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The Risk
by S.T. Abby
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lana is on a mission which involves getting revenge on a group of men who hurt her one by one. And she really enjoys doing it. Things get complicated when Lana meets Logan, an FBI profiler who happens to be the lead detective on the murder cases left behind by Lana. Can the two form a real relationship despite one being a killer, and the other the person who catches one?
This was a surprisingly good read for me. I think part of why I enjoyed this so much was the FBI profiling/crime investigation part of the story in Logan's POV as it gave me Criminal Minds vibes. You do have to set your belief aside a little bit when it comes to the amount of abusing privilege in the Quantico offices as the team uses their database to look up the background of Lana and other people getting romantically involved with others. It's a bit creepy to be honest, and I like to think this doesn't happen in real life :/
I actually enjoyed Logan's POV more than Lana's - I think because it felt a bit more realistic and we also see a more 'normal' Lana in his chapters. The sex scenes are grand, not too much, not too little and there's not an overload of them either so they don't take away from the overall theme of the story which is killer/hunter.
There were some parts of Lana's story that are over the top but fun for the sake of the story though I could do without references to her 'murder room' and 'murder box' - like really you are just going to say these things out loud instead of giving them code names for when in public, cool cool. But the idea of a female vigilante in the way Lana is, is just kind of fun to read despite the violence and gore (and against, pausing my disbelief that men with guns would run away from a small girl with a knife no matter how well she wields it).
As predicted, this story ends on a really big cliffhanger but one that makes me want to read the next book asap.
This was a surprisingly good read for me. I think part of why I enjoyed this so much was the FBI profiling/crime investigation part of the story in Logan's POV as it gave me Criminal Minds vibes. You do have to set your belief aside a little bit when it comes to the amount of abusing privilege in the Quantico offices as the team uses their database to look up the background of Lana and other people getting romantically involved with others. It's a bit creepy to be honest, and I like to think this doesn't happen in real life :/
I actually enjoyed Logan's POV more than Lana's - I think because it felt a bit more realistic and we also see a more 'normal' Lana in his chapters. The sex scenes are grand, not too much, not too little and there's not an overload of them either so they don't take away from the overall theme of the story which is killer/hunter.
There were some parts of Lana's story that are over the top but fun for the sake of the story though I could do without references to her 'murder room' and 'murder box' - like really you are just going to say these things out loud instead of giving them code names for when in public, cool cool. But the idea of a female vigilante in the way Lana is, is just kind of fun to read despite the violence and gore (and against, pausing my disbelief that men with guns would run away from a small girl with a knife no matter how well she wields it).
As predicted, this story ends on a really big cliffhanger but one that makes me want to read the next book asap.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence