"How do you come to terms with realizing everything you were taught was all based on lies?"
Reviewed by Helen Williams
Posted February 24, 2016
Suspense | Thriller
BETWEEN SHADOWS is the first book in the new Assassins series
by Chanel Cleeton. I have to admit when I started
reading this book I was wary if I would like BETWEEN SHADOWS or
whether I would finish it. It is certainly different from the Capital
Confessions series. But once I got into the story I
had to keep reading. The main characters in this book remind
me of Huck and Jake from one of my favorite TV shows, Scandal,
who worked for a secret agency called B16 where they are
basically assassins. Reading BETWEEN SHADOWS was like watching a
thriller where you have to keep watching because you have
to know what is coming next. She goes by the name X which was given to her by the Academy.
She is a hired assassin whose job is to carry out vengeance on
those who have wronged others. X has believes what she
is doing is right....until she comes face-to-face with Luke, the man she was
told to
murder because he betrayed
the Academy. It
takes some doing for Luke to convince X she has been lied
to and used by the Academy, but seeing Luke helps X
figure out what her nightmares have been about. Along with
these discoveries come threats to Luke and X.
X has her own set of rules she lives by. The
only person she shows any feelings for is her little sister
Grace, who lives at the Academy with her. X and those who
work for the Academy are trained "assets" who have been taught
to fight and kill and are not allowed to form any bonds. Digging into the
Academy
files will reveal some shocking
information which leads to X recovering all her recessed
memories. If you are looking for a thrill ride, BETWEEN SHADOWS is the book to read.
Chanel Cleeton really surprised me with this book. Once you
get into the story you can't stop. Since BETWEEN SHADOWS is the first
book in the new series, I can't imagine what the next one will
be like. Is it possible to live a normal life when you have
been trained as an assassin? How do you come to terms with
realizing everything you were taught was all based on
lies?
SUMMARY
A sexy new thriller about love and revenge from the
author of the Capital Confessions and International
School series… X lives by three rules: Show no weakness. Trust no one.
Don’t get caught. She lives by the rules they gave her. The Academy—set in London, shrouded in secrecy—it trains
spies, computer experts, and assassins. Their mission?
Dispensing justice and altering the course of world
politics. Or so they think. In a world where secrets are
weapons and some kills are impossible to forget,
everything X thought she knew about her life is about to
change. They taught her to fight. To blend into the shadows like
a ghost, to operate on the fringes of society, to change
her identity with ease. They taught her to kill. She’ll need every skill they taught her, to stay alive.
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