A review by naiapard
Canary by Tijan

5.0

This book had no business being that good.

I had read a bit about this book before I started it. I was seeing all the warnings, put by the author, too, that this is a really dark book, that there are explicit parts with blood and gore.

That was saying something, coming from an author that rose through ranks with their unique style of dark romances that cut you to the bone. To this day there are moments when I daydream and my mind slips to fragments from Fallen Crest High installment that shocked my young bones to the core.

The styles of their books are a combination of high stakes plots with intensely difficult relationships. All of that with a delicious glaze of a neat form of writing that makes the point across.

I usually do not go for the standalone.They are just not for me. I am the kind of person that wants to get deep into things and dwell on them for a bit.

But I had nothing else to read and I wanted to give it a chance to the book ESPECIALLY after seeing all the warnings that this is ” seriously dark” (which, after reading it I can say that it is not that dark. Yes, there is blood, but it is not insisted upon it. It is more that there is blood as a result of killing, and the k- part is not graphic.)

The story:

We see through the eyes of the Girl how her mafia boss kills someone because she used her “skills”. She has a “nose” for truths and a way of reading people. It is a valuable skill set. Her ex-mafia boss finds out about it and wants her back. Not if her present-mafia boss has something to say about it. Add to that that he is handsome and young.

That is how the first chapter opens up.

It continues by having the Girl say that she could not understand why women would be attracted by him. She saw the coldness in him, the killer and she could not catch feelings for him.

Then, she, the boss and the rest of the team go to eat out:

“He held it up. “We’re going to stop for food. If your face isn’t clean, you can’t come.” Of course. Food. With blood on me. That wasn’t good. I’d shaken myself out of the weird state I was in and reached for the cloth.”

The voice of the character is pristine.She talks in short sentences.

“I sat behind the driver. Raize was behind the front passenger. There was no warning. He’d put the end of his gun against the headrest and pulled the trigger—I’d missed the silencer on top.”

These short sentences are like bricks that put together on top of one another they result in this massive and impressive mansion. I could not stop myself from wanting to explore it as much as possible from it.

I really enjoyed this book and I wholeheartedly recommend it for those that feel in the mood for something stronger.

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