Hitman by C. Hallman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

ALARIC
Monroe was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I should’ve killed her when I had the chance.
But instead, to make her keep my secrets, I took her freedom and made her my captive.
She swore she’d hate me forever, but that was before I stole her innocence, too.
Now she knows how good my forbidden touch feels, and it won’t take long before she transforms into the broken toy I’ve always wanted.
And after that, there will be no going back…

MONROE
The first time I met Alaric, he fired a bullet into an innocent man’s head.
He’s a hitman. The worst scum of the planet. He kills for a living and wrecks lives for fun.
Now he’s my jailor, the only one who holds the key to my gilded cage.
He says he’ll never let me go. He says he’ll force me to keep his secrets. He says I’ll kneel for him. But even he knows I’ll never, ever love a monster.
And Alaric’s the devil himself.

Hitman

Dark hitman captive romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😚☹️🥹😉
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The Hero: Alaric – he is a hitman for the mafia, the Lombardi family who have a lot of influence in the city. He kills a guy in the alley behind a club. When he enters the club, he immediately sees a woman who his extremely attracted to. She is the bartender at the club, and he makes a play for her without delay, telling her to take a break and to meet him out back in five minutes.

The heroine: Monroe – she is virgin, working as a bartender at a club called Purgatory, that is part nightclub, with a sex club upstairs. She is not technically old enough to work there, but she needs the money to take care of her grandmother. A handsome man comes in an asks her to meet him outside in the alley. She is intrigued and it is time for her break, so she decides to meet him. Though he wants her to get on her knees for him and offers to pay for it. She is offended and tells him she isn’t that kind of girl. Though she really needs the money, more than she needs her pride even, and they end up in a private BDSM room in the club where she works.

The Story: After the interlude between Monroe and Alaric is over, she is ashamed of what she did. Though he paid her ten thousand dollars for a kiss and use of her mouth. This was the first time she had done anything like that, even though the owner of the club, Lucian has been asking her to do that for a while. When she runs into Lucien on her way downstairs, he tells her the guy she was with is a killer that works for the Mob.

I didn’t like the fact that Monroe is under twenty-one and Alaric is in his late thirties/early forties. I am not a fan of the age gap romance especially when the heroine is barely out of her teens and the gap is so large. I also didn’t like the fact that he looked down upon “girls like Monroe” who sell themselves, while he doesn’t see the hypocrisy in the fact that he is the one paying for her.

I liked the fact that Monroe intrigues Alaric, so much that he stalks her. He figures out that she is innocent despite the fact that he paid her for a sexual act. It fascinates Alaric and he can’t stay away from her. Though I hate stalkers in real life, they are pretty hot in romance books. Though I didn’t think what he did when he broke into her place was hot at all. Trigger warning: He also drugged her and took her virginity while she was unconscious. The people he worked for were pretty awful as well.

This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Heather Firth and Jack Calihan. I really liked Heather Firth, she has a soft and pleasant voice. Jack Calihan has a deep, gravelly voice which I liked as well and is good at doing different voices for different characters. They both did a terrific job, and I would definitely listen to more from these two.

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