TITLE: Tangled Web
AUTHOR: Crista McHugh
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/16/12
ORDER LINKS: Amazon
BOOK SYNOPSIS: Azurha, a beautiful former slave turned deadliest assassin in the empire, has just been offered the ultimate challenge–seduce, then murder the new emperor. But Titus is not the tyrant his forefathers were, and his radical ideas might be the glimmer of hope the empire needs.
Titus Sergius Flavus has yet to master the powerful magic of his ancestors–magic he must wield if he’s to protect his people–but his father’s death has left him no choice. Rule the Delzian Empire and attempt to right his ancestor’s wrongs, or watch her fall to his greedy kin.
More than just Titus’s ideas hold Azurha captive. Night after night, he awakens desires she thought lost and uncovers the magic of her hidden lineage. As her deadline approaches, Azurha is forced to make an impossible decision–complete her job and kill the man she loves, or fail and forfeit both their lives.
REVIEW: This book is the first in a new series by author Crista McHugh and seemed to have everything for me. Tangled Web was an action-packed adventure with a beautiful female assassin and a romantic love story that brought me to tears by its conclusion. Azurha was a very strong character that had been born as a slave and abused by her previous master before she was able to gain her freedom through violence. After this, she had been trained as a deadly assassin known only as “The Rabbit”, who struck fear into the hearts of her potential victims.
I felt so sorry for Azurha because she had been through so much before meeting Titus and she never wanted to be in a position where she was vulnerable and couldn’t protect herself. She loved Titus with every ounce of her being and would give up her own life to protect him instead of being the one to kill him, which was very touching. She couldn’t believe that Titus would give up his entire empire to be with her because no one had ever cared for her or tried to protect her in that way before. Their love had changed Azurha from a cold-hearted assassin to a strong, caring woman and it was nice to watch the transformation of this character throughout the book. I understood her reasons for not telling Titus the truth about her identity because she was afraid that he wouldn’t love her anymore and she just wanted to hold onto that relationship for as long as she could. In the end, Titus didn’t care about her past because he knew how she felt about him just by looking in her eyes and watching her actions around him.
Tangled Web is a great read and I have a feeling that this book will stay with me for some time. I’m looking forward to reading the second book in the series which is Claudia’s story, a character that made a brief appearance in Tangled Web.
DISCLAIMER: The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I received this book free as part of the blog tour.
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