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I got the paperback version at a book release in Vancouver BC but my girlfriend only reads on her Kindle so I got this one for her. We both love the story. It's gruesome and dark but somehow light and hopeful. You can tell the author has a deep rooted frustration with the way the world works. I think Jamie Hall delivered a terrific sophomore effort despite this book being very different than his first. He's clearly grown as an author and that's shown in the vivid detail he expresses throughout the book. Like 7 Deadly Women there is an interesting and completely unexpected twist at the end. BUT the twist makes sense. There is nothing worse than a twist for the sake of a twist. I hope this book reaches the masses. It asks alot of important questions.


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No Heroes Kill Be Killed Jamie Hall Books Reviews

First, thank you to the author, Jamie Hall, for a free review copy of the book.

No Heroes is about a man named Michael and how his boring life took a quick turn toward chaos after his father's sudden death. These chaotic turns cause Michael to struggle within himself as not only a man, but as a legacy. What would you leave behind if you died tomorrow? Stumbling upon his father's research, an obsessive mission seems to create a new person inside Michael. Motivated to clean his city of evil and to avenge his father's death, Michael becomes "CK". In this book, you see through Michael's eyes which is scarier; battling a fatal disease or battling the city's evil.

This book, for me, began slow but was still entertaining. Written in first person, the author gives a pretty detailed introduction to the main character and his family; specifically his father. Many chapters discuss their father-son relationship his father's background and training as a ex-soldier and cop, how he instilled those same principles into his son, and how his son felt about the training and education given to him. It was probably focused on a little too much and could've been explained a little quicker.

I found myself a little confused about the character's true feelings toward his father. In one paragraph, Michael doesn't care about him because he abandoned him to deal with his drunken mother alone and feels nothing toward his father's death; he doesn't even cry at the funeral. Then, once in his father's old home he considers him a hero for the work he did as a cop and the clues he left behind for someone to finish his mission. He talks of his father's police career as if he were discussing the biggest and best super hero the world had even seen. Perhaps, the author did that with intention though. We can remember as children seeing our parents in a perfect, almost idol-like light. As adults, we begin to see our parents as the true flesh and blood human beings they are, doing the best they can with what they are given.

Following his father's funeral, Michael is surprised with some very devastating news regarding his health that causes him to take a temporary downward spiral. He finds some hidden money in his father's house and decides to try to buy his happiness and ignore the disease facing him. This lasts only a chapter, but I was glad it was put in the story because it is a real reaction any one of us would have had. Let's blow money and forget about the stresses of life waiting for me back at home. I also found one quote from this part of the book that I liked and found very humored and poetic, "The goal was to get drunk on spending money to the point that I wouldn't stop, and then I would die knee deep in hookers and blow. The plan was ill-fated from the start. I like neither hookers, nor drugs, and when you grow up with little, all you can think of while you spend money is the zeros draining out of your account."

Shortly after this, Michael falls in love with his doctor's receptionist, Monica. While Monica is out on vacation, Michael makes his first, not premeditated action toward being this new vigilante role in society. This is where Michael meets Daisy and she is his first damsel in distress that he rescues. I enjoyed how the author shows the different relationships Michael has in the different phases of his life leading up to the ending.

Super hero comics and movies seem to always have the same trend. A hero compromising moral code or laws in order to eliminate evil. The author does a very thoughtful analysis of this concept and compares frequently the psychological justifications behind these fictional characters. Some would consider the analysis not realistic (many wouldn't justify their actions based on a comic book character); however, it does not seem to be so far fetched. Newer shows like "Dexter" and "The Santa Clarita Diet" reveal characters with dark behaviors that are considered "bad", yet how they use these behaviors some would consider "good".

The ending of the book was wrapped up well and left me feeling connected to the story and the characters.
I got the paperback version at a book release in Vancouver BC but my girlfriend only reads on her so I got this one for her. We both love the story. It's gruesome and dark but somehow light and hopeful. You can tell the author has a deep rooted frustration with the way the world works. I think Jamie Hall delivered a terrific sophomore effort despite this book being very different than his first. He's clearly grown as an author and that's shown in the vivid detail he expresses throughout the book. Like 7 Deadly Women there is an interesting and completely unexpected twist at the end. BUT the twist makes sense. There is nothing worse than a twist for the sake of a twist. I hope this book reaches the masses. It asks alot of important questions.