Review: "R" rated action, but "PG-13" language
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2010
I just finished reading PARALLAX on my Kindle. I enjoyed reading this exciting story of 2 hitmen and the strange link they shared. But I am only giving it 4 stars instead of 5.  This is very much an adult story with cold blooded killings, sex, and violence and other adult themes, yet the author kept using the word "freak" instead of the "you know what" word. It weaken the story I thought. Things like: "Kinda freaked up" or "I was freaking your old lady" just sounded out of place.With hitman, mafia gunners, and a slew of other bad, bad characters, I have to wonder why the author gave us "R" rated action worthy ofReservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary) [Blu-ray] but then watered down the language to a PG-13 level.  Not that I have to have cussing in the books I read (in some books it would be way out of place), but here with killers and sex and all that, it is hard to picture those tough as nail characters using the word "freaking".