Outrush – Book Review

Book Review
Outrush (The Mer Chronicles: Book III)
By Errin Stevens (website here)
Published Feburary 14, 2019

Why I chose this book:
This is the third book in a series I am really enjoying! A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Review
Outrush follows Updrift and Breakwater and is the story of Maya, whom readers met in the previous books. Prior to the story's start, Maya married Stu because she thought this was the logical post-college choice. As Outrush begins, Maya is tiring of Stu's philandering. She mourns the loss of a more satisfying life, particularly with Aiden, a man (actually a siren) from her past. As the story unfolds, she concludes that the unrealized passion with Aiden would have been far preferable to the marriage she has tried to save for the past seven years. Maya files for divorce and leaves town. Meanwhile, Stu's father suspects Maya of revealing his illegal business ventures to the authorities and orders his security team to kill her.

It is Aiden who rescues her. However, he's not much of a knight on a white horse. He's in disguise, so she doesn't know it's he. He disappears mysteriously, leaving Maya to fend for herself against gun-toting goons. He erases her memories of him, leaving Maya to wonder how her post-Stu life commenced. As a reader, one wants to throw one's hands up in the air and yell or grab him by the shoulders and shake some sense into him. I love it when the characters become so real that I feel emotionally invested in what they do! (Mini spoiler: I wasn't so fed up with him in the end.) With so much going on, it's easy to simply sink into the story, enjoy the action, and watch the romance unfold with all the pitfalls you can imagine. Or, one could read this as an assessment of the value our society places on public image. On the drive to be successful, rich, beautiful. Outrush is as much action/fantasy/romance as it is a contemplation of what it means to be content. Dive deeper or simply swim with the sirens; either way, you're in for a riveting read.

Intense chase scenes, abductions, secret identities, and romance combine in this suspenseful and satisfying installment of The Mer Chronicles. A cliffhanger ending and a tantalizing excerpt from the next book make this reviewer eager to read more.

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