I came across the book on Amazon. I was looking for a book on tape. As you can see via the review tab on my blog I haven't read a book in some time. With work and trying to study for the GRE I haven't had any time. Eric Jerome Dickey is one of my favorite writers I started reading his work in the 10th grade. You can check out my last review on some of his work
Here .
Audible has a 30 day audio book trial. You can try 1 book for 30 days . After that you can continue your membership for $20 a month for unlimited books or cancel. I canceled my membership after reading/ listening to
A Wanted Woman.
It took me about 4 days to listen to this book. Many nights I went to sleep with this book playing in my ears. it was very relaxing and it was no problem to restart where left off. The narrators were very clear and easy to understand. And they didn't take away from your imagination of how you would picture someone's speech or demeanor. At least not from me.
This book started off a little slow. Basically a little girl who was taken away from her school by a man she did not know who claimed to be her father. Her mother was murdered by the wife of their preacher that her mother had been sleeping with for some time now.
The girl really had no clue who her father was and the school officials allowed him to take her out of school and take her across country. Her fathers name was Reaper. He was a contract killer. He would take her to school everyday do his business pick her up in the afternoons do homework then teach her how to workout and defend herself. This happened everyday unless he had to go out of town to handle business.
Finally the little girl grew older and decided she wanted to work for the family business and her father got her in. Then he disappeared.
I don't want to give away all of what happened in the book but lets just say everything does not always go as planned. It is so easy to change who you are to mask your real identity. This book taught me that. Also it makes me fearful to travel out of the United States to some of the places that American may call peaceful and relaxing. Because we have no idea how their culture works and although the people who might serve us are nice and accommodating they might not always feel that way and also you have no idea who is watching you.
There are so good fights in this book. Eric Jerome Dickey is very detailed when it comes to explaining a situation , he makes it seem like you are front row center watching everything that occurs. There are 2 parts of the book that I really did not enjoy . If you are a seasoned Eric Jerome Dickey reader one of the most repeated/ most noted is the characters sexuality or sexual encounters. This book has a serious lack of sex. There might have been 2 scenes. I am not use to this and according to
Good Reads neither is anyone else .
The second that I did not like about this book is there is a very explicit rape scene. I do not know how someone prepares themselves for writing and reading a rape scene. I feel like there might have been some preparing for this scene that would rub others the wrong one. By no means am I saying that he raped someone . Goodness no but maybe watching hardcore porn or it could be as simple as knowing someone who has been through a similar situation. I thinking if I would have been actually reading this book I would have put it down or skipped it.
Overall I enjoy writers who are consistent in material. And I believe Eric Jerome Dickey was rehashing the trilogy that wrote that so many fans fell in love with a couple years ago. Although I loved those books this one I didn't quite fall into the same place.
The twenty-first novel from New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, a steamy thriller set in tropical Barbados
She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere.
The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers.
Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred miles away, with the LK’s in hot pursuit of the woman who took many of their own. With the scant protection of a dank safe house, no passport, and no access to funds, an island paradise becomes her prison.
While she trawls for low-profile assignments to keep her skills sharp and a few dollars in her pocket, Reaper discovers that family ties run deep, on both sides of the fight. Will the woman everyone wants, who has lived countless lives in the service of others, finally discover who she really is?
In A Wanted Woman, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers an adrenaline-pumping rush of a read.
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AMN Rating C
