Susan May Warren’s Global Search and Rescue Series kicks off with The Way of the Brave and what a start it is. Those familiar with Warren’s work will find the same basic themes. Characters are struggling emotionally and spiritually with trauma in their lives, characters involved in the love story have issues to overcome, and there is some action thrown in to keep the focus moving around the characters’ growth and improvement.
The main difference in this book is that once the action begins, it doesn’t really stop until the story concludes. In fact, the action sequences seem to be more at the forefront and the characters and their struggles fit into the story of the adventure and rescue. As is typical of books written by Warren, she has the reader anxious to discover what happens with the other characters.
The setting of this book is described in such a way as to transport the reader to the location, but also helps the reader to imagine what it must feel like to be there with the characters. This is another solid entry by Susan May Warren and thankfully she plans to release subsequent books in the series within the year.
This book was sent to Compass Book Ratings for review by Revell
Content Analysis:
Profanity/Language: None
Violence/Gore: Two men get in a physical altercation with pickpockets; report of people being shot as part of a war mission; several references to a soldier killing a boy in conjunction with a special ops mission; report of people dying in an accidental drowning; several references to a man beating a woman to death; a man grabs a woman and threatens her with a gun; shots are fired resulting in a fatality; several intense scenes in which characters are injured by natural means.
Sex/Nudity: Characters joke about a man lifting a woman’s shirt to get a look underneath, but he is actually assessing a wound; report that a person was raped; report that a man held a girl close a little too long; two characters are involved in passionate kissing and are headed toward sexual activity, when they are interrupted.
Mature Subject Matter:
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, death of family, miscarriages.
Alcohol / Drug Use:
People are having beers at a bar; a character indicates he used to struggle with alcohol; a character orders whiskey.
