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Carregando... Killers of a Certain Agede Deanna Raybourn
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Enjoyable but bloody. ( ) Four women who have worked as assassins for forty years have retired and were given a retirement cruise by their former employer. Only it wasn’t an act of gratitude for a job well done: they themselves have now been targeted for extermination. It wasn’t a bad career. They “took out” bad people that the law couldn’t touch before those people could hurt or kill others. Drug traffickers, human traffickers, and Nazis are just some of the bad guys that they were assigned to assassinate. But now the tables have been turned, and they have to discover who in “The Museum” set them up. It’s quite a thrilling tale, filled with fast-paced action and excitement. What could be more entertaining than reading about a small group women who spent their lives killing bad guys and are now on the run for their own lives. And it’s not a sprint: after all, they are of a certain age! Well written with interesting and unique characters, this thriller will keep you reading until the last page. Read for my book club. Warning: Rants and spoilers abound. Plot setup interested me at first but was so simplistic: First kill 1st board director, then kill 2nd, then 3rd. The actual killings were supposed to be interesting but just came off as unnecessarily convoluted and artificial. Just not just shoot each? That’s what I expected the Museum people to do at the auction. Stepping back, the very idea makes little sense. Organizations that kill terrible people, cartels, etc., will be killing thousands of people. And how do you rank them? People currently evil? People that did evil things in the past (e.g., Nazis) but aren’t actively evil? There’s too much presumption and judgment. The other premise of the museum is that you can return stolen possessions to their rightful owners. Absurd. Museums are full of things that should be returned. Let’s start there! But some museums want to return things but cannot settle claims by multiple parties. Benin Bronzes are a classic example. Multiple towns, families, museums, etc. have valid claims. And so many other issues: do you take into account who can care for them better? Who can make them more publicly accessible? Who is less likely to lose them because they live in a war zone? Character development was too artificial both among the women and the Museum Directors. Various plot elements were either ridiculous or unexplained: Examples: One member never forgives one of the women for killing “his Nazi” 30 years earlier. Ridiculous. No explanation of how they got off the first island without passports. Too many “convenient” events: two women just happened to have SOs (Minka, Akiko) with access to money and who could disappear for an indeterminate amount of time; Another (Helen) just happened to own an old estate - and the Museum never knew about any of this? And even though the estate had not been maintained for decades, all the utilities still functioned. Minka is an app developer and tells the women to use a prototype (cat) app “without texting or emailing” but it’s just a messaging app. “Men are terrified of periods” I couldn’t count the # of times we’d stashed weapons in maxi pads, douches, or veginal itch creams. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. The biggest turnoff was the dialogue. Filled with TMI in a way that people don’t talk. (“I should have at least slept with him again.” ) And so much trendy talk that falls flat such as the reference to DuoLingo. At the estate, they make purchases at 8 stores. Hard to imagine that doesn’t raise their presence to the museum. Mary Alice all of a sudden becomes squeamish about bones in the catacomb even though she is a trained killer. Minor scenes were stupid. Billie walks up to hotel official and says the man at the bar is her husband (“too busy for me”). Chances are the hotel official knows the man! And the scheme for adjusting the catacomb counts was completely unnecessary. Anyone who operates a counter manually knows those are unreliable. They’re just for rough ideas of the number of people. No one would ever raise an alarm because the in/out counts don’t match. Just too much crappy writing for me to enjoy this. Even as a beach read, this fails to be enjoyable. I have no interest in recommending this to a friend or reading more from this author. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire - it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on technology than people skills. When the foursome is sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to mark their retirement, they are targeted by one of their own. Only the Board, the top-level members of the Museum, can order the termination of field agents, and the women realize they've been marked for death. Now to get out alive they have to turn against their own organization, relying on experience and each other to get the job done, knowing that working together is the secret to their survival. They're about to teach the Board what it really means to be a woman-and a killer-of a certain age"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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