Twice the evil. Twice the fun.’
After most of the government officials involved in the Snuff program are eliminated, Brody and Z take up residence in a deserted village south of Peardonville. Beisicker seems the perfect refuge nestled in a snow-covered valley, quiet and far from prying eyes. However, their time together is brief.
Z is kidnapped, and Brody is forced to meet his first significant challenge, a fellow serial killer. The pharmaceutical giant End Life wants their best asset to return, and it will stop at nothing to make it happen.
After most of the government officials involved in the Snuff program are eliminated, Brody and Z take up residence in a deserted village south of Peardonville. Beisicker seems the perfect refuge nestled in a snow-covered valley, quiet and far from prying eyes. However, their time together is brief.
Z is kidnapped, and Brody is forced to meet his first significant challenge, a fellow serial killer. The pharmaceutical giant End Life wants their best asset to return, and it will stop at nothing to make it happen.
Review
“Maximum
Kill” by Blak Rayne - Review
Gripping,
Tender, and Dangerously Sexy
(Maximum
Kill: The Reaper Series Book 2)
I was hooked on this series after reading the first
paragraph of book one, and book two is even better. The unexpected relationship
between two outcasts: Z, or Zeus, a male prostitute, and Brody, a brilliant, “born”
killer, is enthralling and wrought with possibilities. Rayne’s deceptively
beautiful prose grabs you by the throat and yanks you into each scene, right
there beside the two multifaceted protagonists, caught up in the snow, rain,
and thunderous gunshots.
Told from the point-of-view of the seemingly weaker
protagonist, Z, without inundating the reader with detail after detail, the
author dropped a well-placed sentence here and there to enhance the depth of
each character. “Brody sat next to me reading a physics book.” I use the word
“seemingly” because despite Z’s frail build, he is powerful in his fearless
love for Brody. Through that love, he holds and wields a more powerful agent of
change than he imagines. He has not allowed the horror of his past to dampen
his willingness to open his heart in the face of the very real danger of being destroyed.
The more I learn about Brody, the sexier he becomes.
Despite his bad habit (killing), his fondness for Z is touching. Rayne has
managed to pen a tale juxtaposing the innocence of first love and the gritty
reality of human darkness. This novella
moves quickly, but contains the depth of
longer works. If you enjoy lots of action, the steady overcast of cold
darkness, and romance all skillfully packaged into a quick, character-driven
read, you are gonna LOVE “Maximum Kill.”
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