Hell Bent edition by Heather KilloughWalden Literature Fiction eBooks
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Jack Thane is a man with a very big secret. For years, he has relied upon the skills and resources that came with this secret in order to protect the people he cares about, especially the young Annabelle Drake… the only woman he has ever loved.
However, now Jack’s past is catching up with him – and it’s after Annabelle. Suddenly, Jack has gone from the predator to the prey as he strives to keep Annabelle from the very deadly clutches of some of the most powerful people in the world.
Annabelle Drake’s best friend is a six-foot-two, blonde haired, blue eyed angel in black leather with a penchant for v-twin motorcycles and shoulder holsters stocked with reliable guns. He’s a man with a dark job, a quick mind, and a body capable of just about anything. He’s also off-limits as anything but a best friend… for so many reasons.
But when the forces that normally turn to Jack for their more covert problem solving needs suddenly turn on Annabelle, she has no choice but to turn to Jack for help. Annabelle finds that being under Jack’s protection means allowing him to get closer than she’d ever planned on letting him get… and that when it comes to dangerous, those who are out to get her have nothing on the man she’s with.
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Heather Killough-Walden is a California native currently living in Texas with her husband and child. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling e-book author of the Big Bad Wolf series and the October Trilogy, as well as the print and ebook Lost Angels series which includes ALWAYS ANGEL (available now) and AVENGER’S ANGEL (available November, 2011).
Hell Bent edition by Heather KilloughWalden Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a really tough review to write. I actually came on Amazon when I finished the story, to see if there was a sequel. I really hoped some of the loose ends might be tied up somewhere. And, I actually liked the last third of the book, even though the sex was disappointing! I really wanted to know more about the characters...except "Bella". I love strong, capable female characters, but she was only good on a bike and with weapons. I did not understand Jack's undying love, as I thought she had all the appeal of a wet marshmallow. She was such a hot mess, under that tough exterior, that I almost quit reading. And the constant, never ending misuse of "phase" for "faze" was incredibly irritating. I'm not a grammar freak, typos don't faze me...but this constant usage of phase, or phased, was seriously starting to bother me. I would expect someone who wrote this many books to know the difference. And every hot guy looks, and sounds, like a movie star? Seriously? Bella kind of redeemed herself at the end, enough that I would have bought a sequel had it been available. I can't imagine ever re-reading this though...All in all, not the worst book I've ever read, but certainly not the best. I am a little surprised by so many five star reviews. Even with the parts I disliked, I might have given it a four, if I hadn't felt like I was just left hanging.
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Hell Bent edition by Heather KilloughWalden Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
So from a murder mystery, espionage standpoint this was a well done book. Love story yes but there was absolutely NO sensuality or real sexuality at all. Like teens could read this. Imagery was well done & ironically I could see Daniel Craig (not Sean Bean) playing Jack & Helena Bonham-Carter playing Bee & of course Sam Elliott playing Sam (& not because it was mentioned so many times). It got a bit taxing reading about motorcycles over & over & over & over again - you get the point I'm sure. Had that been reduced along with removing of a couple of the fight scenes the story would have moved faster. I'm still not sure how the end game between Jack & Sam concluded regarding Annabelle. The character development was great & I could see how a girl could fall for Jack. He was quite charming! Adam was certainly an interesting guy in a psychopath kind of way if you're into those kinds of guys! I've read many of Ms. Killough-Walden's books & have enjoyed them immensely but I just felt like this fell short of her typical writing style.
If you're unfamiliar with Heather Killough-Walden, you may be missing some of the best reading available on . I stumbled across her paranormal romance The Third Kiss Dorian's Dream and was so blown away by her style and imagination that I quickly downloaded all her other available titles. And believe me when I say, it didn't break the bank, because The Third Kiss Dorian's Dream was all of $1 and Hell Bent a whopping $1.99.
Seriously great reading combined with a stunningly low price...can I just say WOO HOO!
In Hell Bent, we meet Annabelle Drake. She works for a graphics design company and her boss, Max Anderson, is both a friend...and maybe more. He's finally asked her to dinner on a night when his teenage son wouldn't be home. As Annabelle heads to lunch with her friend Cassie, feeling a little glowy from the invitation, the glow turn to confusion and then fear when an odd text message from Max urges her back to the office - the locked and completely dark office.
The shock from the grimmest of discoveries rocks Annabelle's world and she desperately reaches out to her best friend, Jack Thane, a man she's known for ten years. Jack's not a normal friend. He's not a normal anything, really. He's also intensely in love with Annabelle and has been from the moment he laid eyes on her on her birthday almost ten years ago. He'd do anything for her - has done...everything for her. And as an assassin, he's well aware of everything he needs to keep doing. When the call from his Bella comes in on the phone that he keeps strictly for her to contact him, he knows something's wrong - she's never called it before. He drops everything and rushes to her side, quickly sweeping Annabelle away from the scene of a horrific crime, but he only starts to get the gist of just how bad things are when Annabelle tells him in no uncertain terms that Max didn't kill himself as the scene suggests. He was murdered.
