This book was pretty terrible. Still, I felt oddly compelled to finish reading it, which is why I gave it two stars rather than one.

The characters in this were not particularly well-drawn, and the dialogue really annoyed me. How is it that the male characters were consistently swearing a blue streak, but the women said things like Yepper and oh mu gosh and crapola? So basicall none of it was believable to me since it seemed like some sort of 1970s fantasy world about how men and women interacted.

Also, there were a lot of errors in this text that a decent copy-editor would have eliminated, things like investing where the author clearly meant investigating and so forth. It made it a lot harder to read the text because some bits of it straight up didn't make sense until you started to think 'what did the author mean to write instead of what they actually wrote?', which you should never be thinking with a published text.

Honestly, forgettable and not very good. Skip it.

Lovely! Steam, hot biker dudes, some spy action, wonderful mix

Holy crapola I did not like this audiobook. The voices were cringe and the writing did not help

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This series starter was packed with various kinds of tension. Both Nate and Ali have had feelings for one another since they first met twelve years ago, and while they've tried to keep their distance, the feelings certainly haven't abated over time. Nate is like his nickname--he ghosts around and nothing is heard or felt from him unless he deems it necessary. While Ali may think Nate has never liked her, she brings out a more human side to him. The secret that Nate is keeping from Ali is a devastatingly painful one and one that has him carrying a heck of a lot of guilt on his conscience. Grigg's torture and death was described in the book, but I fully understood why it was important for it to be as graphic as it was for a romantic suspense novel. You could tell that what happened affected not just Nate and Ali but the BKI team as well.

As I write this review, I will already have gone through the first five books in the Black Knights Inc. series, working my way until I get to the advanced reader's copy for the latest release. These books have a different flavor to them compared to the first in the author's Deep Six series, Hell or High Water, while still sharing the kind of humor that appears to be a staple in Julie Ann Walker's writing. Even though you know who the bad guy is in this first book, the anticipation as to how Nate, Ali, and the rest of BKI team will learn the truth and gather the evidence they need to take him down remains high all throughout the book. Hell on Wheels was a precursor as to how much of an adrenaline rush you can get from simply sitting back with your e-reader or tablet and leaves you wanting even more of Black Knight Inc. 4.5 stars, rounded off to five stars! ♥

This definitely was no Black Ops Inc or Steele St. and elements of those series just kept popping up, so it was hard for me to see the Black Knight Inc. characters as anything but imitations. Although I had no attachment with the characters, I liked how the book addressed the darker undertones of top secret gov't work. Yes, people die and it isn't pretty. Thanks for keeping it 100% as the kids say!
What I didn't like was the wrap-up of the suspense plotline. With the care Walker dedicated to developing Senator Aldus, it was a let down to have it end the way it did. So, okay, I might continue with the series, but definitely not an auto-buy for me.

If you like romantic suspense books, you have to try this series. Although this is the first book in the series, it's not the first book I have read from this series. Nate "Ghost" Walker is part of a special ops group that is only known by a few people in the government called the Black Knights. Their cover is that they are part of a biker club. On a mission, his best friend was killed and he delivers the cover story to the family. He's known the family for a long time including his best friend's little sister, Ali. When Ali starts having someone follow her and eventually tries to mug her, she turns to Nate for help.

Sex, violence and conspiracy theories always make for a good story in my opinion and it probably doesn't hurt that the guys in the story are hot and ride custom motorcycles. If you read this book, you will love Ali, despite her pyrotechnics displays and you will both love and hate Nate at the same time. One thing that I really seem to like about these books is that there are references to songs and movies and books throughout the story. It will be a random line and you will be trying to figure out where the line came from before they tell you. I love this in books because it kind of turns into a game for me and makes me laugh.