Held prisoner in remote testing facility in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest, subjected to torture and abuse, Wilson Rousseau has long since given up hope of being rescued. Days blend together until he can’t help but long for death. Saved from his isolated hell by a female’s distress call, he feels an instant connection to her.
Kimberly thought she was taking a trip to South America to study indigenous plant life. She had no idea she was playing into the hands of a mad man whose goal is to create a genetically altered army of super soldiers. When she finds herself locked in a cell with Wilson, a man who would give his life to save hers, there is an instant attraction. But the dark secrets surrounding their imprisonment may change their lives forever. Can they find a way to beat the odds and be together or will the mad man win?
NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Mandy M. Roth® loves 80s music and movies and wishes leg warmers would come back into fashion. She also thinks the movie The Breakfast Club should be mandatory viewing for…okay, everyone. When she’s not dancing around her office to the sounds of the 80s, she’s busy writing paranormal operatives and kick-butt urban fantasy heroines. Mandy lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and three boys. She has sold over 2 million books. Mandy has published with Harlequin, Random House/ Virgin Books, numerous small presses, and has had an amazingly successful indie career. She’s had bestselling books in a multitude of categories and genres at Amazon, Nook, Google Play, Apple Books, and Kobo.
The following ratings are out of 5: Narration: 🎙🎙🎙 Romance: 💙💚💜🤎❤️ Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥 Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔 World building: 🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍 Character development: 🐀🧚🐁🧚🐭
The heroine:Kimberly - She is in grad school and on a trip to the rainforest with her professor and some other students to study the flora and fauna of the region. She keeps the fact that she is part Fae from those around her. He father is a full Fae male and she doesn’t know anything about her mother but suspects she was not Fae and that caused problems with the Fae community which is why she has been kept separate from them.
The Hero:Wilson - works for the Immortal Ops, he has been captured and is in a secret facility deep in the Amazon Rainforest in Brasíl. He has been tortured and experimented on and he is a rat shifter with a few other animals DNA in the mix.
The Story: Kim is captured by the same people holding Wilson and put in a cell with him after waking up weeks later. They find that they are probably mates and the people holding them are testing the possibility. Kim finds out that the evil doctor Krause had impregnated Kim in the Lab and was planning to kill Wilson.
This story went by pretty quickly though I enjoyed the story. Once rescued Kim’s father has problems with her being mated to a shifter and there are a bunch of things in their way. The book was told in dual points of view and narrated by a single male narrator, D.C. Cole. Points removed in the narration for not having two narrators and not having duet narration (where the male does the male parts and female does the female parts in every chapter).
Loved the way they met even if its not its not in a good way... Though this one is not as action-packed as the previous book.. I still love everything in it.. It may be fast-paced but still enough for me to be hooked. I also love that their baby is also funny 🐀😂 he has a way to show what he wants... All in all I love the series and can't wait to read the rest 😉
Wow! Now that was a fantastic fun fast paced story. I was literally glued to the pages as though I felt like I was a part of the story. The author’s easy flowing writing captures you immediately as the characters come alive and have you either melting from their sexy and sweet charisma or has you in shock from the cruelty of their actions. The story has everything you could ask for in a story such as lots of action, drama, sex, passion, shape-shifting, fae, and were’s, etc ….
Wilson (were-rat, tiger, lycan, fae mix) and Kim’s (Fae) romance was perfect in this story as they are thrown together unexpectedly. Even though they were held captive against their wills I loved how humorous they were and how their mating call for each other drew their attraction to one another. There were only a couple of sex scenes but they were hot and I rate it medium flame (3 flames out of 5 flames).
I loved the fact that both characters were equally matched with their powers and their kick azz abilities. I think maybe that’s why I like this book so much because of the strong female character didn’t take crap from anyone but was tender hearted at the same time.
This was such an awesome and fantastic story that now I have to go and read the first three books prior to this one in the series. I am definitely a new fan and can hardly wait to read the rest of the books in this series. I highly recommend the series to all paranormal romance readers especially if you like lots of kick azz action with all types of sexy paranormal species.
So I liked this one pretty well. I like how it seems like as we go the stories get more in depth. Each one seems to be building upon each other. I really liked Kim's character. She was such a sweetie. The fact she had a pet rat was interesting considering Wilson is a were-rat (which is just a weird shifter combination). I really liked learning more about Wilson since we had seen him in the other ones. He wasn't what he was portrayed to be. So far this series at first I didn't like but I like that we see all the characters in every book. I want to know what is going to happen with Krauss are they gonna finally find him and take care of him and his "supernatural" army?
