Cut & Run by Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Even if apparently this is the classical bad cop/good cop theme, actually in Cut & Run there is no good cop at all; both FBI agents Zane Garrett and Ty Grady have ghosts in their own past, and no one of them is a by the book agent.

At first glance, Zane seems to be the perfect FBI agent, all rules and restraining, and instead he is a recovered alcoholic with a problem to tighten another bond after the death of his wife; Ty is a unleashed dog, former-marine with posttraumatic syndrome who don’t take well orders. They are both bisexuals, actually I think their Kinsey scale leans more on straight than gay, but when they are throw together in the investigation of a very particular serial killer, they find out they click together better than expected.

I think one of the best character of this story is Burns, the boss of both Zane and Ty, who chose to put them together instead of firing both of them; instead of picking a good and bad to balance one another, he took the risk to put two self-destructive men in the same team to see if, instead of giving each other the final blow, they could find a way to exit to the black tunnel they begun.

I think the sexual relationship between them is their own way to help each other; sure, it’s passionate sex, and they like it a lot, but it’s also a way to nurture each other back to a some sort of mental sanity. Zane and Ty are too burned to trust someone else out of their bond, and if they need to find a balance to work together, that balance has to be total, in and out of work. Moving the working relationship to a personal level is the only way to stay safe and sound, they can allow only one behind their protective shield, and if that one is the working partner, than it will become also the life partner.

Cut & Run itself is a long novel and it’s only the first in a long series; it will be interesting to see how the fragile balance they reached will work in the long time, but in a way I think the balance seems fragile only to an external eye, for them, it’s stronger than steel.

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Amazon: Cut & Run
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Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (September 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193519223X
ISBN-13: 978-1935192237

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Comments

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

I read this a few years back and really loved it. Was nice and gritty.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed above all the "gritty", it was not the usual smushy romance

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

Yes. And quite the surprise to me as I'm pretty sure the book I read before it was their Caught Running which was so completely different. I admit I almost stopped reading at one point because it was so long and heavy going. Glad I persevered.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

that was another point we have in common, it was VERY long and it took me patient to continue but I'm glad I did

[imidealistic.livejournal.com]

I just reread the entire series after Armed and Dangerous came out, was as good fun reading it as the first time!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Fun for me maybe not, it was a little dark weighted, but good for sure

[imidealistic.livejournal.com]

maybe fun was the wrong word to use........should have said great. :-)

[starsinshapes.livejournal.com]

This entire series is perfect. The other books aren't as dark.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

they are in my reading list

[starsinshapes.livejournal.com]

i look forward to your reviews

[gingerhead76.livejournal.com]

Ma tu sai come mai la traduzione italiana è stata ritirata? Si erano accorti che non era fatta bene?

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

A dire il vero no, non sapevo che fosse stata ritirata. Non è di quelli che ho riletto io, quindi non posso giudicare se era stato tradotto bene o no.

[gingerhead76.livejournal.com]

Sì era stato ritirato e poco dopo ci hanno inviato quell'email con le nuove condizioni di pagamento e proofreading. Così ho collegato le due cose e ho ipotizzato che forse avevano avuto problemi con quella traduzione, e quindi ora volessero fare in modo che la cosa non si ripetesse in futuro.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

devo dire il libro che ho letto io non era tradotto molto bene, ci ho dovuto fare un sacco di correzioni.

[gingerhead76.livejournal.com]

Mi è successa una cosa simile proprio in questi giorni. Ariel sta chiedendo ai traduttori di fare del proofreading, e mi ha inviato un libro. Io ho trovato (per caso, a dire il vero), l'originale in inglese e ho cominciato a confrontarli, e mi sono messa le mani nei capelli!! Una traduzione terribile. Più che correggerla, bisoganava rifarla da capo. Ariel mi ha detto di aggiustarla. Purtroppo per tradurre un libro non basta sapere l'inglese...

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

si anche io l'avevo praticamente rifatta. adesso ho chiesto ad Ariel una pausa perchè non ho davvero tempo di rifare completamente una traduzione.

[gingerhead76.livejournal.com]

Dovrebbero essere più selettivi con i traduttori, anche perchè non tutti i correttori sanno l'inglese, e quindi magari non si accorgono di certi errori.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

ti faccio un esempio? invece di cavallerizza aveva tradotto cavalcatrice.

ed un'altra traduttrice ha tradotto "Dear" in "amo'", ed il protagonista non era romano ;-)

[gingerhead76.livejournal.com]

Be' ma questa non è ignoranza dell'inglese, è proprio ignoranza dell'italiano! Non dovrebbero darle altre traduzioni, secondo me.
In quella che sto rifacendo io la tradutrice aveva tradotto "to run helter-skelter" come "correre alla rinfusa" e "small body drier" come "essiccatorio per un piccolo corpo". :-D :-D
Guarda, meno male che è capiata a me che so l'inglese e mi sono potuta accorgere di queste perle... ;-P

[kika-k.livejournal.com]

Ah! Allora non sono la sola che commenta sulle traduzioni! lol
Cmq. Il libro è nella mia wish-list insieme a tutta la serie!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

no, non sei l'unica ;-)