movies in their description. Sometimes this is just a play to get you to read a subpar book that is slightly similar. Girl Soldier was not one of these books. It was compared to The Bourne Identity and it really does draw some parallels and similarities from that series.

Thankfully Horne understands that readers sometimes need a break from the non-stop action that this book has. The author was able to place little bits of humor and light-heartedness into the story keeping it a little bit lighter. Horne's writing when it came to the action scenes was perfect. It really reminded me of the best in the business.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm a male and I know who my parents are. Or if it's because I'm not a trained assassin with no memory, but I found it hard to related to Rain. Don't get me wrong, she was an absolute BA, but sometimes it's hard to follow a story that you have little to no understanding of where the main character is coming from. Thankfully Horne's writing style was so good and the book was so action packed that this didn't really take anything away for me.

Audiobook was provided for review by the author.… (mais)

I received a free copy through Goodreads.
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I would give it 4 stars.

What a roller coaster ride for Mali, Justice and Nicole. I rather enjoyed this novel, so much so that I had to finish it right away...and I did. A lot of interesting plot twists, most are predictable, some not to much. The story revolves around the lives of Mali, Justice and Nicole and each of them gets to tell their story.

There was a decent amount of character and story development, and we get to hear the background of the main characters and some of the secondary characters that help shape this story.

The ending...yikes! Certainly wasn't expecting it to end like that. It was interesting to see how things ended for some of the characters, a little unexpected and a bit disturbing, given how much Nicole has changed so much within a short period of time.

I would have liked a little more backstabbing and twists but there is still a decent amount to keep you entertained and glued for hours.

The only detail I have issue with was the occasional use of certain words... like "her flower petals" and the "meat on her rear", had me laughing out loud. The words just seemed so... unexpected that it was a little laughable when I read it. Also, the description of say their clothing sort of bounces a bit. It sometimes goes from vague (yellow sundress) to too detailed (black Timberland boots, Levi jeans, etc), it felt a little unnecessary at times.

Overall, it was a very interesting read and was definitely a hard read to put down without wanting to read more of it.… (mais)