Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
My interest in the book continued to drop the more I read it. When I realized I was dragging my feet with it I accepted it was time to DNF it.
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Meh. It was fine. I think if I had been physically reading this it would have been a DNF but it’s easier for me to power through books when they are in audiobook format. I think the narrators did a fantastic job, they kept the characters from feeling totally flat to me. The initial motivation of the main characters didn’t ring true for me, so it threw the entire book off. The final unmasking of the murderer and the climax also left a lot to be desired, it felt like the authors were rushing to give everyone a happy ending. As I’m writing this review I’m realizing I maybe didn’t like this book very much at all. Whoops.
I wanted to like this so badly. I’ve enjoyed the other collaborations and separately enjoy a few of these authors solo adventures. But this book was… schizophrenic.
There is beautiful, descriptive writing I’m used to from other works by these authors but the characters were stuck between being caricatures, tongue in cheek roasts of the genre and trying to be serious characters I could care about. So they’re not quite funny and I don’t quite care. The first 52% started slow for me. There was some mystery but we were stuck with these strange characters to progress forward and I just couldn’t care. Then it picked up but the reveals were fucked up to the point where they felt like a joke.Like how depraved BSP is. He had zero redeeming anything and also because he was dead the stakes felt low.
There is beautiful, descriptive writing I’m used to from other works by these authors but the characters were stuck between being caricatures, tongue in cheek roasts of the genre and trying to be serious characters I could care about. So they’re not quite funny and I don’t quite care. The first 52% started slow for me. There was some mystery but we were stuck with these strange characters to progress forward and I just couldn’t care. Then it picked up but the reveals were fucked up to the point where they felt like a joke.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes