Review: Marginally Better Than Awful
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2013
I have rated this book with 2 stars, although in a broader comparison in the world of available literature, it surely deserves only 1 star.  I gave it the second star because it is actually quite a lot better than the author's other book, The Recruiter, which was written just after this one.  Having said that -- that it was better than The Recruiter -- I'd still note that it is one of the poorest novels I've ever, ever read.The plot is a "sort of" plot -- not a real story that one could follow with any interest.  The premise is ridiculous, the events stretch credibility to well past the breaking point.  We are to believe that a mild, gentle university drama professor -- who has no idea at all that her husband of 10 years is one of the world's most deadly assassins (though on the side of right, LOL) -- is able to review DVD's her assassinated husband left her and as a result become a master of disguise, weaponry, and hand-to-hand combat.  She might as well have these new skills -- because she is never granted a personality or a character or even a relatively complex critical thought by this writer with the most shallow of skills.Add to the horrid development of the book the clearly unprofessional job of proof reading, and this book would make many high school short story writers feel proud of their first efforts, simply by comparing them to this trash.Save your money.  It's really a one-star (or zero star, were it offered as a choice) book -- only shining a little bit brighter than the author's follow up novel which is the worst thing I've read in decades .