misha_ali 's review for:

Love Kills Twice by Rien Gray

3.0

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

---

I went into this expecting, from the blurb, that the central premise of an assassin hired by both a husband and wife to kill each other would be more central to the plot. Unfortunately, since this is a very short book, that complication is resolved a bit too easily for my tastes through a technicality and then we have a very fast-paced romance where the assassin, for some strange reason, completely falls for an active client after meeting her literally two times. I would have enjoyed this more if we had a longer book with less instalust and more fleshing out how the assassin falls for someone despite their professional knowledge about it being a very bad idea to be the new person in a married woman's life just before her husband dies.

Anyway, this was quick and engaging enough but with disappointingly low complexity or character development.