Wilson and Kim’s story was so cute. I was a little concerned at the start of the book. Both of them being captured by the elusive Krauss. I didn’t want to think that maybe it would be another bad ending such as with Lance. I like Kim and think she is great for Wilson. Wilson also became one of my favorite characters in this series. He was always on the receiving end of the jokes throughout the other books and he had such a good sense of humor about it. Now we get to see him as a very overprotective mate to a woman he had never even met before. Kim was on a school trip in the jungle of Brazil when Krauss captured her. During their journey they learn to trust each other which is proven to be very important for staying alive. When they do escape Krauss, they are left running through the jungle not sure where they are really headed. Thankfully the I-ops wives are not good at following their mates’ directions because they took off to find Wilson, not believing he had died. This would prove to be vital to their rescue. There are other special scenes and information in the book but you will have to read it to find out.
Strategic Vulnerability (Immortal Ops #4) is where we see more of the man who is behind the terrifying and horrible tests on people that makes them in to all sorts of shifters. Each story see one of the team members find their soul mates. In this one Wilson is held captive by the evil Krauss and is only hanging on by a thread. He has been abused, beaten, and given all sorts of drugs and hopes beyond hope his team will come for him. What he doesn't realise is that the new woman to be sent to his cell is the one who will change his life.
Kimberly was supposed to be studying plant life with her professor but she soon finds herself being drugged, and experimented on and locked away with a man who is much more than he seems.
The women have never given up on the fact that they think Wilson is still alive and they decide to take matters into their own hands which in turn makes their men mad and chase after them.
Kidnapping and experimentation leads to true love.
Wilson is in the custody of the evil Professor Klauss. He is being subjected to many experiments. All of the sudden a woman is brought past his cell and he starts going over the top protective. Kim is on a trip to study plants in South America. Her and her fellow undergraduates are tranqed and taken to a lab by someone they trusted. Several interesting things happen ( I won't spoil it by saying what) that I hope will be explained more in future books. Otherwise it was a good story.
When I read the first book of the series and got a bit unwell at the prospect of a wererat, I've been told to wait and see. And I did, for Wilson Rousseau became my favourite instantly. His constant joking had me from the start.
But that was only the top layer of this highly misunderstood character, who has much more depth than his sense of humour and happy go lucky attitude.
Throw his mate in the bargain, and an absolutely disgusting mad scientist, and you have me screaming in rage at what they are doing to Wilson and Kim, while finishing even more irrevocably in love with this character.
I wasn’t sure I would like this novella as it wasn’t until the preceding story Radar Deception, that I started to warm to Wilson’s character, but I was pleasantly surprised. Wilson was a caring and adorably chivalrous alpha, but not overbearing and Kim was a sensible and resourceful woman and a great mate pairing. It would have been nicer if their story was a bit longer, but all round a good read, especially for a novella.
Still a bit too much drama for no reason, but less than the previous three stories. The biggest reason why this story did not get a higher rating was the action sequences. In one particular one, the bad guy, Krauss, is in a room with Wilson, Kim, and a bunch of evil guards. The guards open fire on Wilson and Kim, who is a Fae. Kim magically stops all the bullets, but is unable to kill the men. Wilson uses his Fae energy to redirect the bullets back at the men. He kills all the guards, but does not kill Krauss? He just leaves the main guy alive and escapes with Kim? There is no logic in this, and a perfect example of what I find wrong with her stories.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
I got this as part of the Immortal Ops Box Set Books 1-4 (Shifters Romance)
~ 4 Strategic Stars ~
Wilson and Kimberly are put together as part of Dr. Krauss, our evil mad scientist, for the purpose of creating the next super soldier. This is book four in the Immortal Ops series by Mandy M. Roth and it is fast paced, non-stop action. I really enjoyed how the book progressed, the action and the relationship building between our H/H’s.
Wilson was captured, tortured and abused for almost two months by the elusive Dr. Krauss. It is nice to finally meet the mad scientist who wants to be a God. When Wilson and Kimberly finally make their escape I had hoped that our mad scientist got killed, but then the series would be over and what evil would plague our I-Ops team.
I like Kimberly. She is emotionally stable considering the horrors thrown at her. She took it all in stride and did not freak out like most women would do, but kept her head about her and played our Dr. Krauss.
Wilson I stated falling for him in Raider Deception. In the previous books he comes off as an ass, but in Raider Deception we learn that he is a caring, sweet man who would do anything to protect his friends and their mates. Who would have ever thought a were-rat could be sexy? He pulled of sexy even with the filth covering him after two months of torture and abuse.
I liked how the author built the relationship, how it developed, between Wilson and Kimberly. They where put together in a difficult situation, but they came out fighting and caring for each other. I have to say the date Wilson put together for Kimberly was so sweet and romantic. The sex was hot!
The previous heroines played a role in this book as well and it was nice to see them again. I liked that they stood up for something on their own. It shows that this series is full of strong females.
The Immortal Ops series has surprised me. I really did not think I would enjoy this series as much as I have. Each book in the series is a short quick read, but boy do we get fun adventures, hot sexy alpha’s and strong females. I recommend checking out this series especially if you are looking for something quick with a military supernatural theme.
