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lilreb 's review for:
Agnes and the Hitman
by Jennifer Crusie
I really struggled with how to rate this because although it had extremely funny moments (the flamingo and the frying pan stuff in particular), overall I was just underwhelmed.
This book has two authors: Jennifer Crusie, who is known as a romance novelist, and Bob Mayer, who primarily authors what I lovingly refer to as "male romances" - you know, that genre of books that's like easy read, wish-fulfillment adventure and specifically marketed to men (think Clive Cussler, Robert B. Parker, etc.). Sadly, I feel like the latter genre won out.
There just wasn't very much romance going on. Agnes has all these hang ups from her past relationships that are just magically solved in the course of a week. When she caught Shane holding a naked stripper and the other character thought he was cheating, Agnes knew instantly Shane was killing her and wasn't jealous. I mean, first, it's weird to have the reaction to your new boyfriend killing someone that that's not a big deal, but second, there's no reason Agnes would have been that trusting of Shane after like four days.
The emotions in this book generally felt shallow. There were at least seven on-page murders and no one seemed particularly upset. I think that Shane working for the government was supposed to make us think his murders were for good reasons, but in the 10+ years since this book came out, people's opinions on government-sanctioned murders has diminished.
Love was shallow, grief was shallow, ambitions were shallow.
The plot itself was twisty and unsatisfying to me. I'll admit I kind of skimmed the end because I was done with the book by then, but I don't think a closer reading would have made it better.
Overall, not what I was hoping for.
This book has two authors: Jennifer Crusie, who is known as a romance novelist, and Bob Mayer, who primarily authors what I lovingly refer to as "male romances" - you know, that genre of books that's like easy read, wish-fulfillment adventure and specifically marketed to men (think Clive Cussler, Robert B. Parker, etc.). Sadly, I feel like the latter genre won out.
There just wasn't very much romance going on. Agnes has all these hang ups from her past relationships that are just magically solved in the course of a week. When she caught Shane holding a naked stripper and the other character thought he was cheating, Agnes knew instantly Shane was killing her and wasn't jealous. I mean, first, it's weird to have the reaction to your new boyfriend killing someone that that's not a big deal, but second, there's no reason Agnes would have been that trusting of Shane after like four days.
The emotions in this book generally felt shallow. There were at least seven on-page murders and no one seemed particularly upset. I think that Shane working for the government was supposed to make us think his murders were for good reasons, but in the 10+ years since this book came out, people's opinions on government-sanctioned murders has diminished.
Love was shallow, grief was shallow, ambitions were shallow.
The plot itself was twisty and unsatisfying to me. I'll admit I kind of skimmed the end because I was done with the book by then, but I don't think a closer reading would have made it better.
Overall, not what I was hoping for.