An Assasin's Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker - OPTIONAL

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An Assassin’s Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker, 373 pages.  Little Brown and Company, 2018.  $18.  

Content: Language: R (27 swears; 5 “f”); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.  

BUYING ADVIOSRY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

Katherine’s life is turned upside down when her father is caught, and killed for practicing Catholicism in England during Queen Elizabeth’s Protestant reign.  Fleeing for her life, Katherine goes to London and connects with other prominent men who have secretly worshiped and she agrees to be a player in a plan to assassinate the queen.  Toby is a spy for the queen and catches word that there is going to be an attempt on Elizabeth’s life, so he devises a way to lure the assassins out through a carefully written play by William Shakespeare.  Toby and Katherine are both caught off guard when their paths cross and they realize their similarities and differences.  

My favorite part was the historical setting in this well plotted adventure.  Elizabeth and Toby were easy to like, and their predicament was like watching a trap close and you can’t figure out how it is going to end.  The violence is torture and gruesome deaths and the mature content is make-out sessions. I found the “f’ words a bit ridiculous as they don’t flow in the context at all.  

C. Peterson         

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