A review by agentkp
Double-Crossed by Ali Vali

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Gods this book was so hard to get through, I almost gave up so many times but kept hoping it would surprise me. I got to it hoping for some assassin falling in love with her mark story but what I got was basically A Lot of mob families and characters and there's an assassin thag is actually a thief and the woman she fails to kill too, on the side. I still don't understand what was the reason for so many povs with so many different characters and a lot of them weren't even all that relevant to the story. If only the assassin and her mark scenes were amazing it wouldn't have been bad but they ended up being so shallow and the way they fell in love was just so??? They barely talked, barely interacted and the way they kept trying to justify the killing was very meh.