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A review by em__13
Damascus Station by David McCloskey
4.5
Okay so it took me a hot second to finish this book, but that's not a bad sign. There are plenty of really good books that just take me ages to read. The problem is me. I am the problem.
And this book was SO good! I'm going to try my best to continue the series (if I can find the books).
Love, love, love the usage of dramatic irony. You don't see it enough in books anymore, and I love when it's used well. There were so many chapters where I was making this face---😬---because I knew something was going to happen and the characters 100% did NOT.
The romance was also super cute! All of the relationships were actually really sweet. Proctor was an icon from begining to end. I also love how the author was able to make me like characters I didn't think I would? Like by the start I was thinking a character was a one dimensional villain, and by the end, I was really concerned that they would die. How dare you make me care about a character like that. Also the female characters felt so real and fleshed out. (And they were allowed to be feminine AND badass.) Which, genuinely, surprised me coming from a male author writing a spy book with a male MC. I underestimated him and I'm sorry.
There was a weird psych-out moment where I thought the story was going to follow a certain plot point and it abandoned it so quickly and I was a little caught off guard. But it all worked out I think.
Genuinely fulfilled my craving for a spy book with a light romantic subplot. I am fully satisfied.
And this book was SO good! I'm going to try my best to continue the series (if I can find the books).
Love, love, love the usage of dramatic irony. You don't see it enough in books anymore, and I love when it's used well. There were so many chapters where I was making this face---😬---because I knew something was going to happen and the characters 100% did NOT.
The romance was also super cute! All of the relationships were actually really sweet. Proctor was an icon from begining to end. I also love how the author was able to make me like characters I didn't think I would? Like by the start I was thinking a character was a one dimensional villain, and by the end, I was really concerned that they would die. How dare you make me care about a character like that. Also the female characters felt so real and fleshed out. (And they were allowed to be feminine AND badass.) Which, genuinely, surprised me coming from a male author writing a spy book with a male MC. I underestimated him and I'm sorry.
There was a weird psych-out moment where I thought the story was going to follow a certain plot point and it abandoned it so quickly and I was a little caught off guard. But it all worked out I think.
Genuinely fulfilled my craving for a spy book with a light romantic subplot. I am fully satisfied.