An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker,
373 pages. Little Brown and Company, 2018. $18.
Content: Language: R (27 swears; 5 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence:
PG-13.
BUYING ADVIOSRY: MS, HS –
OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Katherine’s life is turned upside down when
her father is caught, and killed for practicing Catholicism in England during
Queen Elizabeth’s Protestant reign.
Fleeing for her life, Katherine goes to London and connects with other
prominent men who have secretly worshiped and she agrees to be a player in a plan
to assassinate the queen. Toby is a spy
for the queen and catches word that there is going to be an attempt on
Elizabeth’s life, so he devises a way to lure the assassins out through a
carefully written play by William Shakespeare.
Toby and Katherine are both caught off guard when their paths cross and
they realize their similarities and differences.
My favorite part was the
historical setting in this well plotted adventure. Elizabeth and Toby were easy to like, and
their predicament was like watching a trap close and you can’t figure out how
it is going to end. The violence is
torture and gruesome deaths and the mature content is make-out sessions. I
found the “f’ words a bit ridiculous as they don’t flow in the context at
all.
C. Peterson
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