I’m fairly sure I picked up an audio copy of Cassandra Featherstone‘s Bloodthirsty in a freebie event.
“Forgive me.”
Those were Professor Arnaud’s final words before I sliced through his neck. His was the first head I took, but it wouldn’t be the last.
Severing my connections to l’Academie d’Invisible was harder, but eventually, I escaped and built a reputation of my own.
Infamy suits me, and the harsh lessons of my childhood have served me well. I’m untouchable, undetectable, and untraceable. My targets are dead from the moment my name is whispered.
I am the Guillotine, and I work alone.
That is, until five criminals from my past reappear like unwanted phantoms, and I’m forced to choose between my targets and my vengeance.
Either way, heads will roll.
This was, at best, ok. The writing seems readable (as best I can tell in an audiobook), and the narrators did a fine job. But, lord, was I bored, and the book is just the same thing over and over and over again. The FMC, Remy, tells us how awesome she is, what disguise she’s using, and something about her past at l’Academie d’Invisible. The book then cuts to one of the MMC who will tell us how his and his brothers’ trauma from losing her is destroying them before cutting back to her, a new disguise, etc. There are five men. They all do this. It’s agonizingly repetitive. Add to that the author’s tendency to forget injuries such as the FMC appears to heal at supernaturial speeds, and the fact that this is a slow-burn. So, ultimately, there’s no real payoff at the end. Plus, there’s a disconnect between what’s in the blurb and what Remy says in the book.
Also, as a side note. I know one doesn’t read this sort of book for the feminism. But I found it 
seriously irritating to have the men written to give lip service to it, commenting on equal opportunity, and women’s capabilities, etc. But then, the author uses the same misogynistic tropes of reducing women to disposable “pussy,” etc. This is super common in the genre. I get that, annoying as it is, once you become aware of it. But it played worse than usual to have male characters who are theoretically mindful but also enact the same old misogynistic games. I wanted to be like, ‘Choose a lane.’
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