Six by K.I. Lynn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I had a one-night stand. It wasn’t my first, but it would be my last.
Six
A gun to the head.
A trained killer.
A deadly conspiracy.
Kidnapped and on the run, my life and death is in the hands of a sadist captor who happens to be my one-night stand. Armed with countless weapons, money, and new identities, the man I call Six drags me around the world.
The manhunt is on and Six is the next target. Can we find out who is killing off the Cleaners before they find us?
Two down, seven to go.
When it’s all over he’ll finish the job that dropped him into my life, and end it.
Stockholm Syndrome meets bucket list, and the question of what would you do to live before you died. The questions aren’t always answered in black and white. Gray becomes the norm as my morals are tested.
Death is a tragedy, and I’ll do anything to stay alive.
Are you ready for the last ride of your life? Six has a gun to your head—what would you do?
This isn’t a love story.
It’s a death story.
Exciting from start to finish!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 🤨😟😳😍
The heroine: Paisley – she works in the Cincinnati morgue. Her job is to analyze blood and tissue samples. She is good at her job and often works double shifts to cover for other people. Paisley was last in a relationship with a guy named Digby who got a job in another town. She has been celibate for over four months. The night of a work party at a hotel, she has a few too many and hooks up with a handsome man at the bar who says his name is Simon.
The Hero: Six (a.k.a. Simon) – he tells Paisley he is in town for business and picks her up at the hotel bar and they spend the night together. He is tall, dark, handsome, and confident. He is also a cleaner, or in other words, an assassin.
The Story: The next day at work, Paisley is busy, but she is also intrigued by a case that they have been working, a John Doe who has no fingerprints, many of his bones had been broken at one time but have healed and he has no distinguishing marks except three tattooed dots behind one of his ears. When all the sudden the door opens and Simon walks in a murders everyone in her lab. He takes her and has her get him into the morgue where he murders the rest of her co-workers and looks at the body of John Doe. He then takes Paisley hostage when she tells him she has more information about the man and leaves, blowing up the morgue in the process.
Six is definitely a bad man. He is dominant and has a huge sex drive. He constantly wants Paisley, but he also lets her know that she means nothing to him and that whatever they have together will definitely end with a bullet to her head.
“Damsels in distress were only in fairy tales and romance books. While I may have fit the bill of a damsel and distress, Six was no prince.
I wasn’t in a love story.
I was in a death story.”
This was certainly an action packed book, they were on the run and always on the move. There were some terrific characters, including the other cleaners (especially numbers Five, One and Nine) and their handler Jason as well as Digby. The cleaners were a highly classified division of the CIA and only a select few people knew anything about them, but after Three and Eight were killed, it was pretty obvious that someone was cleaning house on the cleaners.
I didn’t like some of the things Six did, but I found myself liking the character. Paisley freely admitted she was suffering some form of Stockholm syndrome and it would have to be that considering he killed all her work friends and constantly reminder her that he would eventually kill her. Though the attraction between them couldn’t be denied and the intimate scenes were sizzling hot. Though Paisley feared that Six would kill her, he was also her safety, which was screwed up in so many ways, but made for an interesting story.
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