Molls Like It Hot

Molls Like It Hot by Darren Dash
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Holy guacamole! I finished reading this a while ago, and have been trying to gather my thoughts ever since. If I had been Eyrie, I straight up would have died. Turns out, I’m not that great at judging who the good guys are. I had it all wrong. Okay, maybe I wasn’t completely wrong. I knew most of the characters were gangsters so the line between good and bad is blurred, a lot, but geez.

I still haven’t figured out how I feel about Eyrie now that I know everything. At first, I thought he was just a little crazy to be letting someone who you can tell was just in a freaking shootout into your cab and starting a kind of partnership with him. The sensible thing would be to drive away and not look back. Actually, the sensible thing would have been to not drive down that way to begin with. I think at first, the allure of money gets to him. For someone working as a cabbie, being offered money to just watch over another adult for a weekend seems like to good of an opportunity to pass up. Personally, I wouldn’t have taken the job, but you learn quickly that Eyrie has skills that make him capable of fulfilling his duty as long as everything goes to plan.

Of course, everything does not go to plan and the real intentions of characters are brought to light. In case you were wondering, this is where I would have died. Yes, I knew the characters were gangsters, but I honestly thought Eyrie was being told the truth and they were just taking advantage of his willingness to help. Luckily for Eyrie and Toni, he not only ignored the times he was given the okay to quite, but also was able to read between the lines of what he was told to find out the real story.

For me, the part where Eyrie finally leaves the service of Lewis, was one of my favorite parts. Mostly because Lewis using his gangster ways had looked into Eyrie before ever bringing him in, and thought he knew how Eyrie would react to everything. It’s amazing how quickly confidence can fall when you realize you’ve built it on a lie, or at least a partial truth. It can be enough to crumble an empire.

I received a copy of this book from the author.

Author: Darren Dash
Publisher: Home of the Damned
Publication Date: December 4th 2019

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