Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Training for Revenge
SERIES: Those Who Dare #2
AUTHOR: Brenda Cothern
PUBLISHER: Wench Publishing
LENGTH: 208 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 19, 2018
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Anthony Mancini, Chicago’s Italian kingpin, has no choice but to bring in outside help to train his niece, Valentina Russo who is hell bent on exacting her revenge on the Irish mob that had her abducted and abused her four months ago.
Mancini hires two assassins to do the job. Gordon Wellington is a hands-on, up close, silent killer. Craig Barlow prefers the distance poisons allow to take out his marks.
Years of beating each other to take out the same marks has built an unrivaled hatred between them. Hatred or not, now they have the same contract: Train Valentina Russo. Working together was never part of their plan. Neither was a relationship.
This book contains M/M sexual situations and is intended for readers of legal age in the country in which they reside. Please store your adult literature responsibly.
Book 2 of the series Those Who Dare, 73,893 words, enemies to loves, HEA
REVIEW:
Not a bad book. Not bad at all. Mafia niece kidnapped and raped is part of this story so if that is a trigger, be aware. But this story doesn’t go into much detail about that part. This is more about training to take care of herself if she’s ever in that situation again. And since she wants to be a part of the mob family business, she has to learn to care for herself as she is now a pawn in this centuries old game.
Brick and His have tried to teach Val all they could, but street fighting is apparently not her cup of tea. She can box a bag but person to person, she’s dropped to the mat every time. She’s not getting that she’s using the same move every time and they anticipate what she’s going to do. So boss man and uncle, Anthony, decides to hire to well known assassins who work differently to show her how to take care of herself with training. One on hand to hand, in defense and offense and such, and the other in some very nasty poisons. But it all becomes a surprise when Gordon and Craig already know each other from a group they used to work for and the animosity between them is so thick you could cut it with a knife. Gordon calls Craig’s way of killing the ‘pussy’ way and shows no respect. Craig just smirks at him and drives him nuts. But the more they work with Val and teach her, the more Gordon is starting to see Craig isn’t as bad as he thought. Especially when the tables get turned on him during a spare and he’s mildly poisoned himself. He also can’t deny his body’s reaction to the sexy man, even though he tries to deny it every second. But the longer they’re together the hotter the chemistry until it explodes. But Craig’s job is now down and Gordon has to admit he’s going to miss the man. And when his job is done, he’s going to find him and show him two are better than one. He’s always enjoyed a good chase after all.
These two are different as night and day lol. Gordon is a Brit who is so cocky with an attitude from hell, you can’t help but want to punch him for it. And Craig is am American who always seems to be calm, cool and collected. I liked Craig from the beginning. The only thing that scared me with the man is where he acquired some of those poisons. (Spiders. *Shudder*) But he’s a damn competent man and is learning to defend himself in hand to hand as well. A funny surprise to Gordon. Gordon, it took me a bit to warm up to. Just because he was always such a dick. His attitude is always sucky and just pissy. I swear he had constant PMS. At last until he and Craig finally got together.
But I liked the action part of this book. There wasn’t a whole lot. More as far as training. But nothing like mob families going at it to get a good story going.
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