MALFUNCTION (Dark Desires Series Origins #1) by Nina Croft-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 20, 2020

Investigator, Sergeant Logan Farrell, has never been convinced the human race deserves saving. But it looks like he’s got the job anyway.

It’s been five hundred years since we fled the remnants of a dying Earth in search of a new home. Twenty-four ships, each carrying ten thousand Chosen Ones. All sleeping peacefully…until people start dying in cryo.

Malfunction or murder? Hopefully, the former—a serial killer in the fleet would be drastic for morale. But Logan is determined to find the truth. Unfortunately, he’s got a new partner—and he works best alone.

Katia Mendoza, hot-shot homicide detective, has been woken from cryo to assist with the investigation. But is she really interested in solving the case, or does she have her own agenda?

Before he can answer that question, though, they become targets themselves.

Nothing like a few near misses with death to bring a couple together, and Logan finds himself falling for the alluring detective. But he doesn’t know that Katia is hiding a secret.

It’s not only humans who fled the dying Earth.

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REVIEW: MALFUNCTION is the first instalment in Nina Croft’s adult, sci-fi DARK DESIRES SERIES: ORIGINS paranormal, fantasy romance series. This is military investigator Sergeant Logan Farrell, and homicide detective Katia Mendoza’s story line. MALFUNCTION and the Dark Desires Series: Origins is a prequel series to the author’s DARK DESIRES series set five hundred years earlier. You do not have to have read the original series to understand or follow the new time line.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Logan and Katia) MALFUNCTION focuses on the search for the truth. Five hundred years earlier Earth was dying, and seventy thousand of Earth’s Chosen had set off in search of a new planet able to sustain human life. Fast forward five centuries wherein no planet has yet to be found, but several mysterious and questionable deaths in the cryo-tubes, on each of seven ships, have warranted an investigation. Enter Earth’s former military investigator Sergeant Logan Farrell, and homicide detective Katia Mendoza, who, themselves, have been sleeping in suspended animation for close to five hundred years. What ensues is the building relationship and romance between Katia and Logan, and the potential fall-out as Katia and Logan become targets of a psychotic mind.

Someone or something is slowly killing several members of The Chosen but a conspiracy based in theory surrounding Earth’s twentieth century terrorist organizations forces Logan and Katia to call off the investigation, an investigation they refuse to shut down or willingly let go. Working together to uncover the truth, our couple will find themselves targeted, on several occasions, including the total destruction and annihilation of ten thousand people, in an effort to hide the truth.

The relationship between Logan and Katia is one of immediate attraction but Katia hides a secret-she isn’t what she appears to be. After several attempts on her life, Logan begins to believe that Katia is the target but no one is prepared for the fall-out of one person’s need for revenge. From a vampire pilot, to werewolf security, demons, and shifting panthers, Logan will soon discover that his life literally is in the hands of the people in charge. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

MALFUNCTION looks at some of the background and introduces several of the characters we meet in the author’s Dark Desires Series including vampire and rogue pilot Ricardo Sanchez, and Callum Meridian, founding member of the Collective. The premise is entertaining and fascinating ; the characters are energetic, playful and colorful; the romance is captivating and lively. MALFUNCTION is a wonderful addition to Nina Croft’s Dark Desires sci-fi /paranormal series.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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