REVIEW: Collision Point by Lora Leigh

In Collision Point by Lora Leigh, Rory Malone is a member of Brute Fore Protection Agency and works for Elite Ops. He becomes involved with Amara Resnova, daughter of a crime lord and the person he was supposed to protect. When she gets kidnapped the resulting rescue goes wrong, resulting with Rory almost dying and Amara left with amnesia. A year later Amara turns to Rory because she’s receiving threats. While she doesn’t remember him, she has a feeling he’s the only person who could keep her safe. Rory, believing she wanted nothing to do with him after the rescue, is reluctant to help her, but once he realizes she has no memory of the rescue and that she really is in danger, he will stop at nothing to protect her and help her get her memories back.

I felt so-so about this book. It felt like I was missing information about Rory, his brother, and the agency he worked for. It was almost as if the author expected readers to know these things. I later found out that this is a spin off of her Elite Ops novels, which I have not read. Considering this was the start of a new series, it would have been helpful to have had more background information included for those readers who haven’t been previously introduced to the Elite Ops series.

I also had a hard time with Amara’s amnesia. It seemed too convenient that she only forgot her time with Rory. I might have been able to buy into it more if maybe she forgot time prior to that as well, or even if she just forgot the rescue effort, considering that was traumatic. But to completely forget anything having to do with Rory was hard to buy.

I also thought Rory was too quick to give up on Amara after he recovered and attempted to reach out to her. Instead, he takes the word of her father that she didn’t want to see him, knowing full well the man never approved of their relationship to being with.

The action in the book is good and starts right from the first page. It was the romance I had an issue with. I didn’t really feel the chemistry between Amara and Rory. It almost felt like readers were told they had this love for each other, and then were expected to believe it was still there even though Amara didn’t remember their time together. Lust I could buy, especially on Amara’s side, but it felt like she fell in love with again much too quickly considering they had to build their relationship again from the ground up due to the amnesia.

This book will be for readers of romantic suspense. I think readers who enjoyed the Elite Ops series might enjoy this one as well since it’s a spin-off, and some of the characters from that series make appearances in this book. For readers who haven’t read that series, you will most likely feel like you’re missing something when it comes to the backgrounds of Rory and his brother.

Book Info:

Publication: February 27, 2018 | St. Martin’s Paperbacks | Brute Force #1

Riordan “Rory” Malone is a force to be reckoned with. A member of the Brute Force Protection Agency and an operative working with the Elite Ops, Rory is the fiercest of warriors and protectors. Honed from the strong Irish stock of their grandfather and sharpened to a razor’s edge, Malone men live for one single purpose: to protect the women who own them, body and soul. From the moment he saw Amara Resnova, he knew she could be that woman.

But Amara, daughter of an alleged notorious crime lord, is a force in her own right. When she betrays her father, she’s finds herself in the arms of a man who is dangerous for her body and soul.

Can Rory keep Amara safe while protecting his own heart? Can Amara trust Rory not to break hers even as the danger mounts, threatening to take them and their passion to a breaking point?