Rating: 4.5 🌈
“I pat his knee to comfort him, and then because that is not enough, I pull him into a tight hug, blind-typing, There there, Papa’s here.
“I swear I’m not an idiot,” Bellamy whispers, squeezing my hand.
“We’re a touchy family. And yes, we are a family, even if sometimes Bellamy prefers to pretend we aren’t. He pretends less and less with each week that passes.
Fox reaches past me and flicks Bellamy’s nose. “We don’t disparage ourselves,” he grunts.
We save that for the people we murder.
Fox reads my text and kisses the side of my head. “That’s right.”
— The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin (Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees Book 2) by Jennifer Cody
This series started as a lark for Cody but The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin sees a deepening of the relationships within the ever weird found family that Romily is building around him, as well as a complexity to the series arc as the author is adding characters and potential books into the universe.
I love it.
I mean who adopts a full grown enemy assassin as a son? Uh, why Romily did. And gets the assassin, Bellamy , as well as Fox (husband to be) , and Romily’s new family to accept Bellamy as a son, grand baby too? Sheer madcap awesomeness!
The interactions are hilarious. But what’s better is Bellamy’s emotional acceptance of his new status and family. It’s everything.
So when their son is threatened? It’s the family on alert and then to the rescue.
Which gives Cody the ability to enlarge each character’s supernatural elements as well as add the personal growth to their personalities that their new and stable relationships have had on them. Neither Romily or Fox are the same as they were when we met them in the first story. Each has shown measurable growth and revealed more about who they are, as people , and well, species.
I appreciate that element and the changes we see in them separately and together. We have mundane mysteries, that includes Romily’s engagement and missing ring.
Cody? Where’s the ring?
We get several great new additions to the series just as Romily adds to the family. “Edovard Durand Folange.” It’s French.” Who and what he is can be found within this terrific story. Trust me, he’s adorable.
So many wild elements here. Hopefully we will get to dive into them further as the series progresses.
The narrator changes, at least for Book 3, if the teaser at the end here is any indication. Should be wonderful. Can’t wait.
While we are waiting, pick up the preceding stories and get caught up. I’m happily recommending them all.
Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees series to date:
✓ The Trouble with Trying to Date a Murderer #1
✓ Fox Recruits a Mute Boy (And Falls in Love): A Short Story MSMD #1.5
✓ The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin (Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees Book 2)
Synopsis:
Romily:
You know what I’d like to know? Where the hell my romantic, how-we-got-engaged story is. Am I going to get it any time soon? Where is my big ass diamond?
Unfortunately, all that romance-novel level relationship-angst gets put on (indefinite) hold when my beloved son, Bellamy, is targeted by who knows who, poisoned, and then abducted by a wolf-ish person I kinda like. Am I going to get my kid back? You betcha. The question is, how many people does Fox have to kill first?
The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin is a 65k M/M Paranormal Romance with plenty of sass, gore, and questionable decision-making skills (and now there are tiny tables too).
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