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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book. The writing was done well, I could really feel the emotions of the two characters coming through the pages. Can not wait to read the next book in the series.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF @70%
«Ho capito che eri un guaio fin dal primo istante che ti ho visto.»
Volevo amare questo libro con tutta me stessa, ma sono finita con l’odiarlo.
Ora, non so se sia la traduzione o proprio lo stile di scrittura delle autrici, ma il libro è molto confusionario. Non ho capito niente di quello che ho letto, mi è solo venuto un gran mal di testa.
Provai a leggere questo libro qualche anno fa, ma siccome non mi stava prendendo decisi di accantonarlo per un secondo momento.
Pensavo di essere io il problema e invece credo che sia proprio il libro.
All’inizio Ty e Zane mi stavano piacendo, proseguendo peró mi sono accorta che le loro interazioni sembravano sempre più forzate. Sono caratterizzati male e hanno zero chimica. Come hanno fatto ad innamorarsi in meno di 7 giorni? Su quali criteri poi? Boh, rimane ancora un mistero.
Poi un’altra cosa che non mi è piaciuta è stato lo sviluppo dei personaggi: verso metà libro si sono scambiati di carattere. Ma perché?? Zane è diventato proprio odioso, e pensare che era quello che mi piaceva di più!
Che poi vogliamo parlare delle parolacce inserite ogni due per tre? Oppure dei dialoghi senza senso tra i due? OPPURE DELLE LITIGATE INTERMINABILI? Un secondo vanno d’amore e d’accordo e l’attimo dopo te li ritrovi a fare a pugni.
Poi assurdo quando hanno cercato di ucciderli per ben due volte e questi due, per non perdere il caso, hanno preferito curarsi da soli, finendo comunque per perdere il caso.
Le uniche parti che mi sono piaciute sono state quelle spicy e quelle relative al caso. Per il resto ho odiato tutto.
Le premesse erano ottime, ma è stata una delusione totale.
«Ho capito che eri un guaio fin dal primo istante che ti ho visto.»
Volevo amare questo libro con tutta me stessa, ma sono finita con l’odiarlo.
Ora, non so se sia la traduzione o proprio lo stile di scrittura delle autrici, ma il libro è molto confusionario. Non ho capito niente di quello che ho letto, mi è solo venuto un gran mal di testa.
Provai a leggere questo libro qualche anno fa, ma siccome non mi stava prendendo decisi di accantonarlo per un secondo momento.
Pensavo di essere io il problema e invece credo che sia proprio il libro.
All’inizio Ty e Zane mi stavano piacendo, proseguendo peró mi sono accorta che le loro interazioni sembravano sempre più forzate. Sono caratterizzati male e hanno zero chimica. Come hanno fatto ad innamorarsi in meno di 7 giorni? Su quali criteri poi? Boh, rimane ancora un mistero.
Poi un’altra cosa che non mi è piaciuta è stato lo sviluppo dei personaggi: verso metà libro si sono scambiati di carattere. Ma perché?? Zane è diventato proprio odioso, e pensare che era quello che mi piaceva di più!
Che poi vogliamo parlare delle parolacce inserite ogni due per tre? Oppure dei dialoghi senza senso tra i due? OPPURE DELLE LITIGATE INTERMINABILI? Un secondo vanno d’amore e d’accordo e l’attimo dopo te li ritrovi a fare a pugni.
Poi assurdo quando hanno cercato di ucciderli per ben due volte e questi due, per non perdere il caso, hanno preferito curarsi da soli, finendo comunque per perdere il caso.
Le uniche parti che mi sono piaciute sono state quelle spicy e quelle relative al caso. Per il resto ho odiato tutto.
Le premesse erano ottime, ma è stata una delusione totale.
Review from 2018
I've given this a B- for both content and narration at AudioGals, so that's 3.5 stars rounded up.
