| Title | : | Whitewater (Rachel Hatch #6) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | - |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 |
| Publication | : | First published March 2, 2021 |
To save the one that got away.
She finds herself surrounded by a sea of enemies,
And the price for keeping her promise
Might just cost Hatch her life.
Don't miss the explosive sixth installment of the Rachel Hatch thriller series!
Failure has never been an option for Rachel Hatch. A promise made to a teenage girl trapped by a powerful human trafficking ring must be kept.
Hatch's search takes her deep into Mexico where the rules are different and the enemies are numerous.
Finding the girl is only half of the problem. Getting her back home proves to be just as difficult, if not more so.
With two rival cartels on the brink of war and Hatch caught in the middle, she must use everything in her arsenal to survive.
Whitewater (Rachel Hatch #6) Reviews
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Rachel Hatch Continues Trying To Do Good, While Up Against Very Bad!
Hatch regrets not taking that red-headed young lady from the Cartel when she was rescuing another. Of course the girl turned away, but Hatch cannot get her out of her mind...And you know Hatch, she Never gives up or turns Anyone in need away...So she is off to Mexico, anyway she can to find her and bring her home...
Now we know Hatch is legally dead at this time, so even entering the country becomes a problem...And what she will do to find this girl once she is in Mexico could be dangerous and scary...Even for her! Many characters show themselves, some may help...Most will Not..
Can it possibly be done? Hatch is Damn well gonna try!
An action filled story with life stories from many that will make you think...What would You do?! -
Rachel Hatch is addictive.
Hatch is not a woman to give up and heads to trouble with no hesitation.
Hatch sets out in relentless pursuit to save the one that got away.
She finds herself surrounded by a collection of nasty Mexican enemies and the price for keeping her promise.... Which might just cost Hatch her life.
Hatch will not back down from a promise, in her last adventures Hatch saved and brought back to her home one girl, but here returns for the girl that got away, and could not save.
Hatch heads for danger as always doing the good, putting her life as risk.
A well paced thriller, staying at the same pace throughout, not quite as exciting as some of the books in this series, but you still have to love the character, a strong woman.
Four star book, as slightly lacked the great action and thrilling pace of previous books. -
...and RANT ALERT TOO! So sorry, but I can't help it. :(
Now that I’ve finished this latest entry in what is increasingly mutating into a mediocre series, something has become quite clear to me: one of these two collaborative authors is fairly decent at the job, while the other one….well, isn’t. I don’t know how the authors collaborate, whether they share responsibilities within the same book, or are taking turns writing entire books. All I know is, whatever they’re doing? It ain’t working anymore. Not for me. Someone legit sucks in the writing department when it comes to these books and it hasn’t gotten better.
This was, by far, the absolute WORST of the Rachel Hatch series. Not a single one of them surpassed the first book of this series, and I’m officially convinced that NONE of them will. Rachel Hatch is a one-hit wonder for me. Book one is where its greatness started, and it’s also where its greatness stopped. The entries after it and before this one kept missing the mark. This one was no different. But it’s this one that was all the way at the bottom of a slimy, gunk-filled barrel. It’s the loser of the bunch that wasn’t invited but is trying to tag along anyway. And you wanna feel sorry for it for trying, you wanna give it a decent chance, but when you see that it just keeps failing and failing, you eventually gotta say, “Yeah that’s enough. You’re just embarrassing yourself at this point.”
What makes it so much worse is that this book didn’t even start out that badly. Started out fairly decently, since it picked up right where the previous entry left off. Hatch is out to rescue the one girl she didn’t get to save from the sex trade in the previous entry, and she’s gonna illegally cross into Mexico to do it. There’s no filler preparation chapters to lead it into. No wasted time. It’s just Hatch doing her thing to right the wrongness of the girl making the erroneous decision to stay in the harmful life. But then once she enters the country and the story begins to pick up momentum from there, it gets progressively worse and worse. It never, and I mean NEVER gets any better.
Why? Because, my fellow book nerds, that’s when the laziness starts. I wish I was exaggerating when I say the following, but no. I’m absolutely serious. The remainder of this book is laced together by a series of strategically formed coincidences to make Hatch’s journey “easy.” (See the next paragraph for what I mean). Everything is tied to everything else, placed in their positions in a linear path just waiting for Hatch to walk it. Nothing felt surprising or thrilling or nerve-wracking. As if that wasn’t bad enough, then there came the point where, about 60% in on my Kindle, the author didn’t really wanna bother having their reader BE in the story anymore. Rather, they just wanted to carry on with rushed, narrative summaries of big moments and an excess of overly convoluted writing that reads more like bad poetry than an actual story anymore. Scenes got overly busy with description overuse; I had to reread so much of it just to understand what the hell was supposed to be happening. Even the characters themselves seemed disinterested in being a part of things, since there was no more focus on having any dialogue to read between them. It was bad. Catastrophically bad.
