Blog Tour Review: Break Out – Nina Croft

Break Out by Nina Croft
Series:  Blood Hunter #1
Release Date:  July 5, 2011
Publisher:   Entangled Publishing
Page Count:  140
Source:  Bewitching Book Tours
Buy the book at: Amazon 

Irreverent. Irresponsible. Insatiable. Who says immortals can’t have any fun?

The year is 3048, Earth is no longer habitable, and man has fled to the stars where they’ve discovered the secret of immortality—Meridian. Unfortunately, the radioactive mineral is exorbitantly expensive and only available to a select few. A new class comprised of the super rich and immortal soon evolves. The Collective, as they’re called, rule the universe.

Two-thousand-year-old Ricardo Sanchez, vampire and rogue pilot of the space cruiser, El Cazador, can’t resist two things: gorgeous women and impossible jobs. When beautiful Skylar Rossaria approaches him to break a prisoner out of the Collective’s maximum security prison on Trakis One, Rico jumps at the chance. Being hunted by the Collective has never been so dangerous–or so fun!


Skylar Ross has been given her most challenging assignment of her life.  She needs to break a prisoner out of a maximum security prison.  She does her research and finds a pilot and a crew that will do just about anything for money.  What she didn’t count on was the pilot being an absolutely hot vampire who’s determined to have her (in more ways than one).

Ricardo Sanchez doesn’t tend to let anything bother him.  After living out the last two thousand years, not much surprises him, but he wasn’t expecting their client to be the blonde beauty that has piqued his curiosity.  While her request to have them assist her with a prison break is most certainly a death wish,  Rico is more concerned with breaking through her icy exterior.

This was a great set up for the series with great character development that has you eager for the next book.

Rico was a character I was immediately drawn to, even when he was being a less than lovable vampire.  But when his humanity started to un-thaw, he was one of those male leads that I love.  He loved his woman, but wasn’t going to beg her to be with him or use situations to his advantage. 

Skylar was a little harder to get a handle on, but I think that is partly because she is part of the Collective (am I the only one that thinks of the Borg when I see that word…especially when it refers to anything in Sci-Fi??).  But Rico manages to get underneath that Collective thought processing to the woman that lay below.  Once he did, Skylar became a woman who protected those that she loved.

Excellent start to the series.  Can’t wait to read the next book!