Sweet Reward: A Last Chance Rescue Novel: Last Chance Rescue Trilogy 3, Book 3 [Kindle Edition]

My Review:

Last Chance Rescue...there has been 9 books to this series and EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. THEM. HAS. BEEN. PHENOMENAL. As the final book in this series (although Christy has said that she *might* revisit LCR at a later time,) this book did not disappoint in the least. Sweet Reward is the story of Jared and Mia.

Christy Reece writes some amazingly tortured heroes, but I think Jared is right up there at the top as my favorite...OMG, I loved his character, just because he is so full of angst (I really love me an angst-y hero.) Jared is reserved, unemotional, and sometimes brash (when it comes to putting his life on the line for a mission.) Even the boss at LCR, Noah McCall, sometimes wonders if there is truly a man under that hard facade because he never lets anything get in the way of his mission and perfection.

The complete antithesis to Jared's character is Mia's character. Mia was fired from LCR because she could not follow the rules, and she then opened her own Rescue business in Chicago. With Mia, what you see is what you get. Her life is full of adventure, happiness, and she does exactly what she wants. She is exuberant and so completely full of life. She is so completely unlike Jared, that he doesn't know what to make of her or how to react to her. She keeps him completely off-balanced. I really liked that aspect to their relationship. I love how she would make him laugh spontaneously, surprising even him. For me, what made this book work so well was their incredible chemistry, which surprised both of them.

This is a book where opposites definitely attract. Not only are Jared and Mia completely different in their entire outlook on life, but they also come from completely different backgrounds. Mia grew up as the daughter of a politically powerful diplomat. Jared was orphaned at age 6 and grew up in an abusive foster system. Christy seemed to do some special weaving of the story line within this book so that both of their stories come out very, very slowly throughout the extremely quick pace of the romance and suspense story lines. I loved the way that she drew out all the details of exactly why Mia and Jared are both the way that they are...and there are very specific reasons for that (no spoilers here though.)

There is plenty of angst, emotion, suspense, romance, smexy-action, and danger-action in this book to keep me extremely happy. I was lucky enough to receive an ARC from Christy before the release date and spent Christmas Eve morning reading, when I really had other things that I needed to be working on. I could NOT put this book down, until I had read every single bit of it...it was just so good!

I am so sad to see the end of the LCR series, but this was a phenomenal book to end the series. This is a 9-book series, but don't let that number put you off. Almost all of these books can stand alone very easily, especially this one. There are references to the other couples from the other books because most of them are still operatives within LCR and they all work together, but other than that, these books each focus on the H/h story and their current mission. If you haven't read any Christy Reece's books, I HIGHLY recommend that you pick one up. This one released Dec. 27th and even though it's the last, it's a good place to start. I promise that once you read one Christy Reece LCR book, the next 8 books will be in your TBR soon!

The Last Chance Rescue Series:
1. Rescue Me- Eden & Jordan
2. Return to Me- Samara & Noah
3. Run to Me- Shea & Ethan
4. No Chance- Skylar & Gabe
5. Second Chance- Cole & Keeley
6. Last Chance- McKenna & Lucas
7. Sweet Justice- Honor & Seth
8. Sweet Revenge- Jamie & Dylan
9. Sweet Reward- Mia & Jared

Sweet Reward was magically delivered to my Kindle this morning and I've already finished it! It was amazing!

Jared was such a grouchy ass at times, but then he would show a little bit of sweetness...how could Mia not fall for him! I loved Mia's zest for life and how she kept Jared off balance.

I loved the glimpse we got into Noah and Samara's life...I always love catching past couples are doing and seeing how happy they still are. Samara is still not taking any of Noah's crap and he still loves her like crazy :)

Christy's villians are always super creepy and Phillpe was no different...UGH! What a self-absorbed ass-clown! Just listening to his schemes made me want to thump him.

I'm sad this is the last LCR book...I'm thinking maybe I should have savored it a little more, but I couldn't put it down. Even though I am sad to see the end of this series I am excited to read whatever Christy comes up with next, I know it will be amazing!

I agonize whenever I write a review. Matter of fact it causes nail biting and me to breakout into a sweat. BUT I absolutely love the LCR series and want others to see what I see. Great writing,awesome characters and books that will pull you in and make you not want to stop reading until the last page. That being said let me tell you what I LOOOOVE about this last book in her series besides the things I mentioned above.

Mia! is soo much more than you expected. She is spunk and sass and laugh out loud funny(Reece shows us she has a great sense of humor again and can bring it across on paper)and better than any game of musical chairs you've been in since Reece added the spice by the name of Jared Livingston! She is the kind of girl you would want as your bestfriend. Plus she has courage, strong morals and is tough when she needs to be. And she is just the right match to light a fire under Jared. You have your suspence and your Happly Ever After so you know everything will turn out right. This was well worth my money. And if your not into romantic suspence, buy it anyway, especially for the elevator scene that starts on the bottom of page 122. It is hot enough to melt the emergency brakes right off an elevator itself.