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for Somebody Worth Killing
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Leslie T. (COLUMBUS, IN)
abrupt ending .
I was disappointed in Somebody Worth Killing. Interesting premise of a female assassin who only kills "bad" people, although it really seemed unlikely to me that a true psychopath could form the emotional attachments that Nadia has with her family. I felt the ending of the book was very abrupt and it caught me off guard. I understand that the author is setting up the stage for a sequel, but it just seemed clumsy. I tend to like bad-ass women characters so I wasn't happy to not feel attached to the character.
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Ruth K. (Greensboro, NC)
Another ok mystery
This sounded like a good premise for a book. Nadia is a devoted mother of two small girls and loyal wife who is also a contract killer of what she believes are 'bad' people. Or at least that, and the fact that she's a psychopath (and everybody agrees she's a little different), is her justification. And then she's contracted to kill her own husband and is unable to do so until she establishes why he deserves it.
The author takes much too long with Nadia's indecisiveness and the story began to drag for me. Once I put it down, I was disinclined to pick it back up. I found the characters to be very superficial. Nadia is a hired assassin with just enough conscience to love her husband and children. Her husband is a ' management consultant' who frequently takes last minute work trips that she never questions in 10 years of marriage. I'm fairly sure that a hit man, or woman in this case, would have sharper powers of deduction in everyday life to have noted something amiss. And her husband never notices anything slightly 'off' about his wife in all that time either? Nor do two small children ever discover her hideaway closet with all the tools of her trade in playing around the house. This and all the other situational conveniences in the story left me a little underwhelmed. The ending was a huge disappointment as it obviously left room for at least one sequel and possibly a series. It's a mildly fun read if you're for mindless entertainment.
Readers of light mysteries and beach reads will enjoy this book. If you prefer something with more substance and believability, move on.
