Review: Collateral Damage (Gamer Girls Series Book 5) by Auryn Hadley and Kitty Cox

Collateral Damage by Auryn Hadley and Kitty Cox
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow!!

Well, I knew it was going to be good, but I was still blown away but this book.

We finally get to know FBI Agent Jason Raige aka Cynister in this book. He has been installed at a college in New York to monitor the situation with militant anti-Muslim groups on the campus, and at the same time is getting his degree. He chose that campus because Murder (Samir) was attending college there and he wanted to keep an eye out for him.

At the same college was a pretty MENA (Middle Eastern North African) girl, Zara, who was in some of his classes. When she has a PTSD episode he runs out of the class to help her. He takes her home to meet his service dog that helps him with his PTSD. It turns out he was the sniper that saved her when she was involved in a shooting of Middle Eastern appearing students at her previous college.

This romance is exceptionally rocky because of both of them having PTSD and Jason’s job, but the romance is also beautiful, as are the friendships formed with the other gamers from the other books in the series.

I adored both of these main characters and they are perfect for each other even though on the surface they seem to so wrong.

I loved getting to know Murder more too, as he stepped up to help Zara so much and became a true friend. She even set her up on a gaming pc so she could join in with his outfit, even though she was terrible at it and died a lot in game.

The tension was ramped up in this book towards solving the problem of the KoG and you feel like you could almost see the finishing line if you could just get over this one big hill. I can’t wait to see how the last book turns out because I feel like it’s going to blow my socks off.

Read this book, read this entire series and you won’t be disappointed. You don’t need to know anything about gamer culture but I bet you feel like you want to try a game after you read it!

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