Review: The cover sucks but the book is good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2012
Firstly the cover does NOT do Kael justice. What a lousy picture. Glad I read reviews and didn't base my purchase on the cover (bought all 3 books a couple of months ago). Actually it doesn't really do Angel justice either and some people (myself included, I have to admit) do base 'some', not all, purchases on covers. For example, I didn't use to buy books with silly Anime graphics but now I LOVE those covers. And many of those books are really good. But I digress...The book revolves around an assassin who works for SIS, a British intelligence agency. He's been sent to Cape Cod to dispose of an arms dealer. This assassin is Kael. The killing is witnessed by the victim's stepson, Angel (yes, that's his real name - his mother was an idiot who chose to name her son Angel Gabriel! Who does that? Might as well have named him Pot O' Tea or something equally stupid.). For some reason Kael, who just moments earlier (in the book) had killed some guy after giving him a good shafting prior to, had then killed another man as collateral damage. But Angel caught his eye. Normally going for manly men he is oddly attracted to Angel who is a kid who has just turned 18 (that very day). He has been neglected throughout his life (his mother really is a deadbeat bitch of a loser) and can't bring himself to kill the poor kid even though he chases him upstairs and finds him, conveniently, in the shower. But, he gives him his first taste of man sex which Angel really enjoys.They take off back home to England. Ah bliss. :o)  Once there Kael has to keep the fact that he brought home a souvenir from his boss (who also happens to be someone he went to school with and who he just happened to rape when said kid took the piss out of Kael's poor lifestyle and poor mother - justifies a rape, doesn't it!? Kael's a bit of a bad guy who likes to rape men a little!). Anyway, they fall into a Dom/Sub relationship and Angel's longed for that his whole life (not because he didn't have a father, growing up, but because that's just his kink). Through the book they fall in love but Kael can't admit it because... well, he's a badass killer. There are Bosnians after Angel and also the US and UK intelligence agencies are after Angel. Kael gets his friend to get UK docs for Angel by luring him into HIS own fantasy kink of being a sub to Kael (he's married and has 3 young children but he's a bit of a progressive chappy with a kink for submission to Kael). Hell, by the end of the story I think we're all falling for Kael's badass ways LOL Seriously, though, Kael records the whole sub/dom scene with his boss then uses it to blackmail him (though they end up still liking each other and Kael rescues his boss when he gets into a sticky - not THAT kind of sticky - sitch.).They all get back to London and Kael decides that Angel should go to school instead of becoming an operative (though he has a natural aptitude for that line of work).I really liked the whole Kael/Angel dynamic. Looking forward to reading the rest of the series. Hoping Angel grows up. DID NOT LIKE IT when Kael got falling-down-drunk and screwed TWELVE strangers in one night even ending up in one man's bed and not knowing if they'd screwed or if he'd used a condom if they did, in fact, screw. He did that because he thought Angel was pulling away. Angel had been pulling away because the idiot, Kael, had told a friend of his (at a dinner party they attended) that he wasn't ever going to fall for Angel and Angel overheard from out in the hallway (as is prone to happen when someone lets out little secrets).