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A review by wart
The Two Gentlemen of Altona by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry
5.0
I received a free ARC from the publisher.
That ending! Are you guys trying to kill me?!
I love this book so much, I'm writing my review on my tablet because I'm too impatient and want to get all my flaily love out there for you guyz as soon as possible! Because I love this book!
So Henry Page is a con man and he's currently conning a mobster's granny. This ends about as well as can be expected: Henry witnesses said Mobster shoot a guy and, ignoring his self preservation instinct, calls the cops and becomes the person who's testimony will put this mobster behind bars. Finally.
Except Henry likes the whole living and breathing thing, so he books it. He bullshits an FBI agent - one Ryan McGuinness (or Mac) - by successfully convincing him he's a cop. And thus begins the hilarity that is Henry and Mac's general interaction: Henry annoys Mac, Mac gets annoyed, Henry is amused. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Except shit gets pretty real pretty fast for Henry. After returning to FBI custody and escaping it again, he's holed up in a motel working on his disguise, when he gets found. By the FBI, and by a hit man.
So there's a leak somewhere and no one knows where so Mac takes Henry and they head into hiding. The two of them. Alone. In a cabin. And they have to deal with their attraction to each other along with their (in Mac's case) frequent annoyance at each other. Because they're cooped up. In a cabin.
This book is wonderful. It's hilarious, serious, real.
I love the characters, the plot, the writing. I love everything about this book. The Shakespeare references. Henry's love for the bard. Everything. This book kept me reading as straight through as possible (drat you work and sleep and NaNo! :P)
And it's got me feeling all fannish!
Which means I'm already thinking up weird AU fanfics to write.
I. Love. This. Book.
Pardon me while I go start book two. Even though I shouldn't.
That ending! Are you guys trying to kill me?!
I love this book so much, I'm writing my review on my tablet because I'm too impatient and want to get all my flaily love out there for you guyz as soon as possible! Because I love this book!
So Henry Page is a con man and he's currently conning a mobster's granny. This ends about as well as can be expected: Henry witnesses said Mobster shoot a guy and, ignoring his self preservation instinct, calls the cops and becomes the person who's testimony will put this mobster behind bars. Finally.
Except Henry likes the whole living and breathing thing, so he books it. He bullshits an FBI agent - one Ryan McGuinness (or Mac) - by successfully convincing him he's a cop. And thus begins the hilarity that is Henry and Mac's general interaction: Henry annoys Mac, Mac gets annoyed, Henry is amused. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Except shit gets pretty real pretty fast for Henry. After returning to FBI custody and escaping it again, he's holed up in a motel working on his disguise, when he gets found. By the FBI, and by a hit man.
So there's a leak somewhere and no one knows where so Mac takes Henry and they head into hiding. The two of them. Alone. In a cabin. And they have to deal with their attraction to each other along with their (in Mac's case) frequent annoyance at each other. Because they're cooped up. In a cabin.
This book is wonderful. It's hilarious, serious, real.
I love the characters, the plot, the writing. I love everything about this book. The Shakespeare references. Henry's love for the bard. Everything. This book kept me reading as straight through as possible (drat you work and sleep and NaNo! :P)
And it's got me feeling all fannish!
Which means I'm already thinking up weird AU fanfics to write.
I. Love. This. Book.
Pardon me while I go start book two. Even though I shouldn't.