I’m on a bit of an m/m romantic suspense kick at the moment, so this first book in the Cut and Run series seemed like a good fit. There are nine books in all – the first four co-written by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, and the last five by Abigail Roux solo when Ms. Urban decided to stop writing. Cut and Run was originally published in 2008 (with the audio following in 2010) and I suspect it was a bit of a trailblazer in the genre – it certainly seems that way from reading reviews and seeing how many people loved the series and the central characters.
The whole series is available in audio with several different narrators; here it’s Sawyer Allerde (the others are Sean Crisden and J.F. Harding) who I’ve listened to once before, and he does a decent job overall, in spite of some pacing issues and pretty poor female voices (luckily, there aren’t too many women in the book so it’s not too great a problem.)
We’ve got a traditional “odd couple” pairing in FBI agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett – or so it seems at first. Ty is the crazy maverick who doesn’t play well with others; Zane is the tidy, detail oriented one who plays by the book, but as the story progresses and we learn the reasons for Zane’s straight-laced-ness, it seems the two men have more in common than we – and they – at first realised.
A former recon marine, Ty has just come off an operation that went sideways, while Zane has worked for the past couple of years in financial and cyber-crimes after being pulled out of deep cover. They’re paired up to investigate a series of killings that have become known as the Tri-State murders which have stumped all the investigators assigned to date. The – so far – eight victims appear to have nothing in common; not gender, race, age, soclai status or any of the things that might normally be exhibited in a case of serial killings – although the last two victims were the two FBI agents most recently assigned to the case. The official line is that Ty and Zane are being sent to help the local field office with their investigation – in reality, they’re being sent because it’s believed that the murderer is someone on the inside, and they’re to pursue their own enquiries while appearing to be co-operating with the New York team.
Neither Ty nor Zane is wild about their new partnership and immediately start butting heads – which is just as well, because their cover is to act as though they’re a couple of inept agents who couldn’t unearth the truth about a paper bag, something their mutual animosity won’t make it difficult to believe.
Cut & Run is a fairly long audiobook, coming in at just under fourteen hours, and while it held my interest for the most part, there were times where the pacing lagged, and the story could have done with a bit of judicious editing. The snarky banter between Ty and Zane is a highlight (although sometimes, I had to remind myself they were thirty-four and forty-two and not twelve!), and the authors do a great job with their creations; two stubborn, pig-headed alpha males who can’t say what they mean and for whom revealing anything vaguely personal is worse than pulling teeth. There’s a fair bit of the hurt/comfort trope here, and the suspense plot has some really tense moments, but I can’t deny that it seemed like three-quarters of the story was Ty and Zane holed up in a hotel room, eating, sleeping and snarking at each other, or that there were some fairly big inconsistencies that took me out of the story. Such as – how did the bad guy manage to steal a New York cab with illegally tinted-windows? Why do two guys with such big trust issues immediately trust someone they’ve never met before to the extent they do?
I didn’t mind the complete over-the-top-ness of the plot – things going “boom!”, car chases, fights – there’s much to be said for well-done hokum, although I have to say that it felt at times as though there was a competition going on for which of the men could sustain the most critical injuries! The biggest issue with the book itself, however, is the constant head-hopping and PoV switches, which sometimes happen from one paragraph to the next, and sometimes even within a paragraph, so that it can be difficult to keep track of who is saying and thinking what. Fortunately, Sawyer Allerde provides distinct character voices for Ty and Zane, which may have made that a bit less of an issue for me, but it’s still very noticeable and is sometimes very jarring, as is the overuse of adverbs; rarely does anyone just “say” anything – they say it “worriedly” (a lot) or “slowly” or “sleepily”… which became irritating quite quickly ;)
I tend to prefer romantic suspense in which there’s a fairly even balance between the two plot elements, but that isn’t really the case here. Usually, I’m saying the romance is relegated to the back seat, but here, it’s the opposite, and the suspense plot is, well, ‘suspended’ for long periods for the aforementioned eating, sleeping and snarking. And sex, when Ty and Zane finally stop dancing around each other and get down to business! Again – I’m not complaining too much because Ty and Zane are such engaging characters, but the suspense plot does get overshadowed – which is a shame, because it’s intriguing – and the identity of the killer was fairly easy to work out. Which had me asking that if I could work it out, given I knew only what Ty and Zane knew – why didn’t THEY work it out earlier?
