I enjoyed this intriguing romance. I bought this at the local library book sale and I voluntarily chose to review this story. This book pulled me in almost from the first and kept my attention. There is a lot of action and violence. This is not for the under 18 readers because of violence and sexual content. I've given this a 4.5* rating. Meeting in unusual circumstances was a nice twist, sort of and the story continues from there. This is centered in a Africa country during unrest. Lots of different issues in this story. ( )

Five Ways to Surrender by Elle James

From the Mission: Six series, this active SEAL story has Jake rescuing teacher Alexandria from ISIS in a small village in Africa.
Military action and fighting are the majority of the story with an underlying romance. Because it’s Harlequin I really expected more romance than active hiding, search and rescue. It moved fast and compelling but the heroine made a stupid move putting herself in danger. Maybe re than once. Yes, she was aggressive in fighting back. But the SEAL team or Jake had to follow after her. All for the cause of good of course.
I like this author a lot but this series focus is on active duty SEALs which means fighting, killing and ugly intentions.
So I’m giving it 4 stars for the writing, action, and intentions but know that the romance, heat and attraction level I want from a Harlequin would put it only at 3 stars at the most. ( )