Can anyone ever escape his or her past?
“Hello, Sin.” That whisper sent her into a panic. How could someone have found her? Identities have been changed. Now known as Will and Diana, Sin and Lee have moved to a new place and have new jobs. Diana (Sin) is a police officer; Will (Lee) is an accountant. Will refuses to make roots of any kind, but Diana makes good friends with Reese, a female cop who works with her.
Without practice, their senses have dulled and their fighting skills are not nearly as sharp as they used to be. Then Ivan Kurev shows up. Even worse, Diana discovers someone she is close to is a member of the same mafia she and Will want to escape from.
But no one messes with Sin.
The story is fast paced with lots of in-depth fight scenes. Add to that a touch of romance, mind-boggling suspense, and revealed secrets that surprised me. It was hard for me to put this book down. When I had no other choice but to quit reading so I could do the dishes or cook or take a shower, my mind could not quit thinking about what was going on in the story. I kept trying to figure out what was going to happen next. Was I ever successful? Nope.
The author did a great job of surprising me. Things came out in this book that I really had no suspicion of. The way characters and events turn out to be connected make this story one that I truly enjoyed reading.
Favorite Sentences:
And she’d stopped lying to herself when she was eleven, when she used a kitchen knife to cut the duct tape from her wrists and had dialed 911 to report the crime against her family.
But the people who lurked here were far more dangerous than the dark.
She didn’t know who her enemies were, and didn’t know if her friends were the good guys or the bad guys.
He, on the other hand, was born as a scrap of a pasty white boy, and five years working as an accountant hadn’t made him anything but whiter.
New Words Learned:
chutzpa – extreme and offensive brashness; arrogant presumption; hubris
detritus – a loose mass of stones, silt, etc, worn away from rocks
parabolic – parabolic listening device
purview – the scope of operation or concern of something
scabbards – sheathes for bladed weapons such as swords or bayonets
scrim – a cotton or linen fabric of open weave used for bunting, curtains, etc.
soughing – making a rushing, rustling, or murmuring sound
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Amazon link: Retribution
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About the Author:
AJ Scudiere is the author of many suspense novels. Vengeance is the first book in The Sin Trilogy. She makes her home in Tennessee. Other books by this author include God’s Eye, Resonance, and Phoenix.
