Title: Hell Dog’s Squadron 3: Cut Pass
Author: A.R. Moler
Publisher: Torquere Books
Genre: M/M Contemporary Paranormal Romance
Length: 26 pages
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
A guest review by Jenre
THE BLURB
To a Navy pilot, the term cut pass means a landing so bad that it’s a miracle the plane isn’t wrecked and nobody’s dead. Nothing could come closer to describing the events tying Cameron Bradshaw and Mason Flynn even closer together. A mad impromptu flight to Meridian Naval Air Station leads Cam and the naval intelligence people to a direct confrontation with those who stole the missile.
A vicious firefight leaves two dead, one of their own critically injured and Mason scrambling to save him. Even after retrieval of the missile is accomplished, the final end game forces Mason to do the unthinkable, and puts his own sanity in jeopardy in the process.
THE REVIEW
If you’ve just read the blurb then that’s pretty much told you the whole plot of this short story.
Cut Pass is the final part of this trilogy and like the other two in the series, which I have been reviewing for the past couple of weeks, needs to be read as a whole rather than a short story on its own. I mentioned in the last review my slight disgruntlement with this so I won’t bring it up again. At the end of the second book Mason and Cam have been called to a navy base where Cam suspects that the stolen missiles have been hidden. When they arrive there’s a huge gun fight and Mason is called to use his healing powers on the injured men. After returning to base Mason learns more about his healing powers from Peter the man in charge of the psi healers, and he considers joining the team at P division.
To be honest, I haven’t really got much to say about this story which I haven’t already said in my reviews of the first two books, other than it was a satisfactory conclusion to the story arc as a whole. The action sequence with the gun fight was tense and thrilling and I was happy with the way that Mason was able to discover more about his powers as a result. Cam’s role is more in the background through the story but I still enjoyed the deepening of his feelings towards Mason and felt happy for them and their relationship by the end.
The only slight niggle I felt with the story was that the reasons for the capture of the missile and the role of the bad guys in general wasn’t very clearly explained. I also felt that, at half the length of the previous two stories, I wasn’t perhaps getting as much value for money as I did with the other stories in the trilogy.
The grade I’ve given is mostly for the trilogy as a whole which was well written and entertaining with some good plot and character development. I would recommend that you buy the trilogy in one go and read the stories one after the other to gain the full benefit of the story.
