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mrssmithreadsrom's review
5.0
I laughed my way through this entire book. Loved the fact that she's the coolest single mom ever, and the entire Bombay family is completely lovable too! Can't wait to start the next one :)
bibliobabe94's review
4.0
hysterical!! great read - first of the Bombay assassins series, focuses on Gin, who just happens to kill her boyfriend's employer.
minotaursmaze's review
1.0
Amusing but stupid, really you can kill people and feel nothing ever. Sure let me introduce to some war veterans. Really dumb subject for a book thankfully free.
55bookworm63's review
5.0
This book was too funny! I can't wait to read it again. It makes you wonder what you would do in their shoes!
tita_noir's review
3.0
3.5 stars
The Bombay family of Assassins makes for a fun read. This first book in a series features Soccer mom and lethal assassin Ginny Bombay. She has a couple of weeks to unearth a mole in the family, while juggling a romance with a hot Aussie bodyguard.
The humor was laugh-out-loud. Truthfully, that was my favorite part of the book. I liked the author's sometimes hammy, sometimes corny humor. I love the fact that they have a family reunion/convention complete with keynote speakers and ice breakers. It hit me just right.
The romance was almost a sub-plot to simply learning about the family business & the quirks of the various cousins. Sometimes there was a weird disconnect between the fact that these were stone cold killers and the lightheartedness of the books, but you just roll with it, really. I figure if I can read about a wolf-shifters, vampires, angels & demons, without turning a hair, then slapstick assassins should be no problem.
Enjoyed it enough to look up the rest of the books.
The Bombay family of Assassins makes for a fun read. This first book in a series features Soccer mom and lethal assassin Ginny Bombay. She has a couple of weeks to unearth a mole in the family, while juggling a romance with a hot Aussie bodyguard.
The humor was laugh-out-loud. Truthfully, that was my favorite part of the book. I liked the author's sometimes hammy, sometimes corny humor. I love the fact that they have a family reunion/convention complete with keynote speakers and ice breakers. It hit me just right.
The romance was almost a sub-plot to simply learning about the family business & the quirks of the various cousins. Sometimes there was a weird disconnect between the fact that these were stone cold killers and the lightheartedness of the books, but you just roll with it, really. I figure if I can read about a wolf-shifters, vampires, angels & demons, without turning a hair, then slapstick assassins should be no problem.
Enjoyed it enough to look up the rest of the books.
wilovebooks's review against another edition
4.0
Quick, light, hilarious read about a single mom and her family of assassins.
claudia_is_reading's review
4.0
A really funny read, this book takes a very unlikely premise and runs away with it... and the results are hilarious.
A perfect book to get away from reality and emerge from it with a smile on your face. Recommended
A perfect book to get away from reality and emerge from it with a smile on your face. Recommended
ericwelch's review
3.0
We all read different kinds of books depending on mood, school, time of day, etc. Sometimes something light is required. This series fits the bill.
Virginia (all the family members are named after cities or geographic locations) is a member of the Bombay family whose tradition and business is they are assassins. All independently wealthy thanks to the family trust fund, each receives assignments from the "Council" made up of senior family members. Part of the family reunions, normally held every five years is to eliminate someone in the family who has failed some assignment and to initiate children just turning five into their new responsibilities. Each member develops a specialty: " Poison was my specialty. Everyone in the family had a favorite way of killing people, even though we were required to cross-train. With my brother, it was asphyxiation and/or strangulation. And while I should probably worry about that, it made us a good team because we both liked to make each job resemble death by natural cause. Of course, occasionally we ran out of time and had to leave the scene of the crime with a plastic bag still on the victim’s head, but that happened only once when I’d been running late from picking up Romi from preschool." Held on their own private island, they have to go inside buildings every day at 4 p.m. to avoid passing satellite surveillance. This invitation is unusual in that it comes just one year after the last. Refusing is not an option.
"As I stroked the creamy vellum paper, for a brief moment I thought about sending my regrets. But only for a moment. After all, it wasn’t an option on the R.S.V.P. card. Unlike most family reunions with sack races, bad weather and crappy T-shirts, where to refuse to go only meant you weren’t in the ridiculous all-family photo, to turn down this invitation was death. That’s right. Death. Any blooded member of the family who didn’t show was terminated. Now, where had I put that goddamned pen?"
It appears a mole has wormed his way into the family, it's a male member of the family is all that's known and Virginia has been assigned the task of eliminating the threat. Things get complicated when she falls in love with a bodyguard for a man she has been assigned to take out. But enough plot. Just plain fun.
Virginia (all the family members are named after cities or geographic locations) is a member of the Bombay family whose tradition and business is they are assassins. All independently wealthy thanks to the family trust fund, each receives assignments from the "Council" made up of senior family members. Part of the family reunions, normally held every five years is to eliminate someone in the family who has failed some assignment and to initiate children just turning five into their new responsibilities. Each member develops a specialty: " Poison was my specialty. Everyone in the family had a favorite way of killing people, even though we were required to cross-train. With my brother, it was asphyxiation and/or strangulation. And while I should probably worry about that, it made us a good team because we both liked to make each job resemble death by natural cause. Of course, occasionally we ran out of time and had to leave the scene of the crime with a plastic bag still on the victim’s head, but that happened only once when I’d been running late from picking up Romi from preschool." Held on their own private island, they have to go inside buildings every day at 4 p.m. to avoid passing satellite surveillance. This invitation is unusual in that it comes just one year after the last. Refusing is not an option.
"As I stroked the creamy vellum paper, for a brief moment I thought about sending my regrets. But only for a moment. After all, it wasn’t an option on the R.S.V.P. card. Unlike most family reunions with sack races, bad weather and crappy T-shirts, where to refuse to go only meant you weren’t in the ridiculous all-family photo, to turn down this invitation was death. That’s right. Death. Any blooded member of the family who didn’t show was terminated. Now, where had I put that goddamned pen?"
It appears a mole has wormed his way into the family, it's a male member of the family is all that's known and Virginia has been assigned the task of eliminating the threat. Things get complicated when she falls in love with a bodyguard for a man she has been assigned to take out. But enough plot. Just plain fun.
loriwood's review
3.0
Entertaining, but not great writing style. I guess I should have expected that from a romance, but I didn't notice it was a romance til I was half way through.
kelseykeating's review
3.0
I'm pleased with this read. It was fast and fun, and while there were things that didn't gel, they weren't even close to enough to make me not like this. Fun times had by all. Thanks Ms. Langtry!