Kit Rocha: Deal with the Devil

In the first in a series, Kit Rocha shows what women will go through in order to protect their community:

Nina is an information broker, and she uses the knowledge she finds and the information and objects she procures for other to help support the community that she lives in. Without her and her librarian friends the community would not be able to Survive. Knox is a solider who has convinced his team to go AWOL, there is just a catch, the kill switch within them needs to be turned off. In order to achieve this Knox is given the job of capturing Nina and delivering her to his broker. Only catch is that he doesn’t think she will come quietly. But Knox has information that she needs, the location of a federal storage unit full of old literature, only its in dangerous lands and they need to team up in order to get it.

This is the first book I have read by Kocha and based upon some of her other works (going by the covers/premise of a few I saw, I judged I’m not afraid to admit that) I was not sure what I was getting myself into. This is the first book in the series, and I really enjoyed this book and it was not what I expected it to be. It was a fun mix of action, suspense and romance and who doesn’t love a story where more than one of the Female main characters who can kickass. I think that Rocha did a great job of mixing all the elements together to give the reader a rollercoaster ride of a book that was pretty fast pace.

I loved the idea of Library mercenaries but this is not totally explained or expanded in the book. I mean I know that Nina and her friends are trying to help the community and by getting the books for their community there is a preservation of history, but at the same time, I don’t really know why the world is this way. How did the world get here? I think there needs to be slightly more world building for me.

Knox and Nina are the main characters and this is their story so they have the most POV though I appreciate Kocha having a few of the other members have chapters from their POV, made the story feel more rounded and not one (two) dimensional. I loved how analytical Nina is. always calculating, always the strategist trying to figure the way out of situations and figuring out the odds. Knox will do anything for him men, even sacrificing himself that you have to admire as a character trait, the same can be said for Nina too and her friends. Nina is scary but i actually think that Dani is scarier. and i look forward to that in future books. 

There are some twists and turns along the way and I was able to figure out the main twist but not exactly how it was going to play out, it was a bit lack luster but at the same time really smart of Rocha.

The ending though will make you want to pick up the next book in the series and I know I cannot wait to pick it up, I have some questions about all the main characters.

Enjoy!!!

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