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2.94 AVERAGE
2.94 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
I listened to this book on Chirp. I had high hopes. I was looking for another thriller type series, and this one looked perfect. It did not suck me in. I had a hard time keeping up with who was who... That might have been because I couldn't focus on it long enough for it all to click. I didn't like the characters. The weird little love triangle was off putting. If I am not mistaken, the series follows one of the cops. Never would have known it from this book.
tbh this book sucked, it was boring and so hard to get through with an anticlimactic plot twist.
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I don't know why I continued to read this book. Aside from it needing a lot of editing, the characters were completely vapid and the storyline while trying to introduce twists and turns, didn't quite live up to an edge-of-the-seat mystery. It felt like the author couldn't decide if it should be a mystery or a romance novel.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The author holds the reader with a story full of twists and turns; also it is loaded with suspense in spite of the fact that a major part of the mystery is known to the reader from the beginning. The contemporary dialogue between the main characters is additionally of interest. The detective does not become a major part of the book until the story is launched.
It was pretty good. Not something I'm screaming from the rooftops about but definitely entertaining.
Three friends enjoy a trip to a lake house-until a woman disappears. Everyone is a suspect, including the woman’s husband-a writer of popular murder mystery books.
This is my first and likely my last book by this author. It is both boring and melodramatic. The plot is convoluted, the relationships are laughably unbelievable, and the dialogue is awkward. There’s no real mystery and certainly no tension-beyond the sexual tension among the characters.
This is my first and likely my last book by this author. It is both boring and melodramatic. The plot is convoluted, the relationships are laughably unbelievable, and the dialogue is awkward. There’s no real mystery and certainly no tension-beyond the sexual tension among the characters.
mysterious
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Decent story line, predictable. Narrator was not the best though so it was hard to follow.
This book was a bit of a letdown. Nothing really happens for the first half of the book. It’s also book 1 in the Detective Chris Bailey series but we aren’t introduced to him until the second half. The writing style is a bit confusing as well. It switches POV which is fine, except it switches mid-chapter with no warning and no introduction as to which character it is. The only clear POV is the killers at the beginning of each chapter which is italicised. I didn’t really connect with the main trio. Drew, Rob, and Lauren are all pretty similar in personality and the love triangle was just a bit weird. We also know who the killer is throughout the book with very few twists so there isn’t much suspense. Then at the end, *slight spoiler* a character is potentially paralysed and it’s mentioned that they will be chained to their wheelchair unable to seduce anyone with a life not worth living. The author obviously doesn’t know any disabled people or doesn’t think very highly of them because a wheelchair isn’t a death sentence and disabled people have relationships and sex all the time. I received a copy of the ebook via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
slow-paced
When suspense is so boring that you fall asleep while listening, it's a bad sign. The book focuses most of its attention on the utterly boring uninteresting, impressively flat suspects and little on the detective which is not really what I expect from a detective series. In fact this was so bad I missed the big reveal because I spaced out and had to rewind multiple times to catch watch happened. But I'll give it half a start because I finished the whole thing.