Gripping and suspenseful! A very well-written book with wonderfully-interesting characters. The tension builds at just the right pace as the story unfolds. Will keep you swiping the pages furiously. Worthy of your TBR list.

*I received a complimentary ARC of this book from in order to read and provide a voluntary and honest review, should I choose to do so.

Great story, thrilling plot that I could not put down. Well worth a read, and would recommend to others.

This is the fourth book in the Titan series, and unfortunately I haven't read the previous books. I think the book reads nicely as a standalone, but perhaps its best if you read them in order.
This was really a thrilling read, and I enjoyed it immensely. Recommended!

I am an avid SCUBA diver and one of my favorite places in the world is Rotan Honduras. The island is a diving paradise. So when I notice a book was set on that island I just had to pick it up.

Black Soul was a fun read I am happy I got. The story was topical to modern times dealing with a missing person and possible human trafficking. It also was a real page-turner that had me guessing how the story would end.

One minor critique. The first few chapters took place in a different setting and dealing with a different case. These chapters did help set the stage for the novel, however, what started out like a Pre-Face ended up being multiple chapters. At one point I did relook at the description of the book to make sure I was reading the right one.

The story is part of a series yet was fully stand alone. Author TJ Brearton did a wonderful job sprinkling in the backstory of events in the main characters lives to bring the reader up to speed.

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Read a few by this author but I really couldn't get in to this one. No sympathy for the main character and the story dragged.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Joffe Books for a review copy of Black Soul, the fourth novel in the Titan series.

Beckett and Chase are private investigators who hunt down human traffickers all over the world. After Chase loses the plot in Russia they have to leave in a hurry so are put in touch with William Sterling who wants them to find his daughter, Rene, who disappeared on the Honduran island of Roatán and has been, he suspects, trafficked.

I enjoyed Black Soul which is an action packed read in a beautiful setting. I haven't read the previous novels in the series so the characters and their history are new to me but there are enough details given to allow the novel to work as a stand alone.

William Chase (not his real name) is a troubled man. He is a recovering alcoholic but that seems to be the least of his problems. He is an angry, restless and impulsive man who always resorts to violence, often in the first instance. As the novel revolves around him it can, at times, be an uncomfortable read. He seems a well drawn character but is too agitated to be likeable. I mostly felt sorry for him as he obviously burns with righteous indignation but can't see clearly enough to harness this indignation in the most productive way. Hanna Beckett is his voice of reason but as he slips further off the rails he isn't listening.

The plot is high octane with plenty of action and excitement as Chase gets stuck in. The subject matter of human trafficking is never pleasant and while Mr Brearton makes its effects perfectly and sickeningly clear he doesn't linger on the details. I like his balance. It seems worse somehow when it is set against such a beautiful background. The Bay island, Roatán, a place I'd never heard of before, sounds physically lovely and is a stop on Caribbean cruises but it has an endemic violence which the police seem unable to combat. Fertile ground for all sorts of trafficking. I found Mr Brearton's research and the way he works it into the novel fascinating and very well done.

Black Soul is a good read which I have no hesitation in recommending.

