Review: I liked the first half not the second
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
I had such high hopes for this book. I had read reviews raving about it and it looked like it could be Dark Romance, which I also love, so I couldn't go wrong with it...could I? Well it started out well but it did go down hill.We are first introduced to Bullet when she is a 5 year old girl who has been abducted from her murdered family by The Collective. She is with 4 other little girls and they are being tortured and physically abused in order to be trained as assassins. The story then jumps 22 years to present day and Bullet is now a top class assassin who is sitting on the roof of a building ready to take the life of her mark Rand. But Bullet doesn't make the shot. She needs Rand just as he unknowingly needs her in their quest for revenge on The Collective.As I mentioned the book starts off really good. I liked Bullet, she is hard as nails but cool with it. Bullet is described as a short pale woman with long red hair but I couldn't help picturing her as Maggie Q in the TV show Nikkita. Bullet has no emotions, she has been trained and conditioned so well in her role as killer that she knows nothing else but to be silent, feel nothing and kill. Rand lost everything when his wife and daughter were murdered by a bullet to the head and he has past the past seven years plotting to kill his family's murderer. He hasn't allowed himself to feel anything and then he meets Bullet and he can't help himself feel something for this tough woman.Now everything was ok for me I was actually enjoying the book but then Rand and Bullet start to have feelings for each other, which is fine, but then the author goes all mushy romance writing on me. No! This isn't what I wanted, it really put off. I mean this is a book about a woman assassin who can kick anyone's ass and the writing just didn't fit that type of story.The middle part of the book really dragged for me and didn't seem to go anywhere for a long time. In fact I admit to skim reading some of it until we got to the end. I won't be carrying on with this series with others books following the other girls who Bullet grew up with. This book wasn't for me. It could have been but the romantic writing style really put me off so I am giving Bullet to the Heart 3 stars.