Fever Burn (Rachel Hatch #3) by L.T. Ryan

Fever Burn (Rachel Hatch #3) Reviews

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  Kathi Defranc

  Hatch..A Character We All Wish We Could Be!!
  
  Rachel Hatch is an amazing ex-soldier with skills she has worked hard on and a Code she follows no matter what. Still trying to find out who was involved in her father's death, who took the shot that left a 12 year old girl shattered. The road takes her to Africa, meeting some wonderful folks and seeing the sad result of a vicious warlord's reign over the poor villagers. With no dog in the fight, except her own code to always do what's right, Hatch decides she has to help the village be rid of this despicable man.
  She meets a man who aids the village, proving herself to his crew in a man on man fight. The crew immediately recognizes a fellow warrior, and with few in number, sparse weapons and using her smarts along with the crews strengths they attempt the unthinkable...Time to deal with this man once and for all!!
  Hatch is a formidable character with intensity,depth and emotions she tries to keep to herself. A fabulous, thrilling read through areas and plots that keep you reading furiously until the wild ending. The authors do a masterful job keeping the scenes exciting and all characters as real as possible. Another 5 STAR story with a character I can NOT get enough of!!!
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  Linda

  More like a ranting spew than a review. But...
  
  What the heck's going on with this series?
  
  I totally loved the first book. It was well-written, exciting, dramatic, engaging, thrilling, etc. I love Rachel Hatch as a character, her no-nonsense toughness with just that touch of vulnerability. She didn't feel so extreme where it borders on fantasy. Then came the second book, which was fairly lackluster by comparison, a derailment of sorts from the momentum set by the first book, but not horrible. But now, this third entry is a step downhill. Whilst still unearthing details of her father's death, Rachel of course catches wind of trouble in another country and seeks to put an end to it. That's all fine and dandy and certainly not out of character for her, but something just felt way off from this entry as well as its predecessor. Neither entry has met the wonderfulness of the first book. Like...at ALL. Sure, there were some tense and tragic moments. Some suspense and action. Absolutely. But everything lacing those good moments together are where the messes lay.
  
  You're seriously gonna have Rachel be the one missing link in solving the problems of another country now? Really? I already suspected going into this newest entry that it was gonna be like this, a badass woman being the one shining savior in an otherwise doomed scenario, making things both better and worse for certain parties. I like Rachel's toughness as I already stated, but there also comes a point where it becomes a bit too ridiculous to buy. I hate to say this, but dare I say this felt too much like a "white savior" sort of scenario. Where one character feels very superhero-esque and you might as well have folks bow to her for being so great and fantastic in saving the day because no one else can do it but her.
  
  Is this series gonna be a one-hit wonder with me? I've got 3 more books to go and don't find myself caring as much as I did before. And now I'm inclined to wonder if what I'm seeing is a difference of one author's style verses another. How are Ryan and Shea collaborating here, I wonder? Splitting books or splitting chapters? Because there's one glaringly obvious factor that I noticed with book two and book three that book one did NOT have and it's the writing style. Book two and three absolutely feel VERY different than book one. More often than not, a character has one giant paragraph of dialogue, and the author doesn't say who is saying the paragraph until the very end, oftentimes very needlessly. It breaks the flow of things. So you get a lot of this stuff:

  "Before morning nautical twilight. It's something we used to say in the military. It was the best time to do an early morning attack. Right when the light starts to break. And you're right, it's disorienting. The body and mind have to adjust to the transition. And if the guards have been awake and they're pulling shifts, we're going to catch them at their most depleted state. Perfect timing. Well thought out," Hatch said.

  
  
  That's a whole lot of sentences to be stated before telling me who said it. I, as a reader, (if I feel the need to know who is speaking something), would much prefer to have that stated near the beginning of quotes. Why wait until the very end of several sentences before you tell me who said it, when it could have been stated early on? There's also times when the author might say who says the quote twice within the same quote, one at the beginning as well as the end. Maybe this is my own simple nitpickiness, but it's a very potent nitpickiness that absolutely ruins books for me. I also noticed during this entire book the onslaught of useless detail, expanding on literal common sense facts. There's LOTS of moments like this in the book, expanding on stuff that is simple to understand. Here's a sliver of an example:
  
  

  "He kept his headlights off. Hatch knew why. Without the lights, the shooter wouldn't have a reference point for a better target."

