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pam_h 's review for:
P.S. I Spook You
by S.E. Harmon
2.5 stars
This felt like two different books. One that I would have really liked if it hadn't been layered with a second that drove me crazy. It's exactly the kind of book that makes me wish I didn't notice every little inconsistency, but there were SO MANY!!!
The MC is also a snarky little shit in his internal dialog, which doesn't match his actual behavior -- even with his closest family and friends -- in any way. He teases them and has a definite sarcastic streak, but it doesn't match the weird and constant internal snarking, which makes it feel very much like the author inserting a different personality just to make jokes.
And 90% of those jokes didn't work for me because they had no correlation to what was going on in the actual narrative. She just grabs a word from the previous sentence, shows you she could make snarky wordplay with it if she wanted to, and it's so nonsensical and incongruous that it threw me out of the story every time. They are so unrelated to the narrative that you could delete almost every single one of those sentences right now without changing a single other word, and it would still be the same story. Bizarre.
Same with the random pop culture references to cop shows/movies that don't feel like anything the MC would even be aware of, much less actually thinking about.
I liked the romantic pairing (let's just ignore the fact the missing persons detective never told his boyfriend of FOUR YEARS that his sister had been missing for the last 15), and I liked the fact that the procedural was the focus of the plot and included both paranormal and normal investigating (even though they couldn't interview a single person of interest without antagonizing them to the point of getting thrown out of the house without finishing the interview, often after only a few minutes of questioning).
A medium (with a hot AF boyfriend, omg. yes, please, Danny) finally accepting that the ghosts he sees are real and trying to figure out what to do about it could/*should* be the perfect series for me. But I never would have finished this if it didn't work for all four of my m/m challenges.
And yet, after pushing through the whole book, there's enough to like that I read the teaser chapter for Book 2, but it was clear just from that one chapter that there's no improvement on the things that bothered me. Aka, logic and consistency.
This felt like two different books. One that I would have really liked if it hadn't been layered with a second that drove me crazy. It's exactly the kind of book that makes me wish I didn't notice every little inconsistency, but there were SO MANY!!!
The MC is also a snarky little shit in his internal dialog, which doesn't match his actual behavior -- even with his closest family and friends -- in any way. He teases them and has a definite sarcastic streak, but it doesn't match the weird and constant internal snarking, which makes it feel very much like the author inserting a different personality just to make jokes.
And 90% of those jokes didn't work for me because they had no correlation to what was going on in the actual narrative. She just grabs a word from the previous sentence, shows you she could make snarky wordplay with it if she wanted to, and it's so nonsensical and incongruous that it threw me out of the story every time. They are so unrelated to the narrative that you could delete almost every single one of those sentences right now without changing a single other word, and it would still be the same story. Bizarre.
Same with the random pop culture references to cop shows/movies that don't feel like anything the MC would even be aware of, much less actually thinking about.
I liked the romantic pairing (let's just ignore the fact the missing persons detective never told his boyfriend of FOUR YEARS that his sister had been missing for the last 15), and I liked the fact that the procedural was the focus of the plot and included both paranormal and normal investigating (even though they couldn't interview a single person of interest without antagonizing them to the point of getting thrown out of the house without finishing the interview, often after only a few minutes of questioning).
A medium (with a hot AF boyfriend, omg. yes, please, Danny) finally accepting that the ghosts he sees are real and trying to figure out what to do about it could/*should* be the perfect series for me. But I never would have finished this if it didn't work for all four of my m/m challenges.
And yet, after pushing through the whole book, there's enough to like that I read the teaser chapter for Book 2, but it was clear just from that one chapter that there's no improvement on the things that bothered me. Aka, logic and consistency.