I love to read about the baddies and how crazy they are. Naturally I liked our three main characters, Riley, Chevie and Garrick the best. Every single one of them were interesting in their own way. My favorite things in this whole book were the characters. It just mades the sci-fi nerd in my all giddy!

I loved the idea of the Witness Anonymous Relocation Program and being transported via wormholes. I've never been much of a fan of time travel stories but I should have know that when Eoin Colfer takes on the subject he would make it brilliant and that's just what he did. It was as I was there and could pretty much see and smell everything that was going on there. I love how ingenious it all was and how well he described Victorian London. It's there that she helps Riley flee from Garrick, who's been altered by the wormhole, making him an scientific expert and more dangerous than ever if he'd find a way back to Victorion London where he could literally take over the world with his knowledge.Įven after all the Colfer books I have read I am still dazzled by how good his writing is.

Meanwhile in modern day London 17 year-old FBI agent Chevron Savano (Chevie) has been send to London as part of punishment and needing to lay low after an operation gone awry in Los Angeles. By accident Riley gets transported to modern day London with Garrick on his trail. When Garrick forces Riley to commit his first murder, luckily he is saved from the act when the victim turns out to be part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program otherwise knows as WARP from the future.

We meet Riley, a 14 year-old orphan boy who's taken in under the wings of the evil illusionist Albert Garrick who can be hired as an assassin. The Reluctant Assassin takes us to the year 1898 in London, which to me is a reason alone to start freaking out like a fangirl. I was so nervous I wasn't going to like it or god forbid hate it but I should've know it was going to brilliant like everything he writes. With this new start of this new series, Colfer didn't let me down one bit. Which he once again proves with The Reluctant Assassin. There is no doubt he is my favorite author. I have been a fan of Eoin Colfer's books for years.

The reluctant assassin by eoin colfer