But behold….THE COINCIDENCES, indicated in bold:
Upon entering Mexico, the first friendly face Hatch runs across is a man nicknamed “Azul.” This is lucky for Hatch in more ways than one, since this friendly man happens to speak English, (how fortunate for our American woman!), and also happens to wanna help people, being part of an organization that enables him to do so. Because of this, Azul happens to have everything Hatch needs from crossing the border (clean pair of clothes, supplies, etc).
Azul agrees to give Hatch a ride to the closest police station to get help for missing girl Angela Rothman. Once there, it turns out this is the exact police station for Hatch to trigger unwanted attention the minute she walks in, since it happens to occur the moment she runs into a lieutenant Eduardo Munoz who coincidentally happens to report to Cartel leader Hector Fuentes. And boy oh boy, as it turns out, Fuentes just so happens to also be the exact person responsible for abducting Angela Rothman. Lucky for Hatch, eh?
But wait...there’s more!
Growing suspicious of the police activity at the station, Hatch opts to cut the visit short. At the lobby, she happens to get new attention, this time from a stranger who overheard her at the station, and opts to follow her. He introduces himself as Miguel Ayala, reporter. Ayala, the second friendly face, happens to ALSO speak English for the ease of communication for Hatch. Then, ooh lucky lucky, Ayala happens to know “some people” who can point Hatch in a specific direction to find girls in the sex trade (in this case, a club). Hatch goes to the club, starts a ruckus, and manages to rescue more victims. Most of them scatter, but one named Letty needs more help than the others. Fortunately for Hatch, Letty happens to be the ONLY one of the girls who overheard the whereabouts of Angela, the very girl Hatch is seeking.
Upon leaving the club, Hatch summons news reporter Ayala again to help flee the scene with Letty. Once Ayala arrives, he whisks the ladies away, informing Hatch that he has a buddy named Ernesto who, as it turns out, happens to be involved in a sort of "underground railroad" to help victims escape from the Cartel. Perfect, eh? Oh, and super helpful as well, this organization just so happens to be the very one in which Azul is a part of. Who woulda thunk that the first friendly man Hatch met would be involved with a team that Hatch would find later? And aha! Part of that team is a man named Sanchez, who is essentially a male version of Hatch, and is one who happens to be the exact person necessary to traverse the river out of Mexico, which occurs later.
More coincidences? How about Cartel leader Hector Fuentes? Fuentes has a son meant to take over named Rafael. But Rafael isn't ready to embrace the life, and just so happens to be a bit of a softy. This is perfect for later on in the story, because predictably, Rafael happens to turn on his father at the precise moment Hector tests him. The test just so happens to be one that involves killing Hatch. In the effort to save her, Rafael gets killed, not succeeding in murdering his own father. But his distraction still just so happens to be the perfect one Hatch needed to escape. When she does so, she gets picked up by Ayala who luckily happens to still be around to get her at the EXACT moment she does so. Then there's another villain called Viper, who happens to be feeling sad about his role as a villain and so just happens to hesitate and cry (like legit cries) long enough for Hatch to end him, since her thrown gun still happens to have landed right by her hand. It didn't even matter that his rifle was pointed at her head.
I could go on and on, but I very much made my point. The coincidences were littered everywhere, essentially becoming fodder for me to tackle for this very review. As I mentioned before, the writing after that 60% in the Kindle grew exponentially worse. Scenes were narrated in a rapidfire fashion, as if the author(s) were just in a hurry to finish it all. For example, Hector Fuentes, leader of the Cartel, makes it a big thing to take Hatch alive to capture and interrogate her, etc. So when that moment comes, you expect to be reading intense, juicy dialogue. But nope. Instead, one chapter ends with Hatch being tied and threatened with torture, and the next chapter begins saying, “The interrogation lasted less than thirty minutes.” What a way to breeze right by the big buildup, eh? No dialogue. No back and forth. No fuming. No reader witnessing ANYTHING.
