That's why, when her captor, Javier, contracts a mysterious American hitman to kill one of his enemies, Sarai decides to try to persuade him to take her back with him. She has it better than some of her cohorts because she's his favorite, but life is still pretty miserable. The heroine is the sex slave of a drug lord, and has been his prisoner since she was - gag - a young teenager. KILLING SARAI just made me sad because it had so much squandered potential. I hated THE EDGE OF NEVER and wanted to throw it at the wall. To be fair, it is a much, much better book than THE EDGE OF NEVER. I really wanted to like KILLING SARAI, but I didn't. Second, I'm a James Bond girl at heart (no, not that kind of Bond girl), so whenever I hear about a book with a dangerous mercenary with a gun, I get irrationally excited. I think that's one of the highest compliments you can get as an author, because you (ideally) write the stories that you wish you can read yourself, so when someone tells you that they've found a work similar to yours, it's like Christmas come early (and this is how I've discovered some of my favorite books incidentally, like THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME). My friends on here kept recommending it to me, saying that it reminded them of my own work. That said, I was still enthused about picking up KILLING SARAI. To this day, it is one of the most irritating new adult books I have read. □ Read for the Unapologetic Romance Readers Halloween 2018 Reading Challenge for the category of: A romance novel with blood on the cover □
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