Customer Reviews

Guns Will Keep Us Together (Greatest Hits Romance)

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I've just gotten my hands on the most unexpectedly awesome book ever - Guns Will Keep Us Together. I picked it up at the supermarket, of all places.

An almost airheadedly blithe assassin acquires an unexpected illegitimate son at the same time that the family business (in killing people) has acquired some bargain-basement competitors. So! There's nothing to be done but pick off the competition while considering offing the PTA.

The "hero" of this thing is one of the most hilariously note perfect first person narrators I've seen in years. He chattily waltzes through cell phone squabbling with his mother mid-execution, making a family vacation out of a hit on a guy in a Mickey suit at Disney World, and an attempted assassination of a bear-keeper at a zoo that goes horribly, brilliantly wrong.

You know those start a chapter with a quote things that a lot of books have? This author went for Addams Family, Blackadder and The Heathers quotes (among others), all even funnier in context. It's just that kind of book. Fluffily fun black comedy!

Now, to be frank, I think this book has a truth in advertising problem. Theoretically, it's a "mystery romance", but this is less of a romance than your average science fiction novel about very large bombs and prehensile aliens written by a gruff sixty five year old grandfather. I say this as someone who likes romance. Read it if you want rollicking action comedy - which I certainly did!

When I read the first in this series, 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy, I thought there was no way she could follow up with a second book as good. Leslie's voice is hilarious, sarcastic...and laugh out loud funny. I looked forward to reading Dak's book (Guns Will Keep Us Together) because I thought he would be this smooth killer that he appeared in the first novel--but he's not. And I was wrong: this book was even funnier than the first book.

In any case, the bear scene at the zoo is worth the 5 stars alone, though I think Disney World might be a close second.

Run and buy this book. Great fun, escapist read.

It is a fun, light-hearted romp, but--

The characters were so glib that they didn't ever feel real. I had a hard time believing anything really touched them. Any of them. The six-year-old boy had an emotional maturity that few people have ever achieved in the entire history of the world. He was definitely way more mature emotionally than his father--

Who cried after making love to the heroine for the first time. He apparently fell in love with her at first sight because she was a hot red head instead of the hot blondes he usually has sex with. That and he was starting to have performance issues.

And for someone who is supposed to be so smart about security, the hero makes such a dumb move in the later half of the book. The cannon fodder of slasher movies usually show about the same level of smarts.

It is funny. The quotes at the beginning of each chapter are fun. I wish I could have just sat back and enjoyed the ride instead of overthinking it.

I LOVE books that blend adventure romance and mystery, but the only real mystery in this book was how all the seemingly dim-witted characters are still alive.
The main character blunders through the book with little thought to anything but his hair. Even while out on professional 'hits.' Supposedly all the characters have been training to be assains from a young age but seem to get taken down or suprised fairly easily by completely untrained people.
The 'romance' part of the story line is pretty thinly developed and doesn't really leave you likeing either character for the other one.

Overally I think this book was trying to go in two many directions at once and suffered from a severe case of ADD because of it. I will NOT be reading any other books from this author after this one.

This was painful to read. I gave up about 1/3 through because the writing was so ridiculous. The surprise son had a vocabulary greater than his father and built DNA helix out of candy. Oh, okay. That makes sense. The ED storyline was completely pointless. I assume he'll get his mojo back with the right woman. Definitely not worth reading, even for free.

I got this for free on my kindle, so i can't complain too much. The characters all seemed like idiots except for Louis. When a six year old is the smartest one in the book, it's going to be painful. It was a fun premise, but not well-executed or well-written.

I frequently download free books for my Kindle because you sometimes get a nice change of pace for reading. I can't say that this was the greatest book ever, but it was fun and a refreshing change from most every other romance/suspense novel I've read. And like movie popcorn, it's not good for you, but you just keep eating it up till it's all gone. Relax and enjoy this one.

I can't imagine how any of the so-called assassins in this family were alive after the first chapter. I also can't imagine how this book had 3-1/2 stars.

The book was funny and I liked the give and take between Dakota and his cousin Paris, but I spent most of the book thinking our hero sounded more like a heroine. (Actually Paris did too.)

Dakota's thought processes just did not seem masculine to me, no matter how many blondes he'd boinked in the past, and shortening his name to Dak didn't help the situation. The book read like chic lit without the chic and all the characters could have been female.

It was a quick read and the price was right, but perhaps the author should concentrate on the female members of the Bombay family.

I found myself laughing out loud, really. This was a great follow up to 'Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy'.