In my opinion, you get SQUAT as the reader, and the remainder of the story does this the entire rest of its run. Events meant to be big and significant feel less so because they are just dumped on you all at once. You're told what people talked about narratively, rather than reading them doing the talking. Instead of reading something like "Hurry the hell up, for God's sake!" you get, Hatch yelled for her partner to hurry. See how LESS exciting that is to read? Even the likes of Dalton Savage is being placed in a position of being Hatch's great love of her life, and the very thought of him puts her mind at ease. When the actual hell did THAT happen? Because they walked on a mountain once, almost kissed and he gets bit by a snake? Because they shared a peck of kiss later on after he was shot and before she disappeared? And now I'm supposed to believe they're star-crossed lovers? Yes, they shared nice chemistry in the first book, but nothing was really established beyond that. And the chance TO establish it was squandered when Hatch faked her death and ran off two books ago (which effectively ticked me off) Now, I'm supposed to accept they're in some sort of "relationship," one developed behind the scenes? How about.....no. Give me a damn break with the laziness.
I don’t want to finish this series, but with only one book to go (for now, since I'm sure more are coming), so I might as well bite the bullet and do it. But I’m taking another big break from the mess before I do. I need to fill my brain with better stories first. I honestly can't comprehend for the life of me how this book got the high marks that it did. But...whatever. Once I finish the next book, I honestly think that will be it for me in the world of Rachel Hatch. -
Too many asides, the least entertaining in the series so far.
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Rachel Hatch takes on a Mexican Cartel to rescue a young girl.
Looking back as we left off where Rachel had successfully fought for the freedom of several girls from a deadly trafficking ring, one of the girls was too frightened to accept the opportunity to escape. Fast forward to present times and Rachel hearing Intel that the red haired victim has been spotted across the border in Mexico about to be sold into slavery. The initial hurdle will be the ability to get into Mexico with no I.D. as she faked her death to protect her family after her last rescue mission. An illegal entry at the mercy of a sleazy border rat is her only option as the clock is ticking. Once she is on the other side, and all alone the gripping and seemingly impossible mission shifts into non stop and death defying high gear. You won't be disappointed with this high octane read and will probably, as I am look forward to the next installment. -
Book six in the Rachel Hatch series takes up where book five leaves Hatch on her quest to bring back a girl kidnapped for slavery. The story takes us across the border into Mexico and the evil of the cartels there. Lots of action and suspense but also much cruelty is detailed. This was a bit bothersome for me and I did not find it much in the previous books in the series. It is, however, part of the genre and part of the reality of the context of the story. We are drawn into several character's backstories heroes as well as villains which was also new to the series. The backstories added to the depth of the narrative which gave the book a feel, at times, of straight fiction rather than action/suspense/crime/mystery. As in the other books in this series there are some plot twists and it's a page turner. Overall I liked this book and would recommend it if you like this genre. I rated it 4 out of 5.
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Could not put it down
I read the first six books of this series as one novel because I could not stop myself. There is so much action, mystery and excitement that I just had to keep reading, like a 12 year old glued to Nancy Drew. Hatch is quite a character and I would love to see her in a movie or TV series. I also wish LT Ryan would write additional stories focusing on human trafficking because so many people are oblivious to the scope of this crime and it's detrimental results. Slavery exists in 2021, and the world needs to know this. -
Will the REAL Rafael please stand up?
This book was such a refreshing change since Hatch wasn’t totally being hunted, but yet people were aware of her danger. But for the love of GOD would you PLEASE chose one spelling of a name and carry it through? I can see how one person might spell a name, like Rafael, and another person might spell the same name Raphael, but NOT IN ANY BOOK should the two spellings be used......ESPECIALLY IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH!
Forgive my rant, the book was a pleasure to read, but please try to remember that quality surpasses quantity!
Peace! -
THIS Was The Best One Yet!
I discovered this series quite by accident and I'm so glad I did!
In my opinion, Whitewater was the best of the series yet.
I lived many years of my life along the border close to cartel country, seeing the way they ravaged everything they came in contact with, so this story really struck a chord with me. I ended up staying up all night reading the last half of this book as I just couldn't put it down.
Can hardly wait for #7! -
Repeat
Only 4stars almost brilliant but again like so many others you let the hero slip,fall,or be caught before the final episode where they win.Hatch supposed to be exemplary in what she does checks things out yet she gets to get place to rid if viper and slips hope next book is not same as this one. -
Although these books are already short reads, there were pages upon pages that I blew through explaining the dastardly deeds of the cartel bad guys. I am really tired of the cartel story that overtook this and the last book in this series . Hope that the author(s) move the story on in a new direction.
