#Review of I Am the Weapon by @AllenZadoff #Published @lbkids

Previously published under the title Boy Nobody 

They needed the perfect assassin.

Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a new name, makes a few friends and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone to die -- of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, moving on to the next target. 

But when The Program assigns him to the mayor of New York City, things change. Somewhere deep inside, Boy Nobody is somebody: the kid he once was; the teen who wants normal things, like a real home and a girlfriend; a young man who wants out. And who just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's mission.

In this action-packed series debut, author Allen Zadoff pens a page-turning thriller that is as thought-provoking as it is gripping, introducing an utterly original and unforgettable antihero.

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Biography

Allen Zadoff was born in Boston, Mass and went on to live in upstate New York, Manhattan, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. A former stage director, he is a graduate of Cornell University, the Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theater Training, and the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop. His novel Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have received the Sid Fleishman Humor Award and was a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults. His ongoing thriller series, THE UNKNOWN ASSASSIN, debuted to starred reviews and was a 2014 YALSA Top Ten Pick for Reluctant Readers.
Visit Allen on the web at www.allenzadoff.com.

I didnt know what to expect with this one.  But after getting around 50% through it.  I ended up skipping to the end to see what happened.  And I was not impressed. This book about a boy assassin was very blah to say the least.  It started out pretty good but then just kinda died on me.  It was paced pretty well but the story felt like it didnt have a soul.  It didnt give me a reason to keep reading.  I just felt like I was reading words on a page.  The story didnt hold my attention anymore. The main character thinks in a very analytical way. So much so that I was rooting for the people who were trying to kill I'm the second time.  (its early in the book).  I think that if the main character Boy Nobody would have more feeling or something the book would have been much better.
 So I am sad to say that this one was a DNF.

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I AM THE WEAPON (The Unknown Assassin #1) by Allen Zadoff (Preview) by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Posted in: 1 Star, Review, Young Adult