Review: 5 ASSASSINATING STARS
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
Anna Brookes – is definitely not your “normal” girl next door.She may have misled others around her that she is just like everyone else, but in reality she is centered, strong and precise.  Her ability to mask her emotions is profound and her precision with a gun is remarkable.  That’s right – GUNS, she is drawn to them like they are a part of her.Anna’s love for guns grows as her father, Police Chief of St Cloud, rewards her good grades and behavior at the shooting range.She becomes known for her accuracy with a gun and the girl with the golden aim.  She has a sixth sense where she can identify and detect danger lurking.On Anna’s 15th birthday, after a gruesome incident, her life changes and her world becomes one of survival.  Her killer instincts kick in and she kills her first two people.Anna must survive; she does the only thing she knows how.  She uses her instincts to carry on through life and what it has thrown her way.This is the beginning of a new life, a new persona.  She has to learn to move on.  The mystery surrounding how she got from age 15 to the current story has you baffled, but Margaret McHeyzer fills you in beautifully with her Novella, Anna Brookes in Training as book #1.5.She becomes the most sought after, highly successful female assassin in the world – never missing her target.Today, known as Anna Moore, or 15 when on assignment.  She is a sexy, fierce, strong, confident and mysterious woman who speaks her mind and knows how to get what she wants.  Her emotions to feel love are long gone as her mask is always in place.  Her life is full of secrets.This story takes us into Anna’s world and what she endures as an assassin, her life without emotions, meeting Ben Pearson and her next HiT 149.She never looks for love.  She lives alone.  Men come and go.  That is, until she meets Ben Pearson.  Tall, attractive, sexy and confident.  But is he all that he seems?Their first encounter is full of Insta-lust and passion.  They want each other, they need each other.Will Ben make Anna feel again?  Their sex scenes are full of desire and lust and just so smoking hot and real.  Anna is always left wanting more – but the realization is always with her that she can never have more with Ben.This story has everything.  Romance, suspense, mystery and so many twists and turns, right from the first encounter.  It’s like BOOM all the time.It will keep you on your toes and turning the pages so quickly, you will be screaming for more.How will Anna handle the cards being dealt to her?  How will it affect HiT149?  Will Anna begin to feel again?  Will Ben change Anna’s life?There are so many more characters in this story that make it extraordinary.  Piecing together the puzzle in this book is awesome.All the characters are full of their own mysteries and suspense.  I couldn’t read this quick enough.  I read all three books in two days because I couldn’t deal with the huge cliff hangover book one left me with – only to be left with another huge cliff hangover in book 3.This was a breath of fresh air – so different to what I’ve read before with a sexy, fierce, assertive leading woman and a somewhat hopeless romantic male lead, so love struck and unable to help himself in more ways than one.I love Margaret McHeyzer’s fresh and in your face writing style and her “outside the square” thinking.  She creates her characters with so much depth that we are always given a perfect insight into who they are.  It allows you to create picture perfect images in your mind of how she portrays her characters.I love Margaret’s work.  It is always so different, gripping and thought provoking with various shades of darkness which is fascinating.