VENGEANCE by A.J. Scudiere

Vengeance by A.J. Scudiere

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really liked this book. Trying not to give too much away, the relationship between Sin and Lee was ever evolving and great. You could read the hard shell slowly sloughing off of both of them layer by layer as their relationship evolves, giving them something to live for.

Each backstory for Lee and Sin, made you understand how they had both chosen a path of killing and how it had almost killed their humanity. Their coming together, even under such horrific circumstances allowed them to trust and care for another human being again. They were the only two who could understand what the other had been through and why they were doing what they were doing and not judge.

The first quarter with the FBI story was a little slow and boring. It was hard to break from the action and get in to the meandering of Owen discovering the little pieces of what what happening, but eventually that section ramped up as well. I loved the dichotomy of doing your job as an FBI agent, but knowing that what the killer was doing was ridding the world of really bad people and asking yourself the question of do you really want to stop him/her/them. Owen's relationship with his wife was a nice part of the story. He was aware enough to know that his job took him from his family and to fear losing them from the neglect. He knew he had to eventually leave the FBI in order to keep his family, though Annika said she would never leave him.

Most stories like this, I find are wrapped up too easily, too completely, but this had all the urgency of people wanting to get their lives back and doing what they needed to do, even to to the point of almost getting caught in order to get out and have a life again. Knowing the only way to do that was to expose the people who could eventually get to them, but not turning themselves in.

I'm a independent producer and could see this as a film.

I highly recommend this book. The only reason it's not getting a full 5 is because the beginning FBI part was slow. I would say it was more of a 4.5.

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