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The Red Cross of Gold II:. the King of Terrors: The Assassin Chronicles (Volume 2)

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Once again, Brendan Carroll gives us another exciting (and twisted) ride with the indomitable Knight of Death as he goes after his lost love intending to marry her with the permission of the Order of the Red Cross of Gold. The problem is that its been seven years since he's seen his lovely lady and she has a surprise for him. Not only does she have a surprise for him, a couple of his Brothers of the Order are hell bent on stopping the marriage because they think it will bring about the destruction of the Order. They will stop at nothing short of crucifixion to get the Chavaliere Ramsay out of the picture. In the meantime, some of his true love's former associates are determined to extract the secret of immortality from him by hook or by crook. While all of this is going on, his most beloved friend and Brother of the Order betrays him in the vilest manner possible. Meredith, who is caught up in the middle of all this becomes a victim of her own emotions. The ending will leave you surprised and breathless and ready to read more about the adventures of the poor Knights of Solomon's Temple. Extraordinarily good!

Yet again, I find this book impossible to put down.

Mark is drawn back to Texas to propose to the woman who was the root cause of so much pain in the first book of the series. He must truly be a masochist! (Well, emotionally anyway...) At any rate, he brings his closest friend and brother, Lucio, to America with him.

Lucio's desire to be just like the man that he most admires leads to some sticky situations. Even with his "well-meaning" errors in judgment, Lucio easily becomes my favorite character. His charm and charisma are second to none and he is the light where Mark is the dark. (That's not to say that he is without a dark side as well.)

I have a hard time imagining anyone not being able to enjoy this book!

I was convinced when I read the first book that Brendan Carroll was onto something, but honestly did not think he could outdo himself... WRONG! This book is even BETTER than the first! The story moves forward with purpose. Not only did I get sucked-in with this one but I read it all in record time because I was preparing myself for the next book. I fell in love with the sexy knights and could not believe I was torn between which hero I wanted the sweet Texas girl to fall for. In this book I started hating characters that I originally loved and vise versa. Never has a book touched so many emotions in me as a reader... I caught myself wanting to make a phone call to the author to ask WHY he did THAT to this character or that... but only because I had already become so involved with each character I felt like I knew them...and of course books three forward were purchased BEFORE I finished this one. I just did not want to be somewhere wondering what in the world was going on with MY characters without being able to access them immediately...sad but true... I am hooked...DANG IT!

I admit that I am hooked on the Assassin chronicles and can't put these books down. Was happy to read more about Mark Ramsay's life and mindset. Just love how the author weaves other characters in and out of the story, and then expands on them later. These books draw the reader in as if the reader is living amongst the Order, and the reader is formulating their own ideas and thoughts and patiently reading the outcome.
I love Brendan's writing style. It flows, it has twists and turns, and it is complete. Left me dangling at the end and I couldn't start reading the next book fast enough.

The second book follows pretty much the first one. The figures stay without depths. Essentially they think with the lower parts of their body, especially the women, and their motivation is mainly greed and to obtain immortality.
Not very credible that 800 year old men behave on the same level of maturity as teenagers. (Sorry, I did not want to insult teenagers that are certainly more mature than the figures from this book).
The only figure I liked was killed at the end of this book.