A review by canadianoranges
Choke Hold by Christa Faust

2.0

I wanted to like Choke Hold a lot more than I did. I was hoping for a gritty, overwrought affair with lots of action and excitement. Instead you get a lot of juvenile-level sexuality - which reads as a fourteen year-old boy's imagination of what a pornstar would operate like.

That aside, my biggest problems was Angel's motivation to be stuck in the situation she finds herself in. She continually says she feels nothing - though acting differently - but proves that to be ultimately true in the end. Unflinching as everyone dies around her. If that was the eventual end result, she could have reached this conclusion 10 pages in.

I'm all for noir anti-heroes, but they still need a reason for their turmoil. I saw no reason why Angel couldn't cut and run at any moment.