The Worst Rescuers in the Republic – Enjoyable space adventure.

The Worst Rescuers in the Republic.
Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #4.
By Skyler Ramirez.
My rating ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2 out of 5 stars.

Being tortured isn’t fun at all……especially when it’s your ex-flame attaching the battery cables to you. For Captain Brad Mendoza, his month has gone from bad to worse, and now all anyone seems interested in is the galaxy-changing secret that’s rattling around in his brain.

Whoever breaks Brad can build an empire that will rival anything else in the Fringe!But across the Republic, Jessica Lin survived the attempt to take her life, and she’s hunting the evil men and woman who have kidnapped her captain.

Armed only with a damaged ship seized from pirates, she must use her wits and a lot of luck to gather a ragtag crew capable of finding and rescuing Brad from the vile mercenaries that hold him captive.

Joining her on her quest are Hayley Uvalde, an enigmatic and fast-talking intelligence expert who changes names as often as hair colors, Quinn Boyd, a special forces washout with an unhealthy love of explosives, and Harris, everyone’s favorite makeup artist turned mercenary.

Together, they’ll race against a ticking clock to find Brad before he gives up his secret, dies, or likely both.

This is the fourth book in the Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes series and, not surprisingly, it takes off right were the third one ended (in a cliffhanger).

As I wrote in my review of books one to three, this is a light but enjoyable read. This book is more like a “real” book at 280 pages instead of the less than 150 pages booklets that are books one to three.

It is not really a comedy but there is quite a lot of humor in these books. The core of the story is a (unbelievable) twisting adventure though.

This time it is up to Jessica to rescue Brad and, as the blurb states, she picks up some colorful but very likable allies along the road. What can go wrong with a ex special forces guy with a “unhealthy love of explosives” after all 😁.

And Brad appears to finally have gotten his head screwed on a bit tighter when it comes to his female companion. Him behaving like a complete moron around Jessica when it came to the romance department was really grating on me in the first three books.

Overall, an enjoyable read and a series I will continue reading.