But even with all those criticisms, I still enjoyed the story which, I suspect, was mostly due to the two central characters, who are deeply flawed, extremely charismatic and very strongly written. As I said above, Sawyer Allerde differentiates clearly between the two principals, giving Ty a slightly husky note which makes it easy to distinguish his speech from Zane’s. There aren’t many secondary characters in the book; the principal one is Ty and Zane’s boss, Mr. Burns, whose gruff, somewhat flabby tone conjures up the picture of a rather jowly individual, and the young FBI agent, Tim Henniger, whose voice is pitched slightly higher than the others. There are three or four female speaking roles – with only a small number of lines each – which is just as well, because Mr. Allerde’s female voices leave much to be desired; he doesn’t pitch them at a range only dogs can hear, but he does resort to falsetto and it just sounds, well… silly. His pacing is sometimes a little fast, although he doesn’t mangle or trip over words and he isn’t unintelligible; I just felt it was somewhat rushed, and while for the most part this wasn’t a huge problem, it did detract in the love scenes, which I found lacking in emotion and a little too matter-of-fact.
BUT. When all’s said and done, I listened for nearly fourteen hours without wanting to rip out my earphones and stomp on them, and enjoyed the listen enough that I’m planning to pick up the next book, Sticks & Stones. I suppose it just goes to show that something can be both imperfect and entertaining. Cut & Run gets a qualified recommendation.
I've given this a B- for both content and narration at AudioGals, so that's 3.5 stars rounded up.
I’m on a bit of an m/m romantic suspense kick at the moment, so this first book in the Cut and Run series seemed like a good fit. There are nine books in all – the first four co-written by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, and the last five by Abigail Roux solo when Ms. Urban decided to stop writing. Cut and Run was originally published in 2008 (with the audio following in 2010) and I suspect it was a bit of a trailblazer in the genre – it certainly seems that way from reading reviews and seeing how many people loved the series and the central characters.
The whole series is available in audio with several different narrators; here it’s Sawyer Allerde (the others are Sean Crisden and J.F. Harding) who I’ve listened to once before, and he does a decent job overall, in spite of some pacing issues and pretty poor female voices (luckily, there aren’t too many women in the book so it’s not too great a problem.)
We’ve got a traditional “odd couple” pairing in FBI agents Ty Grady and Zane Garrett – or so it seems at first. Ty is the crazy maverick who doesn’t play well with others; Zane is the tidy, detail oriented one who plays by the book, but as the story progresses and we learn the reasons for Zane’s straight-laced-ness, it seems the two men have more in common than we – and they – at first realised.
A former recon marine, Ty has just come off an operation that went sideways, while Zane has worked for the past couple of years in financial and cyber-crimes after being pulled out of deep cover. They’re paired up to investigate a series of killings that have become known as the Tri-State murders which have stumped all the investigators assigned to date. The – so far – eight victims appear to have nothing in common; not gender, race, age, soclai status or any of the things that might normally be exhibited in a case of serial killings – although the last two victims were the two FBI agents most recently assigned to the case. The official line is that Ty and Zane are being sent to help the local field office with their investigation – in reality, they’re being sent because it’s believed that the murderer is someone on the inside, and they’re to pursue their own enquiries while appearing to be co-operating with the New York team.
Neither Ty nor Zane is wild about their new partnership and immediately start butting heads – which is just as well, because their cover is to act as though they’re a couple of inept agents who couldn’t unearth the truth about a paper bag, something their mutual animosity won’t make it difficult to believe.
