Book Review: Beyond the Limit (Valkyrie Ops #1) by Cindy Dees

Title: Beyond the Limit (Valkyrie Ops #1)

Author: Cindy Dees

Stars: 3

Review:
The authors background in the military helped this slow paced story, average romantic suspense novel limp along.  If she didn't have the background readers would assume she researched documentaries about Seal Training.   The training in the story was interesting enough to pull this story from a 2 to a 3.
Sherri Tate is a decent character as long as the male lead isn't anywhere in the story.  Griffin is more or less a jerk one second and lusting after Sherri Tate hoping to get her thrown out of the "Seal Program."  Beauty Queen wanting to be more than her looks.

The Villain doesn't make much since to be honest let alone the ending of the story aka the twist. Beyond The Limit is selling as a romance but the romance slows down the story and takes away the interesting side of Sherri Tate and Women playing a bigger roll in the Special Forces.

Beyond Limit falls flat from the first few pages with drunks at a wedding to the romance and finally the ending Valkyrie book one.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of Cindy Dee Beyond The Limit.

Synopsis:
Skylar Tate, former Miss Congeniality, is a media officer for the Navy, but she itches to get on the field—and she can prove she has what it takes. But convincing others that she can become one of the first ever female Navy SEALs? That might be tougher than the agonizingly brutal training.

Griffin Caldwell and his teammates in his Navy SEAL platoon, the Reapers, are tasked to secretly train women candidates to become the first female SEALs. But when he meets Skylar Tate, it's friction—and lust—at first sight. Griffin can't believe the former pageant queen has what it takes, and Skylar can't believe his arrogance. But when one deadly mission goes wrong, it's up to Skylar and Griffin and their unprecedented bond to save the day. 

Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages

Expected publication: June 25th 2019 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

About The Author:
Cind
Cindy Dees started flying airplanes while sitting in her dad’s lap at the age of three and got a pilot’s license before she got a driver’s license. At age fifteen, she dropped out of high school and left the horse farm in Michigan where she grew up to attend the University of Michigan.

After earning a degree in Russian and East European studies, she joined the U.S. Air Force and became the youngest female pilot in the history of the Air Force. She flew supersonic jets, VIP airlift and the “C-5” Galaxy, the world’s largest airplane. She also worked part-time gathering intelligence. During her military career, she traveled to forty countries on five continents, was detained by the KGB and East German secret police, she got shot at, flew in the first Gulf War, met her husband and amassed a lifetime’s worth of war stories.

Her hobbies include professional Middle Eastern dancing, Japanese gardening and medieval reenacting. She started writing on a one-dollar bet with her mother and was thrilled to win that bet with the publication of her first book in 2001.