This is the fourth book in the Titan series by T. J. Brearton. I have a confession to make- I am a huge fan of T.J. Brearton but I haven’t actually read the rest of the Titan series. Whoops a daisy. Not to worry though as the previous three books of the series have leapt towards the top of my ‘TBR’ (to be read) pile. I absolutely, totally and utterly loved reading ‘Black Soul’ but more about that in a bit.
I have to say that I really took to the characters of William Chase and Hanna Beckett. They are certainly the kind of people I would like to rescue me should I ever get into trouble. They are both feisty, they think on their feet, they are both determined to carry out their jobs to the best of their ability, they both have backgrounds in law enforcement and they are determined to disrupt people trafficking operations as much as they can. Where they differ is in their approach to their jobs. Hanna is one of those occasionally annoying people, who play by the rules and stick to them rules at all times. William is slightly more rebellious in that he doesn’t always play by the rules and crosses the line on occasions, but he does what he does and acts the way he does to get an end result. The character of William put me in mind of a certain Mr. James Bond but in my opinion William is better than Bond. The book opens with an incident in Russia and William and Hanna are in grave danger. They are rescued by a man, who then asks them to do him a favour and find a girl who has been missing for just over a week. They are grateful that they were rescued and they feel duty bound to investigate the case of the missing girl. Will Hanna & William’s different approaches to their work finally drive them apart? Will William and Hanna survive the case in one piece? Will Hanna and William find the missing girl? Well for the answers to those questions and more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves to find out as I am not going to tell you.
To say that reading this book was one hell of an adrenaline rush causing, rollercoaster ride has to be the understatement of the year. Blimey oh riley, I have only just managed to get my breath back. The story hits the ground running and maintains the pace throughout. In actual fact reading this book was the literary equivalent of watching a Hollywood blockbuster. There was action galore, a fair amount of violence, car chases and the odd dead body thrown in for good measure. Hanna and William work to disrupt people trafficking operations and the subject matter is certainly topical in today’s climate. There was more than one occasion where I felt a lump in my throat at some of the descriptions of things that had happened to the victims or were happening.
Once I picked up ‘Black Soul’, I just couldn’t put the book down again and I became addicted to reading it. I don’t mean that it was glued to my hand, although it might as well have been, but I was so into the story and desperate to know how the book ended, I just kept reading on and on and on. I felt like an addict, who was desperate for her next fix. I had to read just one more page, one more chapter and well you get the picture. The book is full of twists, turns, stomach churning moments, moments that you don’t see coming and moments where you just want to put your hands over your eyes as you fear what is going to happen next. There were also times during reading this book that I also felt my heart rate quicken and I held my breath in anticipation of what was happening.
In short I absolutely LOVED reading ‘Black Soul’ and I would certainly recommend it to other readers and particularly to those fans of action thriller type of books. I can’t wait to read what comes next from T.J. Brearton. Here’s hoping that we don’t have too long a wait but in the meantime I will content myself with reading the first three books in the Titan series. Happiness is discovering a series part way through and then realising that you have a fair few books to catch up on to read the series in order. I know what I will be doing over this Bank Holiday weekend. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a well deserved 5* out of 5*.

This book was too dark for me and couldn't hold my attention. I finally gave up and am moving on. It won't stop me from trying all this author's books though.

Even though this is book four in the Titan series and is the first one in the series I have read. It can be read as a stand alone book without the need to have read the back story.

The story follows two investigators, William and Hanna, as they investigate a missing girl, who is thought to have been kidnapped by a trafficking gang.

The story starts off very fast paced as the action moves from Russia to Honduras after the two main characters get in trouble trying to rescue girls from a Russian school who train the girls how to be good slaves.

They are rescued from big trouble in Russia by a man who wants them to go to Honduras to try and find his daughter who he thinks has been kidnapped to be sold as a slave.

The book itself is a very good read and keeps you in suspense the whole time, waiting to see whether they can get out of the trouble that William keeps getting them into, and also whether they will rescue the girl in time or not.

4.5 STARS

William Chase and Hanna Beckett are working for the Peace and Justice Report. They are committed to the rescue of sex slave victims around the world and to the punishment of those involved.

William and Hanna, both, have backgrounds in law enforcement.. and that's precisely what is driving the two investigators apart. Being in law enforcement, it's been drilled into them to do everything by the book. Hannah plays by the rules ...always. William is tired and frustrated and is starting to cross that line when it comes to human trafficking.

By their reckoning, there are 2 million children worldwide involved. They are specifically after a man name Alkaer, who's almost a ghost. He is protected by a large network of corrupt government officials, organized crime, and police who keep their eyes and mouths shut.

Right now they are in Russia, checking out a school that actually trains young girls how to take the beatings from their 'masters' when they are sold. William can't take it anymore and raids the school by himself in the middle of the night and rescues a lone girl.

That move has created a huge problem ... and only intervention by another man has saved them from being imprisoned. But in returning the favor, they must go to Honduras to find his daughter ... a 17-year-old girl who has gone missing.

Maybe it’s the perfect place for William to dole out his hard justice.
Or maybe things aren’t at all what they seem...

I always get a lump in my throat when reading about human trafficking and/or young girls being sold as sex slaves. Even though this is a work of fiction, we all know that it exists in today's world.

There's lots of suspense, lots of action, especially when William is determined to save the girls by any means at his disposal. I understand Hanna, but wished she had more of William's outrage. The book has an explosive beginning that maintains a level of suspense until the final pages. This is a well-written book by one of my favorite authors.

Many thanks to the author / Joffe Books / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this thriller, Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.