Cut & Run is a fairly long audiobook, coming in at just under fourteen hours, and while it held my interest for the most part, there were times where the pacing lagged, and the story could have done with a bit of judicious editing. The snarky banter between Ty and Zane is a highlight (although sometimes, I had to remind myself they were thirty-four and forty-two and not twelve!), and the authors do a great job with their creations; two stubborn, pig-headed alpha males who can’t say what they mean and for whom revealing anything vaguely personal is worse than pulling teeth. There’s a fair bit of the hurt/comfort trope here, and the suspense plot has some really tense moments, but I can’t deny that it seemed like three-quarters of the story was Ty and Zane holed up in a hotel room, eating, sleeping and snarking at each other, or that there were some fairly big inconsistencies that took me out of the story. Such as – how did the bad guy manage to steal a New York cab with illegally tinted-windows? Why do two guys with such big trust issues immediately trust someone they’ve never met before to the extent they do?
I didn’t mind the complete over-the-top-ness of the plot – things going “boom!”, car chases, fights – there’s much to be said for well-done hokum, although I have to say that it felt at times as though there was a competition going on for which of the men could sustain the most critical injuries! The biggest issue with the book itself, however, is the constant head-hopping and PoV switches, which sometimes happen from one paragraph to the next, and sometimes even within a paragraph, so that it can be difficult to keep track of who is saying and thinking what. Fortunately, Sawyer Allerde provides distinct character voices for Ty and Zane, which may have made that a bit less of an issue for me, but it’s still very noticeable and is sometimes very jarring, as is the overuse of adverbs; rarely does anyone just “say” anything – they say it “worriedly” (a lot) or “slowly” or “sleepily”… which became irritating quite quickly ;)
I tend to prefer romantic suspense in which there’s a fairly even balance between the two plot elements, but that isn’t really the case here. Usually, I’m saying the romance is relegated to the back seat, but here, it’s the opposite, and the suspense plot is, well, ‘suspended’ for long periods for the aforementioned eating, sleeping and snarking. And sex, when Ty and Zane finally stop dancing around each other and get down to business! Again – I’m not complaining too much because Ty and Zane are such engaging characters, but the suspense plot does get overshadowed – which is a shame, because it’s intriguing – and the identity of the killer was fairly easy to work out. Which had me asking that if I could work it out, given I knew only what Ty and Zane knew – why didn’t THEY work it out earlier?
But even with all those criticisms, I still enjoyed the story which, I suspect, was mostly due to the two central characters, who are deeply flawed, extremely charismatic and very strongly written. As I said above, Sawyer Allerde differentiates clearly between the two principals, giving Ty a slightly husky note which makes it easy to distinguish his speech from Zane’s. There aren’t many secondary characters in the book; the principal one is Ty and Zane’s boss, Mr. Burns, whose gruff, somewhat flabby tone conjures up the picture of a rather jowly individual, and the young FBI agent, Tim Henniger, whose voice is pitched slightly higher than the others. There are three or four female speaking roles – with only a small number of lines each – which is just as well, because Mr. Allerde’s female voices leave much to be desired; he doesn’t pitch them at a range only dogs can hear, but he does resort to falsetto and it just sounds, well… silly. His pacing is sometimes a little fast, although he doesn’t mangle or trip over words and he isn’t unintelligible; I just felt it was somewhat rushed, and while for the most part this wasn’t a huge problem, it did detract in the love scenes, which I found lacking in emotion and a little too matter-of-fact.
BUT. When all’s said and done, I listened for nearly fourteen hours without wanting to rip out my earphones and stomp on them, and enjoyed the listen enough that I’m planning to pick up the next book, Sticks & Stones. I suppose it just goes to show that something can be both imperfect and entertaining. Cut & Run gets a qualified recommendation.
