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adventurous
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Jack (Jacinta) and her husband Gabe are pen testers, which means that they get hired by companies to find out how hackers and other thieves might penetrate the company's security. Gabe does the computer work, while Jack handles physical break-ins. As the story opens, Jack is breaking into a business while communicating with Gabe, who's monitoring her progress and telling her about the security setup. The break-in goes wrong, and Jack is taken to the police station where she remains until she can prove that she was legitimately hired to do what she did. Exhausted, she goes home in the early morning to find Gabe murdered at this desk, apparently by someone who had a key to the house. Not surprisingly, Jack quickly becomes the prime suspect and runs away, trying to figure out who did murder Gabe and why. This is another very compelling story from Ruth Ware. I had a hard time putting it down.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Meh, this was just ok. I didn't love it, I didn't hate it.
Jack and her husband Gabe are PEN testers, they are paid to break into companies and see how tight their security is, also to try to hack their technology for the same reasons. This was something different I've never heard anything about, I enjoyed it.
The first chapter had me on the hook, they are doing a job, but at the time you think they are criminals (If you haven't read what the book is about or any spoilers) then Jack gets caught at the end. By the time the police figure out who she is and she gets home her husband has been murdered.
Jack is their number one suspect and goes on the run in her desperation to find out who really killed her husband, this is another trope of the civilian doing the cops job, but really she is doing what she does for a living so it isn't too far fetched. I want to say the police literally doing nothing but chasing her is far fetched, they literally never looked at anything outside of her timeline and said she was the culprit. seemed off.
Where this book loses momentum for me is the repetition. The amount of time spent on trivial nonsense about dressing a wound, finding a cab, etc. was too much.
Also, it got a bit too technical, the conversation about bit coin, coding, etc.
Overall was entertaining and I wanted to see how it ended, just know it is a bit longer than it needs to be.
Jack and her husband Gabe are PEN testers, they are paid to break into companies and see how tight their security is, also to try to hack their technology for the same reasons. This was something different I've never heard anything about, I enjoyed it.
The first chapter had me on the hook, they are doing a job, but at the time you think they are criminals (If you haven't read what the book is about or any spoilers) then Jack gets caught at the end. By the time the police figure out who she is and she gets home her husband has been murdered.
Jack is their number one suspect and goes on the run in her desperation to find out who really killed her husband, this is another trope of the civilian doing the cops job, but really she is doing what she does for a living so it isn't too far fetched. I want to say the police literally doing nothing but chasing her is far fetched, they literally never looked at anything outside of her timeline and said she was the culprit. seemed off.
Where this book loses momentum for me is the repetition. The amount of time spent on trivial nonsense about dressing a wound, finding a cab, etc. was too much.
Also, it got a bit too technical, the conversation about bit coin, coding, etc.
Overall was entertaining and I wanted to see how it ended, just know it is a bit longer than it needs to be.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
slow-paced