The Mercenary (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction‪]‬

I really tried to like this audiobook. The premise is good; mercenary and inexperienced woman try to save woman's brother, who has been captured by terrorists. The story is beautifully read by an excellent reader. The trouble was that the mercenary is a little too unsympathetic and unkind and the woman is too repressed and too much of a wimp to capture the listener's sympathies, much less for any chemistry between the two characters to be believable. Be prepared to spend a great deal of time listening to the female whine and cry. Basically, I just couldn't like the characters enough to care about them.

I love Cherry Adairs books and the T-Flac series is one of my personal fav. The audio verson is well read and this story sets the ground work for what has become Cherry's signature voice. Fast paced story, sassy characters in heart stopping situations. For a breakout novel this is a great book. It is classic HQN romance driven plot, not like her later work where they are more character driven and plot driven. It stands above many of the HQN books I have recieved lately, even though it was written years ago.

Worth the cost to read the emergence of a romance author.

This book was too much of a cheesy romance novel.