Title: Rack
& Ruin
Author: Charlie Cochet
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Publisher URL: www.dreamspinnerpress.com
ISBN: 978-1-63216-420-9
Genre: {M/M} Paranormal Series
Rating: 5 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Chocolate Minx
A war, street gangs, extremists fighting for principles and
revenge, violence has always been a part of Earth’s history. With each new
generation of mankind the hostility as well as history is repeated.
Rack & Ruin is the third book in the THIRDS series. The setting is a future
time, yet the issues illustrated are realistic problems of today’s world.
Featured is the team members’ emotional conflicts between a dangerous job,
painful memories and personal relationships.
The exciting plot exhibits the violence between the Order of
Adrasteia, an extremist group of humans on a mission to exterminate all the
shifters known as Therians and the Ikelos Coalition, a Therian group seeking
revenge for their slaughtered family members.
The Therian Human Intelligence, Recon, Defense Squadron
A.K.A the THIRDS is a military style
version of law enforcement consisting of teams of both human and Therian agents
working together to implement peace. The Thirds are, for all intents and
purposes, caught in the middle of the warring factions.
What I find really interesting is that the shifters are
actually a medical creation by the world’s top scientist. Animal strains of DNA
were infused into a vaccine created to cure a lethal virus infecting millions. However, some who
survived the virus developed an altered human DNA. The children born with the
ability to shift were deemed abominations by their own parents. Therians became
the targets to be despised by bigots, replacing the homophobic attitude of an
earlier era.
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