The Hitman's Guide to Stately Fences and Killer Defenses (The Hitman's Guide, Book 8) by Alice Winters

THE HITMAN'S GUIDE TO STATELY FENCES AND KILLER DEFENSES is the latest installment in the Hitman's Guide universe from Alice winters.


From the blurb:

Leland

Life is normal… suspiciously normal.

During my long, lonely years as a hitman, I never realized that one day, I would have a family to call my own.

Now, instead of stalking my targets and taking down people with a flick of my wrist, my specialties lie in things like planning sleepovers (why does Waylon look terrified?), The Fence hour (those are screams of joy), and involving others to help our child succeed (no, of course I didn’t abduct anyone).

But for a guy like me, things can’t stay good for too long. Someone seems to think that I should still be the ruthless hitman I used to be. They want to draw me back into the limelight and prove to me that what I’m living now is a lie.

But they don’t realize how much they’re going to regret meeting the Sandman–especially once they threatened my family.

Jackson

This person seems to be obsessed with an image of Leland from the past, and because of it, we now have a crime boss on our tail and a bounty on Leland’s head. The stalker has no idea that Leland comes with multiple ex-assassins, a sketchy Scotsman, and the chief of police who likes to pretend he doesn’t want to be involved.

I adore my life with Leland just the way it is (someone, please burn down The Fence), and no one is going to ruin that (I will pay well).

They’d better be afraid to sleep because the Sandman is coming (and if they took down The Fence while they were at it, I wouldn’t mind).


Molly Otto's review:

The latest instalment of the Hitman's Guide brings Leland and his friends together once again. Waylon is adjusting to his new life with his dads, Leland & Jackson, when their life gets in the way once again. When someone wants the SANDMAN to return to work it takes the work of the entire crew to stop them from making that happen. It is fun to see how big of a role each of these players play in each story and how they all need the other to let the chaos play as beautiful as it was meant to.

Loved that throughout this series you see the growth of each of these men while this still maintains who they are at the heart of it all. Leland learning feelings are a good thing has me cackling each time cause yeah maybe he's a little broken. This found family is one that will always remain one that you will not be able to forget, even though yeah sometimes you want to block out theirs songs (looking at you Leland) that randomly pop in my head and do not leave. Let's hope Micah gets a book in the future as well, the more we see from him the more I want to get to know him.


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