One Kick

I was soooo disappointed in this book. Loving Chelsea Cain's Archie & Gretchen books I had high expectations I suppose, but I thought she really missed the mark with Kick Lannigan.

The story is jumbled, missing pieces which I assume it's because the book is part of a series and she wants to keep the reader interested throughout the next few books. But for me, it only made me frustrated and made characters seem flat and unfinished.

And Kick. Oh, I was most disappointed in her. She talks for pages and pages about how many ways she can kill or incapacitate a man. How she can take care of herself, she'll never be a victim again, etc. And yet every dangerous instance she finds herself in she is over powered, outgunned, out manned and just plain out of her league. She prepares endlessly for ‘every' situation, but then fails at every turn and must be saved by a man! It was so utterly disappointing.

I'm not even sure I have enough interest in the book to continue with the series. We read this book for our book club and the ones who hadn't read Cain's other series seemed to like it much better than I did. So maybe a lot of it was my high expectations, but still....I wanted more from Kick.