"Breaking Creed" by Alex Kava, my final thoughts

I have finished Breaking Creed by Alex Kava. It is her first book of a new series that I won on goodreads.com. The book won't be released until late January but I won an advanced readers copy of the book that was not the finished product, but it was pretty close. And I must say, this book was very good. I haven't read Kava's writing before, but I might check out her other novels. She has a long series that have Agent Maggie O'Dell in them, and agent O'Dell makes an appearance in this book as well, even though the book is base more around Ryder Creed.

So I'll go into more about this book now. First I would like to say, the name Ryder Creed is like the most perfect name ever for this character. I always have a hard time with coming up with names when I'm writing, but this name was perfect. It's got a little edge to it, rolls of the tongue, but is short and simple at the same time. I can't really explain it, but this name fit perfectly with the character. Creed is an ex-marine who was stationed in Afghanistan, but now runs a dog training company with his partner, Hannah. They train dogs to sniff out drugs, people, evidence, anything. And he has several dogs that he trains to do other things as well. It's quit remarkable what he has trained his dogs to do. But his favorite dog, Grace, finds something that will change his life. They are sniffing for drugs in an airport when Grace finds a young teen, Amanda, smuggling drugs in her body after swallowing them. Amanda asks for his help and he does. Spinning everything out of control because of this one girl that ends up creating a connection to a case that O'Dell is working. I don't want to go into too much more because I don't want to spoil too much, but I hope this gives a good idea of what the book is about.

One thing that people may not like is that there are several POV shifts. Nearly each chapter is a different POV, mainly between O'Dell and Creed, but there are others as well. Usually I like this style, but in this book I think it slowed things down slightly in the beginning. But then things pick up and you don't notice it as often. That would be the only thing, and I know some people don't like multiple POV's like that. So that's just a heads up.

I hope to get the second book, which I believe is set to be released this coming summer. I have a feeling it's going to be a great series and I hope you pick up this book. It was a fun, fast read. I really enjoyed it. I'm going to be rating this book a 5/5 on goodreads.com and I would like to thank the author for the giveaway and giving me a chance to read this advanced readers copy of the book. I really enjoyed it.

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The next book I will be reading is the second book of The Dawn of Dragon's series I started a while back. I got the 2nd and 3rd book for Christmas!! I will be starting Requiem's Hope by Daniel Arenson. Happy reading everyone :)

!! So I'll be starting