Review by brookecrites -- The Poison Profession
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Review by brookecrites -- The Poison Profession
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Poison Profession" by Rachel Wright.]
Louisa Clayman is beautiful, wealthy, and, oh yeah, just so happens to be an assassin-for-hire. On the outside, her and her brothers run a successful security business; on the inside, they kill people for money that they wash through fake businesses created by their company. Louisa isn’t supposed to fall in love with a normal guy, and when she does, his best friend certainly isn’t supposed to start asking questions that could get all of the Clayman siblings caught. In The Poison Profession, Rachel Wright has her readers constantly asking themselves what will happen next.
The main thing I liked about this book was that the characters are true to themselves no matter what. Louisa is the CEO of her own company and the dark web’s favorite assassin, but when she falls in love, she doesn’t hesitate to go after what she wants. Rikard, Louisa’s love interest, is a recently divorced father of two who plays video games for a living, but when Louisa shows him how the 1% live, he doesn’t deny his interest in that life. Most of the details about Louisa or Rikard’s family members are included for a reason that makes sense later in the book, which was a clever arc that Rachel Wright used.
The thing I liked least about the book was that it was not what the description necessarily leads the readers to believe. Further, there were a lot of details included that felt irrelevant and/or were not explained in a way that the reader knew why the author wanted them to know that information. For example, the book jumps between Louisa and another character, Akela, and the details about Akela felt incredibly irrelevant until the end of the book. Further, there were a lot of details about one of Louisa’s brother’s friend’s drug-making business. While this information became somewhat relevant later in the book, there was still far too much information about it.
The book seemed professionally edited, with very few grammar or spelling errors. This book contains sexual content, explicit drug use, and some bad language. For these reasons, I would not recommend this book to people less than 18 years of age or people who have strong unwavering religious beliefs.
I would rate The Poison Profession by Rachel Wright 2 out of 4 stars due to the fact that it was not what I expected, there were too many unnecessary details and jumping between characters, and the drug use was a bit heavy for me. However, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to people interested in these kinds of novels.
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The Poison Profession
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Louisa Clayman is beautiful, wealthy, and, oh yeah, just so happens to be an assassin-for-hire. On the outside, her and her brothers run a successful security business; on the inside, they kill people for money that they wash through fake businesses created by their company. Louisa isn’t supposed to fall in love with a normal guy, and when she does, his best friend certainly isn’t supposed to start asking questions that could get all of the Clayman siblings caught. In The Poison Profession, Rachel Wright has her readers constantly asking themselves what will happen next.
The main thing I liked about this book was that the characters are true to themselves no matter what. Louisa is the CEO of her own company and the dark web’s favorite assassin, but when she falls in love, she doesn’t hesitate to go after what she wants. Rikard, Louisa’s love interest, is a recently divorced father of two who plays video games for a living, but when Louisa shows him how the 1% live, he doesn’t deny his interest in that life. Most of the details about Louisa or Rikard’s family members are included for a reason that makes sense later in the book, which was a clever arc that Rachel Wright used.
The thing I liked least about the book was that it was not what the description necessarily leads the readers to believe. Further, there were a lot of details included that felt irrelevant and/or were not explained in a way that the reader knew why the author wanted them to know that information. For example, the book jumps between Louisa and another character, Akela, and the details about Akela felt incredibly irrelevant until the end of the book. Further, there were a lot of details about one of Louisa’s brother’s friend’s drug-making business. While this information became somewhat relevant later in the book, there was still far too much information about it.
The book seemed professionally edited, with very few grammar or spelling errors. This book contains sexual content, explicit drug use, and some bad language. For these reasons, I would not recommend this book to people less than 18 years of age or people who have strong unwavering religious beliefs.
I would rate The Poison Profession by Rachel Wright 2 out of 4 stars due to the fact that it was not what I expected, there were too many unnecessary details and jumping between characters, and the drug use was a bit heavy for me. However, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to people interested in these kinds of novels.
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The Poison Profession
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
