Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Match Grade: Assassins

SERIES: Criminal Delights #6

AUTHOR: G.B. Gordon

PUBLISHER: Viridian Press

LENGTH: 144 pages

RELEASE DATE: May 3, 2019

BLURB:

Eirik Haldurson is a hitman. Kidnapped at age five and cruelly trained by his captor, he is today one of the most sought-after contract killers alive. Emotional distance from his targets, brutally beaten into him until it became second nature, is now the only way he can function. Lately though, that distance has started to elude him. And when a Colombian drug cartel contracts Eirik to take out ex-soldier-turned-vigilante, Matt Moreno, distance is suddenly as close as heat to fire. And all hell breaks loose.

This book is part of CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Each novel can be read as a standalone and contains a dark M/M romance.

Warning: These books are for adult readers who enjoy stories where lines between right and wrong get blurry. High heat, twisted and tantalizing, these are not for the
fainthearted.

REVIEW:

This wasn’t as dark as some of the other ones I read, but it has its moments, so beware of a few triggers. There is violence, death, murder, and it doesn’t go into graphic detail, but one of the MCs, Eirik, dealt with abuse. Including his parents deaths and their kidnapping. But with this one, it’s more of action/suspense and I think most of you guys would be alright with it. It’s really good. It has a surprise twist to it, that I kind of saw/didn’t see. I figured something to a point but not at this level and it made it more interesting to me. I really liked it.

As the blurb says, Eirik is an assassin. Contract killer. He’s one of the best there is, but lately his game is getting a little off. During his kills or even setting up for the op, he’s been having flashbacks. Most of the time while he’s making his move. And it’s leaving him frozen, frightened, and unable to comprehend what’s going on. He doesn’t understand why he’s being plagued with this after all this time but he tries to keep going. But it’s getting too hard. When he tries to back out of the next contract by throwing in a huge fee, thinking they’d never pay, he got the surprise of his life. They’re going to pay. Something about this feels off but he goes for it anyway. Just when he’s making his move to get the target, he gets another surprise of his life. The tables have turned on him, and so much more. He’s at a loss what to do and finally made peace with the fact that his end may have finally come.

When you’re in a job like Eirik’s, you can’t afford for things to go wonky. It requires all of your concentration or you become the victim instead of your target. So when Eirik starts having flashbacks and such during his kills, it’s scary. And I would have been freaking probably worse than he was. Of course, he wasn’t exactly calm either. Not that he was loud, but definitely freaking out. But considering all that he has been through in his life, yeah, I’d have flashbacks too.

I don’t want to give anything away so I guess I will leave it at this. It’s a good book. I like the way it turned. The twists made things a lot more interesting and it became a page turner.

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