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A review by lacanette
Perfect Kill by Helen Fields
3.0
Super well-drawn characters, main and side characters both. The relationship drama was turned down a great deal in this one, thank God. Luc has come SUCH a long way from Book 1, which I found absolutely satisfying.
BUT, among other things, I did not appreciate the nauseatingly stereotypical depiction of whatever few Muslims were in this book (female genital mutilation, parents insisting on marrying off their daughter to her cousin, even ISIS, for God's sake . . . ) not to mention Luc's impulse, no matter how fleeting, to exploit the two homeless Afghan immigrants' vulnerability for information. I don't care how picky this might sound, or that Luc felt shitty about it afterwards, but his being IMPRESSED by all that they'd endured just simply wasn't the right reaction, Fields. Suffering shouldn't be lauded. A more apropos reaction would have been his feeling angry and indignant at the reason they were displaced from their homeland in the first place, a conflict only exacerbated by Western soldiers who oh-so-gallantly don those fancy heroic capes to save us from ourselves. Baby, YOU'RE the problem. Get the fuck out of our countries. Anyway. . .
BUT, among other things, I did not appreciate the nauseatingly stereotypical depiction of whatever few Muslims were in this book (female genital mutilation, parents insisting on marrying off their daughter to her cousin, even ISIS, for God's sake . . . ) not to mention Luc's impulse, no matter how fleeting, to exploit the two homeless Afghan immigrants' vulnerability for information. I don't care how picky this might sound, or that Luc felt shitty about it afterwards, but his being IMPRESSED by all that they'd endured just simply wasn't the right reaction, Fields. Suffering shouldn't be lauded. A more apropos reaction would have been his feeling angry and indignant at the reason they were displaced from their homeland in the first place, a conflict only exacerbated by Western soldiers who oh-so-gallantly don those fancy heroic capes to save us from ourselves. Baby, YOU'RE the problem. Get the fuck out of our countries. Anyway. . .