Uncontrollable by Nina Croft

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Title: Uncontrollable
Author: Nina Croft
Series: Beyond Human #3
Published by: Entangled: Amara
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Format: eARC
Pages: 300
Genres: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Romance
Source: NetGalley
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 Finishing the Series Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 Fraterfest Readathon, Lenoreo's 2018 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Release Challenge, Lenoreo's Science Fiction vs Fantasy Bingo 2018
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My rating:

Blurb:

Quinn Sutherland, second in command of the Tribe, a group of powerful telepaths, has always been certain of who and what he is—one of the good guys. All he wants is to keep his friends safe—no easy feat when everyone in the world is after them. While on a rescue mission, he meets a mysterious FBI agent, who appears to know a lot about them, and seems to want the same thing he does. But her assignment could literally mean the death of him…

When Melody Lyons is inducted into the Federation’s elite Bureau of Time Management, it’s the pinnacle of her ambitions. Only when she’s sent back to the twenty-first century to eliminate a group of rogue time travelers, she never guesses she’ll fall for a man who died two thousand years ago… Quinn awakens emotions she hadn’t known existed, and for the first time, her loyalties are tested.

Books in the Beyond Human series:Unthinkable UnspeakableUncontrollable

My Review:

I received a free copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.

4-stars — OMG!!  I mean, I totally knew this wasn’t going to be the last book in the series, and I know they always end with a lot of questions, but wow…it’s going to be seriously hard waiting for the next book, and I have NO IDEA what’s going to happen!

This book went in a lot of different directions from the previous ones!  It’s funny how the series started off feeling more urban fantasy, and has progressively been getting more sci-fi, particularly in this book.  I mean, we’re dealing with a time traveller in this one!  And time travel becomes a very central theme instead of just a side plot.  And we get glimpses into 2000 years into the future, so we even see aliens!!  I can’t say much more than that, but I really loved the things we discovered in those last few pages.  It truly has me intrigued to find out more.

As with the previous books, the action/suspense parts of this novel were fantastic.  Quinn and Mel truly go on a wild ride in this one.  And I thought the sci-fi aspects were done quite well as well!  Time travel is kind of a mind-fuck, and it can be so easy to get caught with inconsistencies and paradoxes, but quite a few of them were explored…and I don’t think I ended up confused at the end, which is always a bonus.

I connected with both Quinn and Mel and their romance better than Sadie and Ethan in the previous book, but not as much as with Jake and Christa in the first.  There was still just a little something missing to really suck me into the characters.  Characters tend to be the biggest draw into stories for me, and so I notice it when I want something more.  In non-contemporary books I at least have plot and world building to make up the difference, but I still want those characters.

I think for both of them on the surface I got a lot of background on both of them, and what was driving them, but I didn’t *feel* it.  But maybe that was just me.  And as for the two of them together, again, I *definitely* felt the lust and attraction, but I had a harder time understanding the love so quickly.  I understand that under extreme circumstances emotions can build faster, but I still didn’t quite buy it.  Again, I did moreso than with Sadie and Ethan, but still wanted a bit more.

As always, it was awesome to see other members of the Tribe and have them along on different parts of the journey.  In this case Rose and Kaitlin were the main secondary characters…  I wouldn’t have minded seeing more of the others, but I’m guessing I’ll get that in the next book.

So yeah.  Super duper intrigued by where this is all going, and it’s going to be hell waiting to find out what’s next.  I can honestly say I didn’t see some of the answers coming, but they totally satisfied me.