Danger that is Damion by Lisa Renee Jones

Book 3 of the “Zodius” series
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: May 01, 2012
ISBN: 9781402251627 (paperback)
352 pages; 985KB (e-book)
Rating: 4 ½ stars

Damion Browne is an undercover Renegade soldier. He’s seen practically drooling over a woman in a white bikini. Lara has a gun with a silencer in her oversized bag – now why would someone in a bikini need a gun. She belonged to Project Serenity and received some very specialized training. Her job as a soldier is to protect the innocent. But she also wants retribution for those GTECHs that supposedly killed her family.

Then Damion and Lara meet while she’s trying to do her job. Sabrina is the head of Serenity and very power hungry. But Lara doesn’t do anything according to plan. She and Damion also share an instant attraction that neither is aware of. There is some language that is explicit in regards to the sexual scenes. It should be expected but it’s not done to be offensive.

Damion, Michael, and Caleb are making assumptions of female GTECHs and it will be interesting to see if they are correct in those assumptions. The action started right away – it certainly kept my attention. I’m also not finding the storyline confusing as I did in Sterling’s book.

You don’t need to read book one and two of the “Zodius” series to understand what is going on. But if you want to know more about the characters you are reading about, you may want to go back and read “The Legend of Michael” and “The Storm That Is Sterling” . I found I enjoyed this book the best out of the three. It seems like Lisa is now more comfortable with her GTEC characters.

We get to see more of the personal side to the Renegade characters and that includes their wives. We don’t get too much information about the evil characters but then they aren’t the heroes of the piece. Lisa even makes a reference to “Star Wars” – you will recognize it when you read it. And I’m not going to tell you where to find it. I don’t want you to miss out on any of the story trying to find it.

If you’ve never read this series before, and you’ve purchased the e-book copy, some of the terms may be confusing but the Glossary can be located at the end. If you have the paperback, this would work out fine for you because you can flip to the end whenever you want to find out what Lisa was referring to. With the e-book it may have been better to put the Glossary at the beginning so that you would know these terms when you saw them. That was really my only complaint.

It will be interesting to see if Lisa gives us a book four. She’s on a great roll and I want to see what the Renegades have in store for us next. There are several characters that still need their story told – and that even includes our evil characters. We always love it when good overcomes evil.

The Legend of Michael by Lisa Renee Jones

This is the first book of the “Zodius” series.

Cassandra Powell comes to work for her father and to evaluate some of the soldiers at the military facility.  Not two minutes after literally bumping into one of the soldiers he’s hitting on her.  His name is Michael Taylor.  She then goes to meet her assistant Kelly who tells her something interesting about the GTEC soldiers that she will be working with.  I love how Kelly tells Cassandra how to have protected sex – ok Mom!

Cassandra’s father seems to be one of the evil forces in this story.  He’s done some experiments on the soldiers that Cassandra must now see what the effects are.  He seems to think that he can play God and not be held accountable.  But there is someone who is much more evil than he is.

Michael goes on a mission with two brothers, Adam and Caleb.  Adam shows us how the experiment can take a turn for the worse.  What’s even worse is that there is a woman, his wife, who’s as evil as he is.  Lisa paints Adam as a very dark sadistic man.  He gets pleasure from other people’s pain.  Lisa doesn’t make it too graphic but just enough so the reader will understand the type of evil man he is.

Lisa takes the reader on a very suspenseful ride.  From one chapter to the next we don’t know what’s going to happen to Cassandra and Michael.  But we have to keep reading so that we can find out.  You have to love a hero that in the midst of a war going on, he has time to make love to his lifebond. 

Cassandra’s father isn’t happy on how his soldiers have turned out, now he wants to create a super soldier.  This is one more reason to keep reading.  Was this latest experiment a success?   And how does Michael’s mother fit into all this?  Lisa gives us a glimpse into a world where if you fool with Mother Nature, you will suffer the consequences.

I love how Lisa has given Cassandra a strong personality.  She either fights by Michael’s side or she’ll just go out on her own.  They also love each other – no matter what.  This is the type of love we all long for.

The story ends with us wondering whether good was able to defeat evil.  Who will prevail?  You will have to keep reading the series to find out the answer to this question.  I definitely recommend reading this series.

I give this book 4 stars.