Stateless
by Meli Raine
Series: The Stateless Series #1
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 15th, 2019
Series: The Stateless Series #1
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: October 15th, 2019
Blurb:
When you’re born without a trace, no one knows you’re a weapon.
I lie for her.
I hunt for her.
I kill for her.
And above all, I betray my mission for her.
She doesn’t know why. She doesn’t care why.
I do.
Treason comes in many forms.
Love is one of them.
Our training taught me to be a sociopath. A machine. A pawn. Nothing more than a tool for a larger goal, without attachments or feelings.
Our teachers forgot one important detail:
Pawns shouldn’t have hearts.
Yet we do.
It turns out our emotions are our greatest weapon.
And I know exactly where mine are aimed.
The Stateless Series also includes:
Traceless (releasing 11.19.19)
Fateless (release date TBA)
I hunt for her.
I kill for her.
And above all, I betray my mission for her.
She doesn’t know why. She doesn’t care why.
I do.
Treason comes in many forms.
Love is one of them.
Our training taught me to be a sociopath. A machine. A pawn. Nothing more than a tool for a larger goal, without attachments or feelings.
Our teachers forgot one important detail:
Pawns shouldn’t have hearts.
Yet we do.
It turns out our emotions are our greatest weapon.
And I know exactly where mine are aimed.
The Stateless Series also includes:
Traceless (releasing 11.19.19)
Fateless (release date TBA)
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Excerpt:
I do not sleep.
Kina does, though, and that matters more.
Sleep is a luxury when we are in Woods. She knows it. I know I should catch an hour or two, especially with my five-night punishment and determination to go for six, but I can't.
What did I just say?
What did I just do?
Kina has the dreams. I have the dreams. I've never told anyone else anything that wasn't one hundred percent part of The Mission.
To confess emotion, to confess my own dreams that do not fit The Mission, could be punished by death.
Or worse. What if I really am so weak? Emotion is shameful. It’s disgusting.
We fail every time we feel.
She knows this. I know this.
And yet we both spoke. Shared.
Confided.
Why?
What does this mean?
With her sleeping beside me, I let my mind wander, giving in to the luxury of imagination. For years, the dream has been the same.
A burning wood fire.
A screaming boy.
A woman with long hair being shot.
A man with a shaved head and blue eyes like mine beaten by another man with a log.
And me with my bow and arrow. My hands are tiny, the skin around the knuckles dimpled. I've worked with the four-year-olds here at the compound. I know what young hands look like.
Why would I dream like that?
Kina does, though, and that matters more.
Sleep is a luxury when we are in Woods. She knows it. I know I should catch an hour or two, especially with my five-night punishment and determination to go for six, but I can't.
What did I just say?
What did I just do?
Kina has the dreams. I have the dreams. I've never told anyone else anything that wasn't one hundred percent part of The Mission.
To confess emotion, to confess my own dreams that do not fit The Mission, could be punished by death.
Or worse. What if I really am so weak? Emotion is shameful. It’s disgusting.
We fail every time we feel.
She knows this. I know this.
And yet we both spoke. Shared.
Confided.
Why?
What does this mean?
With her sleeping beside me, I let my mind wander, giving in to the luxury of imagination. For years, the dream has been the same.
A burning wood fire.
A screaming boy.
A woman with long hair being shot.
A man with a shaved head and blue eyes like mine beaten by another man with a log.
And me with my bow and arrow. My hands are tiny, the skin around the knuckles dimpled. I've worked with the four-year-olds here at the compound. I know what young hands look like.
Why would I dream like that?
COMING SOON IN THE STATELESS SERIES:
Traceless
by Meli Raine
Series: The Stateless Series #2
Release Date: November 19th, 2019by Meli Raine
Series: The Stateless Series #2
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Meli Raine writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes — and the women who love them. Meli rode her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
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My review:
I love Meli Raine’s suspenseful trilogy series -
Harmless, Shameless, False. Each trilogy on its own is a great story
but together, as they all play in the same universe, they contribute to a
higher goal and grow this story into a bigger and much more complex and
suspenseful storyline.
I’m so happy that it finally
continues with the Stateless trilogy, which I’ve been waiting for
forever. Although this book had a different feel to it and I didn't have
this instant connection as I did with the previous trilogies and
characters, I can’t deny how the suspense of the underlying threat and
fear of punishment held me captive throughout the entire book.
Since
I first learned about the stateless from the previous books, I was
intrigued but also biased due to the information that I had been fed.
Now there's finally more insight on what Stateless means and truly is,
although not all has been revealed yet and I itch to find out more.
Callum
and Kina had a special bond that was very dangerous because they were
taught that having emotions equated to failure and led to punishment or
even death. If you grow up in a military-like structure, separated from
the outside world, and were told what was right and wrong, getting to
know only one side of a story, it takes a strong mind to question the
hand that feeds you and not follow blindly in the pointed direction.
Oh
I was so furious with certain characters in this book and wanted to
strangle them with my own hands. I hope justice will be served to them
soon. I was pretty high-strung during this read and I loved how Callum
walked on a thin line but with purpose and still always looking out for
Kina.
The Stateless are very dangerous people and a
well-organized and powerful organization. I was honestly surprised by
that. But despite some of their well-educated members, they were also
still so narrow-minded, walking around with blinders, only having one
goal and believing whatever their leaders told them.
This
was just like the prelude of the real story that will set off in the
next books and I seriously can’t wait to read more. Although it didn’t
end in a cliffhanger (at least not in my opinion), though it obviously
had an open ending, I still am waiting on hot coals for the next book to
be released.
-- I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book given by Give Me Books Promotions. --
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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