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.