Reviewed by Jonathan Sun
Imagine that you lived a few centuries ago, and you and your friend are invited to dine with the king, as you have a reputation of solving mysteries and crimes. But, a murder takes place on that fateful day and it seems like somebody attempted to assassinate the king. What would you do?
Well, in the Assassin's Curse by Kevin Sanders, the main character, Christopher Rowe and his two friends, Tom and Sally, run into an assassin on the loose who seems to have attempted to kill the king. As they investigate this mystery further, they end up finding clues that the assassins were actually trying to kill the French Royalty, not the British. In France, they uncover layers of secrets upon secrets, and they solve many puzzles to try and uncover why the assassins want to kill the French Monarchy. Will they solve the mystery in time before the assassins have a successful attempt at killing the Royalty? I guess you will have to read the book to find out.
The first reason that I enjoyed this book is because I love mysteries that are hard to solve with some action in them. This book’s mystery is really complicated and a lot of things are not as they seem. As they keep on investigating this mystery, Christopher, Tom, and Sally put themselves in more and more danger as they discover secrets that people have killed to try and get. When they confront the assassins, things do not go as they plan it to be, and Christopher and Tom have to fight their way out.
The second reason that I liked this book is because the assassins turn out to be hiding in plain sight. Christopher and Tom have seen the killers a lot of times but they don’t even know it! I love this because at the end of the book, when they figure out who was working with the villains, Tom and Christopher actually had met them a lot of times before. You will be surprised at how many times Tom and Christopher met the assassins.
I would definitely recommend this book to people who like mystery mixed with action. If I were to rate this book, I would rate this 10/10. This book is really great since the mystery is complicated and it doesn’t get boring. Since this book is in a series called The Blackthorn Key, you should definitely check out the novels that take place prior to this book before reading this novel. If this sounds interesting to you, go to your local library and check the series out now!
Simon & Schuster, 544 pages
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