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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
⭐️ 2.5 stars ⭐️
The start was promising, I find amnesia tropes to be really fascinating — alas the ending didn’t really hold up.
The mystery was okay, but pretty predictable.
Really enjoyed the main characters and their relationship, but not enough to give it a higher rating.
CW and tropes:
- MC with retrograde amnesia
- Detective MC
- MC dealing with grief
- Second chance
- Vers MCs
The start was promising, I find amnesia tropes to be really fascinating — alas the ending didn’t really hold up.
The mystery was okay, but pretty predictable.
Really enjoyed the main characters and their relationship, but not enough to give it a higher rating.
CW and tropes:
- MC with retrograde amnesia
- Detective MC
- MC dealing with grief
- Second chance
- Vers MCs
It's fine I guess. The story is pretty tropey but at the begginging I though "oh, maybe they'll take the tropes somewhere interesting". Spoiler, they didn't.
Amnesia could have been interesting but Charlie remembers important things pretty easily throughout the book.
The whole "not really an accident" thing was pretty clear from the beggining and not a real nail bitter since there weren't really any other suspects other than the culprit.
So many missed opportunities with characters like Domino and Charlie's roommates where they could have had storylines or relate to the plot in any way, but hey, we got two guys hooking up in a cabin. *shrugs*
Amnesia could have been interesting but Charlie remembers important things pretty easily throughout the book.
The whole "not really an accident" thing was pretty clear from the beggining and not a real nail bitter since there weren't really any other suspects other than the culprit.
So many missed opportunities with characters like Domino and Charlie's roommates where they could have had storylines or relate to the plot in any way, but hey, we got two guys hooking up in a cabin. *shrugs*
Charlie and Austin were together in college, but Charlie learned to be homophobic from his Dad, and his fear made him hurt Austin by telling him he’d never love him.
Austin left town and made a new life. He found a man to love, a career as a private eye, and happiness. Then, tragedy struck and his fiancé was killed. He returns to find Charlie had an accident and has lost memories of their relationship.
They’re still drawn to each other, and it seems Charlie’s accident is no accident. Working together, they figure out who wanted him dead and still does, and why that is.
I like the characters, and Charlie’s amnesia adds interest, but the murderer was obvious all the way through, and too many clues made it pretty simple to figure things out.
Good story of the relationship, but the rest of the plot is not so great.
KU
Austin left town and made a new life. He found a man to love, a career as a private eye, and happiness. Then, tragedy struck and his fiancé was killed. He returns to find Charlie had an accident and has lost memories of their relationship.
They’re still drawn to each other, and it seems Charlie’s accident is no accident. Working together, they figure out who wanted him dead and still does, and why that is.
I like the characters, and Charlie’s amnesia adds interest, but the murderer was obvious all the way through, and too many clues made it pretty simple to figure things out.
Good story of the relationship, but the rest of the plot is not so great.
KU
Thoughts while reading:
-It was annoying Charlie took so long to explain his memory loss to Austin
-if I were Charlie, asking Austin about their past would have been one of the first things I’d do
-I keep waiting to find out, and would think Austin would have asked early on. If Charlie was so deep in the closet because he was afraid of his dad’s reaction, well what’s his relationship with his dad like? Never mind the amnesia, it doesn’t relate to that big elephant in the room. Ok, it’s addressed at 47% in, but comes up as an aside. I still think it would have come up earlier irl
-how could Austin sleep through the abduction
-I read the 3rd book before this one and just like that one, the deductions are so completely horrible. I’d rather have a 8 year old as my detective than anyone at this agency. So you know that sex trafficking is involved, and the sheriff talked to Evan about a business venture and you never put 2 and 2 together? Or ask Evan what the meeting was about, I mean it was about the business venture, but what was the venture, because they did meet. Plus the fact the sheriff obstructs investigations, is rich from nowhere and a complete jerk, and those two girls’ dad. Oh, and there’s a drawing of a police van. Are you a complete and utter idiot? This is a case of an MC too stupid to live. Honestly I’d be okay if the bad guy was blindingly obvious as long as the MC suspected him, because then he’s not a total moron.
-also, tell someone where you’re going when you’re getting into a sticky situation. And hey, backup might be nice
-Austin should be trained to not make such a ridiculous rookie mistake that put him and Charlie in danger, you don’t just rush to Charlie within observing your surroundings first.
-I hate to judge, because everyone handles grief differently, but 4 months after losing a fiancé and only a short time between feeling no way about Charlie to all in sounds pretty quick.
-with all those hits to the head, Charlie’s probably prime for some major issues later in life.
-why wasn’t Charlie just killed immediately, or killed as soon as he came to the site? I thought it would have been smart to sell him, since the guy’s doing sex trafficking
It was an interesting premise and I liked some of it. But the “mystery” was ridiculous and Austin getting over not only Dean, but the past so quickly knocked this down for me.
3.5 stars
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-It was annoying Charlie took so long to explain his memory loss to Austin
-if I were Charlie, asking Austin about their past would have been one of the first things I’d do
-I keep waiting to find out, and would think Austin would have asked early on. If Charlie was so deep in the closet because he was afraid of his dad’s reaction, well what’s his relationship with his dad like? Never mind the amnesia, it doesn’t relate to that big elephant in the room. Ok, it’s addressed at 47% in, but comes up as an aside. I still think it would have come up earlier irl
-how could Austin sleep through the abduction
-I read the 3rd book before this one and just like that one, the deductions are so completely horrible. I’d rather have a 8 year old as my detective than anyone at this agency. So you know that sex trafficking is involved, and the sheriff talked to Evan about a business venture and you never put 2 and 2 together? Or ask Evan what the meeting was about, I mean it was about the business venture, but what was the venture, because they did meet. Plus the fact the sheriff obstructs investigations, is rich from nowhere and a complete jerk, and those two girls’ dad. Oh, and there’s a drawing of a police van. Are you a complete and utter idiot? This is a case of an MC too stupid to live. Honestly I’d be okay if the bad guy was blindingly obvious as long as the MC suspected him, because then he’s not a total moron.
-also, tell someone where you’re going when you’re getting into a sticky situation. And hey, backup might be nice
-Austin should be trained to not make such a ridiculous rookie mistake that put him and Charlie in danger, you don’t just rush to Charlie within observing your surroundings first.
-I hate to judge, because everyone handles grief differently, but 4 months after losing a fiancé and only a short time between feeling no way about Charlie to all in sounds pretty quick.
-with all those hits to the head, Charlie’s probably prime for some major issues later in life.
-why wasn’t Charlie just killed immediately, or killed as soon as he came to the site? I thought it would have been smart to sell him, since the guy’s doing sex trafficking
It was an interesting premise and I liked some of it. But the “mystery” was ridiculous and Austin getting over not only Dean, but the past so quickly knocked this down for me.
3.5 stars
Read on kindle
Getting to know the flatmates was probably the least necessary scene I have ever read, they are never mentioned again. Literally never.
