Title: Lessons Learned (Hitman’s Creed #2)
Author: Edward Kendrick
Length: 12,753 words (65 pdf pages)
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Genre: m/m contemporary
Rating: C+
Blurb:
When a friend of Joey’s disappears, ex-hitman, Glenn, and Joey, his young cop lover, fear the kidnapper may be a hitman sent to kill Glenn. Now they must find their missing friend and stop the killer before he gets to Glenn.
When his former boyfriend disappears, young small-town cop Joey and his ex-hitman lover Glenn set to work to discover what happened to him. In the process they decide Nate has been abducted by a hitman who may be looking for Glenn. Now they must find Nate and stop the hitman before he can succeed in killing Glenn. In the process they must learn to trust in each other’s abilities if Glenn, and their love for each other, is to survive.
Review:
You don’t have to have read the prequel to this story Hitman’s Creed but it helps you to understand the dynamic of the two main characters if you do. Things are going well for former hitman (now working freelance for the government) Glenn and Joey who is now a police officer in his small town. However their romantic interlude is interrupted with news that Joey’s ex, and now friend of the couple, Nate has disappeared. Thanks to Glenn’s expertise, they determine that it looks like Nate may have interrupted an assassin in action. They then begin the hunt. Once he’s found, Glenn decides that he is the target of the assassin and sets out to lure him in.
A big part of the first story was Glenn’s insistence that Joey was two young as he’s 13 years younger than Glenn, and that continues here, although Joey’s mother sets him straight about trying to over-protect Joey. There’s a lot of discussion about Glenn’s past and whether what he did was morally wrong and did that make him a bad person. My biggest issue was if this first guy found Glenn, someone hired him, which means there will be more coming won’t there? Mind you, it ends that night so they don’t really have time to think about it, but I’m thinking it wouldn’t be the end.
I was curious about Nate and I felt a bit bad in the first book when he ended up being tossed aside for Glenn, but I was glad to see he had found a new guy Rory and I would be interested in their story. I always tend to get curious about secondary characters. The emphasis on this story is solving Nate’s disappearance and then determining how to trick the assassin into coming after Glenn so they have the upper hand. If you like that kind of thing, or you liked the couple in the first book it will be a nice follow-up to see them coping with life together. All in all I thought it was a good follow-up to the first story.
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