[.ca] Forces of Evil (ISBN 1932300104)

Ready! Set! Go!:
A terrific read! Suspenseful! Dramatic! Edge of the seat attention grabber! You will be really tempted to peek at the ending to see -- will Lt. Colonel Deanna Peterson and DEA Agent Katie O'Malley save the day while at the same time discover each other? Don't peek. Arriving at the ending will certainly make you glad you took the journey.

This isn't Nancy Drew!:
This isn't Nancy Drew, and thank God for that! It's about time someone wrote an exciting action/mystery with strong female characters, and Trish Kocialski has done just that. The character development is solid. These are interesting and competant female agents involved in an exciting tangle of politics, secrecy, love, and danger of global proportions. There is enough detail to make the setting (Catskill Mountains in New York) and the personal lives of these two women very real and engaging. The storyline is completely plausible, and the unraveling of the layers of the mystery held my attention and kept me reading late into the night. The ending is very satisfying. I want to see more books with these two agents.

Lights! Camera! Action!:
A terrific read! Suspenseful! Dramatic! Edge of the seat attention grabber! You will be really tempted to peek at the ending to see -- will Lt. Colonel Deanna Patterson or DEA Agent Katie O'Malley save the day while at the same time discovering each other? Don't peek. Arriving at the ending will certainly make you glad you took the journey.

Good story, needs improved writing:
This is a good book with a solid story and exciting conclusion. The only thing that keeps it from being a 5 is the writer's style. Kocialski tends to use simplistic dialogue and is repetitive in her words. How many times does she have to remind us that her characters have emerald green and sapphire blue eyes? Apparently she doesn't know how to write a love scene either, instead settling for flowery references about soaring passion and sighs of ecstasy, but not allowing any of that heat to show between her characters. The writing flaws are minor distractions however in what is overall a good read.