Words I Write Crazy: Week 23 Reviews: Exit Strategy, Made to be Broken, Wild Justice, Double Play, Perfect Victim

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Week 23 Reviews: Exit Strategy, Made to be Broken, Wild Justice, Double Play, Perfect Victim

From Goodreads:
Regulars at Nadia's nature lodge don't ask what she does in the off-season. And that's a good thing. If she told them, she'd have to kill them. She's a hit woman for a Mafia family.

Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn't owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn't mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur—and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort.

To put an end to the murders, Nadia will have to turn herself from predator to prey as she employs every trick she knows to find the killer. Before the killer finds her…

From Goodreads:
The author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series returns with her latest novel featuring an exciting heroine with a lethal hidden talent. This time she's hot on the trail of a young woman no one else cares about and a killer who's bound to strike again. Nadia Stafford isn't your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, she's known only as Dee to her current employer: a New York crime family that pays her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a vengeance and her old instincts go into overdrive. With her enigmatic mentor, Jack, covering her back, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly darker and deadlier mystery. Now, with her obsession over the case deepening, the only way Nadia can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghosts and either bury them for good, or die trying. Because in her book everyone deserves a chance. And everyone deserves justice.

From Goodreads:
Protect the innocent. If there is any one principle that drives hit man Nadia Stafford, it’s this. In her own mind, when she was thirteen, she failed to protect her older cousin Amy from being murdered. Now she fails again, disastrously, when she botches a hit. To help her find her equilibrium, her mentor, Jack, brings her a gift: the location and new identity of the predator who killed her cousin and disappeared after the case against him failed.

Vengeance, justice? With the predator in her sights, nothing seems more right, more straightforward, more easy. But finding justice is never as simple as it seems.

From Goodreads:
Life is good for lodge owner and sometime hitwoman Nadia Stafford — a couple of dogs, a job she takes satisfaction in and the man she loves at her side as they literally build a home together. It's as close to normal as a pair of contract killers can get.

Jack knows that sometimes being very, very good at what you do can be very, very bad — for those around him. He's gone to great lengths to keep his past from catching up with Nadia. He also knows it's only a matter of time …

Jack is halfway around the world when the trap is triggered. They're coming for Nadia. And he has no way to warn her.

From Goodreads:
Fifteen years ago, hit man Tyrone Cypher disappeared into the wilderness. Now he's back with a job for his old "friend" Jack. While Jack doesn't consider Cypher much of a friend, the job is ideal for Nadia.

There's a killer in Honolulu, targeting those involved in the family court system. When no one else would take one victim's cases, lawyer Angela Kamaka did, putting herself squarely in the killer's cross-sights.

For Nadia, Angela is the perfect victim—an innocent person in danger for doing the right thing. So Nadia and Jack get an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii courtesy of Tyrone Cypher, who has his own reasons for wanting to keep Angela safe.

My first review of Exit Strategy, Made to be Broken, Wild Justice, Double Play, Perfect Victim
My second review of Exit Strategy, Made to be Broken, Wild Justice, Double Play, Perfect Victim

My third review of Wild Justice, Double Play
My Review:
I just love this series. I've read it at least 4 times previous for most of them, though I read the first 2 books before I started on Goodreads and blogging shortly thereafter, so I don't know exactly when I first read those ones. But I had a craving to reread these books, so spend this time with Nadia and Jack again! And it was a delight to read!

I love these mysteries, watching the gang uncover various clues. It does get pretty complicated, and sometimes I forgot where the path started, but I love going down it. And that it's all about hitmen, people who kill for a living, well, it's just a fantastic concept that I love!

Another thing that I love is Nadia and Jack's relationship. Because he's not the most communicative, and like Nadia points out, one person has to take the risk of opening up, and events through the series keep them away from trying.

I had forgotten how long after Double Play, Perfect Victim started. Like it was years later. But hey, it has been 3 years since I last read them, and you all know that I have a crap mind for little details. As always, that's why I love rereading! Plus it was great to have the tie in with the Rockton series!

This series is so fantastic, and I really really hope that we do get more stories, if only short stories and novellas like Double Play and Perfect Victim!

Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: Nadia Stratford #1, 2, 3, 3.5, 3.6
First Read: January 1st, 2011, March 8th, 2011, December 18th, 2013, June 4th, 2016, November 26th, 2017
Second Read: December 18th, 18th, 2013, August 4th, 4th, 2017, August 8th, 2018
Third Read: August 6th, 7th, 7th, 8th, 2018

Read: June 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 5th, 2021
Source: Own, Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Rereading! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books!
Publisher: Bantam, Plume, Traverse Press
Published: June 26th 2007, February 24th 2009, November 26th 2013, April 5th 2015, November 1st 2017

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