Review: I'd give it six stars if I could
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
I barely took any notes on this book while I was reading. Six lines, that’s all I wrote. Once I was finished reading I filled up the page with my feelings after the fact so there could still be a review. I just couldn’t put it down long enough to make notes on anything and truly there wasn’t much I found upsetting. Normally my notes are about things I find while reading that I question or find irritating, but there was little to none of that in this book.This book has been on my Kindle for quite a while and I have no idea why it took me so long to read it. I totally missed out. The story is about Bullet/Remi/Gretchen and Rand. Here’s a heroine I can get behind. Bullet was kick ass, literally and figuratively. I mean she’s a hitwoman for goodness sakes, how I could I not love that? That woman had one seriously bad childhood, but she never allows it to take away her most precious possession…herself. She might think she did at times, but I can promise she did not. Bullet would not be broken under any conditions.Now Rand was a different story. Sure he has that those hot guy things we all look for but it took me a while to warm up to him. Don’t get me wrong, it didn’t take long before I was in love, but I found some of his earlier actions harder to swallow. He was a little rough during their first bedroom encounter, I would have liked to see him understand the situation a bit better and be more gentle and caring. Rand had some work to do to warm me up to him, but when he did he did it well.The plot and overall story to Bullet to the Heart are action packed and crazy, but it’s written in such a way you believe it. You can actually feel the story. There aren’t huge plot holes, horribly unbelievable situations or unanswered questions which you find in so many stories of this nature at times. The action gets going quickly.. and wow, it stays action packed. There were times I couldn’t even stop to take a breath because I had to know what happened next. You know I love action and this one definitely delivers.There is only one issue I had with this story and it really ticked me off. Like seriously I could have screamed. Bullet to the Heart is another story that stops at 82% through. I thought I had more time, more story to read but no, we’re taken to a preview of the next book and then a completely different story. My Kindle showed 50 minutes left, I wanted 50 more minutes of Bullet and Rand. I love my Kindle but this trickery would be one of the downsides.Really I can’t gush enough. I can’t find anything else to put in this review except my love for this story, and you know how rare that is for me. I’m even able to overlook my annoyance at non translated sentences because there is a glossary at the end of the book, even if it’s hard to access with a Kindle. Even the best five star books have issues that I can talk about, but I was so engrossed in the story I either didn’t notice them or the book really doesn’t have any. I only stopped reading because it was 4am and even I need at least three hours of sleep. I even finished the story up during nap time rather than work on other things I needed to get done. It was well worth it. This book was brilliant it sucked me in and wouldn’t give up its hold on me.Since it’s so true, I’m going to say it again, this is quite possibly the best book I’ve read all year! When you read as much as I do you read a lot of books. Most of them are mid star books, some are bad, but the really great ones stand out. Bullet to the Heart is one of those stand out books.