I am so disappointed! I bought this book because I wanted to read Fish & Chips(3rd book of the series) and figured out that I should start from the beginning. I read a lot of reviews and was really excited about the book.
The story was too slow for my liking and I did not understand how the two characters literally managed . I skipped a bunch of pages and still did not feel as if I had missed important things. I literally found the book boring...
The story was too slow for my liking and I did not understand how the two characters literally managed
Spoiler
to "exchange" personalities
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked the dynamic between Ty and Zane. It was messy and complicated as the two men themselves are. The mystery was really good. I can't wait to see how things progress for them from here.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4,5/5
Very intense yet interesting book. Deeply in luv with Ty and Zane. The sexual tension between them was so intense and I was so excited for the story. It was quite obvious who the killer was but still quite intriguing. I don’t know if it’s the fact that the book is old but I didn’t like the POV of the story, it was very confusing and hard to understand sometimes. But considering how amazing Zane and Tyler’s chemistry was I gave this book 4,5/5 instead of 4. (Btw, lived the smex scenes)
Very intense yet interesting book. Deeply in luv with Ty and Zane. The sexual tension between them was so intense and I was so excited for the story. It was quite obvious who the killer was but still quite intriguing. I don’t know if it’s the fact that the book is old but I didn’t like the POV of the story, it was very confusing and hard to understand sometimes. But considering how amazing Zane and Tyler’s chemistry was I gave this book 4,5/5 instead of 4. (Btw, lived the smex scenes)
This Review contains my thoughts after reading the book a second time after 7 years of readying out for the first time.
First of all, things that are still sth i notice, and are justified in being criticised:
-too many adverbs
-the switch of POVs
For the most part that bothered me when i first read the book but this time around it didn't as much. I am attributing it to how much i grew to like the series over time, and how much i love the characters.
The things that i enjoy about this books:
-the characters, and the character driven moments
-Ty head over heels while Zane is still crunching the numbers in his head
-their backstories, the hints at what's to come
-lone star
-Zane on his motorcycle
-the action scenes
-concussed Ty, and how Ty requests medical leave instead of him having to man up to deal with his injury
-the car chase scene
-how out of synch Ty and Zane are at times and how it shows that they aren't magically in love and know how to do everything right for the other. they both feel very human to me. It shows you have to work for a relationship.
Already knowing who the bad guy is, it's interesting to see the decisions he's making
First of all, things that are still sth i notice, and are justified in being criticised:
-too many adverbs
-the switch of POVs
For the most part that bothered me when i first read the book but this time around it didn't as much. I am attributing it to how much i grew to like the series over time, and how much i love the characters.
The things that i enjoy about this books:
-the characters, and the character driven moments
-Ty head over heels while Zane is still crunching the numbers in his head
-their backstories, the hints at what's to come
-lone star
-Zane on his motorcycle
-the action scenes
-concussed Ty, and how Ty requests medical leave instead of him having to man up to deal with his injury
-the car chase scene
-how out of synch Ty and Zane are at times and how it shows that they aren't magically in love and know how to do everything right for the other. they both feel very human to me. It shows you have to work for a relationship.
Already knowing who the bad guy is, it's interesting to see the decisions he's making
I consider jumping off an edge anytime I see these fuckass time skips😔 Though ultimately, I was satisfied with this one cause the reconciliation they had made me beyond giddy (the pathetic yearning is everything) On a slightly more serious note, however, I did NOT expect this book to have such mild ratings. I guess people were a bit off put by the pov change but you get used to it pretty soon IMO andd despite me screaming to myself knowing who the killer was before the climax hit, I genuinely think the banter makes up for it. Their behaviour are a little frustrating at times, but you can't expect them to be fully sane and moral given their situations at all. Despite all that, I believe anything they build up together is definitely worth reading through because I was buzzing from their chemistry by the end of it. And this is the most fun I had in awhile reading the mystery genre. Picking up the second book now (and... hopefully the full series😼)