Shit! It's here, it's finally here!!!
Well, not quite, but soooon,
sitelink A different weaving than the first, with a wider array of character voices and a deeper view into the violent world of the professional hitman.
glorious in its telling even if some characters voices were a bit drowned out by others then again.
. . I'm such a fan of Vincent that i find myself skipping ahead to his parts when i reread this one, i adore that vain little brat! so i guess that may make me biased on that note.
. . anyways if you enjoyed the first book then you should immediately read this one as well, it picks up neatly a few years after the first one and slowly draws Vincent and Frank out of their redundancy and back into the tumult of bloodshed and violence, only this time they find themselves the target of a personal vendetta.
Vincent has done a bit of growing up since the first book, . . but only a little age and pain doing nothing to quash his naturally obstinate personality, minor characters in the first book become major characters in this one, giving new angles and emotions and flavors and making everything that should be simple and commonplace completely chaotic.
a delicious read and a perfect continuation, though if you haven't read the first book chance assassin, a story of love luck and murder than you should definitely read that one first before giving this book a try! I loved the first installment in this series.
I couldn't wait to get stuck in with frank and V, I loved them. But this novel was told from Bella and Casey's perspective as well,
It was fine the first two times, . . but after that it really annoyed me, I didnt care for them, Their story could have been told from V's perspective, I started skipping their parts and that pissed me off, . . bella was very unlikeable and casey was extremely naive, Was he reallyHe actedyro, Bella had no redeeming qualities, She was a raving bitch and i hated reading her story, Plus the only reason casey liked her was for her appearance, The end. Nothing else.
She treated him like dirt, was hot and cold with him, . . yet somehow he still ended up falling in love with her How Because she looks good Despite being a selfish psychopath that was hired to kill his dad.
Which didnt faze him. He still wanted her . again because "Bella is really pretty", I started disliking casey alot more by then, He was so idiotic.
I felt cheated, . . i bought this book to read about frank and V, not characters i didnt care for.
It made me fucking mad, The blurb was so misleading!
So much ranting about a couple that should have been secondary characters in this book.
WOW . what a wacky freaky fun read!!!!
dark but so so funny can't wait to see what more fun and trouble these two get up to.
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The blurb is missleading, the book is not about Vincent and Frank, but about Casey and Bella.
Who are, to put it with Bella's words, plain fucking boring,
I did loved loved, loved LOVED Chance Assassin and was really happy to read, that the author would write a sequel.
Now I kinda wish, I wouldn't have read this, because the book was really disappointing,
While I like Casey, I find him to less interesting for a bigger story, He is the nice sidecharacter who you like, when he appears, but not have much own character to drive a plot although you can argue that the book has not much plot to begin with.
However Bella Bella is just annoying. She is a whiny, egocentric woman, trapped in the mind of a little girl, whose only interests lies in shopping designerclothes.
Nothing more.
They loverelationship is unbelievable and were going on my nerves, because it is just "you are fucking hot" from Caseys side the reason he falls in love with her she is hot.
Great. and "you don't stop stalking and talking to me, although I treat you like shit" from Bellas side.
They both have no chemistry, nothing, Nada, niente, nix.
It is very rare, that I skip pages or scenes, the most time I am unabble to do it, I clench my teeth and fight through it, but here I DID skip scenes, because they were so boring and annoying.
I couldn't really stand this couple,
Besides the plot of the book does not arrive untilof the book, it disappears betweenandagain, but then it was nice.
Only that, the books deservesstar,
Which rescues the book were Vincent and Frank, who are sidecharacters in their own book.
And that is sad, because their relationship is suffering and it is handled like a sidestory that isn't very important.
The ending of their storypart was kinda rushed because too much time for Bella and Casey, which was sad.
The solution of their problems came kinda fast after most of their storyline Frank denies exactly that.
They deserved more.
I did like the other sidecharacters, especially Silva, who was really nice written, and Deaglan.
I did hope to spend more time with these two characters, and that they would have been more expanded, but sadly no, Joe too was an interessting character which I like,
Overall the plot, when it cames was really great, but sadly rushed, It could have been much much more, but it was sacrificed on the altar of the relationship of Bella and Casey which is basically "I want to fuck" and more fuckspeaking from Bella.
And throwing designer labels through the book,
I read the author plans to write two more books and to be honest, I will not read them, if they focus again on Bella and Casey.
