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I Am Justice
by Diana Muñoz Stewart
Content warning: child abuse, child sexual abuse, guns, descriptions of rape, torture, sexual torture. Most of the sexual violence takes place off of the page and is not described in detail. Gun violence is rampant, as is other forms of psychical violence.
Justice Parish is part of a league of vigilantes who's mission is to end the lives of evil men who make their money from bringing harm to women. In this instance, Justice is out to kill the two brother's who run a lucrative sex-trafficking ring and who are connected to the death of Justice's biological sister (I think?).
Justice's cover is that of a rich, socialite PR specialist, and that is what ex-Special Forces now humanitarian Sandresh Ross thinks after his newly created agency is hooked up with the wealthy Parish family. But, he discovers Justice is far more than the sexy, dark haired ingenue he took her for after they have to battle out of a bad situation in Jordan.
After Justice comes clean to Sandresh, they discover Justice may have been betrayed by one of her own adopted siblings, and many other forces come to a head to try and kill them both as they fall in love.
The premise is super cool, and I was really in the mood for a book about women kicking butt and taking names. That said, the narrative was very choppy, and there was a ton of purple prose. Many many similes about Justice's dark eyes that were just a bit ridiculous after the first couple. Very insta-love (but if that's your thing, go for it). There was just so much going on to build this world, I'm hoping the author will be able to settle into it in the subsequent novels. I'm definitely going to keep reading!
Also, Justice is briefly described as being Native American (Choctaw), which is awesome, but I never really figured out why a white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed hero" was named Sandresh. Really, besides his time in the Special Forces and his mom with Alzheimer's, the reader wasn't really given much backstory on Sandresh.
Justice Parish is part of a league of vigilantes who's mission is to end the lives of evil men who make their money from bringing harm to women. In this instance, Justice is out to kill the two brother's who run a lucrative sex-trafficking ring and who are connected to the death of Justice's biological sister (I think?).
Justice's cover is that of a rich, socialite PR specialist, and that is what ex-Special Forces now humanitarian Sandresh Ross thinks after his newly created agency is hooked up with the wealthy Parish family. But, he discovers Justice is far more than the sexy, dark haired ingenue he took her for after they have to battle out of a bad situation in Jordan.
After Justice comes clean to Sandresh, they discover Justice may have been betrayed by one of her own adopted siblings, and many other forces come to a head to try and kill them both as they fall in love.
The premise is super cool, and I was really in the mood for a book about women kicking butt and taking names. That said, the narrative was very choppy, and there was a ton of purple prose. Many many similes about Justice's dark eyes that were just a bit ridiculous after the first couple. Very insta-love (but if that's your thing, go for it). There was just so much going on to build this world, I'm hoping the author will be able to settle into it in the subsequent novels. I'm definitely going to keep reading!
Also, Justice is briefly described as being Native American (Choctaw), which is awesome, but I never really figured out why a white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed hero" was named Sandresh. Really, besides his time in the Special Forces and his mom with Alzheimer's, the reader wasn't really given much backstory on Sandresh.