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Amour’s Frankenstein of a novel stitches together many bits and pieces of street lit. By day a receptionist at a Chicago law firm, Angel Jacobs works nights as a bartender for Vision Nightclub. At both jobs she meets sexy men. That’s the good news; the bad news is that she takes them to bed and slashes them with a machete. Yep, Angel is more than a few cards short of a full 52. As the body count mounts, she meets professional boxer Clifton Moore, an abusive guy who is in cahoots with Angel’s father who is plotting revenge on Angel from where? Jail! Clift flies her to Atlanta, but his fabulous wealth doesn’t impress our killer heroine. For some reason she’s drawn to the pole and becomes a stripper at King of Diamonds, Miami’s premier men’s club. Her flaw that’s fatal to guys? During sex she slips into another personality and in her crazed mind every guy she’s with becomes Mike, her first love who dumped her. She’s never more than an arm’s reach from a murder weapon. VERDICT Amour tucks in many nasty sex scenes and the grisly murders have a high amount of shock value, but the stitched-together plot has many unresolved storylines that are hard to follow. Still, those crazy murders with Lorena Bobbitt-esque knife skills will stun readers who like gore mixed in with hardened sex scenes. It’s your call.(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.