Review: Contemporary romance with female assassin
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
This book is about a female assassin and is mainly written from her POV.  With the way she is described, I felt I was reading a book written by a man. The author is very talented in making me feel the detached feelings and analytical mind behind the heroine.  She is NOT your average "strong" heroine with girly feelings - think more along the lines of the current James Bond but female.  Surprisingly, the main hero is the one who is outwardly demonstrative with his feelings and vocal about issues that matter to him.  There was insta-love/lust in this book that wasn't really fleshed out.  Seriously, it's a little difficult to imagine someone bringing up the "love" word in less than a week of meeting (especially if both persons should be naturally suspicious people by nature), but that's all me.  Also, I REALLY had to suspend my disbelief with this book (for some reason, easy to suspend disbelief with fantasy about dragons and vampires but when it's about assassins, not so much? - yeah, this is all me too).  Because I had a somewhat hard time with these two issues, I've given this book 4 stars but if you're okay with those two issues, you'll probably rate this book more highly.  Anyway, I enjoyed this book and have purchased the next one.  This was a good read.