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A review by thatdecembergirl
Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe
3.0
In a nutshell: "Her Name is Knight" reads like a Black Widow story if the character... is actually a black woman.
And written by one, too.
It took me more than a dozen chapters until I could warm up to this story (Angoe's decision to use different POVs for separate timelines disturbs my reading comfort instead of helping it), but at the end of the day, I managed to finish this book.
This book ticks all the stereotypes of the genre at all times (revenge, traumatic past, highly-trained assassin possessing tons and tons of money, you named it), including portraying the protagonist as "...looked like a goddess, and was lethal as hell". For an author who wants to define her heroine by her skills and capabilities, Angoe sure put a fair amount of attention in making sure the readers understand (and remember) that Nena Knight is beautiful, gorgeous, basically every adjective one could think of to complement one's appearance.
I don't think this book is bad, I just think it's forgettable.
And that's very unfortunate.
But if I had to pick one greatest highlight from this book, it's the strong-as-steel sisterhood between Nena and her older sister, Elin. I totally love how they always choose to believe each other, get each other's back, and not letting men ruin things between them. Hell yeah sisterhood rocks.
And written by one, too.
It took me more than a dozen chapters until I could warm up to this story (Angoe's decision to use different POVs for separate timelines disturbs my reading comfort instead of helping it), but at the end of the day, I managed to finish this book.
This book ticks all the stereotypes of the genre at all times (revenge, traumatic past, highly-trained assassin possessing tons and tons of money, you named it), including portraying the protagonist as "...looked like a goddess, and was lethal as hell". For an author who wants to define her heroine by her skills and capabilities, Angoe sure put a fair amount of attention in making sure the readers understand (and remember) that Nena Knight is beautiful, gorgeous, basically every adjective one could think of to complement one's appearance.
I don't think this book is bad, I just think it's forgettable.
And that's very unfortunate.
But if I had to pick one greatest highlight from this book, it's the strong-as-steel sisterhood between Nena and her older sister, Elin. I totally love how they always choose to believe each other, get each other's back, and not letting men ruin things between them. Hell yeah sisterhood rocks.