Length: Novel
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Blurb: Can two men, one, Joey Fairburn, a twenty-one year old Criminal Justice student, the other, Glenn Tanner, a thirty-four year old hitman attempting to start a new life, reach a common bond to stop a murderer and find love despite their disparate ages and occupations?
Two men:
Glenn Tanner, a thirty-four year old hitman who wants to disappear and start a new life.
Joey Fairburn, a twenty-one year old Criminal Justice student studying to become a police officer.
One problem in common:
Joey’s father, an escaped killer, has come to the small town where Joey and his mother live and where Glenn has finally settled down. Glenn meets Joey, discovers what is happening and becomes involved in trying to stop the killer before the man can murder Joey’s mother.
Will these two men, Glenn and Joey, with such disparate ages and backgrounds, be able to find a common bond that will unite them in love? Only time will tell.
Reviewed by Joe: I love m/m stories that don’t have stereotypical characters. I also love m/m stories that are romantic and leave the sex up to the imagination. These are probably two very big reasons why I absolutely loved Hitman’s Creed and can’t give it a high enough recommendation. I thought this book was beautifully and vividly written with realistic characters and rich dialogue. The characters were real and likeable. The book is over two hundred pages long but is so interesting that it is a very quick read and almost makes you wish that it were longer, or that you had read it slower.
I have always been a fan of those wonderful late night suspense/thriller movies that were on TV all the time during the 90s and I could definitely picture Hitman’s Creed being one of those movies; maybe that’s another reason I enjoyed it so much. It brought back good memories of my childhood. I thought Glenn was a very strong, very realistic action-type hero; and as a fellow bisexual male I was happy to see us represented so positively. I also loved the character of Joey. He too was very likeable and a character I found myself rooting for through out the whole book.
The book is definitely a romance and not erotica which I think is fine. While I love explicit m/m erotica as much as the next reader I feel that it would have cheapened the book and would have been unnecessary so I applaud Mr. Kendrick for delivering a sweet romance; something I think is lacking in the m/m genre. Because of this I think this work is the perfect starter book for readers who are just dipping their toes into the genre. I feel this would give them a nice taste of what the genre has to offer.
I was not familiar with Mr. Kendrick as a writer before Hitman’s Creed, but I am very glad I picked up the book and will definitely add his name on my list of author’s to keep an eye out for.
A+
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