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I give very few books a 5 star rating b/c I think it has to have all of certain elements. This one does and it is an IR to boot were race is not the driving factor in the storyline. The main characters are believable, I liked the fact that the heroine is flawed knows it and is actively trying to do something about it, the villians are interesting, won't say more b/c you have to figure out who the villians really are, the story line is fast and takes you on a wild ride with great twists and turns in the story, the sex is right on target, you can feel the attraction between the hero and heroine. I had to reread some parts, b/c it was that good. This is one of the best written books in the suspense action genre. I can highly recommend this book. I will be ordering the second book in this series.


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The Assassin Selena McCaffrey Rachel Butler 9780440241201 Books Reviews

I have to say, this is one of the best suspense novels I've read in years. Not only is the book hard hitting and fast paced, it's very tender. I especially enjoyed the thoughtful way Ms. Butler dealt with the Alzheimers patient. Excellent job!

This is not a mindless read with cardboard characters. Selena and Tony are fully three dimensional, coming to life on the very first page. And they continue to live even after the book is finished.

THIS BOOK HAS EVERYTHING TO RECOMMEND IT! Rate it from one to five stars? If I could, I'd give it a ten.
The plot had all the potential of a great romantic suspense but unfortunately Butler is not a skilled storyteller. The years between 14 year-old Selena's rescue from rape and her eventual summons to meet with her saviour is completely ignored and the grown up Selena we meet is very well able to protect herself but we have no idea why this woman is what she is - obsessed with Davis. Butler tells us Davis has been grooming Selena to take over his drug business when the time comes yet Davis has ignored Selena once he saved her. He pays for her education, and her expenses but he's never shown any personal interest in her. Yet Davis is described as a villain who is obsessed with possession and power. His treatment of Selena is very contradictory to what we are told - that he wants to own her completely, wants her complete obedience, to even to the point of murdering for him. We also don't know much about Selena apart from her abused childhood which is only glossed over which makes it difficult to truly know her, much less feel for her.

Det. Tony Ceola, though, is a nice Italian cop with a nice family. Ok, he's got this kid sister who's sleeping with a creep but overall, Ceola is someone any normal woman would bring home to meet Mom and Dad. His reaction upon being confronted with Selena's duplicity is to be expected and unfortunately, I was not sufficiently moved by Selena's character to feel she deserves him.

Suspense-wise, this book was a total letdown. There were several occasions that could have made this book a page-turner but Butler never delivers. Too many pages taken up with Selena ruminating over her unmet needs where Davis is concerned turn this book into a rather mediocre read.
In Key West, artist Selina McCaffrey runs Island Dreams, an art gallery except when she is on assignment for her "Uncle" William Davis. Fourteen years ago William "helped" Selena with a problem involving a death and she would do anything for him now. William sends Selena to clean up a mess incriminatingly left behind by his assistant Damon Long. An irate Damon detests Selena who is treated more like William's family than a worker.

Selena temporarily moves to Tulsa to live next door to Detective Tony "Chee" Ceola, who is putting together a case against William. Selena is to destroy the dossier and if necessary kill the cop. Damon hopes she will mess up though he admits she is a survivor. While a serial killer murdering the dregs of society leaves behind "repent" as his message diverts Tony's efforts to put away William, the detective and his assassin fall in love. Will Selena choose the man who gave her a lifeline when she was a drowning teen or the cop that offers her a lifetime of love?

The key to THE ASSASSIN is the believability of Selena as a fighter, a survivor, and a woman in love; the cast including Chee pale next to her. The story line grips the audience from the moment Selena shows her skills against a much heavier male opponent and never slows down until she must choose sides. Readers will wonder whether she will go with the father figure who "saved" her in the past or the hunk who offers her a warm enlightened future. Rachel Butler provides a gripping thriller that keeps her audience guessing which one Selena will select.

Harriet Klausner
Excellent book.
This is a wonderfully written book. It's an intelligent thriller that DOESN'T insult the reader with obvious twists and turns. It admirably keeps you guessing and rooting for the protagonists, Tony and Selena.

It's a BW/WM IR that is fantastically suspenseful, yet romantic.

You can't please all people all of the time, so ignore the negative reviews. This book (and the entire series) is written at least as well as any of the fiction stuff that shows up on the NYT Best Seller lists, and it should be made into a movie. You can really see someone like Thandie Newton and Christian Bale in the lead roles.

Well done and I hope that Ms. Butler writes another book this time featuring Charlize, Selena and Rodrigo.
I like it, but this book was a little too slow, more than necessary and the story should have capitalized on the tension between the love interest more. I also would have liked a few more badass scenes. All in all I was looking for an assassin romance novel, and this at least mostly met my expectations even though to be fair the book was more about a few mysteries than about any form of assassination. The main character who is supposed to be an assassin is in no way shape or form an assassin. I'm reading the second book in the series and I'll see how I feel about it then, but for now it's an ok buy. If your looking for love and a kickass heroine assassin read "Young, Love, Murder". Now that met all my needs, and I hope I can find something like it again.
I give very few books a 5 star rating b/c I think it has to have all of certain elements. This one does and it is an IR to boot were race is not the driving factor in the storyline. The main characters are believable, I liked the fact that the heroine is flawed knows it and is actively trying to do something about it, the villians are interesting, won't say more b/c you have to figure out who the villians really are, the story line is fast and takes you on a wild ride with great twists and turns in the story, the sex is right on target, you can feel the attraction between the hero and heroine. I had to reread some parts, b/c it was that good. This is one of the best written books in the suspense action genre. I can highly recommend this book. I will be ordering the second book in this series.