The story is starting to unravel. All the women are pregnant and the men are paired off. Lots of other characters. I'm not really invested enough to continue this series. It's just not for me.
Wilson and Kimberly are thrown together as part of the Krauss evil plans to create his race of super soldiers. Held in one of his hidden research labs for entirely too long Kimberly and Wilson must escape, especially after finding out the specifics on his next course of research involving them directly. Strategic Vulnerability is fast paced, non-stop action. There is so much at stake! They must escape. The dire situation is about to get worse, quickly.
I liked Kimberly. She was very emotionally stable. Considering all the horrors that are thrown her way she handled them all extraordinarily well. I’m sure the last thing she ever expected was one of her grad study trips to turn into the nightmare that it did.
Who would have ever thought a were-rat could be sexy? I can imagine a were-rat creepy. Roth and Wilson do were-rat very smexy. Wilson, were-rat, filthy, two months of captivity without a shower and a shave still managed to pull off sexy and he did it very well.
The previous books three heroines played an interesting role also. I enjoyed seeing them stand up for something on their own that they truly believed in. It was a very small part. It just reiterated the fact that this series is full of strong females that will do what they feel is right and just and to hell with the consequences.
I was slightly confused at Wilson’s complete character change between Strategic Vulnerability and all of the previous books in the series. In the three earlier books he is portrayed as the jokester but most of the time he came off as an ass. Even in the dire prisoner situation he tried to be light hearted in the company of Kimberly, but he never came off as an ass.
This is a really intriguing series I just wish the wait between books were not so long!! I devoured the first three books and almost forgot how much I liked them by the time I discovered this one was out! I did a quick reread of the series to refresh my faulty memory and then jumped head first into this newest book!!
Really great story telling and such fascinating new twists!! This time around the story had a more mainstream feel. Sure there is still steamy sex but not as much as you would expect. Don't misunderstand me that is not a complaint just an observation.
I liked Wilson from the first book and always loved his quick wit! He is even more lovable here as the hero! There were times in captivity where I felt he could have done more but I also understand he was majorly drugged and rundown.
Kimberly starts out nice and kinda average, but then you find out she has so much more depth!! I love a character with hidden layers!! And she really is a kickbutt gal!!
Really engaging story that flowed along nicely. Never any moments where the story lagged. This definitely brings you further into the whole plot that has carried over from the beginning of the series.
I am definitely hooked on the series and need to know what happens next!! Will they stop the bad guys? What about Vic and Brad? Will Jon be the next to mate up? Or perhaps Eaden? Come on Ms Roth don't make us wait forever!! I am terrible at patience!
Strategic Vulnerability was shorter then the others but it was still good, Wilson is taken by an evil man who wants to experiment on genetics and such, and by strange fate he meets his mate Kimberly after she is taken and brought in. They fight to keep each other safe during captivity. When they get the chance the to escape they take it. After the ordeal they separate to rest and heal. When Wilson is in better health he comes for his mate to finally claim her and their future.
It was a little disappointing that it wasn't as long as the other books in the series, but it was still good to read. I am really looking forward to the next two book in the series.
This book was definitely better than the last installment. Its nice to see that Wilson ended up being a redeemable character. But even though I'm 4 books into the serirs, I still can't stand the mates of the I-Ops team. Well, not all of them. I like Missy. She's the only one who doesn't really blink at the violence, only that others sometimes see her use it. In any event, if you like strong female leads, plausible and non convoluted story lines, this isn't the series for you. If you want something quick and entertaining, then have at it. Despite some of its failings, I did enjoy a lot of what I read.
Quick and fun and well written. I loved Wilson the wererat, in his own book of course! The click between Roger and Kimberly was instant but also believable. I was a little put off with the last minute separation of the two after the big rescue - it seemed contrived as a plot device and made me question Kimberly's intelligence and judgment. Otherwise, awesome book and great close to this series.
another bio engineered shifter finds his mate when they are both imprisoned by evil geneticists....the shifters mate is artificially inseminated with his sperm and becomes pregnant. between her fae power and his shifter abilities, they escape. happy ending.. reread this date and the story still makes me cry.
Strategic Vulnerability is book 4 and I have to say this was the best one out of them all. I liked Wilson from the first book and always loved his quick wit! He is even more lovable here as the hero! I am so glad I stuck with this series and read them all.
I love Wilson! He's my favourite! I love that the goofball is quite the romantic when it comes to Kim. I felt she rushed this story and it could have been told a bit better. However, it's still a good story. Wilson just rocks ;)
Wilson the rat which I find funny was one of my favorites. And Kimberley was perfect for him. I loved how she had the women lead the men to him. Again Ms. Roth's style of writing is one of my favorites :)