The author lost me as an autobuy reader, I will wait for reviews how the books are and will decide then.
THE BEST BOOK IVE READ ALL YEAR!
Wow, thats a pretty big statement to make, isnt it But if its true, its true.
Ms. Castle took her characters and her storyline from Chance Assassin sitelinkMy Here, made them more damaged, more fragmented, more cracked, and then she doused them with even more of the peculiar and hilarious depravity that she alone can dispense.
Every page, every line, was pure entertainment,
DEPRAVED IMMORAL DEBAUCHED
OBSCENE DECADENT ROMANCE
DYSFUNCTIONAL
THE CHARACTERS
Frank Poor, beautiful, guilty and sometimes clueless Frank.
Its all on his back, Everything. Maybe if hed get V on his back everything would be better already,
Because the guilt he felt was never over killing, It was the lack of it, the remorselessness, which spoke of true evil,
Vincent V The most spoiled, conceited, outrageous brat in M/M fiction, and he deserves every damned spanking he asks for.
That was what made Vincent so perfect, His raison dêtre. He was feminine to the point of being nonthreatening, and masculine enough to prove Frank was homosexual after all.
Not to mention obscenely beautiful,
Casey Innocence incarnate, Beautiful, sweet, gifted. Throughout the book I wanted to protect him from anything dangerous or obscene, but hes surrounded by it constantly.
In bookI may have thought Casey simple, Here hes alive, bright and fantastic!
He was a mere boy with a crush.
Hardly even handsome, with his silly long hair, He was androgynous the way models had become, with an interesting more than attractive face, and a thin sexless body.
And he was an artist for fucks sakes, He probably didnt even have a criminal record,
Bella Barely five feet tall, bitchy, deadly and so damned funny I couldnt help but fall in love with her.
It takes a lot for me to fall for a female character these days, but Id be Bellas bitch any day.
Shed cut me though. But who cares, cus shed wrap me in mink, kiss my head and then kick me.
She applied lipstick as she walked, her Manolo Blahnik stiletto boots leaving holes in the snow like stab wounds.
THE STORY
“Vincent thinks we should kill all five of them.
Hes bored. ” Frank was also bored, but unlike Vincent, he had chosen retirement, And that decision, along with the reasons behind it, continued to put a strain on their relationship.
Full of snappy, selfaware immorality,
Frank and Vincent have retired to the French countryside to live out their days as normal citizens.
Aww, can you hear the birds singing in the trees and the dogs wagging their tales Well, you could if it werent for Vincent shooting at raw meat nailed to the trees to stay in shape.
Fortunately for us they arent normal, at all, and retired life wont suit them for long.
Casey, Franks brother, his mother and stepdad have come to visit and, well never mind because that doesnt matter at all, What does matter is that Casey meets the most debauched and coutur'd female in existence, Enter Bella, Franks sister, dripping from head to toe in Versace and weapons, she is the rudest, foulest, meanest, most wonderful character Ive had the pleasure of falling for.
Yep, you heard me, I fell for the female lead, Even more impossible is the dubious and unique pairing of Casey and Bella, For one minute I thought this hetcouple might steal the show and I was worried because this is MY gay romance dammit.
OH Yeah. There is a huge, twisted mystery packed with murder, assassins, blood, death, sex and intrigue, In fact theres so much going on in this story from every angle that its going to work your head.
Most of this book reads like the exciting ending of other books, The energy and wit run throughout, Bring your thinking cap, cus Ms, Castle is going to throw a lot
your way,
THE WRITING
First off you need to know that this book is written with alternating POVS which differs from Chance Assassins first person, present tense writing.
This matters because it isnt just Vincents thoughts that we need to see in this book.
For me, it didnt matter whether we were in Vs, Franks, Caseys or Bellas head, it was all great and I just wanted more of each one, unlike when an author slips you into a POV that you just dont care about.
Secondly, and maybe more importantly, is how much this author has improved her writing.
Its miles beyond her work in the first book, Her already colorful characters are not only instantly memorable, but theyre also more endearing, Endearing assassins you say Yes, I do say.
Lastly, Im putting Nicole Castle on my quirky authors pedestal with my favorites, sitelinkDouglas Adams and sitelinkJasper Fforde.
Her creation of outlandish assassins tearing at your heartstrings deserves no less,
I would like to thank Nicole Castle for providing me with an ARC/ Copy in exchange for my honest review.
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