A Marked Man

So hard to rate this book but I'm going to go by my level of enjoyment when I read it.3.75

You could go crazy reading this book and if you're doing so on an eReader risk destroying it by smashing it against the wall. To remedy this and by the way enjoy this book you need only do two things:
1. Listen to the audio by [a:Greg Tremblay|8108759|Greg Tremblay|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1484561919p2/8108759.jpg] recording under his [a:Greg Boudreaux|15087355|Greg Boudreaux|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] moniker.2. Suspend any and all associations to reality you'd expect in what is otherwise a contemporary M/M romance.

(I understand that somewhere down the road this series has shifters involved but there is no sign of it in this first book.)

Mateo is a trained assassin for some shadow government agency who of course only takes out “bad guys”. The only nod to shifterdom is Mateo's uncanny extra sense of danger. The person Mateo is assigned to take out on this occasion is Riley Flynn, owner of a company that make chips used in government intel. However after surveilling him for weeks Mateo can't find fault or deceit in the guy and ends up protecting him when a separate assassination is hatched and fails by unknown parties.

Spoilerish
During his surveillance, Mateo who is openly gay, goes to a club and in a dark room gets an anonymous BJ which of course is the best he's ever had and you can guess who the performer of said BJ is and how the rest of this goes. All this is fine as far as romances go where it goes bat shit crazy is how quickly Riley becomes a love sick clingy almost caricature creature out of an ‘80's bodice ripper. The insta-love was expected but the swapping of personalities threw me off. Add to the fact that apparently the whole outfit that Mateo works with is either gay or super gay accepting is to say the least unrealistic or wishful thinking.

In spite of all of this I found myself enjoying this nonsense. I do know that most of my enjoyment comes from Greg's performance but I'd be hypocritical denying that the author has sprinkled some kind of crack in here and I loved it.

So when you have a day that you want to just bask in pure nonsensical sexiness give this a go. If you go with the audio I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.