TEENAGE ASSASSIN: Episode 1 - 4 by M.W.Taylor

TEENAGE ASSASSIN: Episode 1 - 4 by M.W.Taylor

 

This story-line is a written in a serial format. Why make the reader pay for snippets of the story-line?  Just write a well-written novel with a few sequels if needed. 

This is a story of Miss Black who is anything but a normal 17-year old.  The book is written in first person, but it must have originally been done in 3rd as I did find a reference in the last episode to ‘herself’ vs ‘myself’.  Searching the internet, Amazon and Google I cannot find an author profile, so not sure who this writer is or their sex.  Not good from a reader’s prospective.  What are you hiding?  Or are you just trying to add to your mystique?

Since these are short little snippets, it’s hard to get a full impression of the story-line.  Miss Black may be a cold-blooded killer, but she does have a few close relationships that she will do anything for them.  As she states, these relationships are her vulnerability, so I’m sure somewhere down the road, one of them will put in jeopardy.  Most likely her best friend Rachel, as Rachel’s cop father has uncovered some bad cops.  I do like Gram’s character (Mrs. Deerborn who is a widow not a widower) and I find Eddy intriguing.  We know he had a bad history too, but who is he really? 

As Miss Black only goes after the “bad guys’, we have to root for her in her ongoing assassinations.  But now the government is involved.  We know they only use people, so what will become of Miss Black?

Having known someone who used to live this type of lifestyle, who is now dead BTW, I find this scenario totally implausible.  It takes years of training to prefect this type of trade: hand-to-hand combat, poisoning, explosives.  You don’t just learn them overnight.  Most of the kind of training is done though military channels while in the armed forces.  No way had a teenager taught herself these type of skills without being caught or killed before they were perfected.  Sorry, can’t buy it.

Also, when she kills Richard Demario with Emily right there, and they leave the parking garage, she doesn't even think about trace evidence left behind from Emily.  She only looks for personal belongings.  What about hair fibers for fingerprints?

This book is loaded with proofreading errors and a good editing program would have helped polish and tighten the manuscript.  Also wrong word choices as widow is female and widower is a male.  And the overstating of the same ideas, a lot of redundancies. 

I really didn’t care if I finished the last page or not, because I knew I wasn’t going to buy anymore from this series.  If you like this kind of thing, it’s not a bad read, just ignore the poor writing style.  I will only give a 3 feather review.