Comments on Books With Heroes/Heroines Who Are Assassins - page 2

Neil, you can actually add your own book to the list. (Most of us don't add books we haven't actually read --or at least, I follow that policy, and I think most Goodreaders do.) Just go to the main list page, and click on the "add books" link.

I am desperately looking for a fantasy book that I've read at least 8 - 10 year ago. I don't remember a lot about it, but it's been hovering in the back of my head for quite some time now.
As far as I can recall the lead was a male assassin, the black cloak type who likes to hide his face in the shadows of his hood, his character rather on the cold at best on the grumpy side. Somewhere along the way a female lead joins him (or was it the other way round?). I don't remember much about her, but I think that she annoyed the male lead quite a lot (and I think she wears her hair in a braid, but I'm really not sure)... another thing I can recall is that an important part of the story was poison and/ or alchemy. I'm not sure if there was also magic involved...
also it's probably from a more or less well known author and it might be a rather extensive novel, cause that's what I usually prefer.
I know this is really vague... but maybe someone has an idea what book(s) could match this discription :3

Julia, that description doesn't ring a bell with me as anything that I've read (I haven't actually read very many books with assassin characters myself). But a Goodreads group that might be able to help you track it down is https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/... . They have a pretty good track record at helping people (including me) identify a lot of books we've read, but forgotten the author/title information for.

Caitlin wrote: "Noticed a fee books on the list that I have read but I do not remember any assassins in any of them! Yes people kill and people die but there are no assasins in them! Only one book that I have read..."

yes, I'm wondering why books from John Sandford's "Prey" series are in the list -- his heroes are in law enforcement and definitely not assassins

Donna, I think the books you mean are Certain Prey and Mortal Prey (both of which I voted for). These are part of Sandford's Lucas Davenport series, and the series protagonist, as you noted, is a police detective. My rationale for including these two books was that a major character in both (who IMO sort of "steals the show") is professional hit woman Clara Rinker. However, on reflection, I think you have a legitimate point; most readers would say that she's the antagonist (or, in the first book, one of two antagonists), not the protagonist.

Just now, I've removed both books from my list of votes. That should also automatically remove them from the list itself, because I think I was the only person who voted for either of them.

If you're a Goodreads librarian, you can remove books from a list if they've been added improperly (that is, they don't really fit the list's description). If you're not a Goodreads librarian, but you've read one or more of these books and know it doesn't belong here, please post about it here in the comments (and please include the book's number, so we can find it --hunting all over a list this size isn't fun!). I, or another Goodreader who has librarian status, will check it out and get back to you. (I've seen some books here that I've questioned, but I haven't read them myself.)

I wish someone would start a list of books where the protagonist is an assassin but the book isn't REALLY a freaking romance disguised as an adventure or action read! I've read many good books where the protagonist was or started out as an assassin. 90% of this list is about teen age girls who are SUPPOSED to be assassins but are REALLY struggling with the angst of love....

That or she's a vampire.

Yeah, I'm annoyed and thus being a little unreasonable.

Just now, I removed four books from the list (and eliminated six duplicates): the two books from John Sandford's Prey series, as discussed in messages 56-57; Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen (see message 50), which one of my Goodreads friends who's read it confirmed in an e-mail is not about an assassin; and Angry Enough to Kill by S. J. Dunn. It's clear from the book description of the latter that it's about vigilantes, not hired assassins. Those are two entirely different categories, and it doesn't enhance the usefulness of this list when they're confused.

Wanted to go to sleep, and came across this list...

Can't go to bed now lol; I love Assassin stories ^^
It all started with the Farseer trillogy by Robbin Hobb & later the Assassin's Creed games; I'm in love.

I've already read 10 of the top 100 books and had added 7 as to-be-read; now I'll just need to get my hands on more books to try and get the top 100 read, I'll just have to :D