Review: I Am the Weapon

 
Title: I Am the Weapon (The Unknown Assassin #1)

Author: Allen Zadoff

Genre: Action, Young Adult

Published: May 13, 2014

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A sixteen year old who was a part of The Program would show up long enough to make friends kill his target then he would disappear. His next target was to get close to a girl named Sam and kill her father the Mayor of New York. As the assignment started he began to have doubts.

This book had a really good beginning. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had the time to read it all in one or two sittings, but since I ended up reading it when I could I began to think the character's internal musings about the girl and the surrounding situation dragged a little. It was interesting even the character explaining what was happening. He also managed to talk a lot, I felt as if he was telling me a lot of information, but still managing to not actually tell the reader anything. Somehow I felt as if I knew most of the information the character knew, which was mostly true.

I had a difficult time with the motivations in the book. There didn't seem has if he had a lot of loyalty to the people running the program or to his country. The reason we are given why he did what he did was because that was what he was trained to do. I didn't understand why he stayed with the program. He had almost full autonomy why didn't he try and disappear once his training and probationary time was finished?

Overall I gave this book 4 stars out of 5.