  
  
  I mean, DUH? Why else would someone keep off the headlights at night? That's like me saying something like, "The man bled when the cat scratched him. I know why. Because cats have very sharp nails that break skin easily." It almost felt like useless fluff being tossed around throughout the book to up a word count. And to make matters even worse, there were even times where the author legit seems to FORGET what was stated about a character within the SAME CONVERSATION. I wish I was joking. There was a moment a character named Duke was stated by another character to be the last one asleep when everyone else was awake. The character references Duke in a moment and simply says:
  
  

  "Everybody but Duke. He's slow to rise."

  
  
  So, okay, easy to picture. To help solidify it, the same character says a few sentences later:
  
  

  "I should probably use these things for Duke. Maybe he'd get his lazy ass out of his cot."

  
  
  Okay, fine. The dude's a heavy sleeper. Got it. But then. THEN! Literally a couple more beats later:
  
  

  "Duke's waking the others. We're leaving in five minutes."

  
  
  Uhhh...what? How does this make ANY sense? First the guy's heavily asleep, the last one to roll out of bed and accused of being lazy, and now he's not only awake, but is WAKING the others when they were already stated to be awake? This, my fellow readers, is an example of careless, haphazard writing, and it's not fun. It's distracting, unnerving, and annoying. There's so much sloppiness strewn about this entire book that it just simply was losing its luster with me with every page I turned. When a book comes to a point of making me not care, that's a failing book.
  
  And this book has failed. Yes, the overall plot does still carry along and Hatch still gets some answers on her quest, but even that no longer satisfied me. The only reason I intend to at LEAST read the next entry is because it brings Hatch back home to the environment and characters of book one that I LOVED, and I desperately hope it can revive what was lost in book two and ESPECIALLY book three.
• 
  Chrystal

  From the start of this series, I liked the character of Rachel Hatch and the first book was reasonably good. The second book, not as well done as the first, but still good. However, it contained too much explanation.
  
  This third book of the series was a challenge to stick with to the end. The suggestion that Hatch - a white woman - is needed to save the day in a country not her own shows disrespect and a patronizing attitude toward efforts of people in their own country, to tackle their own problems in their own way.
  
  I mean, a group of citizens with special forces background wouldn't have thought to use distraction as a tactic?!
  
  Again and more so in this book, there is far too much explaining. Please, authors, let the dialogue flow and carry most of the weight, without the constant interruption to cross t’s and dot i’s. Give your readers some credit. We READ. Most of us are informed. Unless you stop dumbing down the content, you're going to keep losing readers. Also, use description of action, not explanation of it. The latter distracts from the action, slows it down for the reader, which is anathema to what action should do in a novel.
• 
  Karla Thompson

  I am loving this series!
  
  Rachel Hatch...This gal is akin to Jack Reacher. I am loving who she is. Her toughness through diversity and unrest is amazing. This girls got fortitude! I have pre-ordered book 4 and book 5 and really hope it doesn't end there!
  When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. Excellent.
• 
  Dianne Garber

  Relentless search for justice
  
  From NC to Kenya and back, Hatch searches for her father's killer and gets involved again in fighting for justice for locals. Joining with freedom fighters they take out a very bad group and in the process she learns who pulled the trigger on her father. That takes her back to NC to finish her quest.
• 
  N.K. Read

  Eyerolls and sighs
  
  Where do I start? The rambling to nowhere storyline, the cliched African characterisations, the misguided white saviour complex, warlords in Mombasa??? - ‘fraid not!!! I had so much hope for Hatch but this was abysmal.
• 
  Cheryl Carmoega

  Great New Series !!!
  
  Great, strong, determined female main character. Her code of honor will make you proud!
  Two very talented authors have team up and created a well developed New Series with great well developed characters!! Can't wait for the 4th book, first 3 chapters have me already hooked!! Keep them coming!!
• 
  Stephen Washburn

  Fever burn
  
  An interesting eternal takes Rachel to Africa in search of her father's killed 20 years before. While there, she learns who pulled the trigger, but got involved in a war with a local war lord. Once completed she returns to the States to continue her search for her father's killer.
• 
  Babs Wenk

  Another Page Turner
  
  Another great book in this series about Rachel Hatch. A page turner as usual. A great job in moving the action and plot, and creating such memorable characters such as Khari and Jabari.
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  Kenn Goslin

  What is a damaged. Determined girl to do?
  
  This story line took more than a few unexpected jogs. The middle part of the Dark Continent is vastly different from my expectations.
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  Adihelin Urquia

  I absolutely but absolutely love these books!
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  Teresa A. Corbitt

  Finally after going to Africa Rachel finds the answers she has been searching for and it is not the answers she thought. She manages to save lives of some of the villagers in Africa and looses a friend but finds her answers to who killed her father. The question is can she rebuild her life.