Soon Jack is racing to keep the woman he loves safe from assassins just as deadly as he is while he shelters a growing number of people on the kill list with her. Annabelle's friend Cassie, Max's son Dylan, Jack's ex-wife and daughter...soon it's all Jack can do to keep everyone safe and keep Annabelle from the clutches of a very determined billionaire who is exceedingly intent on staying a billionaire - no matter how many people he needs to kill to keep his secrets safe.
Hell Bent is a roller coaster thrill ride and Annabelle and Jack are a fantastic pair of characters. Their relationship is complicated, complex, and difficult for both of them at times, but it's also immutable and intensely strong. Annabelle trusts Jack like no other, even knowing what he does for a living, but when Jack's secrets start to unravel as they're forced to evade danger again and again, so does their close friendship and soon their relationship is fraught with just as many perils as the situation they're in.
Killough-Walden has plotted this book perfectly, balancing the external danger and the plot of a brutal cover up with delicate emotional angst in a way that many authors can't even begin to comprehend, let along pull off. The characters struggle desperately to not get dead, racing across the country and then across the pond in a valiant effort while buildings are being blown up and bullets are flying and friendships are being tested. It's an exciting, dangerous thrill ride and an odd but utterly unique romance filled with genuine characters with human foils and foibles...and a bit of murder and mayhem.
Annabelle is a gem of a character, quirky, bright, dedicated, with a spine of steel and a core of determination that makes her a formidable heroine. Jack is fantastic as the lead male. A cold blooded killer by trade, it's clear his heart belongs to Annabelle, and the dichotomy, while perplexing, is also uniquely appealing and ultimately sympathetic. He's a bad guy...just not totally a bad guy...and some of his frets about keeping his Bella from hating him are actually cute and provide some humor to the situation.
The plot is fast-moving, the book long, and there's plenty of room given to develop the story and characters and do it well. Maybe just a wee bit too much room in one or two places that could have benefited from a bit of tightening and trimming. There were one or two times that I thought the constant attacks on Annabelle, Jack, and company felt a little like overkill, but they were passing thoughts, not true complaints, and the scope of the story never stopped developing alongside the action. There was only one part at just over halfway that I felt the action slowed a little and the story dragged a bit, but it was over before I got annoyed and another totally unexpected layer to the plot was added. From that point on, the book was right back at breakneck pace.
I loved it. I absolutely loved it. It was definitely one of the best action adventure books I've ever read, and I became so fond of the characters that I know they will stick with me. I would love a sequel or a series with Annabelle and Jack...even Sam, Cassie, or Dylan, and especially Adam - they're all unique enough and the relationships fresh and complex enough to support much more from any or all of them. Even if there's never a sequel, though, the impact that the story has guarantees that I'll be reading it again and again. Hell Bent is a story that quite literally has everything rip-roaring action, bullets and bombs and beatings, a race against time, and danger, mystery, and suspense - and romance! It's fantastic!!
Originally reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
Has Ms. Killough-Walden ever written an awful book? This is a stand-alone novel and as complete as any I have read. It is full of action, suspense, exciting and mysterious characters and lots of bad people. One bad man keeps hiring assassins to kill anyone who has the knowledge of a drug he wants kept secret. Little does he know another assassin continues to foil his attempts at murdering innocent people. Jack, Annabelle, Max, Dylan, Clara, Alex, and Adam -- a combination of friends, employees, relatives and assassins move about a complicated chess board that had me guessing a lot in this thriller. And don't forget the romance -- sensual and angst-ridden without all the way-more-than-needed descriptors of sexual exploits. A rousing, wonderful read all the way. A great escape.
I wondered about this story at the beginning but it wound itself around me softly and before I realized it I was hooked. I had to finish it.
Annabelle's reaction to Jake's watching over her, his protection of her I thought was too strong. He did it from a position of knowledge and love. Three times it had saved her, she had no idea.
The scene of the two little kids, hands pressed against the store window looking at the Star Wars goodies, that one tugged at the heart strings. A little boy and a little girl sharing whispers that their mum couldn't hear.
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This is a really tough review to write. I actually came on when I finished the story, to see if there was a sequel. I really hoped some of the loose ends might be tied up somewhere. And, I actually liked the last third of the book, even though the sex was disappointing! I really wanted to know more about the characters...except "Bella". I love strong, capable female characters, but she was only good on a bike and with weapons. I did not understand Jack's undying love, as I thought she had all the appeal of a wet marshmallow. She was such a hot mess, under that tough exterior, that I almost quit reading. And the constant, never ending misuse of "phase" for "faze" was incredibly irritating. I'm not a grammar freak, typos don't faze me...but this constant usage of phase, or phased, was seriously starting to bother me. I would expect someone who wrote this many books to know the difference. And every hot guy looks, and sounds, like a movie star? Seriously? Bella kind of redeemed herself at the end, enough that I would have bought a sequel had it been available. I can't imagine ever re-reading this though...
All in all, not the worst book I've ever read, but certainly not the best. I am a little surprised by so many five star reviews. Even with the parts I disliked, I might have given it a four, if I hadn't felt like I was just left hanging.
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