That being said, in my opinion, there was too much dialogue and writing about the characters’ thoughts. I cared what happened to them in the story, and that is really important.

This is a great medium for getting to know how characters think and feel, for understanding their motives and making a real connection. There is a lot of dialogue between the characters, and the story being told from multiple perspectives gives the reader a lot of time in the characters’ heads. The duo of writers that is calling themselves Kit Rocha also did a really good job of helping me connect with the characters. Add in an over-bearing government (because the planet was almost wiped out, so why not?), and there is so much to draw the reader in from the start. The fact that everything is chaotic, as well, in a every-person-for-themselves way adds a much-welcomed edge to the setting makes it even more interesting.

The timeline is less than 100 years in the future, so much of it is familiar at the same time, most of the technological advances are things that can definitely come to pass. I found this near-future setting where the Earth is in a kind of shambles from a destructive solar flare to be interesting and semi-realistic. The book definitely delivered on the setting. Not to mention one team is all male, the other is all female, so some level of romance is expected along the way, as well. It promises a really interesting setting, and a lot of action and surprises. Each person has their own specific skill set, and they are thrown together by circumstances and forced to work together toward a common goal. It is set in a near-future dystopia, and there are these two teams of people working to survive. I like the concept of Deal with the Devil. This is the first book in a near-future science fiction series with elements of romance.

Or they could do the impossible: team up. They could burn down the world, destroying each other in the process… They’re on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between them only makes it more dangerous. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he’s fighting to survive. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. Nina is an information broker with a mission–she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America.

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