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2.5 stars

Nena Knight, codename Echo is a trained assassin for an organization known as The Tribe, which provides protection to the people of Africa. Ripped from her home and subjected to horrors beyond imagination as a teen, Nena was sold to a sadistic Frenchman before a shocking escape and quick adoption by the leaders of The Tribe.
Now Nena is tasked with killing a lawyer for the organization …but cannot pull the trigger after a fateful meeting with his teenage daughter as well as the realization his client is one of the men who sold her into slavery that was believed to be dead.
Nena is falling for the lawyer and has a budding motherly affection for his teenager and is also seeking vengeance on the people who destroyed her life.

Wow, there is so much going on in this book. It reads like a convoluted action movie with all the stereotypes: an assassin becomes vulnerable when she finds something/someone to care about while simultaneously facing a reckoning with her past.
The relationships formed so quickly with little-to-no believable development, events are ridiculously convenient and unbelievable, the surprise twist at the end felt over-the-top and ridiculous.

I realized quickly I needed to suspend my disbelief with this story but it had such a range of overused tropes that I rolled my eyes in several places while allowing myself to just be entertained, the same way I would if I still had a cable package and a Jason Statham movie would come on and I was too lazy to find the remote to change the channel. This is part soap opera, part action hero movie - meaning there’s some serious/dramatic topics but they are handled in a surface level way - and I managed to read it all, but only because I was too lazy to get off the couch and find another book.
Also extremely important are the numerous trigger warnings including human trafficking, rape/sexual violence, graphic violence/murder/dismemberment.

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